Nights on the Road

Watch Movie

Nights on the Road

1952

1h 51m

7.9(7 votes)

Drama

Overview

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

13 members

Acting

Hans Albers

Fernlastfahrer Heinrich Schlüter

Acting

Hildegard Knef

Inge Hoffmann

Acting

Marius Goring

Kurt Willbrand

Acting

Lucie Mannheim

Anna Schlüter

Acting

Heinrich Gretler

Spediteur Carl Falk

Acting

Gertrud Wolle

Frau Jaguweit

Acting

Hans Reiser

Franz Jaguweit

Acting

Wolf Ackva

Klatte, Inhaber der Broadway-Bar

Acting

Karin Andersen

Lieschen Brunnhuber

No Image

Acting

Peter Martin Urtel

Hans Brunnhuber

Acting

Hans Zesch-Ballot

Kriminalinspektor Busch

Acting

Hans Pössenbacher

Unknown Role

Acting

Margot Hielscher

Unknown Role

Similar Movies

7.4

2004

The Motorcycle Diaries

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Movie

7.6

1999

Gigantic

The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.

Movie

7.2

1961

West Side Story

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

Movie

6.1

2002

Gerry

Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.

Movie

5.7

2005

SommerHundeSöhne

Summer is the time to travel, enjoy life, and do or leave what you want. A motor home with two occupants makes its way south. But the two travelers do not travel voluntarily, and certainly not together.

Movie

7.0

2005

Transamerica

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Movie

7.5

1997

Lost Highway

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Movie

8.1

1998

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Movie

7.1

1969

Easy Rider

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

Movie

7.7

2006

Little Miss Sunshine

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Movie

5.6

1993

Don't let it bring you down

A member of the Air Self-Defense Force learns of a crucial national secret: that conscription will be introduced to Japan. Pursued by the state, the man and his wife attempt to flee to her parents' home, but along the way they meet a carefree young man who loves movies. Meanwhile, back in his rural hometown, his father-in-law is in critical condition, but his sister-in-law neglects to care for him and instead engages in phone sex with him.

Movie

6.6

2004

Erbsen auf halb 6

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.

Movie

5.6

1993

Sliver

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

Movie

7.6

2007

Three Days to Forever

Yusuf and his cousin Ambar spend a wild night out just before heading out of town for a relative’s wedding. When the pair passes out overnight and Ambar misses her flight, the two head off on a three-day road trip. Little do they realize those three days will have a lasting impact on their lives.

Movie

7.2

2006

Babel

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Movie

5.4

2006

Heading South

A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.

Movie

7.6

1991

Thelma & Louise

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

Movie

6.7

1996

Scorpion Spring

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Movie

4.9

2013

Land Without Evil: Ivy Maraey

A filmmaker and a Guarani Indian travel from La Paz to Bolivia’s swamps, exploring Guarani culture, ancient knowledge, and identity.

Movie

2024

An Errand

A driver is sent on a simple errand: to pick up a designer t-shirt and a tin of viagra for his boss, who is shacked up in a hotel with his lover. Simple as it sounds, the road trip crisscrosses the chasms of time, class, and character.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.1

1969

Easy Rider

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

Movie

6.3

2010

Jolene

A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling to experience life.

Movie

5.9

2023

Sympathy for the Devil

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

Movie

6.7

1991

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

Movie

6.6

1969

The Rain People

When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

Movie

6.9

2018

The Mule

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Movie

5.9

2022

Paradise Highway

A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.

Movie

6.3

1974

Foxy Brown

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Movie

7.4

1976

Kings of the Road

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

Movie

6.2

2018

Braven

A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

Movie

6.8

2016

American Honey

A restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances, she searches for freedom and belonging on the open road.

Movie

6.9

1940

They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

Movie

6.2

2008

The Poker House

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Movie

5.9

2014

Road to Paloma

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.

Movie

6.4

2006

Waist Deep

An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Movie

6.3

2023

The Baker

A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind him.

Movie

7.4

2001

Blow

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Movie

6.5

2001

Jet Boy

A coming-of-age story of a reluctant 13-year-old hustler named Nathan who will do whatever it takes to feel loved.

Movie

6.6

1973

Coffy

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Movie

7.1

1991

The Doors

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Movie