These films reek of gasoline, tires, and often gunpowder and blood. Films about drivers and truckers are dynamic in nature, full of sharp plot twists, and are watched in the same breath. Our list includes popular thrillers of all time, good trucking movies, dramas, and adventure thrillers about representatives of the risky profession.
Machines come to life and rebel against their creators as a comet unleashes a radiation storm on Earth. A group of survivors is trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop in North Carolina and are forced to defend themselves from a horde of murderous vehicles. The unusual leader of the group is a diner chef named Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), who is trying to find a way out for himself and the other survivors, including his employer Bubba Hendershot (Pat Hingle) and a newlywed couple.
2. Black Dog (1998)
When Patrick Swayze's character, an ex-convict truck driver with a suspended license, makes one more trip without asking any questions, he learns that his truck is loaded with assault rifles. The stressed-out father discovers that his wife and child's life are in jeopardy if he fails to deliver the products after accepting the cash-paying job to feed his family. Culminating in pursuit at high speed with an 18-wheeler convoy.
3. Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
To save his abducted brother Billy (Michael Augenstein), tough man trucker J.D. Dawes (Chuck Norris) drives his huge rig to a little desert town and right into the center of a quagmire of crime. The perpetrators, however, are not your typical criminals. The town is controlled by Judge Joshua Trimmings (George Murdock), a corrupt public official who has a particular hatred for truck drivers. The judge and his henchmen make every effort to demoralize Dawes. But Dawes exacts immediate, brutal retribution in return.
This dramatized history of notorious American union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Jack Nicholson) is directed by Danny Devito and covers four decades of his life, from his ascent to the leadership of the Teamsters Union to the scandal that ultimately brought him down.
5. White Line Fever (1975)
As Carrol Jo Hummer, played by Jan-Michael Vincent, returns to Tucson, Arizona, after serving in Vietnam with the hope of realizing his ambition of being a self-employed trucker. After taking out a loan to buy his own vehicle, the Blue Mule, Carrol Jo, discovers that he must smuggle things on runs to pay back his obligation. Thugs in the movie threaten the hero and his wife, and they must defend themselves against corruption.
6. Over the Top (1987)
Arm wrestling is a side business for struggling trucker Lincoln Hawk, played by Sylvester Stallone, as he works to restore his life. Hawk tries to make up for leaving his kid and his mother years before by traveling with his estranged son. The youngster flees with Hawk's well-off father-in-law but returns for the global arm-wrestling championship in Las Vegas, where Hawk competes for money, a brand-new semi, and, most importantly, his son's affection.
7. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Fury Road, the fourth entry in George Miller's action-packed Mad Max series, starring Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky and Charlize Theron as the Imperator Furiosa. Max joins forces with Furiosa to flee from cult leader Immortan Joe and his soldiers on an armored tanker truck in an epic desert road war set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland where fuel and water are precious resources.
8. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry star in the classic trucker movie, which follows two bootleggers, Bo "Bandit" Darville, and Cledus "Snowman" Snow, as they accept a challenge to smuggle 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. Carrie, a traveling fugitive bride who just abandoned her husband Junior at the altar, is picked up by The Bandit.
9. Convoy (1978)
In order to get Spider Mike to the border of New Mexico so he can return home to his pregnant wife, trucker Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson), and his friends Pig Pen (Burt Young), Widow Woman (Madge Sinclair), and Spider Mike (Franklin Ajaye) is tricked by the cunning Sheriff "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine). Rubber Duck and his friends use their CBs to organize a mile-long convoy and take control of the road while subjected to increased legal persecution.
10. Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Clint Eastwood's character Philo Beddoe is a tough truck driver who also keeps a cheeky pet orangutan. Orville Boggs (Geoffrey Lewis), a close buddy, arranges fights for Philo Beddoe. After unexpectedly disappearing after Philo starts dating country singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Sondra Locke), he sets out to find her with Orville and his simian friend. On their cross-country journey, Philo and his buddies frequently argue with bikers, building to a bloody confrontation.
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