Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "roadside-diner"

1. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird

Votes: 117,022

2. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger

Votes: 59,254 | Gross: $40.90M

3. Candy Land (2022)

TV-MA | 93 min | Horror, Thriller

A seemingly naive and devout young woman navigates her way into the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. "lot lizards."

Director: John Swab | Stars: Olivia Luccardi, Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin, Owen Campbell

Votes: 3,771 | Gross: $0.03M

4. The Jacket (2005)

R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.

Director: John Maybury | Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson

Votes: 119,515 | Gross: $6.30M

5. The Captive (I) (2014)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos

Votes: 35,887

6. Family Plot (1976)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane

Votes: 24,921

7. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn

Votes: 22,989 | Gross: $8.33M

8. Impact (1949)

Passed | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker

Votes: 4,760

9. The Loveless (1981)

R | 85 min | Drama

Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.

Directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery | Stars: Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter

Votes: 2,850

10. Katie Says Goodbye (2016)

88 min | Drama

A kindhearted 17-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.

Director: Wayne Roberts | Stars: Christopher Abbott, Mary Steenburgen, Olivia Cooke, Mireille Enos

Votes: 2,372

11. Take One False Step (1949)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered.

Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart

Votes: 739

12. A Day in the Country (1946)

Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello

Votes: 7,138

13. Love on the Road (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Restaurant makeover show host Abby gets a new assignment to turn a small-town diner into a place on the culinary map. As Abby and diner owner Tom spend time together, Abby discovers a thing she just might call love.

Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: Erin Cahill, Jesse Hutch, Francesca Bianchi, Tanja Dixon-Warren

Votes: 600

14. Black Legion (1937)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Votes: 3,936

15. Waiting for the Light (1990)

PG | 94 min | Comedy

It is not about Aunt Z moving her niece and family....The niece, Garr, moves her family away from the city. The kids enjoy playing tricks, learned from Aunt Z (MacLaine). The kids get ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Louis Guzzo, Colin Baumgartner

Votes: 587 | Gross: $0.81M

16. Hijack! (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Thriller

Two truck drivers are hired to transport a top-secret cargo from New York to Houston. Along the way they must evade attempts by a terrorist group to hijack the material.

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Lee Purcell, Jeanette Nolan

Votes: 211

17. Dirty Weekend (1973)

107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André, Lionel Stander

Votes: 561

18. Gypsy Colt (1954)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Family, Western

A beautiful spirited horse is so devoted to his young mistress that he undertakes an incredible 500-mile journey over treacherous terrain to be reunited with her.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee, Larry Keating

Votes: 277

19. Woman Wanted (1935)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another auto. Ann escapes and ends up in the vehicle of Tony Baxter, a lawyer who has eyes for her.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern

Votes: 543

20. Ameriikan raitti (1990)

120 min | Crime, Drama

Two small-time crooks take off to Florida to escape unpaid taxes and failure.

Director: Lauri Törhönen | Stars: Kari Sorvali, Mari Rantasila, Jari Järvimaa, Åke Lindman

Votes: 315

21. Robinson in Space (1997)

82 min | Documentary

Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield

Votes: 391

22. 143 Sahara Street (2019)

90 min | Documentary

In the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.

Director: Hassen Ferhani | Stars: Malika, Samir El Hakim, Chawki Amari, Ali Damiche

Votes: 219

23. The Postman Always Rings Twice: The Radio Play (1947)

Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Crime, Mystery

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Director: Bill Lawrence | Stars: Truman Bradley, John Garfield

Votes: 11

24. The Great Northwest (2012)

Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary, History

The Great Northwest is a 70-minute experimental documentary that is based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their ... See full summary »

Director: Matt McCormick

25. The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode: A Time for Rifles (1985)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Lew Bridgeman and Joe Caldwell are two longtime best friends who served together in the Vietnam War. Lew and Joe wind clashing with each other over Lew's fetching wife Rae, whom both men are in love with.

Director: David Wickes | Stars: Page Fletcher, Bo Hopkins, John Ireland, Kim Lankford

Votes: 72

26. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Prime Mover (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Compulsive gambler Ace Larsen cajoles his friend Jimbo Cobb to use his telekinesis to influence the results of the Las Vegas gambling tables in their favor.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen, Christine White, Nesdon Booth

Votes: 2,466

27. Batwoman (2019–2022)
Episode: Mine Is a Long and a Sad Tale (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Alice takes Kate down the sad, winding road of her life in the days after the accident; Mary has an argument with Catherine that sends her looking for Kate at Wayne Tower, but she comes unwelcome company for Luke.

Director: Carl Seaton | Stars: Ruby Rose, Rachel Skarsten, Meagan Tandy, Nicole Kang

Votes: 2,240

28. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: Hideout (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A holdup man is murdered by the woman who planned his crime and sheltered him in the basement of her roadside diner.

Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jean Engstrom, Harry Fleer, William Boyett

Votes: 81

29. Dark/Web (2019)
Episode: Chapter Seven (2019)

TV-14 | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A college freshman longs for permanence in a world of ephemeral tweets and snaps, but soon regrets the lasting impression she's made on campus when social media rumors suggest she's contracted a horrific STD. As the news goes "viral," her symptoms worsen.

Directors: Michael Nardelli, Roxy Shih | Stars: Brian Elerding, Lana McKissack, Michael Nardelli, Sibongile Mlambo

Votes: 63

30. Bull (2016–2022)
Episode: Teacher's Pet (2017)

TV-14 | 41 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bull is asked to consult on a civil suit against a teacher who had a sexual relationship with a minor, but his takes a blow when the teen takes the teacher's side.

Director: Holly Dale | Stars: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodríguez, Geneva Carr, Jaime Lee Kirchner

Votes: 602