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Scarecrow (1973), The Passenger (1975), Paper Moon (1973), Paris, Texas (1984), Lost in America (1985), Two for the Road (1967), The Sugarland Express (1974), A Perfect World (1983), Fandango (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Midnight Run (1988), The Straight Story (1999), The Last Detail (1973), Rain Man (1988), and on and on...
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The Cannonball Run (1981)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
The Great Race (1965)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Midnight Run (1988)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Starman (1984)
Crossroads (1986)
Grace Is Gone (2007)
Duel (1971)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Bolt (2008)
Ice Age (2002)
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Thelma and Louise, Honkytonk Man, Every which way but loose, The Gauntlet, The Oullaw Josey Whales (yeah, I consider it a road movie), Butterfly Kiss, The Tune (okay am I stretching it for that one, I may be stretching it for that one, I mean, I'm not mentioning Yellow Submarine or Ulysses 31 so I may be stretching it for that one), The Blues Brothers, Midnight Run, Wild at Heart and Kalifornia.
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A few of these might be stretching the definition a bit, but I tried to focus on films where traveling is a major part of the plot.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Andrei Rublev
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Bonnie and Clyde
Detour
Duel
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Grapes of Wrath
It Happened One Night
Kings of the Road
La Strada
North By Northwest
The Passenger
The Return
Stalker
The Straight Story
Sullivan's Travels
The Travelling Players
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Wages of Fear
Walkabout
Weekend
Where Is the Friend's Home?
Wild Strawberries
The Wizard of Oz
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Fandango would be way up there.

Of course, I love Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run.

Feel like I'm forgetting some, I'll come up with them.