Films and TV shows that feel like On A Highway by Animal Collective
A restless, wide-eyed drift through motion and uncertainty, where the road feels both liberating and quietly unmoored.
- Wendy and Lucy (2008): A quiet, aching drift through the Pacific Northwest with a sense of precarious freedom.
- Paris, Texas (1984): A wandering man crossing vast landscapes, lost and searching.
- Into the Wild (2007): Idealistic escape down open roads and the loneliness that follows.
- Where the Wild Things Are (2009): Raw, ragged, childlike wildness with a freak-folk heart.
- Easy Rider (1969): The psychedelic open-road classic of drifting and looking for freedom.
- Daisies (1966): Playful surrealism with a hazy, unpredictable energy.
- Twin Peaks (1990): Dreamlike roads and woods that feel both eerie and hypnotic.
- Maniac (2018): Strange, hallucinatory journeys through fractured minds and searching for connection.
