Original Road Movies Movie Posters

Road movie posters capture the quintessentially American fantasy of self-invention through motion — the open highway as escape from whatever came before. Browse our Road Movies collection and you're looking at the advertising art for a genre that crystallized in the late 1960s and defined a generation's self-image as completely as any cultural form of the era. Every item is available to purchase with full condition and provenance detail. Easy Rider (1969) — with Jack Nicholson in his breakout supporting role alongside Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda — produced one of the most recognizable campaigns in New Hollywood history. The original one-sheet, pairing the two motorcycles against a bold typographic treatment, announced that American cinema had found a new visual vocabulary for the counterculture. Nicholson's subsequent road pictures — Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973) — extended this vocabulary through the decade. Original examples in fine unfolded condition are increasingly difficult to source. The European road movie runs parallel: Wim Wenders' German road trilogy, the Italian southern landscapes of films made by directors drawn to horizontal space and narrative freedom. Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) generated grandes and one-sheets that are now among the most requested items in German cinema art collecting. Martin Sheen's Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979) — the latter as much a road movie as a war film — are both represented with domestic and international paper. The Cannonball Run pictures, Smokey and the Bandit, and the car-chase exploitation cycle add a different, equally collectible dimension to this category. Browse alongside our Exploitation and Adventure collections. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.