Prime Mover (2009)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 30M
Director : David Caesar
Sinopsis
A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.
Txema, ex militante de ETA, se acoge al perdón oficial y compra un camión. Casado con Elisa, se dedica al transporte internacional. Es un momento de conflictos con los agricultores franceses. En uno de sus viajes, sus antiguos camaradas atentan contra su vida, pero sale ileso. Como su esposa está a punto de dar a luz, decide escapar con ella, pero sufre una encerrona y le queman el camión con Elisa dentro, la cual fallece a consecuencia de las quemaduras. En el juicio contra los culpables, declara el mafioso Julot, quien controla a los agricultores franceses. El testimonio de Julot deja en libertad a los criminales. Es cuando Txema decide vengarse utilizando su arma predilecta, la Goma-2.
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Dos conductores de camiones luchan contra unos matones que han sido contratados para sacarlos del negocio.
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath.
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
"The Bunny Game" nos presenta un tortuoso juego en el que una prostituta cocainómana de Hollywood es secuestrada durante cinco días por un maniático chofer de camión.
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
Narra la historia de dos tipos "frikis", cuñados y solitarios que se ganan la vida de forma temporal pintando las líneas de las carreteras... Remake de la película islandesa Either Way (Á annan veg).
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
El conductor de camiones Bugs Raymond organiza a las asociaciones de camioneros y se hace con dinero a cambio de protección. Una vez enriquecido, decide casarse con la dama de la alta sociedad Dorothy Stone. Ella le rechaza, en favor de otro hombre, así que él planea secuestrarla el día de su boda.
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
Cebe es una adolescente que vive una situación desesperada: se siente atrapada por las costumbres de su pequeña ciudad y de su ambiente familiar. Hija de Kathy, una camarera algo promiscua y adicta a la heroína y de Don, un camionero encarcelado por arrollar borracho un autobús escolar. Al recuperar la libertad, su padre intenta recuperar el tiempo perdido con la familia pero la situación en su hogar está repleta de mentiras, drogas y relaciones incestuosas. En medio de este panorama la única que ve una salida es la joven Cebe.
Oscar, Bert, Ernie, el monstruo de las galletas y otros miembros de la pandilla del Barrio Sésamo se unen a Big Bird en una aventura. Con estrellas invitadas Chevy Chase, Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, y Waylon Jennings.
Quid (Stacy Keach) es un camionero americano, que trabaja en Australia, que es contratado para llevar una carga desde Melbourne hasta Perth, a lo largo de la carretara que atraviesa el desierto. Por esos parajes, un serial killer está atacando a mujeres en la carretera, y Quid sospecha de una misteriosa furgoneta verde...
John and Michael are taught by their father at a young age that people are merely piggy banks... if you need money, just break one open. Charming and brilliant, they roam the country robbing and murdering anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. After their partnership becomes strained and John sets off on his own, he discovers his father had a secret family... another wife and a daughter in another state. With a renewed sense of purpose he sets out to find and kill his stepsister. But this may be more challenging than he thinks... has he met his match?