Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Running on Empty
Overview
The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by loneliness.
Director and cast
- Bülent Akinci Director
- Jens Harzer as Burkhard Wagner
- Susanne Menner as Gast
- Marina Galic as Carolin Wagner
- Anna Maria Mühe as Heike
- Tom Jahn as Walter Rösler
- Mehdi Nebbou as Rashid
- Hussi Kutlucan as Herr Wokalek
- Oliver Marlo as Herr Hauser
- Christian Blümel as Charlie
- Patrizia Moresco as Frau Wokalek
More films
Breakdown (1997)
Action · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · R
On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy i...
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Director
- Jonathan Mostow
- Cast
- Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan
Transamerica (2005)
Adventure · Comedy · Drama · R
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Director
- Duncan Tucker
- Cast
- Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan
Nights on the Road (1952)
Drama · N/A
An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Director
- Rudolf Jugert, Fritz Stapenhorst
- Cast
- Hans Albers, Hildegard Knef, Marius Goring
Waitress (2007)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · PG-13
A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Director
- Adrienne Shelly
- Cast
- Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Andy Griffith
Kings of the Road (1976)
Drama · Not Rated
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their...
- Runtime
- 2h 57m
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Cast
- Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · R
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- James Ponsoldt
- Cast
- Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Masam Holden
The Circle (2017)
Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller · PG-13
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Director
- James Ponsoldt
- Cast
- Emma Watson, Alicia Vikander, Tom Hanks
Smashed (2012)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · R
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to...
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Director
- James Ponsoldt
- Cast
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer
Off the Black (2006)
Drama · R
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- James Ponsoldt
- Cast
- Nick Nolte, Trevor Morgan, Rosemarie DeWitt
Comments
Talk about the film with other members