Freedom, nihilism, countercultural subversion: let these cinematic road trips transport you somewhere far, far awayModern Toss on road trip movies ... The freedom of the open road, far from social, moral and economic strictures, is at the heart of the road movie, a theme it borrowed from the western. So in Dennis Hopper’s ramshackle but hugely influential 1969 drama, he and Peter Fonda’s LA hippy bikers naturally want to hit the road, but their “trip” descends into a nihilistic, countercultural subversion of that frontier spirit. Amazon/YouTube (£)