
Duel
dir. Steven Spielberg · 1971
Plot
While traveling through the desert for an appointment with a client, the businessman David Mann from California passes a slow and old tanker truck. The psychotic truck driver feels offended and chases David along the empty highway trying to kill him.
Why watch
A businessman named David Mann finds himself in a life-or-death chase across the desolate California desert after a seemingly innocuous act of overtaking a slow-moving tanker truck. As the relentless driver pursues him with a psychotic fervor, the film immerses viewers in a claustrophobic tension that escalates with each passing moment. Watching it feels like being trapped in a high-speed nightmare, where the vastness of the landscape contrasts sharply with the suffocating fear of being hunted.