Backroads (Spanish: Carreteras secundarias) is a 1997 road movie directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and written by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, adapting the latter's novel Carreteras secundarias.

It stars Antonio Resines, Fernando Ramallo, Maribel Verdú and Miriam Díaz Aroca.

Set in 1974, during the last rales of the Francoist dictatorship, the plot follows the journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along the Spanish coast.

[1][2] Penned by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, the screenplay is an adaptation of Martínez de Pisón's 1996 novel Carreteras secundarias.

[1][5] Distributed by United International Pictures, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 28 November 1997.