Amarcord (1973), The Great Race (1965), Grand Prix (1966), Grease (1978), Cars (2006), Back Street (1941), The Fast and the Furious (2001), An American Romance (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Automobile Racing movies.
Storyline: Mike, a famed racing driver and an old flame of hers, is worried that Laura may be ill. Tricking her into a doctor's examination, she discovers she is; a brain operation to remove a tumor is performed and her symptoms disappear. All isn't well, however, but she is unaware of it, and she and her doctor fall in love. Finding out she is not actually cured, Laura renounces her new love and goes back to her old "jet-set" ways wasting the time she has left until a racing accident shows her how important the hours she has left are.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: automobile racing, terminal illness, melodrama, brain tumor, based on play, hospital, brain surgery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, skinny dipping, swimming in underwear, girl stripped down to panties, slapstick comedy, place name in title, reference to casanova ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the year 2000--against the backdrop of social turmoil, political unrest, and rampant anarchy--a now-totalitarian United States of America supports a brutal annual event to pacify the masses: the infamous Transcontinental Road Race. Scoring points simply by running over unsuspecting pedestrians, the national champion driver, Frankenstein, has to race against fast contestants such as the beautiful cowgirl killer, Calamity Jane; the neo-Nazi, Matilda the Hun; the Roman gladiator, Nero the Hero, and, first and foremost, the Chicago thug and ambitious challenger, Machine Gun Joe. Who will score the most points in the violent Death Race 2000?
Plot Keywords: tyranny, automobile racing, b movie, game of death, carsploitation, car racing, dystopia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The famous race car Lightning McQueen and his team are invited to compete in the World Grand Prix race. There, McQueen's best friend Mater finds himself involved in international espionage, and alongside two professional British spies attempts to uncover a secret plan led by a mysterious mastermind and his criminal gang, which threatens the lives of all competitors in the tournament.
Plot Keywords: car race, best friend, spy, conspiracy, gadget car, london england, gambling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible, a cross-country car racing rally that took the life of his older brother, Rex Racer. Speed is loyal to the family business, run by his parents Pops and Mom. Pops designed Speed's car, the Mach 5. The owner of Royalton Industries makes Speed a lucrative offer, Speed rejects the offer, angering the owner. Speed also uncovers a secret that top corporate interests, including Royalton, are fixing races and cheating to gain profit. With the offer to Speed denied, Royalton wants to ensure that Speed will not win races. Speed finds support from his parents and his girlfriend Trixie and enters The Crucible in a partnership with his one-time rival, Racer X, seeking to rescue his family's business and the racing sport itself.
Plot Keywords: based on cartoon, gadget car, conspiracy, secret identity, secret agent, corporate crime, driver ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well.
Plot Keywords: dog, bell 206 jet ranger helicopter, car crash, tire, phoenix arizona, 1990s, electronic music score ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.—J A Ollinger <jao@speedlink.com>
Plot Keywords: automobile racing, husband wife relationship, male bonding, punched in the face, race car, racecar driver, trophy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she doesn't have the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team, and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third on the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this movie is, "Whom with whom?"—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: hixploitation, amputee, automobile, motorcycle, prosthetic limb, hook, ambition ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Race car driver, Jim Douglas goes to Monte Carlo to enter his car, Herbie, in the Monte Carlo rally. When they get there, Herbie falls for another driver's car and Jim falls for the driver Diane, who thinks he's weird. But what they don't know is that a pair of thieves who stole a very valuable diamond, hid it in Herbie's gas tank. And the thieves try to get it back.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: paris france, robbery, automobile racing, spy, sequel, europe, volkswagen beetle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
Plot Keywords: new york city, automobile racing, carsploitation, exclamation point in title, one word title, punctuation in title, sniper ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Auto racer Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vasendak's (Mick Jagger's) twenty-first century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie (Rene Russo), now fifteen years older and an executive at McCandless.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, automobile racing, cyberpunk, on the run, dystopia, time travel, billionaire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Sheik who competed at the last Cannonball Run, is berated by his father for not winning it. So he tells him to go and win. Problem is that there is no Cannonball Run. So his father tells him to make one of his own. He puts up a million dollars as the prize. So former Cannonballers J.J. and his buddy Vince join, as does Blake and Fenderbaum and some other characters. But Blake and Fenderbaum owe a mobster some money, and the mobster owes some other guy more. He then decides to grab the Sheik and hold him for ransom so he can pay the guy back.
Plot Keywords: chase, number in title, sequel to cult favorite, part of trilogy, roman numeral in title, second in trilogy, second part ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maggie Peyton is the new owner of Number 53--the free wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own; she puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. As a third generation member of a NASCAR family, racing is in Maggie Peyton's blood, but she is forbidden from pursuing her dream by her overprotective father, Ray Peyton, Sr. When Ray Sr. offers Maggie a car as a college graduation present, he takes her to a junkyard to choose one from an assortment of very used cars. Maggie has her eye on an old Nissan, but a certain rusty, banged up '63 VW Bug seems to be clamoring for her attention. To her surprise, Maggie leaves the lot with Herbie. As she prepares to leave town for a position with ESPN News, Maggie discovers that Herbie has a mind of his own--and an alternate route for her future.
Plot Keywords: automobile racing, against the odds, automobile accident, car rollover, laptop, secret identity, manipulation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Plot Keywords: rookie, mexico, miami florida, slow motion scene, racetrack, montage, media coverage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A race-car driver falls in love with a beautiful Italian automobile engineer who is travelling the NASCAR circuit to sell her controversial engine technology.
Plot Keywords: fistfight, automobile racing, independent film ...
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