Highest-Rated Movies about 'Carsploitation'

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Blues Brothers (1980), Grindhouse (2007), Vanishing Point (1971), The Driver (1978), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Death Proof (2007), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Carsploitation movies.

#16. The Cannonball Run (1981)

Storyline: This comedy movie brings Burt Reynolds, Sir Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and an all-star cast to the starting line of the ultimate auto race, a madcap cross-country scramble that roars full-speed ahead. This action-comedy was inspired by an actual event: the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an anything goes, all-stops-out, and very much illegal, competition that has grown to legendary proportions within the last ten years.

Plot Keywords: highway, road trip, exploding car, car racing, part of trilogy, toy gun, sheikh ...

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#17. The Gumball Rally (1976)

Storyline: A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>

Plot Keywords: car racing, car, three word title, road movie, new york city, cult film, car race ...

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#18. Death Race 2000 (1975)

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 ...

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#19. The Wraith (1986)

Storyline: Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh stabs the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death for being intimate with a girl whom Walsh wants for himself, the mysterious Jake Kesey arrives, an extremely cool motor-biker with an invincible car. Jake befriends Jamie's girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie's sweet brother Billy under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis can not - the methodical and otherworldly elimination of Packard's criminal gang.

Plot Keywords: pantyhose, bare butt, male rear nudity, sunbathing, cult, sex, cult film ...

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#21. Rolling Vengeance (1987)

Storyline: A man is out to kill a bunch of rivalries who killed his innocent mother and the mother of their kids in a car that was destroyed and got pushed down to the bushes, now he wants revenge building up a massive monster truck also known as the "ROLLING VENGEANCE"

Plot Keywords: rape and revenge, revenge, rape, carsploitation, blonde, shaking hands, birthday cake ...

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#22. Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Storyline: When Earth passes through the tail of Rea-M rogue comet, the machines come to life and start to kill mankind. A group of survivors is under siege from fierce trucks at the Dixie Boy truck stop gas station and they have to fight to survive.

Plot Keywords: vending machine, exploding truck, carsploitation, inanimate object comes to life, jukebox, gas station, hairy chest ...

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#25. Thunder Alley (1967)

Storyline: Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete's daughter Francie and her boyfriend Eddie Sands everything he knows about driving. Eddie takes up with Tommy's girl Annie Blaine after winning the first time out. They become fierce rivals by the next race, during which Tommy remembers driving over his brother with a go-kart and Eddie hits the wall.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: cigar smoking, car crash, car racing, drunk driving, father daughter relationship, flashback, love triangle ...

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#26. Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

Storyline: It's been a few years since Cletus and the Bandit made their famous 28-hour run to Texas for a few cases of Coors. Bandit is now a washed-up has-been living in the past, until Big Enos and Little Enos make him another offer: Transport a live Elephant across country in 3 days or less.

Plot Keywords: sheriff, road movie, road trip, drunkenness, crate, desert, trucker ...

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#27. Cannonball Run II (1984)

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 ...

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#28. Fireball 500 (1966)

Storyline: Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race. He is assisted by Jane Harris and Sonny Leander Fox. Soon Dave and Sonny begin a friendly rivalry for Jane. Track action filmed at the Ascot and Saugus Raceways near Los Angeles, local color shot in Charlotte, North Carolina.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: hixploitation, carsploitation, teensploitation, psychotronic film, car racing, carnival, moonshine ...

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#29. Getaway (2013)

Storyline: Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock as he commandeers a custom Shelby Super Snake Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed adventure at the command of a mysterious villain on a race against time to save the life of his kidnapped wife.

Plot Keywords: train station, parking garage, stealing a car, security camera, surveillance, hidden camera, satellite ...

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