The Car Movie Thread

[Mad Dog]

I know this has been discussed on the other forum, but thought I'd start a thread about it on The Factory Five Forum.

With the recent article in SEMA Magazine on "The California Kid," I took a look at my movie collection (it's always growing and lines the walls of a room in my house) and realized I don't have many car movies. Sure I own the Nick Cage "Gone in 60 Seconds" but have yet to pick-up the original (I know I should). I also have Bullitt and American Graffiti, and I guess you could call The Italian Job a car movie, but I only have the new version with Marky Mark, not the original. I also have the "Smokey and the Bandit" collection, and even though it's cheesy and over the top and quite possibly one of the lamest car movies ever, I do have Stallone's "Driven". Of course, "Days of Thunder" is in my collection as well. And I love Tarantino's "Death Proof". The second half of that movie has a really fun car chase in it.

I've looked at picking up "Grand Prix" but haven't pulled the trigger on that one quite yet. I was also looking at "Death Race 2000" the other day at Newbury Comics. "Cannonball Run" is also on my list of movies I'll be adding at some point.

What are some of the must have car movies in your opinion?

The Recommendation List:
LeMans
2 Lane Black Top
30 miles
A Man and A Woman
Against All Odds
Aloha, Bobby and Rose
American Graffiti
Back to The Future Movies
Bad Boys 1 and 2
Beverly Hills Cop
Black Cadillac*
Black Dog
Blues Brothers
Breakdown
Bullitt
The California Kid
Cannonball Run 1 & 2
Car Wash
Cars 1 and 2
Catch me if you can
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Christine
Cobra - Sylver Stallone
Convoy*
Corvette Summer
Days of Thunder
Dazed and Confused
Death Proof
Death Race
Death Race 2000 - (lots of kit cars)
Deuces of Spades
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Driven
Duel
Dukes of Hazard
Dust To Glory
Eat My Dust!
Fast Five
Faster
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Funny Car Summer
Goldfinger
Gone in 60 Seconds (original)
Grand Prix
Grease
Heart Like a Wheel
Herbie - The Love Bug Movies (LOL)
Highwaymen
Hollywood Knights
Hometown USA
Hooper
Hot Rod (1950)
Hot Rod Girl*
Hot Rods To Hell*
Johnny Dark
Joy Ride
King of the Mountain
KnightRiders
LeMans
Mad Max Movies
Maximum Overdrive
Monster Man
Moonrunners
NASCAR 3D IMAX
Phantasm - (Mopars)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Race with the Devil
Rebel without a Cause
Red Rock West
Redline
Repo Man
Return to Macon County
Road House
Road Trip
Ronin
Six Pack
Smokey and The Bandit
Speed
Speed Racer
Speed Zone
Spinout
Streets of Legend
Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Taxi 1-4 (France)
Taxi Driver
The Car
The Driver
The Fast and Furious Collection
The Fear of Speed
The Gumball Rally
The Italian Job
The Last American Hero
The Last Run
The Lively Set
The Punisher
The Racers
The Transporter 1 & 3
The Wanderers
The Wraith
Thelma and Louise
To Live And Die In L.A. - awesome car chase on the Freeways
To Please a Lady
Torque
Transformers 1, 2, and soon to be released 3
Trouble Bound
Trucks
Tucker: The Man And His Dream
Used Cars
Vacation
Vanishing Point
Viva Las Vegas - Cobras and Vettes
White Lightning
White Line Fever
XXX

[Ray]

LeMans, Grand Prix, The Gumball Rally, and while not strictly a car movie, Bullitt.

Ray

[Mad Dog]

Awesome! I decided that I'm going to update the original post as recommendations come in.

[DARKPT]

Hooper (was filmed where I live in Alabama!)
Ronin
The Transporter 1 and 3 (skip 2)

[VeniceCobra]

I would add a 1966 movie: "a Man and a Woman".
A "love story" movie, but the lead actor is a pilot for Ford (it a actually Jean-Louis Trintignant, the nephew of Maurice Trintignant) and there are some pretty nice scenes with a GT40, Ford F1 and mustang in WRC.
The wife will love the movie, you’ll have a blast watching the cars, everybody will be happy ☺

[Mad Dog]

I have all three Transporter flicks, but haven't watched the third one yet. 1 was a lot of fun and 2 was ok, but felt like more of the same. I think that's why I bought 3 to complete the trilogy, but haven't been rushing to watch it. Keep the suggestions coming!

[PaulW]

Most of my top movies such as Gumball Rally, Bulitt and The Italian Job have been named but there is one that is definately not a car movie but bears mentioning. The opening minutes of Beverly Hills Cop with the semi is pretty dang good. There was also an old movie 50s? that I believe was called "Thunder Road" and was based on moonshiners has some pretty good car stuff as well.

[TimC]

ASAIK it's not available but one I liked from the 80's was "King of the Mountain" with Harry Hamlin and Dennis Hopper.

[Mad Dog]

Paul, Thunder Road was 1958 so good call! And while I've seen clips and some parodies of Beverly Hills Cop (a clip from Clerks The Animated Series comes to mind), I've never seen the actual movie.



TimC - When Dennis Hopper got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, I decided to add some of his flicks to my collection. I already had Easy Rider. Apocalypse Now, Hoosiers, and True Romance (his scene with Christopher Walken in that movie is amazing), so I picked up Blue Velvet, Speed, and Super Mario Bros. (corny, but that's why I bought it). I found King of the Mountain on Amazon. They list 4 used VHS' from $39.95...surprised it hasn't found it's way onto DVD.

[MARIAH]

"The Last Run" with George C. Scott. You really should hunt this one up for the BMW.
http://motoringconbrio.com/2011/02/1...last-run-1971/

[kpribbleS281]

Vanishing Point - white challenger!!

[Pierre-Alexandre]

Cannonball run 1-2 (I didn't saw the 3 so I can't say)
Redline (2007) great road movie
And french peoples we also have Taxi (1 to 4) Don't compare with the US version with the Yellow Crown Vic original French version are the best, especialy the 2.
Can we say The Fast and The Furious collction as road movies? Thoses are most about car.
And the Fear of Speed. The story is so-so, but mix Cars and Nice girls (prono actress were used for this film) mix it with gun and you have what many guys ask for a good movie.

[Mad Dog]

kpribble - I recently bought Vanishing Point. I heard that has a great car chase that is like, half the movie. I'll have to pop that in soon.

Pierre - Cannonball Run is another I need to see. And I have the first and fourth movies in the Fast and Furious franchise (the fourth movie was $9.99 on blu-ray on Black Friday 2009 so I bought it). Not sure about 2Fast2Furious or Tokyo Drift.

[Gordon Levy]

2 lane black top, Cannonball, Any of the Halikie movies, ie The original gone in 50 seconds, repo man and a couple others i can't remember at the moment

[Mad Dog]

Found an old Hot Rod Magazine article that lists their Top 40 Car Movies of all time. A bunch have already been listed on here, but there's some that have not. Kind of surprised when I saw Goldfinger listed, but who doesn't love that Aston Martin and the Bond flicks always have fun chase scenes.

Click here to check out Hot Rod's Top 40 Car Movies

[Pierre-Alexandre]

I forgot Speed Racer is a great funny road movie. I really lie when the monkey trow his sh!t at the bad guy. I must admit that I find monkeys really funny.

[kpribbleS281]

LOL - got to love Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry - I had forgotten that the first time I saw that is was at a drive in with Vanishing Point as the second billing!!

[Arrowhead]

American Graffiti

[Mad Dog]

Speed Racer was fun (even though a lot of people I've spoken to don't seem to like it). Never really watched the cartoon so can't compare it, but I enjoyed the movie for what it was.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry has been added to the list. Another Peter Fonda flick I guess could be considered a car movie, even though it's a R.V., is Race with the Devil. Some interesting chase scenes in that one.

American Graffiti is a classic. I think I actually enjoyed the documentary on the making of the movie as much as I did the movie itself.

[Sergio]

The Wraith

Blues Brothers

The Car

Corvette Summer

Dazed and Confused

The Punisher

Hollywood Knights

Mad Max Movies

[Sergio]

Funny Car Summer

White Lightning

Grease !

Death Race 2000 - (lots of kit cars)

Eat My Dust!

The Lively Set

To Live And Die In L.A. - awesome car chase on the Freeways

Viva Las Vegas - Cobras and Vettes

Against All Odds

Christine

Cobra - Sylver Stallone

Hot Rod (1950)

Hot Rod Girl

The Driver

Used Cars

Hot Rods To Hell

Tucker: The Man And His Dream

Goldfinger

Johnny Dark

Moonrunners

To Please a Lady

The Racers

King of the Mountain

The Last American Hero

Heart Like a Wheel

[Sergio]

Cars (1 and 2) (Disney Movies)

[Sergio]

ohh by the way there's a new movie coming out soon named FAST FIVE
(that names reminds me of Factory Five.)

[Sergio]

XXX

Highwaymen

Duel

Death Race

Torque

Speed

Road Trip

[Sergio]

Bad Boys 1 and 2

DeathRace 2000

Phantasm - (Mopars)

Return to Macon County

The Wanderers

Aloha, Bobby and Rose

Hometown USA

[Sergio]

Black Cadillac

Trucks

Maximum Overdrive

Black Dog

Joy Ride

Days of Thunder

Monster Man

Convoy

KnightRiders

White Line Fever

Race with the Devil

Trouble Bound

Thelma and Louise

30 miles

[Sergio]

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Back to The Future Movies

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Herbie - The Love Bug Movies (LOL)

Breakdown

Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

NASCAR 3D IMAX

Six Pack

Dust To Glory

Speed Zone

Red Rock West

Catch me if you can

Streets of Legend

Faster

[Sergio]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Vacation

Car Wash

Rebel without a Cause

Taxi Driver

[David Hodgkins]

OK wait. I don't think this is supposed to be a list of every movie with a car in it. Unless, of course, you actually recommend Thelma an Louise as a CAR movie...

Just sayin'...

[Arrowhead]

OK wait. I don't think this is supposed to be a list of every movie with a car in it. Unless, of course, you actually recommend Thelma an Louise as a CAR movie...

Just sayin'...

Ha ha I was thinking the same thing. Ferris Bueller??? Really????

[MPTech]

What? No Dukes of Hazzard! ??

How about the Ed Roth / Rat fink movie? (kind of a documentary, but interesting)

[Sergio]

OK wait. I don't think this is supposed to be a list of every movie with a car in it. Unless, of course, you actually recommend Thelma an Louise as a CAR movie...

Just sayin'...

I am sure some of our FFR Female builders or Drivers do consider Thelma and Louise a Car movie.

they died in a car ... For the Love of God !

I would do the same thing in my FFR !

[Mad Dog]

Wow, a lot to catch up on from the weekend. I was busy doing homework and my taxes (TurboTax made it fairly painless), so I didn't get to the forum and was a bit surprised when I saw all the additional titles. I'll go through them and add to the master list in the first post. Based on some of the comments, I may not include all suggestions.

Thelma and Louise is a tough one, but come on...Ferris Bueller isn't a traditional car movie but you do have the scene with the garage dudes jumping and driving the car along with a lesson in how to take miles off...it will remain off the list.

[Mad Dog]

A bunch of the new suggestions have been added, but an interesting point has been brought up.

What exactly qualifies as a car movie? I mean if it's just a chase scene, then we have to add The Matrix Reloaded to the must see car movies, but I personally don't consider that a car movie (awesome scene though and I know that a lot more goes into defining a movie as a car movie). So in your opinions, what makes a car movie a car movie?

[Dr Stebo]

American Graffiti

Taledaga Nights

[Pierre-Alexandre]

Hey Trasformers 1 and 2 aren't in the list! And soon to e the 3.

[gswartz]

Check out Deuce of Spades. Not only is this a great car movie, its one of the spend stories of a movie even being made and making it to a dvd.

[Mad Dog]

Ok, so I've updated the list. It's getting so long, I actually copied everything into a spreadsheet and alphabetized it to make getting rid of dupes easier. If we count all movies that have been named, we're at 112. That's a lot of movie watching to do.

I'm still curious what you guys think qualifies as a car movie. Like Gran Torino features the car, but the movie isn't about cars. So is it or isn't it a car movie? I say no, but curious what you guys think about movies like that.

[AJR]

I cant belive no one mentioned Elvis's 1966 movie Spinout, he even drives a cobra.

[Mad Dog]

Here's the trailer for Spinout.