"Car" Movies

I love NASCAR, yeah, nothing new and thank goodness the season is less then 3 weeks away! Even with that said, I still get this craving for fast cars! In an effort to amuse myself I went in search of all the “car” movies I could find, they range from comedies to suspense to cartoon to fact based movies. I also included some “truck” movies too! Oh, they are not in any order of like or dislike and I've only seen a few of these, my favorites are 31, 43, 40, 34, 19, 8, 5, 6, and 4!


1. “Driven” Sly Stallone takes on the auto racing genre with predictable results.

2. “Speed Racer” It’s auto racing eye-candy, pure and simple.

3. “Redline” Get ready for some serious car envy.

4. “Herbie Fully Loaded” Hooray for the little guy! The latest entry in the Love Bug film franchise.

5. Stroker Ace-Burt in a car sounds like a movie to me.

6. “Six Pack” a washed-up racer with a pit crew staffed by mechanically-minded orphaned kids.

7. “Days of Thunder” (1990) – Tom Cruise and NASCAR, more than enough said!

8. “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (2006) – Will Farrell takes on NASCAR

9. “Greased Lightning” (1977) loosely based on the real-life exploits of Wendell Scott, a taxi driver and moonshine transporter who became a stock car champion in the 1960s.

10. “Grand Prix” (1966) – Four Formula One drivers are followed through the fictional 1966 season.

11. “Cannonball” (1976) – Covering an illegal cross-continent road race, the real-life material that inspired Cannonball would later be used in films like The Cannonball Run

12. “Heart Like a Wheel” (1983) – Shirley Muldowney was a real-life champion drag racer during the ‘70s and early-’80s. This is her story.

13. “Megalopolis Expressway Trial” (1988) –this influential Japanese street racing film was banned from theaters in its home country

14. “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971)

15. “Le Mans” (1971) about the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

16. “The Fast and the Furious” (2001)

17. “Bullitt” (1968) –the ultimate car chase movie

18. “Gone in 60 Seconds” (1974) – A group of car thieves only have a few days to steal 48 cars, with the final prize being a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 nicknamed “Eleanor

19. “The Cannonball Run” (1981) - This madcap movie about an illegal road race across America

20. “Taxi” (1998) wanna-be racecar driver who takes a job as a taxi operator. Three sequels would follow, and it’s become one of the most successful French film franchises of all time.

21. “Vanishing Point” (1971) –former racecar driver and Vietnam vet with nothing to lose gets hired to get a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco.

22. “Christine” (1983) – a red possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury, ‘nuff said!

23. “The Transporter” (2002)

24. “Death Race 2000” (1975) – the annual running of the Transcontinental Road Race, an event where drivers can pick up extra points by running down pedestrians with their cars.

25. “Death Race” (2008) – a former racecar driver who’s framed for the murder of his wife. Sent to prison, he soon learns that the whole thing was a set-up in order to get him to compete in the “Death Race,” a brutal and often lethal competition.

26. “The Driver” (1978)-Some of the best pickup driving ever caught on film.

27. “Take This Job And Shove It” (1981)

28. “Hell Drivers” (1957)

29. “They Drive By Night” (1940)

30. “White Line Fever” (1975)

31. “Smokey and The Bandit” (1977) -The second biggest hit of 1977 behind "Star Wars." And "Star Wars" didn't feature a Kenworth.

32. “White Heat” (1949)-gang of crooks uses a tanker truck as a Trojan horse to take over a refinery.

33. “The Road Warrior” (1981) Still one of the greatest stunt fests in cinematic history, with the action centered around a few drops of gasoline aboard a right-hand-drive Mack.

34. "Convoy" (1978): based off the C.W. McCall country trucker anthem.

35. "Coast to Coast" (1980)

36. "Road Games" (1981)

37. "Joy Ride" (2001)

38. "Duel" (1971): the movie that put its director Steven Spielberg on the map.

39. "Breakdown" (1997): one of the top truck movies of all time.

40. "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986): How can you go wrong with Kurt Russell in another trucker film

41. "Sorcerer" (1977): highly intense remake of the classic "Wages of Fear."

42. "Wages of Fear" (1953): T

43. Cars-Pixar meets NASCAR