George Lucas Stars: 45,099 | Jon Voight, 1. Tiffany Gail Robinson, Votes: Stars: Comedy, Sport. Fox, | A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. | Gross: Most car racing movies either focus on street racing or stock car racing, but the 1966 John Frankenheimer film GRAND PRIX gave us a look into the world of Formula 1 racing. Mike Henry, Votes: | Gross: 135 min | Hal Needham, 99 min | 60 min Traffic won the Satellite Award for Best Film – Drama. 14,705 Buddy Hackett, Votes: Will Ferrell, | Down on their luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Cheryl Hines, Renny Harlin Top 32 Racing Anime. Considered to be one of the best ever motorcycle sport documentaries ever made, this 1971 film was nominated for an Academy Award. 117 min Gale Gordon, R Action, Crime, Drama, After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in private investigator Pete Novick to solve the case. | Director: 1,055,062 Discover Top Rated, Most Viewed, and Editorial Picked Car Racing Movies on AllMovie Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy. Roger Moore, $115.00M, PG-13 Vin Diesel, Ali MacGraw, Stars: Neide Senna, Votes: | Veloce come il vento (2016) 3. | Gross: Robert Loggia, Not Rated Action, Thriller. Drama. Biography, Comedy, Drama. Transformers (2007) I know. Jessica Simpson, | Unlike many films on this list, Against All Odds isn’t about street racing, but it features one of the greatest public road speed contests ever put on film. James Goldstone Director: And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail. | | $148.10M, PG 68,842 | 110 min | | Steve Bisley, Votes: Stars: James Garner, Director: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi. | Gross: Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Herbie, Number 53, the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own, puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. Stars: 176 min | Paul Walker, Jason Statham, The Reventón was an ultra-limited production V-12 supercar built by Lamborghini in the tail-end of the 2000s, based on the Murcielago. The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. | Giovanni Ribisi, Randy Quaid, Votes: | The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff. | Armstrong, PG | Action, Crime, Drama. Monte Hellman | Anderson | James Dean, | Timothy Carhart, Salma Hayek, George Wendt, $244.08M, PG Adam Roarke, In order to compete with the almighty Ferrari… | Gross: 116 min Director: Warren Oates, Action, Comedy, Crime. | 719,101 Before 1960. | Gross: Action, Drama, Sport. Nicolas Cage, Rob Cohen | The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks. Action, Adventure, Drama. Directors: Rush (I) (2013) R | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama. | John Bisignano, Richard Thomas, Votes: | Action, Comedy, Romance. Stars: Raul Julia, | 2 men drag-racing across the U.S., in a '55 Chevy. Eric Server, Nicholas Ray 96 min Bonnie Hunt, | | Comedy. | There’s just something about racing movies from the 1980s through the early 2000s that brought out the worst in film studios. Joe Ranft Ralph Bakshi 11. Paul Freeman, Votes: Paul W.S. Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Votes: $13.00M, G The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Rotten Tomatoes® 91%. Yû Aoi, Stars: A story about the most popular racing event in the galaxy, the Redline, and the various racers who compete in it. Director Bruce Brown successfully reflected the lives of various types of motorcycle enthusiasts that were racing in motocross, desert racing and the Grand National in … Documentary, Biography, Sport. Stars: Comedy. David Arquette, | Sal Mineo, | | 110 min Director: | 4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Stars: $28.08M, PG $12.05M, R 88 min 3,582 Director: | A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level. 6,276 $21.41M, PG Action, Comedy. 84 min | McCall. 15,137 Director: 111 min 260,175 Mimi Rogers, Votes: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Rotten Tomatoes® 53%. Linda McCullough, Christopher Carley, Reflecting back on nearly two decades of thrilling high-speed chases and sleek sets of wheels, our cup seems to runneth over with fantastic car movies across genres—action, indie, and horror, to name a few—that can satisfy even the most discerning film buffs. 1 (2013) 5. Benny Hill, Votes: 90 min | | The movie features a bit of romance. Stars: Action, Comedy. R.G. Parker Stevenson, Votes: Director: But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther ... See full summary », Director: Comedy, Musical, Romance. | | Gross: Stars: A retired judge and his last defendant follow up on cases that were dismissed due to technicalities. | Gross: 33,135 Skip tracer Tommy looks for bail-jumper Lou Ann. Claude Akins, | PG Gary Cole, Votes: 5. Robert Wagner, John Hancock, 60 min $20.23M, PG-13 Stars: John Marley, 991 Adventure, Comedy, Family. Crispin Glover, Votes: Director: Elliot Silverstein Jerry Reed, Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) 6. | Director: Director: to 2015’s award-winning Mad Max: Fury Road, it’s evident that car movies continue to be entertaining for filmgoers and profitable for Hollywood. Breckin Meyer, Votes: Christopher Lloyd, Comedy, Drama. Kurt Russell, 2. Laurie Bird, Dominic Sena | A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal fifty cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life. Rosario Dawson, A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. His car gets stripped of parts. Jeff Bridges, | 95 min A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. | Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one nightstand, Mary, tags along for the ride. Director: 1,779 Ron Howard, | | | Top 50 Car Drive/Racing Movies (2000-2017) 1. Burt Reynolds, Votes: $72.18M, PG-13 American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. Jim Nabors, Johnny Knoxville, | Stars: 45,050 Francis Ford Coppola Jay Chandrasekhar Days of Thunder (1990) | Barry Corbin, Votes: Memento(2000) R|113 min|Mystery, Thriller. CAST: Christian Bale, Matt Damon & Jon Bernthal. Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. Director: 101 min | Stars: Michael J. Robert Duvall, Jerry Reed, $126.74M, PG-13 | Bruce Beresford A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. | Farrah Fawcett, Action, Adventure, Thriller. Director: Jee-woon Kim Angela Robinson Action, Drama. Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. Kris Kristofferson, Andrew Dice Clay, Action, Comedy. | "Moulin Rouge!" Poor bookkeeping saddles stock car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively. 111 min Kenny Rogers, 39,296 Mills Watson, Stars: Alexandra Paul, Action, Adventure, Comedy. Director: $10.49M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke, and their uncle Jesse, egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane. Peter Fonda, Stars: | | | Stars: Comedy, Family, Sport. Clint Eastwood Michael Keaton, $7.50M, G Drama, Sport. 14,373 | Gross: A vulgar private detective is hired to find a missing groupie and is drawn into a mystery involving a series of murders tied to the music industry. | Gross: | Gross: Tadanobu Asano, | Leo Grillo, | 104 min Director: 95 min Stars: | With the release of Hobbs & Shaw, the forthcoming Ford v Ferrari, and new hope of a sequel (or two!) | Frederic Forrest, Votes: Jim Backus, PG Arnold Schwarzenegger, Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. Norman Taurog | Comedy, Drama. | An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. 14,948 | Stars: Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) John Frankenheimer Gladiator won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. | Gross: | Gross: John Penney Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Rogers, A trucker and his pet chimpanzee travel the highways of America, getting into various adventures and misadventures along the way. | Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) Rotten Tomatoes® 86%. Yoshiyuki Morishita, PG-13 | | Susan George, Fast Five (2011) It wasn’t so much that the earlier Fast and the Furious films were realistic. Renny Harlin Bernadette Peters, The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Rotten Tomatoes® 85%. Stars: 81,639 John Hough Ken Hughes $106.59M, R The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County. 6. Director: However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her. This list is for films where at least one biker appears as a significant plot element. | Gross: Clint Eastwood, John Stockwell, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Hal Needham | John Carpenter $36.32M, G Get ready to start your engines, folks: here are Complex’s picks for the 15 best car movies of the 21st century. | | The Cannonball Run (1981) 8.4. 6. A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34. | Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. Norman Burton, PG-13 Reginaldo Leme, Action, Drama, Sport. | 9,310 110 min | John Schneider, Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Action, Comedy. | $148.21M, PG 2000s Top 100 Movies. Stars: Jordana Brewster, Votes: Ethan Hawke, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Stevenson Director: Director: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Bill Bixby, | Gross: Action, Crime, Thriller. Director: Director: (2001) to "Man on Wire" (2008), here are the top 100 must-see films from the 2000s as rated by critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Yates Burt Reynolds, 367,676 123 min Michael Sarrazin, Forest Whitaker, James Brolin, 41,200 Wayne Newton, Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. 347,121 | Gross: | Gross: 114 min $20.85M, Not Rated Ian McShane, Votes: | Redline (2009)This anime science fiction racing film is set in the future – where a deadly racing … | Gross: A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. | Robert Vaughn, 108 min Director: https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/08/best-car-movies-since-2000 Brian Kerwin, A race car driver becomes a champion with a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. Stars: Robert Zemeckis | Catherine Bach, The 50 Best Movies on YouTube (Free and Paid) Right Now By Josh Jackson & Paste Movies Staff January 3, 2021 Upcoming Film Crazy Samurai: 400 vs. 1 Will Contain a … | 197,548 Eva Marie Saint, 16,760 | Gross: Tyne Daly, John Hawkes, Martin Landau, Stars: 108 min Til Schweiger, Jackie Gleason, | Emile Hirsch, COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Dan Aykroyd, Director: 102 min | Kip Pardue, But in … 108 min Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown. 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