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Let’s burn rubber as we ranking the best auto and car racing movies of all time by Tomatometer! We start with Certified Fresh classics, putting audiences in the driver’s seat at 24 Hours of Le...
- Bullitt. Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset. 1,849 votes. Featuring one of the most iconic car chases in film history, this Steve McQueen classic revolves around a San Francisco cop determined to take down a crime syndicate.
- Ford v. Ferrari. Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal. 324 votes. This adrenaline-inducing film tells the thrilling true story of how Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles teamed up to break Ferrari's dominance in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
- American Graffiti. Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat. 1,544 votes. With a star-studded ensemble cast, this nostalgic George Lucas-directed gem captures the essence of '60s youth culture and their obsession with fast cars and rock 'n' roll.
- Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason. 1,891 votes. This high-octane comedy follows a charismatic outlaw and his partner evading a relentless sheriff as they race across the country to deliver bootleg beer.
- Mad Max: Fury Road. Narrowly beating out "The Road Warrior" for the best "Mad Max" entry, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a high-speed joy ride that shattered expectations when first released in 2015.
- Two-Lane Blacktop. "Two-Lane Blacktop" captures and translate the spirit of the 1970s onto film. In their only acting roles, James Taylor and Brian Wilson star as a driver and his mechanic — street racers who travel around the United States challenging small-town locals to races.
- The Road Warrior. No list detailing the best car movies is complete without mentioning George Miller's "Mad Max 2," or as it's known in the United States, "The Road Warrior," one of the all-time classic examples of a post-apocalyptic film and perhaps the most well-known movie to ever come from the Land Down Under.
- Ford v Ferrari. A racing movie where the scenes in the automotive workshops are just as interesting as the ones showing the actual race, "Ford v Ferrari" tells the underdog story of car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and his hotheaded British driver, Ken Miles (Christian Bale) as they work to build a car capable of defeating the Ferrari racing team at the 1966 "24 Hours of Le Mans."
- Grand Prix
- Bullitt
- The Italian Job
- Duel
- Two-Lane Blacktop
- Vanishing Point
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
- Smokey and The Bandit
- The Driver
- The Blues Brothers
John Frankenheimer claims two spots on this list, starting with this operatic story set against the backdrop of Formula 1 racing and featuring some of the most intimate and unique racing footage audience had seen until then. Building on the premise of an all-star, international cast a la war films or other dramas from the era, Frankenheimer assembl...
Playing San Francisco detective Frank Bullitt, Steve McQueen not only certified his own legendary status as a gearhead but set the template for cool, capable drivers for generations to come. Director Peter Yates’ juxtaposition of spartan dialogue and complex plotting keep audiences guessing as Bullitt attempts to protect a mob informant, while McQu...
Not to be confused with the occasionally engaging 2003 remake which inventively figured out a way to circumnavigate traffic around Los Angeles, Peter Collinson’s original utilizes the same car (itself rebooted 30+ years later) to stage a thrilling heist at the height of the “caper” era when every star in the world wanted to command his own crew for...
As Steven Spielberg’s first feature-length film, this story about a driver (Dennis Weaver) unrelentingly pursued by a tank truck across the Mojave Desert sometimes feels like a training course for a future virtuoso mastering the tools of his medium. But there are good reasons that Universal Pictures expanded what was meant to be a television movie ...
That this film and Vanishing Point arrived in the same year was a godsend for gearheads and moviegoers everywhere, even if neither film made much of an impression at the time at the box office. Both languished on the margins of the release schedule only to much later earn the accolades they deserved. Starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilso...
Even if Richard C. Sarafian’s 1971 film was “merely” the inspiration for the car whose hood Zoe Bell rides in Death Proof, it would merit inclusion in our list. But alongside Two-Lane Blacktop and The Driver, Sarafian’s film burnishes the zen-driver myth and then some with its story of a disaffected ex-cop delivering a white 1970 Dodge Challenger a...
It’s amazing how many risks stunt drivers took in the 1970s, in films that seemed to spend more money on destruction than on a script. John Hough’s 1974 adaptation of the 1963 novel "The Chase" features more action in its trailer than some of the movies on this list do in their entire run time. Transitioning from motorcycles to muscle cars--another...
Quentin Tarantino drew more than vaguely upon the relationship between Burt Reynolds and stuntman-turned-filmmaker Hal Needham when crafting the central Rick Dalton-Cliff Booth dynamic in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, but never got to this stage in their career: 1970s box office champ Reynolds plays a bootlegger distracting the fuzz from his tr...
It should come as no surprise that writer-director Walter Hill envisioned Steve McQueen for the lead role in his second film, a story about a stoic getaway driver outsmarting not only the authorities but his double-crossing accomplices. But even if McQueen deemed it too similar to his previous work, Ryan O’Neal makes an outstanding replacement in t...
Fresh off of the vehicular mayhem that ended National Lampoon’s Animal House, director John Landis re-teamed with star John Belushi for an “adaptation” of the recurring musical sketch from Saturday Night Live featuring Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, sending the duo on a cross-country trek to reunite their old band, and redeem their past misdeeds. The fil...
The Greatest Car Movies of All Time. by The_Real_Review • Created 11 months ago • Modified 11 months ago. List activity. 624 views. 16 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 10 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Days of Thunder. 1990 1h 47m PG-13. 6.1 (98K) Rate. 60 Metascore.
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Dec 26, 2023 · Along the way, it became clear to us that a “car movie,” more than anything, is a film where a car plays a key role in the way a character interacts with the world — be it as a weapon, a tool, a...
