Car Themed Movies

Hi all, hope everyone is going well. I'm a bit of a film buff and love movies, and if cars happen to be in the movies, well, all the better.

Anyone have suggestions for good automotive or car themed movies?

I just happened to see the movie Rush since it was on Netflix and it was really enjoyable. Senna was a good movie too.

I might get laughed out of here for suggesting anything from the Fast and the Furious, but I caught pieces of Fast 5 and that was enjoyable too. Throwaway action movie, but fun at least, if you look at it as a heist movie that happens to have cars.

Other good car based movies-

Baby Driver- fun car, fun songs.

Driver

Pixar's Cars series- fun, but not too serious. I still think the first one is the best one and each following sequel was slightly worse

Le Mans- pretty good for the feel of a Le Mans race.

Bullitt- Kind of a clumsy cop movie centered around a 20 minute chase around San Francisco.

Nightcrawler- kind of a stretch, but Jake Gylenhall was great in it.

The Fast and The Furious will always be my favorite car movies.

Mad Max : the first movie is still a classic IMO. 600 hp of fuel injected vengeance ;-)

I also enjoyed Mad Max : Fury Road a lot.

Honorable mention: The 2011 movie Drive.

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What are you favorite car related old school movies / films? I have a task to [URL="https://essaydune.com/do-my-assignment/"][COLOR="#333333"]do my assignment[/COLOR][/URL] on car themed films that highlight the most important virtues in humanity.
Baby Driver is still on my top list though.
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Baby Driver is cool. But I really enjoyed watching these (and rewatched all of them multiple times already):

Gumball Rally
Roadkill
Gone in 60 seconds

My picks aren't movies, but I've always loved the cars in both [i]Columbo[/i] and the [i]Rockford Files[/i]; the titular Columbo drives a Peugeot 403 Cabriolet! How many of those could possibly have existed, even at the time, in the US?

Anyway, both take place in 1970s Los Angeles with all the far-out automotive subcultures that encompasses: burnt-out hippies, chainsmoking Cadillac backseaters, stringback glovesmen, thrifty and pert little Japanese runabouts, the Mercedes country-club set; they've got everything.

I can also heartily recommend them (especially [i]Columbo[/i]) as good TV, which car-centric content often fails to be. The pacing, like the cars, is very '70s: British fans of [i]Morse[/i] will recognize the walking pace of the show as clues are deliberately and artfully collected and ruminated upon. It's an especially-pleasant antidote to the gunshot!, car-chase!, semen stain! style of cop procedural that seems to have been king for the last twenty years... [i]The Rockford Files[/i] leans a bit more in that direction and crunches Pontiacs with gay abandon (even though they weren't yet [URL="https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/how-kitt-became-a-trans-am/"]falling out of railcars onto TV sets...[/URL]), but I still find its canter to [i]Columbo[/i]'s trot gentle enough.

[QUOTE=f6fhellcat13;1023883]I can also heartily recommend them (especially [i]Columbo[/i]) as good TV[/QUOTE]

Oh.... One more thing...

Hard to argue with a kinda niche hidden brilliant flick, Ronin. Gorgeous.

You watch the Rockford Files?! Are you 65?!

[QUOTE=Man of Steel;1023837]Mad Max : the first movie is still a classic IMO. 600 hp of fuel injected vengeance ;-)

I also enjoyed Mad Max : Fury Road a lot.

Honorable mention: The 2011 movie Drive.[/QUOTE]

The newer Mad Max was very enjoyable! I did not see the original yet. Whoops, that's what I meant when I wrote Driver*.

[QUOTE=DrPsyche;1023879]Baby Driver is cool. But I really enjoyed watching these (and rewatched all of them multiple times already):

Gumball Rally
Roadkill
Gone in 60 seconds[/QUOTE]

Gone in 60 Seconds with Nick Cage was so bad it's good, I remember sneaking into it as a kid with my cousin haha. It's bad/good nostalgia.

[QUOTE=f6fhellcat13;1023883]My picks aren't movies, but I've always loved the cars in both [i]Columbo[/i] and the [i]Rockford Files[/i]; the titular Columbo drives a Peugeot 403 Cabriolet! How many of those could possibly have existed, even at the time, in the US?

Anyway, both take place in 1970s Los Angeles with all the far-out automotive subcultures that encompasses: burnt-out hippies, chainsmoking Cadillac backseaters, stringback glovesmen, thrifty and pert little Japanese runabouts, the Mercedes country-club set; they've got everything.

I can also heartily recommend them (especially [i]Columbo[/i]) as good TV, which car-centric content often fails to be. The pacing, like the cars, is very '70s: British fans of [i]Morse[/i] will recognize the walking pace of the show as clues are deliberately and artfully collected and ruminated upon. It's an especially-pleasant antidote to the gunshot!, car-chase!, semen stain! style of cop procedural that seems to have been king for the last twenty years... [i]The Rockford Files[/i] leans a bit more in that direction and crunches Pontiacs with gay abandon (even though they weren't yet [URL="https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/how-kitt-became-a-trans-am/"]falling out of railcars onto TV sets...[/URL]), but I still find its canter to [i]Columbo[/i]'s trot gentle enough.[/QUOTE]

That sounds interesting haha!

[QUOTE=Kitdy;1023884]Oh.... One more thing...

Hard to argue with a kinda niche hidden brilliant flick, Ronin. Gorgeous.

You watch the Rockford Files?! Are you 65?![/QUOTE]

Ronin is such a good film! The Audi A8 and the BMW M5. *chef's kiss*

My all-time favorite car-themed movie is Gone in 60 Seconds.

[QUOTE=Merlin68;1023888]My all-time favorite car-themed movie is Gone in 60 Seconds. The sound in the scene on the bridge is truly awesome. I even boosted it via [URL="https://online-video-cutter.com/volume"][COLOR="#333333"]this[/COLOR][/URL] tool.[/QUOTE]

Nicholas Cage is perfect there. Like in Face Off :)

As a movie buff I am embarrassed but I forget that James Bond also is very often car themed!

Just watched No Time to Die in the theaters about a week and it's most definitely enjoyable! The cars really don't get featured much more than a cameo and there aren't any gadget filled cars either, but there are definitely more cars featured in this film than expected.

Seriously? In no particular order, here are several that should be required viewing by anyone blurting out [I]Fast & Furious[/I]. Report back after you've watch a few. Agreed on Ronin, BTW. And the first Mad Max.

Vanishing Point
Two Lane Black Top
Dirty Larry, Crazy Mary
Gone In 60 Seconds (the original version)
King of the Mountain
Last American Hero
Death Race 2000
Cannonball

And though it's really a short film, not a movie, with no dialog and no plot, it IS a masterpiece: Rendevous C'était un Rendez vous [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYOMFayruw[/url]

I watched the YouTube link, it is quite impressive. Thanks. I wonder which car they used?

[QUOTE=Man of Steel;1024532]I watched the YouTube link, it is quite impressive. Thanks. I wonder which car they used?[/QUOTE]

From what I've read, his own Mercedes sedan... dubbed and edited sound is from a Ferrari 275 GTB.

[QUOTE=csl177;1024533]From what I've read, his own Mercedes sedan... dubbed and edited sound is from a Ferrari 275 GTB.[/QUOTE]

Huh, never in my life would have guessed that, a car getting dubbed with another car's sound :)

Yeah the first one of Pixar's Cars was the best in that series, definitely... hmm movies about cars, well I was watching Mad Max the other day and it's not really my type of thing but the steampunk post-apocalypse cars are cool.

Also, oldies but goodies, I love all the installment series of "The Love Bug", Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle.

My favorite is "Herbie: Fully loaded" from 2005, reminds me of my days in high school plus who didn't love Lindsay Lohan those days!