Movies by Lists - Car Chase, Road & Car Movies (57 [57]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 11 HarrowhouseIndependent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London. | 1974 | Aram Avakian | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.2 (1.5k votes) | 94 | 20220806 |
| American GraffitiA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals. | 1973 | George Lucas (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (107.0k votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| BadlandsAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. | 1973 | Terrence Malick (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.7 (85.8k votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Blues Brothers, TheJake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chi | 1980 | John Landis (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical | 7.9 (232.5k votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| BullittAn all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. | 1968 | Peter Yates | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (82.1k votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Burglars, The [Le casse]In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail. | 1971 | Henri Verneuil | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (3.5k votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| CannonballRacing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum. | 1976 | Paul Bartel | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (5.9k votes) | 93 | 20230328 |
| Cannonball Run, TheA wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks. | 1981 | Hal Needham | Action, Comedy, Sport | 6.3 (44.4k votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Chain Reaction, TheA holidaying couple is pursued by the thugs of a nearby nuclear storage facility's boss, who is intent on covering up an accidental leak. | 1980 | Ian Barry | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.4 (1.5k votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Charley VarrickA man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob. | 1973 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama | 7.5 (16.2k votes) | 111 | 20220414 |
| ChristineA nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. | 1983 | John Carpenter (*) | Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (104.5k votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| CobraA tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans. | 1986 | George P. Cosmatos | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.8 (87.2k votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| CondormanCartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West. | 1981 | Charles Jarrott | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 5.7 (5.9k votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Diamonds Are ForeverA diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. | 1971 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.5 (124.9k votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Dirty Mary Crazy LarryDown-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride. | 1974 | John Hough | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (8.7k votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| DriveAn action drama about a mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver, and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor. | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Drama | 7.8 (776.7k votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Driver, TheA getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective. | 1978 | Walter Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (22.1k votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| DuelA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. | 1971 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.6 (87.3k votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Duel with the DevilA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. | 1971 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.6 (87.3k votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Easy RiderTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware. | 1969 | Dennis Hopper (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.2 (123.9k votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Fear Is the KeyA man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo. | 1972 | Michael Tuchner | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (2.7k votes) | 103 | 20220723 |
| Freebie And The BeanSan Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process. | 1974 | Richard Rush | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (4.1k votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (153.0k votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Getaway, TheA recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry. | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (38.0k votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Gone in 60 SecondsWhen a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one is in the bag - thereby, the police precipitate in a desperate car chase against Pace and his Eleanor across Southern California. | 1974 | H.B. Halicki | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (11.0k votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Pork PieDumped by his girlfriend, a man joins a reckless youth in a stolen yellow mini and they drive the length of New Zealand, attracting cops and media attention, determined to get to Invercargill. | 1980 | Geoff Murphy | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (1.5k votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Grand PrixAmerican 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. | 1966 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.2 (12.3k votes) | 176 | 20211228 |
| Gumball Rally, TheAn eclectic group of people takes part in a secret, and illegal, cross country road race. | 1976 | Charles Bail | Comedy | 6.2 (5.0k votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Hitcher, TheA young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. | 1986 | Robert Harmon | Action, Thriller | 7.2 (60.3k votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Italian Job, TheComic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam. | 1969 | Peter Collinson | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (55.1k votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad WorldA group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it. | 1963 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.4 (51.9k votes) | 210 | 20211228 |
| Last Run, TheA getaway driver comes out of retirement to pull off one last run - one that could send him to an early grave instead. | 1971 | Richard Fleischer, John Huston | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (3.1k votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| MacKintosh Man, TheA member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor. | 1973 | John Huston (*) | Thriller | 6.3 (5.9k votes) | 98 | 20260207 |
| Mad MaxIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. | 1979 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.8 (247.6k votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Mad Max 2 - The Road WarriorIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits. | 1981 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (215.6k votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Man with the Golden Gun, TheJames Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. | 1974 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (123.4k votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Mans, LeTwo car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. | 1971 | Lee H. Katzin | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport | 6.7 (13.6k votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Matrix Reloaded, TheFreedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation. | 2003 | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Action, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (678.3k votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| McQSeattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. McQ is a cop with a mission. | 1974 | John Sturges (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (6.6k votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Midnite SparesAfter discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver. | 1983 | Quentin Masters | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (355 votes) | 0 | 20251022 |
| On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceJames Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the world. | 1969 | Peter R. Hunt | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.7 (110.4k votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Race with the DevilTwo couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual. | 1975 | Jack Starrett | Action, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (8.5k votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Road GamesA laid-back American truck driver in south Australia starts to suspect a man driving a green van of killing young women along his route, and proceeds to play a cat-and-mouse game in order to catch him red-handed. | 1981 | Richard Franklin | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (11.3k votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| RoninA freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians. | 1998 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (210.7k votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Seven-Ups, TheA tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money. | 1973 | Philip D'Antoni | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.8 (7.8k votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Shadows in an Empty Room [Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta]In Canada, a rough Ottawa cop seeks the killer who poisoned his sister. | 1976 | Alberto De Martino | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (1.3k votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Street People [Gli esecutori]A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best frie | 1976 | Maurizio Lucidi, Guglielmo Garroni | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.3 (1.1k votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Sugarland Express, TheA woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. | 1974 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (22.6k votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Thelma & LouiseTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed. | 1991 | Ridley Scott (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 7.6 (197.7k votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Thunderbolt And LightfootWith the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. | 1974 | Michael Cimino (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (33.6k votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| To Live and Die in L AA fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. | 1985 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (50.9k votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Two-Lane BlacktopWhile drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevvy 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an alluring hitchhiker and the inexperienced, tall tale-spinning driver of a GTO. | 1971 | Monte Hellman (*) | Drama | 7.2 (14.6k votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Used CarsWhen the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival. | 1980 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Comedy | 6.7 (19.0k votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing PointDuring the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops. | 1971 | Richard C. Sarafian | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (32.6k votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Viva Las VegasA race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix, wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman. | 1964 | George Sidney | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (10.2k votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| What's Up DocThe accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy | 7.6 (29.8k votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| White LightningAn ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring. | 1973 | Joseph Sargent | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (7.0k votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Short Time | 1990 | Gregg Champion | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |