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Plot Summary:
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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FIREBALL RUN: The Movie (2008)
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FIREBALL RUN: The Movie is one epic GAME starting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and finishing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For 9 days, through 18 cities, spanning 3500 miles teams from everywhere must solve clues and accomplish missions in order to navigate America and score. Then its machine vs machine on some of the country's most challenging race tracks. All while aiding in the nations largest recovery effort for missing children.
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Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
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See You (1988)
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Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to supporting popular star had to join. Eventually Among the various speculation of various people, rally began.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 174 min
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Speedtrap (1977)
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After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend who's more than willing to help him out in any way she can.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, detective
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Tarzun and the Valley of Lust (1970)
Plot Summary:
The lascivious Jungle King has illicit affairs with both blonde bombshell Jane and exotic jungle princess Meena.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody, weird
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Moonrunners (1975)
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Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
Plot Summary:
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
Plot Summary:
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Zero to Sixty (1978)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Plot Summary:
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, light, inspirational, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet, entertaining
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Flight to Fury (1964)
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This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Adventure
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, psychotronic, independent film
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Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A 3000 mile race from San Francisco to Miami that took place in the Spring of 2003. 150 cars and stars created all kinds of mayhem and chaos over 6 days racing from coast to coast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Pegasus (2019)
Plot Summary:
Zhang Chi, a hubris and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, the now single-father to a six-year-old boy throws down the gauntlet once again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Terrible Jungle (2020)
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French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, absurd, idiotic
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Driving Me Crazy (1991)
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Eat My Dust (1976)
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Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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King of the Mountain (1981)
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A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Six Pack (1982)
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Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, road movie, sexy
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Stroker Ace (1983)
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Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, cult film
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Cannonball Run II (1984)
Plot Summary:
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, parody, humorous, spoof, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, not serious, fast, hilarious
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The Gumball Rally (1976)
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A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, cult classic, exciting, humorous, semi serious, fast, cult film
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Cannonball Fever (1989)
Plot Summary:
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, feel good, unusual plot structure, surreal, splatter
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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, feel good, cult classic, exciting, humorous, grindhouse, action comedy, romantic comedy, spectacular
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Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Plot Summary:
The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, action comedy, spectacular, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, crying, weeping
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Safari 3000 (1982)
Plot Summary:
Reporter J.J. wants to write a story about an Afrika rallye, 3000 km across desert and steppe. Unfortunately her driver and car get lost only days before the start, so she hires ex-stuntman Eddie and buys a wreck of a car from her last money. Eddie can help her to a new motor - by stealing it from the ruthless count Borgia, who from now on is their hardest and meanest competitor in the rallye.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Corvette Summer (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Plot Summary:
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, melancholic, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, fast, surprise ending
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Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of 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.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, light, romantic, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Superfast! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's LA gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross LA crime kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell. The gang's outrageous plan is as daring as it is ridiculous and will see them towing the whole damn restaurant, at crazy speeds.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, light, realistic, fast
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The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, funny, absurd, ironic, scenic, sex comedy, southern gothic
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Greased Lightning (1977)
Plot Summary:
This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious