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- DirectorLee H. KatzinJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenSiegfried RauchElga AndersenTwo car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.First for the thumbnail
- StarsPierre de CatersRené de KnyffSelwyn Francis EdgeIn the 4th edition of the 'Gordon Bennett Cup' of 1903, the honour of hosting the race is now with 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'. After the success of of the British 'Napier' team and their driver Selwyn Edge at the '1902 Gordon Bennett Cup' (which ran from Paris to Innsbruck), the victors nationality of that event being able to host the 'Gordon Bennett Cup' the following year. There was a great search for a suitable venue but with road racing illegal in the 'Great Britain' part of the 'United Kingdom', an answer was found with the much more lenient Ireland. (At this point in 1903, 'Great Britain' and 'Ireland' were one country, until 1922). Now a location was found and an ingenious figure of eight route featuring several laps on the Irish roads. A start location of Ballyshannon cross-roads, County Kildare was approved and on the 2nd of July 1903, Ireland created motorsport history and the birth of 'British Racing Green' was created.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsFernande AlbanyAntonichBlondetA man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours. Complications ensue.
- DirectorWilfred LucasStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandFord SterlingAction scenes of early automobile racing highlight this story of Papa's efforts to thwart Mabel's romantic infatuation with a race car driver.
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsCharles ChaplinHenry LehrmanGordon GriffithThe Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsWallace ReidAnn LittleTheodore RobertsA young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsMonty BanksHelen FergusonMartha FranklinMario Bianchi comes to the United States and moves in with his uncle, who runs a restaurant in New York City. Mario falls in love with his uncle's adopted daughter, Rosina, and teaches her several Italian dances to entertain the customers. However, Mario gets into trouble with gangster Tony Mora, knocking Tony down for forcing his attentions on Rosina. Tony forces Mario's uncle to fire him and sees to it that Mario cannot keep a job. Mario, mistaken for a famous racing driver, signs with a car manufacturer to drive in an important race. Tony sabotages the car, but Mario wins anyway, receiving a substantial amount of prize money. Mario and Rosina are married.Thanks, Paul.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsCharley ChaseEmma TanseyMarie MosquiniJimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.
- DirectorBruce MitchellStarsFrank MerrillClara HortonEvelyn ShermanTo keep the old homestead from being foreclosed, a mother agrees to have her daughter marry the deep-dyed villain who hold the mortgage. However, the daughter has a race-car-driving fiancée who objects, and sets about getting a patent on his new-and-improved automobile valve.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsElaine HammersteinWallace MacDonaldLionel BelmoreJack Reese, a mechanic at Corbin Motors, falls in love with Rita Corbin, the daughter of the company's president. Ray Barton, the managing director of Corbin Motors, is also in love with Rita; and aggravated by Jack's affection for her, Barton has him fired. Working with his friend Marcel, Jack perfects a design for a new carburetor, which is then stolen from them by some of Barton's henchmen. Jack and Marcel get it back and enter their car in the big race. On the day of the race, Jack and Marcel are forcibly detained by Barton's men, and Rita takes Jack's place, driving his car to victory. As the result of the carburetor's success, Jack gets his job back and wins her father's approval to marry Rita.Lost Film
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsBilly SullivanAndrée TourneurJoseph W. GirardBilly is kidnapped by a gang of criminals and forced to drive a getaway car. The gang-leader escapes, while Billy is arrested along with two of the holdup men. Billy escapes and rides the rods to another town, where he becomes acquainted with Harfer, the owner of a racing car, who is being hoodwinked by the car's driver. The driver is fired, and Billy is hired to drive the car in an important race. The gang-leader who kidnapped Billy is determined to prevent Harfer from winning the race and arranges for Billy to be kidnapped again, but Billy escapes from his abductors and arrives at the racetrack in time to win the race. The gang-leader is arrested by the police, and Billy wins the love of Harfer's daughter, Eloise.
- DirectorBruce MitchellStarsRex LeaseMildred HarrisMitchell LewisJerry Thornton is a wealthy playboy whose hobby is fast cars. When his fiancée, Aheila Van Hauten, objects to his competing against professorial drives in the upcoming Speed Classic race, he goes on a drinking and gambling binge in Tia Juana and gets tossed in jail by the Mexican police.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsWilliam HainesAnita PageErnest TorrenceBill Whipple is Jim MacDonald's happy-go-lucky mechanic, who thinks that he is the world's greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees the lovely Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport, and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid, and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Lee Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and drives the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianFrancis McDonaldRacecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsBuck JonesLoretta SayersWallace MacDonaldA policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and , in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
- DirectorJerome StormStarsWallace Reid Jr.J. Farrell MacDonaldPaul FixA race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.
- DirectorColbert ClarkArmand SchaeferStarsJack MulhallFrankie DarroLola LaneMarjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChili BouchierRobert DouglasMiles ManderThe race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsLyle TalbotMary AstorRoscoe KarnsAuto racing teammates Wally and Robert compete for the romantic attentions of a sponsor's daughter. Their intense rivalry turns tragic when their in-race wheel lock-up result in Robert's death and nets Wally a homicide conviction.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsJames StewartWendy BarrieUna MerkelWith the help of his mechanic buddy, an engineer, and the company's attractive new publicist, an automotive test driver struggles to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California's Muroc Dry Lake.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsRex LeaseMuriel EvansDuncan RenaldoLarry Evans (Rex Lease), champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva (Duncan Renaldo), who has more ambitions than merely winning the races; he has designs on the motor patent held by Corbett (Tom Moore), Larry's employer. Eddie also has a yen for Corbett's daughter, Norma (Muriel Evans), who prefers Larry. Eddie intentionally causes a race wreck that injures Larry and sends him to the hospital. Larry emerges from the hospital and finds his morale and courage has been broken when he falters while chasing some DeSylva henchmen who have robbed Corbett of some blueprints. But he regains his nerve and courage at the race track when he realizes that the driver hired to replace him, Barney Smith (Yakima Canutt), is working for DeSylva with intentions of throwing the race.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsCharles QuigleyDorothy WilsonEdward J. NugentThe champion race car driver Tommy Morton is the eternal rival to less-ethical speed king Larry 'Skids' Brannigan. What no one knows is that Tommy and Skids are actually brothers, separated at birth. Driven by a filial devotion that he can't explain, Tommy tries to dissuade Skids from recklessness, only to be "repaid" when Skids tries to steal away Tommy's blond girl-friend Eileen Hart.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsBeverly RobertsDick PurcellGloria BlondellBill Foster, a suspended auto racer, attempts to get even with Jerry Neeley, the woman who owns a bus line, by going to work for the rival company. But Bill soon learns about his new boss' shady practices and begins to fall for Jerry.
- DirectorOtto BrowerStarsHenry ArthurJoan ValerieHenry ArmettaAt the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad: a junkyard owner tap-dancer.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsDennis O'KeefeCecilia ParkerNat PendletonA series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAnn SheridanPat O'BrienJohn PayneJoe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop "bad girl" Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsRichard ArlenAndy DevinePeggy MoranDuring a test a race car using an experimental oil-fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials--or the engine designer's sassy daughter--finding out about it.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohnny SandsVivian AustinDon CastleJohnny Randall, a young race-car driver, falls in love with Tony Bradley, who hates racing because her brother was killed in a midget car-race (the car size, not the driver-size.) To compound that, his mother also objects because his father was killed while racing in the Indianapolis 500. But he continues racing, even though he narrowly escapes death when a rival-and-jealous racer schemes to get rid of him. Then, after these narrow escapes, he loses his nerve, but enters one last race. Is there a gas-station ownership in his future?
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloTom BrownTwo ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.Midget car racing
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsMickey RooneyThomas MitchellMichael O'SheaA brash young midget car race driver lives in the shadow of his famous father, a drunken womanizer, who was killed in an accident years earlier.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsClark GableBarbara StanwyckAdolphe MenjouA former war hero and midget car racer meets his match in a feisty reporter who blames his reckless tactics for an accidental racing death.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLeo GorceyHuntz HallBernard GorceyThose wacky Bowery Boys invent a super fast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsHoward DuffHelene StanleyDave WillockJohnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indaanapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500. Race-car drivers Johnnie Parsons, Duke Nalon, Manuel Ayulo (not the actor Manuel Ayuso) and Henry Banks play themselves.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsTony CurtisPiper LaurieDon TaylorAutomobile engineer Johnny Dark designs a radical new car. After the owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the owner's granddaughter, steals the car and runs the race against the favored driver, his ex-buddy.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsRichard ConteMari AldonPeter IllingA race driver must choose between his love for racing and his wife. His buddy's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival.
- DirectorJohn IrelandEdward SampsonStarsJohn IrelandDorothy MaloneBruce CarlisleA trucker framed for murder breaks out of jail, takes a young woman hostage, and enters her sports car in cross-border road race hoping to get to Mexico before the police catch him.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsKirk DouglasBella DarviGilbert RolandFollows the professional and personal life of race car driver Gino Borgesa (Douglas), as he struggles on the track and in his love life.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsAnthony SteelOdile VersoisStanley BakerAfter killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsLori NelsonChuck ConnorsJohn SmithAfter his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back into racing so he can take his title--and he's already taken his girlfriend.
- DirectorCornel WildeStarsCornel WildeJean WallaceArthur FranzCocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now owns a trendy café that keeps him busy full time. One day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him. Nick returns to competition, and this time around he will have to beat not only his new rival but also his own demons. Kelly, his pretty lover, and Mrs. Jargin, his no-nonsense mother will help him, too.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsFay SpainSteven TerrellJohn AshleyGirl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsLeigh SnowdenRichard HartunianWright KingArny joins a hot rod club, but his eccentric mannerisms (a Marlon Brando rip-off performance from "The Wild One" by look-alike Hartunian) make him unpopular. At a party, Terry rebukes him for his coarseness and centers her attention on another boy. A fight between the two men is stopped by Jim Lawrence, but Ray Johnson, pretending friendship with Arny, keeps the antagonism going and tries to win Terry for himself. Driving home, Hank and Terry are harassed by a hot rod which they think is driver by Arny. Swerving to avoid a collision, they are thrown from the car, and Hank is killed and Terry badly injured and unconscious. Ray, the actual driver of the hot rod, carries Terry to his car, but frightened by approaching vehicles, he returns her to the wreckage and flees. All, including Terry, blame Arny for the wreck, but there is no proof. Vindictive club members destroy Arny's car and beat him mercilessly. He rebuild his car for the big race. Terry goes to the race with Ray and, in his car she finds an earring she lost in the accident and realizes it was Ray who drove the fatal car. Arny wins the race, sour disposition and all, wins the race and Terry forces Ray to admit the truth about the wreck.
- DirectorPaul HelmickStarsChuck CourtneyMelinda ByronRobert FullerEighteen-year-old Johnnie, chafing under his father's authority, seeks to get a job, buy a hot-rod, woo his girl, and stand up to the local bully.
- DirectorLou PlaceStarsDick ContinoSandra GilesBruno VeSotaA singing truck driver meets a feisty blonde who challenges him to a drag race. When he is offered a new job that also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
- DirectorDavid BradleyStarsYvonne LimeGary ClarkeFay WrayAfter a run-in with a tough motorcycle gang, where Rick Martin (Gary Clarke) is blamed when one of the bikers is sent out of control over a cliff, he and his girl are threatened and pursued. On to the beach riot, where the real culprit is unmasked and retaliates with his spear gun.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsJohn AshleyJody FairGene VincentKid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
- DirectorWilliam J. Hole Jr.StarsJody FairRuss BenderHenry McCannHot rods, monsters and rock'n'roll... In this teen-oriented picture, a gang of greasers hole up in a reputedly haunted mansion after getting evicted from their clubhouse.
- DirectorArthur SwerdloffStarsJoel LawrenceMarian CollierSkip WardThe father of a race-car driver blames him for a death on the track, disowns him, and sponsors a rival racer.
- DirectorWilliam J. Hole Jr.StarsBrett HalseyYvonne LimeCharles WillcoxRacer Nick Barrow, brother of Wheel, competes in races across the country. When trapped in a race, a thrilling chase along a mountain's edge ensues.
- DirectorPaul HelmickStarsRory CalhounAlan Hale Jr.Connie HinesProfessional stock car racer Mitch Cooper wrecks his car and hurts his ankle in a brutal smash-up. Mitch takes time off from racing to teach cocky eager beaver kid Les York how to drive well on the track. Mitch also takes a fancy to York's lovely, no-nonsense wife Rene. This leads to York ditching Mitch as his manager so he can race for some evil jerk millionaire who only cares about winning.The only kind of sports movies made in abundance in the sixties.
- DirectorHarvey BermanStarsJack NicholsonGeorgianna CarterRobert BeanA rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers, and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
- DirectorMichael ForlongStarsBill TraversEd BegleySidney JamesA racing driver loses his nerves after several crashes
- DirectorJosé FerrerStarsPat BooneBobby DarinPamela TiffinA brother and sister find romance and good clean fun at the state fair in Dallas.Racing is a subplot. Pat Boone sings, races, and romances Ann-Margret... Two years before Elvis did.
- DirectorWilliam GreféStarsJoe MorrisonEvelyn KingCharles G. Martin(1963) Peggy Vendig, Joe Morrison, Charles Martin, Evelyn King. A wild movie. The wife of an aging, millionaire race car driver talks a young rookie into helping her dispose of her hubby. Their plan brings horrifying results. The ending of this film is a knockout, and not what you expect. Similar in some ways to FREAKS. Lots of racing scenes. From 35mm
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsMark DamonWilliam CampbellLuana AndersA former race car driver-turned-writer attempts to expose a ruthless, womanizing Grand Prix racer - who may actually be sensitive and misunderstood.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloMartha HyerA millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.Drag Racing
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJames DarrenPamela TiffinDoug McClureCasey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy Stanford Rogers (Peter Mann) hires Casey to build a car for him to attempt to set a new Land Speed Record. Chuck Manning (Doug McClure), an engineering student Casey met in a drag race, discovers potential flaws in the car's design. After an unsuccessful test run, Rogers abandons the turbine-powered. He decides to turn his attention to race a car in the Tristate Endurance Race. Casey and Chuck buy the wrecked Land Speed car and salvage the Turbine Engine. They fix the Turbine and install it in a car that they enter in the Tristate Endurance Race. Pamela Tiffin plays Eadie, Chuck's sister, who becomes Casey's love interest.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsElvis PresleyAnn-MargretCesare DanovaA race-car driver preparing for the Grand Prix wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine and soon strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsTony CurtisNatalie WoodJack LemmonIn the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CaanLaura DevonGail HireThe story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she doesn't have the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team, and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third on the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this movie is, "Whom with whom?"
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloFabianTwo race car drivers get caught up in a moonshine operation while competing for titles and women.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsJames GarnerEva Marie SaintYves MontandAmerican 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.
- DirectorWilliam T. NaudStarsJohn ArnoldVal BisoglioGene BuaWanting to go to college but not having enough money, a high-school student enters a demolition derby. What he doesn't know is that his main competitor is a ruthless, no-holds-barred driver who plays dirty, carries a gun and has no compunction about using it.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsAnouk AiméeJean-Louis TrintignantPierre BarouhA widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
- DirectorLennie WeinribStarsJonathan DalyKaren JensenRobert PineTeenage/secret agent/musical comedy about Big Daddy, who's been "driven mad by rock'n'roll," so he plans to sabotage a music fair with a bomb. Secret agent Homer comes to the rescue aided by his girlfriend Sandra along with Marvin. The sinister villains belong to the crime syndicate F.L.U.S.H. Featuring the musical groups The Turtles, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, and Freddie and the Dreamers.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsElvis PresleyShelley FabaresDiane McBainBand singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
- DirectorWill ZensStarsMarty RobbinsJohn AshleyGigi PerreauTwo brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend.
- DirectorRichard RushStarsAnnette FunicelloFabianDiane McBainStock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete's daughter Francie and her boyfriend Eddie Sands everything he knows about driving. Eddie takes up with Tommy's girl Annie Blaine after winning the first time out. They become fierce rivals by the next race, during which Tommy remembers driving over his brother with a go-kart and Eddie hits the wall.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsTommy KirkRay StricklynH.M. WynantRivals on the raceway--for publicity purposes only (but secretly buddies). Then they fall in love with the same woman--and the rivalry on the raceway becomes very real...
- DirectorRussell S. Doughten Jr.StarsNick AdamsJeannine RileyNorman AldenIn his final film role, Nick Adams is a young mechanic who finds danger and romance in the exciting, sometimes unscrupulous world of stock-car racing.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDean JonesMichele LeeDavid TomlinsonDown-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of it's own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsElvis PresleyNancy SinatraBill BixbyPoor bookkeeping saddles stock-car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively.
- DirectorDaniel HallerRoger CormanStarsFabianMimsy FarmerJudy CornwellA devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.
- DirectorJoseph G. PrietoStarsJohn RussellLon Chaney Jr.Alan MixonA stock-car racer pursues a gangster and a troublemaking driver who killed his brother as they overran a Southern stock-car circuit.
- DirectorJack HillStarsBrian DonlevyRichard DavalosEllen BurstynGrant Willard sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP.
- DirectorKen AnnakinSam ItzkovitchStarsBourvilLando BuzzancaWalter ChiariAn international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardRobert WagnerFrank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsDarren McGavinSean GarrisonNico MinardosRacers compete in the Grand Prix.
- DirectorJohn 'Bud' CardosStarsJohn Davis ChandlerSteve EvansMark HopkinsVery rare and seldom-seen, youth-oriented racing movie. It is the story of a young man's dream to get a ride in a top-fuel dragster.
- DirectorJoseph MandukeStarsTom LigonLogan RamseyCollin Wilcox Paxton"Jump" tells the story of a Florida man hoping to achieve fame and fortune driving a stock car.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenSiegfried RauchElga AndersenTwo car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.
- DirectorMonte HellmanStarsJames TaylorWarren OatesLaurie BirdWhile drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
- DirectorDavid WintersStarsPaul NewmanMario AndrettiStephen BoydPaul Newman hosts and narrates this documentary from 1971 on the history of auto racing.
- DirectorEdward J. LaksoStarsDarren McGavinKathie BrowneNoah Beery Jr.Race car driver Richard Petty stars in his own b-movie bio.
- DirectorLeonard J. HornStarsRobert BlakeCharlotte RamplingPatrick O'NealA country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsJeff BridgesValerie PerrineGeraldine FitzgeraldA young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsDavid CarradineSylvester StalloneSimone GriffethIn a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsWenche FossPer Theodor HaugenHarald Heide-Steen Jr.Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsNick NolteDon JohnsonRobin MattsonTwo young men in a fast car travel through Georgia in the summer of 1958 en route to enter the National Championship drag races in California. In Macon County they pick up a wild girl who brings trouble and attract the ire of a local cop.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsDavid CarradineBill McKinneyVeronica HamelRacing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
- DirectorCharles B. GriffithStarsRon HowardChristopher NorrisBrad DavidDarlene's into going fast, Hoover's into Darlene, but when they both get into a red-hot race car, the reckless fun accelerates into a trunk-full of hot pursuits.
- DirectorCharles BailStarsMichael SarrazinTim McIntireRaul JuliaAn eclectic group of people takes part in a secret, and illegal, cross country road race.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsAl PacinoMarthe KellerAnny DupereyBobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsJoe Don BakerSusan SarandonLarry HagmanRace car driver Walkaway Madden signs up for the big Manilla 1000 off-road race through the Philippines jungle. The photojournalist C.C. Wainwright comes along for the ride.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsRichard PryorBeau BridgesPam GrierThe true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsDean JonesDon KnottsJulie SommarsHerbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver, thieves have hidden a stolen diamond in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get it back.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsLaurence OlivierRobert DuvallKatharine RossThe aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsCharles NapierMaud AdamsConstance ForslundBig Bob Johnson is the leader of a ragtag auto racing team that helps an heir to gain the inheritance his uncle is trying to snatch from him, and finds himself in a race from one end of Louisiana to the other that pits several Rolls-Royce cars against each other.