Title | Year | Genre | Type | Notes |
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The Speed Kings | 1913 | Comedy | 8-minute silent film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. | |
Kid Auto Races at Venice | 1914 | Comedy | Silent film starring Charlie Chaplin as a spectator who keeps getting in the way.[1] | |
The Roaring Road | 1919 | Romance | Car salesman "Toodles" Walden becomes a racer. | |
Excuse My Dust | 1920 | Comedy | Wife wants Toodles to give up racing in Roaring Road sequel. | |
Young Oldfield | 1924 | Comedy | Jimmy has to win a race to pay the mortgage on his shop. | |
Sporting Youth | 1924 | Comedy | A rich man's chauffeur (Reginald Denny) accidentally ends up in a race. | |
Kid Speed | 1924 | Comedy | A race organizer drops hints that his daughter's time will go to the winner. | |
Speed Madness | 1925 | Action | To keep the old homestead from being foreclosed on, a mother agrees to have her daughter marry the deep-dyed villain who holds the mortgage. However, the daughter has a race-car-driving fiancé who objects, and sets about getting a patent on his new-and-improved automobile valve. | |
The Checkered Flag | 1926 | Drama | Jack has to win the big race to save his girl. | |
The Speed Classic | 1928 | Action | Jerry Thornton is a wealthy playboy whose fiancée objects to him competing against professorial drives in the upcoming Speed Classic race. | |
Speedway | 1929 | Drama | Silent film about a father and son in Indianapolis. | |
Burning Up | 1930 | Drama | First talkie about auto racers. | |
Speed | 1930 | |||
The Racing Strain | 1932 | Drama | A driver who drinks tries to turn his life around. | |
The Crowd Roars | 1932 | Drama | Open wheel | Motor racing saga featuring James Cagney.[1] |
High Speed | 1932 | Drama | An undercover cop races cars while he tries to catch crooks. | |
High Gear | 1933 | Drama | After a friend's death, an auto racer takes a job driving a taxi. | |
Roaring Roads | 1935 | Comedy | A rich boy craving excitement tries racing and encounters gangsters. | |
Death Drives Through | 1935 | Drama | British driver falls in love with woman whose father disapproves. | |
Speed | 1936 | Drama | Open Wheel | An automotive test driver (James Stewart) struggles to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California's Muroc Dry Lake. |
Speed to Spare | 1936 | Drama | Champion race car driver Tommy Morton is the eternal rival of less-ethical speed king Larry "Skids" Brannigan. What no one knows is that Tommy and Skids are actually brothers, separated at birth. | |
Ten Laps to Go | 1938 | Drama | Midget | Discovering a race is fixed, a new driver joins it with just 10 laps left. |
Indianapolis Speedway | 1939 | Drama | Open wheel | Three-time Indy champ (Pat O'Brien) wants a young driver to go to college. |
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | 1939 | Action | A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic (Dennis O'Keefe) suspects they were not accidents. | |
Danger on Wheels | 1940 | Thriller | During 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. | |
Blonde Comet | 1941 | Romance | Open wheel | A woman (Virginia Vale) races against men, then falls for one of them. |
Born to Speed | 1947 | Action | Johnny Randall, a young race car driver, falls in love with Toni Bradley, who hates racing because her brother was killed in a midget car race. | |
Buck Privates Come Home | 1947 | Comedy | Midget | Abbott and Costello aid a young midget-car racer. |
The Big Wheel | 1949 | Drama | Open wheel | Mickey Rooney as a brash young driver out to win the Indianapolis 500. |
To Please a Lady | 1950 | Drama | Open Wheel | Newspaper columnist gets reckless racer Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) banned. |
Jalopy | 1953 | Comedy | Going backwards, the Bowery Boys win the big race. | |
Genevieve | 1953 | Musical | Vintage cars | A British comedy about an automobile rally. |
Roar of the Crowd | 1953 | Drama | Open wheel | Indy 500 contender vows to quit, becomes a sparkplugs salesman. |
Johnny Dark | 1954 | Drama | Distance race | Engineer Tony Curtis enters car in Canada-to-Mexico race. |
A Race for Life | 1954 | Drama | Midget cars | Car's owner wonders if driver (Richard Conte) has lost his nerve. |
The Racers | 1955 | Drama | Open wheel | European circuit racing drama starring Kirk Douglas. |
The Widow | 1955 | Drama | A countess in Italy falls in love with a doomed racing driver. | |
Checkpoint | 1956 | Crime | Road racing | A criminal gets into a confrontation with British police at an auto race. |
The Devil's Hairpin | 1957 | Drama | Road racing | Undefeated champion (Cornel Wilde) is coaxed out of retirement. |
Thunder in Carolina | 1960 | Drama | Stock car | Rivals vie in Southern 500, starring Alan Hale, Jr. of Gilligan's Island fame. |
The Green Helmet | 1961 | Drama | Road racing | British film about racers competing in Italy, one of whom has lost his nerve. |
The Iron Maiden | 1962 | Comedy | Traction engines | Alan Hale, Jr. again, in a story about a steam-engine rally. |
The Checkered Flag | 1963 | Action | The wife of an aging, millionaire race car driver talks a young rookie into helping her dispose of her hubby. Lots of racing scenes. | |
The Lively Set | 1964 | Drama | A mechanic (James Darren) feels he's perfected a revolutionary turbine engine. | |
24 heures d'amant | 1964 | Drama | Sports car | Claude Lelouch-directed film set at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. |
Viva Las Vegas | 1964 | Musical | Sports car | Elvis Presley is out to win the big race and romances Ann-Margret. |
The Great Race | 1965 | Comedy | Vintage cars | Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis slapstick about long-distance car race. |
Grand Prix | 1966 | Drama | Open wheel | James Garner and Yves Montand in fictional story of drivers' lives and loves.[2] |
Red Line 7000 | 1966 | Drama | Stock car | Howard Hawks-directed fiction, starring James Caan. |
Fireball 500 | 1966 | Comedy | Stock car | Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello vehicle. |
Spinout | 1966 | Musical | Open wheel | Elvis Presley has to decide between marrying Shelley Fabares and driving her dad's car in a prestigious race. |
Thunder Alley | 1967 | Romance | Stunt driver (Fabian), boss's daughter (Annette Funicello) team up in 500-mile race. | |
Hell On Wheels | 1967 | Romance | Mechanic, engineer fall for same dame. Marty Robbins stars. | |
A Man and a Woman | 1967 | Drama | Open wheel | French film about a woman who falls in love with an auto racer. |
Speed Racer: The Movie | 1967 | Animated | Speed Racer, his girlfriend Trixie and all the gang are in a desperate race to save hundreds of lives from the evil clutches of "The Car Hater." | |
Track of Thunder | 1967 | Drama | Stock car | Two rival drivers end up involved with the same girl. |
Layer Cake / Przekładaniec | 1968 | Sci-fi | Rallying | The story of a rally driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up, based on the screenplay by Stanisław Lem.[3] |
The Love Bug | 1968 | Family | Demolition derby driver gets his hands on a magical Volkswagen Beetle; first in the Herbie series[4] | |
Speedway | 1968 | Musical | Stock car | Elvis Presley is out to win the big race and Nancy Sinatra. |
The Wild Racers | 1968 | Drama | Fabian now races on the European circuit. | |
The Magnificent Tony Carrera | 1968 | Drama | A Spanish-German film about a successful racer who is also a thief. | |
Safari 5000 / Eiko e no 5000 kiro | 1969 | Adventure | Rallying | Japanese movie about an international group of drivers competing in Safari Rally.[5] |
I'm waiting in Monte-Carlo / Czekam w Monte-Carlo | 1969 | Drama | Rallying | In the famous Monte Carlo Rally the Polish team consists of driver Piotr and his co-driver Jan. They compete with other teams as well as with one another - for the feelings of one woman.[6] |
Winning | 1969 | Drama | IndyCar | Paul Newman and Robert Wagner as rival drivers. |
Monte Carlo or Bust! | 1969 | Comedy | Vintage cars | a.k.a. Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies |
The Racing Scene | 1969 | Documentary | A look at actor James Garner's involvement with auto racing. | |
Pit Stop | 1969 | Drama | Figure Eight | A promoter sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight[1] |
Rally / Bensaa suonissa | 1970 | Drama | Rallying | Finnish movie about two men and a woman, all rally drivers, who get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.[7] |
Motodrama | 1971 | Comedy | Rallying | A strange coincidence makes an ordinary man get on a motorcycle and win the competition. Soon he becomes a pro-biker, a speedway star and a rally driver.[8] |
Le Mans | 1971 | Drama | Sports car | Steve McQueen as a competitor in 24 Hours of Le Mans.[1] |
Once Upon a Wheel | 1971 | Documentary | Sports car | Paul Newman narrates an ABC television insider's look at auto racing. |
Gonshchiki / Racers | 1972 | Drama | Rallying | Russian movie about a conflict between two rally drivers: an aging master of sports and his ambitious student.[9] |
Weekend of a Champion | 1972 | Documentary | Formula One | Documentary directed by Roman Polanski chronicling Jackie Stewart's racing season.[1] |
The Last American Hero | 1973 | Biographical | Stock car | Fictional biography of Junior Jackson, starring Jeff Bridges as Elroy Jackson, Jr.[1] |
Ho! | 1974 | Drama | Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a racing driver turned bank robber. | |
Herbie Rides Again | 1974 | Comedy | Sequel to The Love Bug. | |
Flåklypa Grand Prix | 1975 | Animation | Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car. | |
Death Race 2000 | 1975 | Action | Science-fiction about dangerous car race, starring David Carradine.[10] | |
Eat My Dust! | 1976 | Comedy | Racing film starring Ron Howard | |
Bobby Deerfield | 1977 | Drama | Formula One | Al Pacino as a famed driver who falls in love with a dying woman. |
Checkered Flag or Crash | 1977 | Comedy | Off Road | Race car driver Walkaway Madden signs up for the big Manila 1000 off-road race through the jungle in the Philippines. |
Greased Lightning | 1977 | Biographical | Stock car | True story of stock-car trailblazer Wendell Scott, starring Richard Pryor.[1] |
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | 1977 | Comedy | Rallying | The third entry in the Herbie series. |
The Quick and the Dead | 1977 | Documentary | Open wheel | A behind-the-scenes look at Grand Prix racing, narrated by Stacy Keach. |
Safari Rally / 6000 km di paura | 1978 | Adventure | Rallying | Two rally drivers are rivals in the race but not only: they also share feelings for the same woman. |
Rallijs | 1978 | Drama | Rallying | During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order not to get excluded from the competition they do not report this fact to their team management.[11] |
Gonki bez finisha / Racing Without the Finish | 1978 | Drama | Rallying | The director of a large Russian automobile plant gives consent for the participation of factory drivers in a rally. He doesn't coordinate this decision with his supervisors.[12] |
National Class | 1979 | Comedy | Rallying | Young rally driver from Belgrade forgoes his relationship and military duties to solely train for the most important rally of his career. |
Fast Company | 1979 | Drama | Drag Racing | An up-and-coming drag racer and an aging star cope with a corrupt manager. |
Dirt | 1979 | Documentary | Off Road | From motorcycles to Swamp buggies, off-road racing competitions. |
Herbie Goes Bananas | 1980 | Comedy | The fourth entry in the Herbie series. | |
The Cannonball Run | 1981 | Comedy | Cross-country | Based on an actual cross-country race[4] |
Six Pack | 1982 | Comedy | Stock car | Kenny Rogers stars and sings hit theme song. |
Safari 3000 | 1982 | Adventure | Rallying | A 3,000-mile rally across Africa attracts a young American (David Carradine). |
Ferat Vampire | 1982 | Horror | Rallying | Mima signs a contract with mysterious foreign car manufacturer Ferat to work as a rally driver. Rumors abound that the new Ferat rally car does not run on petrol... |
Heart Like a Wheel | 1983 | Biographical | Drag racing | Based on the life of Shirley Muldowney, played by Bonnie Bedelia. |
Stroker Ace | 1983 | Comedy | Stock car | Burt Reynolds as a fictional NASCAR star. |
Raliul | 1984 | Drama | Rallying | Romanian movie about a young co-driver, who pursues her passion for cars and rallies, despite all the obstacles she faces. |
The Winning Streak | 1985 | Drama | Rallying | British TV series dealing with the intrigues of a family motor business and the world of rally driving. |
Rally | 1988 | Drama | Rallying | RAI TV series produced in Italy in 1988, directed by Sergio Martino and starring Giuliano Gemma, in the role of a successful rally driver competing in the World Rally Championship. |
Born to Race | 1988 | Drama | Stock car | Fiction featuring Joseph Bottoms in lead role. |
Catch Me If You Can | 1989 | Comedy | Street racing | A hotshot car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure. |
La Carrera Panamericana | 1990 | Documentary | Historic sports car | Documentary starring Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Nick Mason and manager Steve O'Rourke. |
Checkered Flag | 1990 | Drama | Open wheel | Unsold TV pilot about friendship of a driver and mechanic. |
Dorf Goes Auto Racing | 1990 | Comedy | Stock car | Direct-to-video short film. Part of Tim Conway's Dorf series. |
Days of Thunder | 1990 | Drama | Stock car | Tom Cruise as a NASCAR newcomer, based loosely on Tim Richmond.[13] |
Thunderbolt | 1995 | Action | Touring car | Hong Kong film with Jackie Chan as a race-car mechanic.[2] |
Race the Sun | 1996 | Family | Solar car | Halle Berry as a teacher whose school competes in World Solar Challenge. |
La Passione | 1996 | Drama | Formula One | Italian film about Ferrari racing. |
The Love Bug | 1997 | Comedy | Made-for-TV remake of original 1968 film of the same title. | |
Super Speedway | 1997 | Documentary | Open wheel | Follow the Newman-Haas (Andretti) racing team through the process of building, testing, and racing for a season. Narrated by Paul Newman. |
eX-Driver | 2000 | Animation | Miniseries. In a future world where all cars are controlled by artificial intelligence, which often breaks down, one elite group of kids has been selected to drive gasoline-powered non-AI controlled sports cars to prevent accidents. | |
Miracle in Lane 2 | 2000 | Drama | Soap Box Derby | Made-for-TV film based on the life of Justin Yoder. |
Driven | 2001 | Action | Open wheel | Sylvester Stallone as a former Champ Car star. |
The Fast and the Furious | 2001 | Action | Street racing | Brian O'Conner, an LAPD officer, goes undercover in the street racing world to investigate a group of unknown truck hijackers. This film is the first in the Fast & Furious series. |
Ekusu doraibâ za mûbî | 2002 | Animation | The squeal of smoking tires, the roar of the engine, and the thrill of a hairpin turn in a power drift. | |
éX-Driver The Movie | 2002 | Anime | The squeal of smoking tires, the roar of the engine, and the thrill of a hairpin turn in a power drift. | |
The Snake and the Stallion | 2002 | Documentary | Sports car | The racing history of the AC Cobra, and the rivalry between Carroll Shelby and Enzo Ferrari. |
Right on Track | 2003 | Family | Drag racing | Disney Channel story about a pair of drag-racing sisters. |
Kart Racer | 2003 | Family | Kart racing | The story is about a young boy who wants to enter a go-kart race. |
Michel Vaillant | 2003 | Drama | Racing film based on a French comic book. | |
2 Fast 2 Furious | 2003 | Action | Street racing | Brian O'Conner and Roman Pearce team up to go undercover for the U.S. Customs Service to bring down drug lord Carter Verone in exchange for the erasure of their criminal records. |
NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience | 2004 | Documentary | Stock car | A big-screen look into one of America's most successful entertainment industries, NASCAR racing. |
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story | 2004 | Documentary | Stock car | Made for TV. Chronicles life and career of Dale Earnhardt. |
Dust to Glory | 2005 | Documentary | Offroad racing | A documentary about the 2003 Baja 1000. |
Herbie: Fully Loaded | 2005 | Comedy | Stock car | The most recent entry in the Herbie series. |
Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry | 2005 | Animated | Stock car | Direct-to-video feature about Tom and Jerry entering a race to win a luxurious mansion. |
Cars | 2006 | Animated | Stock car | Family comedy with voices of Paul Newman (who himself was a retired racing driver), Owen Wilson, Richard Petty (also a former racing driver) and Larry the Cable Guy; numerous racing drivers guest-star, including seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher.[14] |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | 2006 | Comedy | Stock car | A cocky NASCAR star (Will Ferrell) must learn humility after setbacks in his career and home life.[2] |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | 2006 | Action | Street racing | High school car enthusiast Sean Boswell is sent to live in Tokyo with his father and finds solace in the city's drifting community. |
Colin McRae: Rally Legend | 2007 | Documentary | Rallying | The definitive documentary of Colin McRae, 1995 World Rally Championship winner.[15] |
Dale | 2007 | Documentary | Stock car | Another look at racing icon Dale Earnhardt. |
Redline | 2007 | Comedy | Street racing | A gorgeous young woman, who is an automobile fanatic and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West Coast of the USA, finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized by exotic car fanatics. Two very expensive cars were wrecked during the making of this film. |
Ta Ra Rum Pum | 2007 | Drama | Stock car | Indian film. |
Death Race | 2008 | Sci-fi | Jason Statham in a revised version of 1975 film.[10] | |
Redline | 2007 | Action | Street racing | A group of multimillionaires wager millions of dollars over their high-powered luxury cars.[16] |
Death Racers | 2008 | Sci-fi | Futuristic story of prisoners competing in race to the death. | |
Rallybrudar | 2008 | Comedy | Rallying | Swedish comedy, set in the 1960's, about a woman, who wants to drive in rallies, and overcomes all obstacles to do it. |
Short Track | 2008 | Stock cars | Experiences of a five-time stock car racing short track champion are exposed through unique characters that work and play through weeks that culminate in 120 mph Saturday nights. | |
Speed Racer | 2008 | Action | Futuristic | Live-action version of Japanese anime series, with Emile Hirsch as Speed.[17] |
Street Racer | 2008 | Action | Mockbuster of Speed Racer with similarities to The Fast & The Furious[16] | |
Truth in 24 | 2008 | Documentary | Sports car | A team's preparation for 2008's 24 Hours of LeMans. |
Ralliraita | 2009 | Comedy | Rallying | Finnish movie about two opposing rally teams who arrange a rally to settle their disagreements. |
Love The Beast | 2009 | Documentary | Tarmac rally | Australian film directed by and featuring Eric Bana and his 1970s Ford car. |
Racing Dreams | 2009 | Documentary | Karting | Kids ages 11–13 aspire to someday become NASCAR drivers.[2] |
Redline | 2009 | Sci-fi | Japanese animated film.[18] | |
Fast & Furious | 2009 | Action | Street racing | Set before the events of Tokyo Drift, Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner are forced to work together, racing to take down a powerful drug lord. |
Tacho / Dotkni se duhy | 2010 | Comedy | Rallying | Black comedy about a successful rally driver and his race of a lifetime, starring Czech rally driver Daniel Landa. |
Death Race 2 | 2010 | Sci-fi | Prequel for the 2008 Death Race film.[10] | |
Senna | 2010 | Documentary | Open wheel | The life and death of Formula One great Ayrton Senna.[4] |
Tim Richmond: To the Limit | 2010 | Documentary | Stock car | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. A look at Tim Richmond, his lifestyle, and his death from AIDS. |
Born 2 Race | 2011 | Drag racing | A rebellious teen (Joseph Cross) needs his estranged father's (John Pyper-Ferguson) help to prepare for the NHRA High School Drag Racing Championship. | |
Red Dirt Rising | 2011 | Stock car | Based on the life of early driver Jimmie Lewallen. | |
Cars 2 | 2011 | Animated | Sports car | Sequel to 2006 family comedy hit. Much like the first film, numerous racing drivers guest-star.[19] |
25 Hill | 2011 | Drama | Soap Box Derby | Boy who lost his father teams in Soap Box Derby with man who lost his son. |
Truth in 24 II: Every Second Counts | 2012 | Documentary | Sports car | Sequel to 2008 film, documenting Audi's adventurous and cliffhanging 2011 race. |
Death Race 3: Inferno | 2013 | Sci-fi | Takes place between Death Race 2 and the 2008 Death Race films[10] | |
Rush | 2013 | Drama | Formula One | True story depicting Hunt–Lauda rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One season. |
1 | 2013 | Documentary | Formula One | Also known as 1: Life on the Limit, a documentary of the history of Formula One.[2] |
Turbo | 2013 | Animated | IndyCar | A snail becomes the fastest thing on the race track. |
Snake and Mongoose | 2013 | Drama | Drag racing | True story depicting rivalry between funny-car drivers Don 'The Snake' Prudhomme and Tom 'The Mongoose' McEwen. |
Need for Speed | 2014 | Action | Street racing | A street racer sets off to race cross-country as a way of avenging his friend's death at the hands of a rival racer. |
Rosso Mille Miglia | 2015 | Comedy | Rallying | A journalist returns to her hometown to participate in the famous classic Mille Miglia Rally. |
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans | 2015 | Documentary | Sports car | On the actor's quest to make his 1971 auto-racing film Le Mans. |
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman | 2015 | Documentary | A documentary on Paul Newman's racing career[2] | |
Italian Race | 2016 | Drama | Rallying | Giulia is a young promise of GT racing. When her life falls apart, her only hope is her brother, a drug addict and former rally champion. |
The 24 Hour War | 2016 | Documentary | Endurance racing | Documentary on battle between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race.[2] |
Speed Racer: Race to the Future | 2016 | Animated | Hoping to make racing safer, Pops Racer invents a time machine that takes a driver back in time before a crash. When he installs the machine into the Mach 5, lightning hits the iconic car during a race and sends Speed and his friends 50 years into the future where robots rule and humans are forbidden from driving. | |
Cars 3 | 2017 | Animated | Sports car | Third installment of the Cars franchise[20] |
Death Race 2050 | 2017 | Sci-fi | Direct sequel to Death Race 2000[10] | |
Logan Lucky | 2017 | Comedy | Stock car | A group of people attempt a heist of the Charlotte Motor Speedway on a racing day.[4] |
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy | 2018 | Sci-fi | Sequel to 2008 Death Race film[10] | |
Dirt | 2018 | Action | Off-road | A young car thief works for an off-road racing team.[21] |
Over Drive | 2018 | Action | Rallying | Two brothers work for a rally team. One day they decide to take part in a competition in hope to advance to the WRC (World Rally Championship) |
The Last Race | 2018 | Documentary | Stock car | Stock car racing at Riverhead Raceway on Long Island, New York. |
Ott Tänak: The Movie | 2019 | Documentary | Rallying | Estonian documentary about the life and rallying career of World Rally Championship driver Ott Tänak.[22] |
Born2Drive | 2019 | Documentary | Rallying | Documentary about a seemingly normal 15 year old kid Oliver Solberg.[23] |
The Art of Racing in the Rain | 2019 | Drama | Racing | American family drama about aspiring Formula One race car driver Denny and his dog Enzo, starring Kevin Costner.[24] |
Pegasus | 2019 | Comedy | Rallying | Chinese comedy about a former rally driver on the comeback trail |
Trading Paint | 2019 | Drama | Dirt track | A stock car racing legend is drawn back to the dirt track when his son, an aspiring driver, joins a rival racing team.[25] |
Blink of an Eye | 2019 | Documentary | NASCAR | An examination of the career of Michael Waltrip, climaxing in his victory in the 2001 Daytona 500—an event overshadowed by the final-lap accident that claimed the life of his car owner and friend, Dale Earnhardt. |
Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | Drama | Le Mans | True story depicting Ford's road to take down Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race.[2] |
Qualified | 2019 | Documentary | IndyCar | Made for TV as a part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Chronicles the struggle of Janet Guthrie to become the first female driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. |
Lady Driver | 2020 | Drama | Dirt track | A rebellious teen (Grace Van Dien) becomes a dirt-track racer while trying to uncover her family history.[26] |
Me, Her And Rally / My Father's Tracks | 2021 | Drama | Rallying | Japanese movie about a young man, who returns to his hometown after the death of his father. He decides to participate in a rally with his father's old car.[27] |
Schumacher | 2021 | Documentary | Formula 1 | Exclusive interviews and archival footage trace an intimate portrait of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher. |
All Crazy Random | 2022 | Action | Ex-convict racing driver Danny Jones discovers his brother Séan gambled away their garage, owing debts to gangsters. Danny races to win back losses and save his family, evading criminal threats.[28] | |
Villeneuve Pironi | 2022 | Documentary | Formula 1 | The story of Canadian Formula 1 icon Gilles Villeneuve and French star Didier Pironi, two fearless Ferrari Formula 1 drivers, forever torn apart by a historic and hugely controversial moment in time.[29] |
Legends Of The Winding Roads | 2023 | Documentary | Rallying | Estonian documentary film about the difficulties of being a rally driver under the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union.[30] |
Overhaul / Carga Maxima | 2023 | Action | Truck racing | Brazilian movie about a racing truck driver, who receives an offer to work as the getaway driver for a gang of thieves.[31] |
Gran Turismo | 2023 | Biographical | Sports car | Based on the video game series by Polyphony Digital, the movie follows Jann Mardenborough and his real journey from a working-class racing gamer to being a pro racer in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving for Nissan after competing in the GT Academy.[32] |
Ferrari | 2023 | Drama | Sports car | Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) grapples with personal and professional crises, including the death of his son Dino the year before, as his racing team prepares to enter the 1957 Mille Miglia.[1] |
Gustavo Trelles: Todo es posible | 2024 | Documentary | Rallying | Documentary film about the most famous rally driver from Uruguay.[33] |
Pegasus 2 | 2024 | Comedy | Rallying | A former rally driver, now a driving school instructor, finds new partners and plans a comeback in a famous rally. |
Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia | 2024 | Biographical | Rallying | A biopic revolving around the Audi-Lancia rivalry during the 1983 World Rally Championship. |
Senna | 2024 | Biopic | Formula 1 | Miniseries about the life of Ayrton Senna da Silva, the Brazilian racing icon who won the Formula One world driver championship three times. |
F1 | 2025 | Drama | Formula One | Filmed on location during the 2023 and 2024 Formula One World Championships, revolving around a fictional Formula One driver who returns to the sport to mentor an up-and-coming rookie. |
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