Movies like Death Race 2000

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Death Race 2000 (1975)
 6.2
 31K
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, suspenseful, humorous, entertaining, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Plot: car, carsploitation, dystopia, racing, dystopian future, car chase, distopia, chases and races, danger, auto racing, post apocalyptic, rivalry, visceral, exploitation, reckless driving, contests and competitions, highway, tyranny, escapades, motorcycle, violent, satire, apocalypse, road trip, street racing ...
Time: future, 2000s, 20th century, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, united states, united states of america
Keyword: reboot, sport, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, futuristic and cult classic films with plots about rivalry, chases and races, post apocalypse, danger, chaos, heroes and escapades mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Death Race 2000: The Cannonball Run (1981), The Running Man (1987), Deathsport (1978), Carquake! (1976), Cannonball Run II (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cannonball Run (1981)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. ...
Style: road movie, humorous, light, entertaining, hilarious ...
Plot: on the road, car race, chase, car chase, racing, road trip, race, rivalry, car, escapades, classic car, auto racing ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 166K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 2K
Deathsport (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states. Notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz is forced to fight in the DeathSport, dueling on futuristic motorcycle ...
Style: serious, stylized, apocalyptic, tense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, chase, biker, motorcycle, survival, battles, against the odds, chaos, vengeance, rivalry, danger, society ...
Time: future, year 1978
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 5K
Carquake! (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, humorous, psychotronic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racing, chase, car, on the road, auto racing, carsploitation, race, car chase, violence, death, mafia, automobile ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cannonball Run II (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
Style: road movie, humorous, spoof, cult classic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: car, car chase, chase, racing, race, auto racing, classic car, speed, gangster, road trip, car race, on the road ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa, connecticut, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 192K
Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Chase (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public ...
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, road movie ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, automobile, car, terror, classic car, apocalypse, exploitation, epidemic, planet, wasteland, racing ...
Time: year 1981, future, distant future
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 2.5
 1K
Death Racers (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, contestants compete in a cross-country road race in which killing is part of the game. Death Racers is an American B movie directed by Roy Knyrim and is a mockbuster of Death Race. Released direct-to-video on September 16, ...
Style: rough, mockbuster, suspenseful, scary, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chaos, on the run, vengeance, confined, contests and competitions, escapades, rivalry, auto racing, racing, psychopath, race against time, danger ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Death Race: Inferno (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, ...
Style: suspense, bloody, futuristic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, street racing, prison, chase, racing, runaway, desert, confined, chases and races, survival, car, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 2012, year 2013, future
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to ...
Style: independent film, exciting, humorous, apocalyptic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, rescue, dystopian future, mutant, prisoner, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, chastity belt, bare breasts ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.5
 11K
Cherry 2000 (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style: cult classic, exciting, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, robot, dystopia, distopia, cyberpunk, female robot, sexy woman, post apocalyptic, heroic mission, androids and robots ...
Time: future, year 1987, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.1
 303
Warlords (1988)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a brutal, radioactive future, fearless warrior Dow (David Carradine) is humanity's last hope against the Warlord and his mutant hordes. With the gorgeous, deadly Danny (Dawn Wildsmith) and the strange Ammo at his side, Dow makes desperate ...
Style: independent film, serious, exciting, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, desert, distopia, monster, betrayal, nudity, violent content, dystopian future, profanity, strong violent content, injustice, chaos ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.6
 430
Safari 3000 (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: road movie, independent film, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: auto racing, racing, car, reporter, chase, fast car, mitsubishi, race, classic car, violent content, rally, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.6
 124K
Judge Dredd (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, superhero, police, dystopian future, dystopia, good versus evil, post apocalyptic, tough cop, comic book ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, supernatural, crazy, gas station, carsploitation, monster, car, hostage, danger, animate object, heroic mission, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a ...
Style: bleak, apocalyptic, intense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, dystopian future, martial arts, distopia, post apocalyptic, violence, blood, revenge, escapades, contests and competitions, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, year 1989, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.8
 535
Shepherd (1998)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered ...
Style: futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, cyberpunk, distopia, dystopian future, violent content, religions or cults, injustice, chaos, rivalry, heroes, danger, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cannonball Fever (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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? ...
Style: humorous, road movie, independent film, fast, semi serious ...
Plot: car chase, racing, auto racing, race, classic car, chase, car, carsploitation, car race, on the road, satire, fast car ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, stylized, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, murder, post apocalyptic, rivalry, life is a bitch, race against time, danger, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, depressing, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, wasteland, distopia, epidemic, nuclear disaster, quarantine, exploitation, nuclear holocaust, gang ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: persia, new york, usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 35K
Tank Girl (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style: stylized, futuristic, exciting, slapstick, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, female protagonist, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, post apocalyptic, kickass women, cyberpunk, wasteland, female fighter, save the world, comic book ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style: road movie, exciting, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.3
 795
Stryker (1983)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, rape, wasteland, exploitation, heroes, desert, post apocalyptic, woman with a gun, erotica, planet, epidemic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style: cult classic, road movie, action adventure, cyber, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, lone hero, dystopia, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, car chase, wasteland, dystopian future, survival, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 35K
Death Race 2 (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to ...
Style: bloody, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, contests and competitions, car race, racing, survival, street racing, brutality, car, warden, heroes, rivalry, prison ...
Time: year 2011, future
Place: south africa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.0
 34K
Cyborg (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, homoerotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, martial arts, post apocalypse, androids and robots, chase, robot, post apocalyptic, one man army, apocalypse, chaos, violence ...
Time: future, year 1989, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, georgia, usa, charleston south carolina, south carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
 80K
Doomsday (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, cannibalism, infected, danger, society, epidemic, survival, rescue, chaos, infection, quarantine ...
Time: future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, britain, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, action packed, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, terminator, time machine, chaos, man versus machine, sent to the past, time traveler ...
Time: year 2003, future, 2000s, near future, 2030s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 7K
Born to Race (2011)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Born To Race is the story of Danny Krueger, a rebellious young street racer on a collision course with trouble. After an accident at an illegal street race, he is sent to a small town to live with his estranged father, a washed up NASCAR racer. When ...
Style: exciting, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: car race, car, street racing, drag racing, rivalry, racing, chases and races, parents and children, youth, mechanic, undisciplined, high school ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.4
 17K
Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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