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Fireball 500 (1966)
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.
Style:
exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
auto racing, car, hillbilly, motor racing, car chase, car race, special agents, love triangle, beach, on the road, chase, teenage life, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, cross country, dishonesty, cons and scams, fight, camp, carnival, car racing, chases and races, moonshine, director cameo ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, north carolina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, exciting, semi serious and humorous films with plots about rivalry, car race, auto racing, contests and competitions, chases and races, ambition and car mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Fireball 500: Thunder Alley (1967), The Wild Racers (1968), Red Line 7000 (1965), Muscle Beach Party (1964), Safari 3000 (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Stock 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.
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
car, auto racing, striptease, swing, motor racing, circus, car chase, teenage life, rivalry, sport, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much ...
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semi serious, realistic, exciting, psychotronic
Plot:
auto racing, motor racing, ambition, rivalry, car chase, car accident, bullfighting, racecar driver, car race, chases and races
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The 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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car, auto racing, car chase, race, motor racing, hicksploitation, ambition, rivalry, restaurant, hotshot hero, sport, contests and competitions ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, campy, psychotronic
Plot:
beach party, beach, surfing, bodybuilding, helicopter, best friends, young lovers, lifestyle, vengeance, contests and competitions, rise and fall, youth ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, cult film
Plot:
auto racing, car, mitsubishi, fast car, chase, reporter, rally, journalism, media, rivalry, ambition, sport ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity ...
Style:
campy, humorous, stylized, sexy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
beach party, surfing, beach, teenager, motorcycle, camp, dancing, exploitation, disaster, rat, superhero, gang ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A heart warming story about three young men who specialize in recovering high end, expensive and well protected autos that are hard to retrieve due to lack of payments.
Style:
captivating, exciting, semi serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddies, heist, partners, car chase, dishonesty, car, rivalry, friendship, auto repair, suspense, life is a bitch, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized by exotic car fanatics
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car race, sports car, chase, gambling, cons and scams, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, car, street racing, fight, motor racing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
car, auto racing, blaxploitation, racism, african american, gangsters, race, car chase, racial issues, racial slur, car racing, car race ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 70s
Place:
virginia, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A hotshot teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school which is facing closure.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, surprise ending
Audience:
teens
Plot:
car, robbery, high school, street racing, cheerleader, high school football, american football, rivalry, ambition, save the day, partners, youth ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A film constructed around footage shot of actual Grand Prix races in Europe.
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, sincere, psychotronic
Plot:
auto racing, car, motor racing, race, fast car, siblings relations, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, tough heroes, friends, couples ...
Time:
60s
Place:
monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A backwoods bootlegger decides to put the driving skills he developed evading the law to good use. He becomes a race car driver, and eventually, one of the fastest drivers in history.
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, sincere
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car race, fast car, car, hotshot hero, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, sport, rise to the top, parents and children, auto racing, race ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Frank 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.
Style:
realistic, semi serious
Plot:
auto racing, car, motor sport, racecar driver, motor racing, car chase, cheating wife, car racing, race, auto mechanic, driving, fast car ...
Time:
60s
Place:
indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
street racing, car chase, contests and competitions, rivalry, vengeance, auto racing, car racing, gangsters, car accident, motorcycle, drug dealer, strip club ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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, serious
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car race, street racing, car, mechanic, rivalry, family relations, parents and children, youth, race, drag racing, undisciplined, car chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, psychotronic
Plot:
beach party, surfer, beach, college, ship, teenager, sport, friendship, teenage life, siblings relations, twentysomething life, friends ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
on the road, auto racing, car, manhunt, redneck, chase, waitress, car chase, friendship, drag racing, car accident, countryside ...
Time:
50s
Place:
california, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, exciting, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
archaeologist, rivalry, society, desire for fame, self discovery, track down, ambition, on the road, cons and scams, friendship, suspense, cult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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, exciting ...
Plot:
chase, on the road, car race, car, car chase, rivalry, escapades, race against time, partners, road trip, contests and competitions, race ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Cynical look at a '50s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
chase, suspense, rivalry, gang, car race, friends, youth, music band, on the road, juvenile delinquent, young girl, kids in trouble ...
Time:
50s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A 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.
Style:
humorous, sexy, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surfing, beach party, chase, gang, culture clash, werewolf, teenage life, farce, runaway, motorcycle, teenager, parallel universe ...
Time:
60s
Place:
california, new jersey, pacific ocean, minnesota, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, suspenseful, exciting, serious, anime ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car race, ambition, contests and competitions, leadership, rivalry, alcoholic, underdog, car, street racing, superhero, driving, motor racing ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, cult film
Plot:
car chase, virgin, blonde, race, auto racing, car, rivalry, driving, hillbilly, stuntman, motor sport, fast car ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. ...
Style:
exciting, inspirational, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
sport, car race, race, car, car chase, rivalry, hotshot hero, motor sport, chase, nascar, auto racing, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, phoenix arizona, alabama, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, car, car accident, hitman, rivalry, escapades, on the run, intrigue, save the day, race against time, fugitives ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Danny Krueger is a twenty-year old drag racer who plays by his own rules. After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Fast Lane Racing Academy, Danny finds himself competing against some of the fiercest young drivers in the world. Tension soars ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
auto racing, street racing, friendship, hotshot hero, ambition, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, reluctant partners, sport, partners, race ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the ...
Style:
inspirational, exciting, realistic, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racecar driver, car racing, car race, car, race, ambition, talented, rise to the top, race car, desire for fame, friendship, auto mechanic ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, year 1959, 20th century
Place:
france, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
20 year old kickboxers from opposite ends of Miami, one rich one poor, battle for triumph in sport and their own identities in this coming-of-age action/drama.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
fight, tough heroes, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, nothing to lose, social differences, self discovery, sport, martial arts tournament, kickboxing, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
Style:
exciting, feel good, serious, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
car race, sport, car racing, race car, rivalry, competition, contests and competitions, car chase, suspense, auto racing, summer, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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