Movies like Hot Rod 1979

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Hot Rod (1979)
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Hot Rod (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drag-racer enters a local championship race. However, he runs up against the town boss, a corrupt sheriff who has already made arrangements to ensure that his own son wins the race.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: drag racing, car, classic car, auto racing, carsploitation, car race, police, corruption, contest, car accident, woman, driving, radio dj, woman driver, racing, race, hot rod, police car, car driving, automobile racing
Time: 70s
Place: california

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Most similar movies to Hot Rod

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and grindhouse films with plots about car, racing, auto racing, automobile, car accident, car chase and car race mostly in Drama, Sport and Action genres. Some movies like Hot Rod: Deuce Coupe (1992), Hi-Riders (1978), Return to Macon County (1975), Pit Stop (1969), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deuce Coupe (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers are seperated by the love for the same woman - but they get united again by their fascination for speed and racing cars.
Style: independent film
Plot: auto racing, car, racing, motor racing, nostalgia, love, small town, brother brother relationship, family relations, drag racing, lost love, coming of age ...
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
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Hi-Riders (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.
Style: anamorphic, independent film
Plot: drag racing, car chase, racing, revenge, murder, small town, manhunt, small community, race, car accident, car, cruise ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return to Macon County (1975)
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: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: on the road, drag racing, classic car, car, auto racing, manhunt, redneck, waitress, car chase, friendship, chase, car accident ...
Time: year 1975, 1950s, 50s
Place: california, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.7
 1K
Pit Stop (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Richard Davalos plays Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk who comes to the attention of car enthusiast Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a race car driver. Bowman eventually accepts and becomes entranced ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: auto racing, race, motor racing, racing, exploitation, car, carsploitation, automobile, classic car, car race, drag racing, woman in a bikini ...
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, road trip, on the road, racing, mechanic, character study, classic car, carsploitation, life philosophy, auto mechanic, hitchhiker, desert ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
King of the Mountain (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."
Plot: carsploitation, car chase, auto racing, racing, car, classic car, gang, road accident, car race, group, friend, sports car ...
Time: year 1981
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Last American Hero (1973)
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: exciting, realistic, serious, sincere, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car race, racing, fast car, race car, redneck, auto racing, car, motor racing, hotshot hero, athlete's life, rise to the top, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Red Dirt Rising (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film shares with us a decade in the lives of Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie as they experience the joys of love and marriage alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949).
Plot: classic car, auto racing, world war two, nascar, racing, car racing, moonshine
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Fast Company (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An early departure from director David Cronenberg's canon of visceral horror, 1979's Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack footage. Veteran toughguy ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: racing, auto racing, car chase, drag racing, classic car, underground, road trip, motor racing, revenge, motor sport, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Jump (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter
Style: independent film
Plot: racing, auto racing, automobile, motor racing, fast car, race, drag racing, fame, religion, bigotry, brother sister relationship, promoter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Where Are My Children? (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Plot: adoption, corruption, car accident, prison
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Style: inspirational, touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: car race, racing, auto racing, motor racing, race, biopic, driving, car, auto mechanic, race car, car racing, women ...
Time: year 1983, 1950s, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Young Racers (1963)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A film constructed around footage shot of actual Grand Prix races in Europe.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: carsploitation, racing, auto racing, motor racing, car, race, fast car, tough heroes, friends, couples, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Thunder Alley (1967)
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, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: auto racing, car, swing, carsploitation, striptease, motor racing, circus, car chase, teenage life, ambition, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fyre (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
Plot: prostitute, disco, rape, female nudity, sex, prostitution, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, life is a bitch, teenage life, car ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 2K
The Betsy (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An auto-dynasty family experiences scandal, adultery, incest and power struggles in a juicy adaptation of Harold Robbins's best-selling novel. Ruthless patriarch Loren (Laurence Olivier) hires racecar driver Angelo (Tommy Lee Jones) to build a ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: flapper, car, business, auto racing, racing, automobile industry, sex with a maid, infidelity, italian mafia, gay husband, breast feeding, manipulation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1978, year 1936, 70s, 1920s
Place: detroit, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Love, Mary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
Plot: dyslexia, reform school, in love, teenager, stealing a car, police, student, nurse, teenage girl, car accident, counselor, belief in hell ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 60s, year 1966, year 1984
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
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Speed (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Film, based on Valeriy Musakhanov's novel about auto-racing, drivers and automobiles.
Plot: automobile, motor sport, car, racing, racecar driver, driving, novel, speeding car, overturning car, car damage
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.7
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Pickup on 101 (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: homeless, train, motel, police, hitchhiker, hobo, singer, diner, friendship, jail, hitchhiking, gas station ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Vanishing Point (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
Plot: car, traffic accident, car accident, newspaper, smoking, monk, crime scene, butterfly, driving, eating
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
American Graffiti (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Style: humorous, teen, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, small town, rock and roll, friendship, car, drag racing, teenager, street racing, first love, love at first sight, rebellious youth ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1950s, near future, year 1973 ...
Place: california, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Choppers (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: carsploitation, gang, collision, automobile, rebel, street racing, kids in trouble, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, downfall, youth ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hot Rods to Hell (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a ...
Style: retro, grindhouse, psychedelic, cult classic, slasher ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, carsploitation, desert, christmas, car, motel, automobile, speed, surfing, classic car, beach, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination.
Style: independent film
Plot: car, automobile, jukebox, first date, accidental killing, mechanic, hollywood, swimming pool, prank, single mother, car accident, beer ...
Time: year 1975
Place: tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dirt (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In search of a lifeline for his struggling off road racing team, a man takes on a young car thief looking for a second chance, but as their worlds collide, they must struggle to forge a successful alliance.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, inspirational
Plot: car race, car, rise to the top, racing, rivalry, friendship, determination, courage, teamwork, career, ambitious, driving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Days of Thunder (1990)
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, chick flick
Plot: racing, car race, car chase, rivalry, car, hotshot hero, auto racing, motor sport, chase, nascar, athlete's life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, alabama, phoenix arizona, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Right on Track (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based a on a true story about two sisters who came out on top of a man's sport. The story is based on Erica and Courtney Enders, two sisters who get in to junior drag racing and make it all the way to the top. The two sisters fight a battle of ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: auto racing, sibling relationship, car race, drag racing, father daughter relationship, racecar driver, rivalry, sports car, showdown, sister sister relationship, contests and competitions, racing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Pivot Point (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological drama that follows four high schoolers down a dark ride. As each struggle separately in their own lives they will soon discover that their lives are interconnected in ways they never would have guessed. They also effect each other in ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot: school shooting, justice, death, police, suicide, high school, depression, showdown, twists and turns, gay porn, car wreck, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sins of the mind (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A typical American family - photographer father, two talented daughters, Michelle an accomplished commercial artist with a clear upward career path. Then she has an auto accident, and the head trauma leaves behavioral changes. The part of the brain ...
Style: erotic
Plot: car accident, nymphomania, brain damage, father daughter relationship, psychiatrist, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, photographer, mother daughter relationship, family relations, sex addict, promiscuous woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Everything Else (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she has even suppressed the loss of her daughter who drowned years ago. As her retirement approaches ...
Plot: woman, office, car, swimming pool, clerk, female nudity, female protagonist, female full frontal nudity, shower
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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