Movies like Checkered Flag or Crash

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Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
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Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary.
Plot: auto racing, car, jungle, journalist, prize money, racing, jungle adventure, car race, race, racecar driver, car chase, automobile
Place: the philippines

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, road movie and semi serious films with plots about car, racing, automobile, car chase, auto racing, chases and races and car race mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Checkered Flag or Crash: King of the Mountain (1981), Safari 3000 (1982), The Gumball Rally (1976), Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003), Tarzun and the Valley of Lust (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
91%
The Gumball Rally (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally ...
Style: road movie, laugh out loud, funny, cult classic, fast ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: car chase, car, auto racing, racing, car race, road trip, carsploitation, race, redneck, classic car, speed, driving ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
Style: road movie
Plot: biker, racing, auto racing, chase, speed, motorcycle, race, motorcycle racing, sabotage, cross country
Time: 1920s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 3000 mile race from San Francisco to Miami that took place in the Spring of 2003. 150 cars and stars created all kinds of mayhem and chaos over 6 days racing from coast to coast!
Style: road movie, semi serious, captivating, entertaining
Plot: car race, sports car, rally, race, escapades, car, racecar driver, competitor, rivalry, road trip, travel, jackass ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Tarzun and the Valley of Lust (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The lascivious Jungle King has illicit affairs with both blonde bombshell Jane and exotic jungle princess Meena.
Style: spoof, independent film, weird
Plot: bestiality, jungle adventure, jungle, sexploitation, female nudity, sex, rape, tarzan, erection, male nudity, breasts, dildo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.8
 16
See You (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to ...
Plot: race, rally, racing, car race, car racing, motor sport, auto racing
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Corvette Summer (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: first sexual experience, car, fall in love, high school, prostitute, automobile, classic car, speed, cat and mouse, driver, racing, bike ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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 ⇓
55%
 4.1
 11K
Superfast! (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's LA gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross LA crime kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell. The gang's ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, car chase, chases and races, racing, gang, undercover, goofy hero, disorder, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, bomb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.3
 2K
Pegasus (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Zhang Chi, a hubris and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, the now single-father to a six-year-old boy throws down the gauntlet once again.
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: auto racing, champion, racing, car, racecar driver, competitor, athlete's life, fast car, escapades, race car, satire, second chance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Driving Me Crazy (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: trouble, invention, robbery, friendship, inventions and discoveries, fish out of water, hollywood, showbiz, celebrity culture, on the run, chases and races, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, germany, usa, europe, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.9
 4K
Stroker Ace (1983)
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: realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, fast
Plot: racing, car chase, auto racing, blonde, virgin, car, rivalry, motor racing, race, driver, hillbilly, motor sport ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.9
 383
Moonrunners (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters
Style: road movie
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, hillbilly, car, small town, hicksploitation, classic car, speed, automobile, redneck, racing, car race, jail ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.4
 989
Eat My Dust (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious ...
Style: road movie, independent film, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, car, carsploitation, auto racing, exploitation, racing, automobile, redneck, trucker, truck, chase, classic car ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
FIREBALL RUN: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: FIREBALL RUN: The Movie is one epic GAME starting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and finishing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For 9 days, through 18 cities, spanning 3500 miles teams from everywhere must solve clues and accomplish missions in order to ...
Plot: journey, adventurer, car race, car, adventure hero, missing child
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
Style: road movie, spectacular, action comedy, fast, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, car chase, sheriff, trucker, chase, elephant, racing, road trip, desert, on the road, carsploitation, beer ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: jungle, snake, tribe, python, prison escape, political prisoner, jungle adventure
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Style: rom com, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: racing, auto racing, chase, car chase, herbie, driving, love affair, youth, private detective, criminal syndicate, cruise ship, bus ...
Time: year 1980
Place: latin america, brazil, mexico, rio de janeiro, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Terrible Jungle (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his ...
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, idiotic
Plot: jungle, tribe, unlikely friendships, danger, stupidity, silly humor, goofy hero, adventurer, culture clash, save the day, farce, village ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
Style: road movie, funny, cult classic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: road trip, car chase, on the road, trucker, truck, carsploitation, police chase, sheriff, car, convoy, truck driver, trucking ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, alabama, mississippi, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Flight to Fury (1964)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an ...
Style: exciting, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: survivor, crash, wilderness, diamond, jungle, airplane, smuggling, isolation, buddies, jungle adventure, murder, adventurer ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
Style: teen, feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: car, car race, auto racing, father daughter relationship, college, racing, underdog, teenage girl, friendship, rivalry, family relations, chases and races ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Speedtrap (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in a private investigator to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend ...
Style: road movie, detective, independent film
Plot: car, car chase, carsploitation, speed, racing, automobile, police chase, car theft, private investigator, insurance company, thief, mafia ...
Place: phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Greased Lightning (1977)
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: black comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious
Plot: auto racing, racism, blaxploitation, racing, car racing, car, african american, racial slur, car chase, nascar, racial issues, race ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s ...
Place: virginia, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Style: entertaining, melancholic, light, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: auto racing, car chase, racing, happy ending, justice, heist, buddies, contests and competitions, frame up, escapades, danger, undercover ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: monte carlo, paris france, france, europe, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.0
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Zero to Sixty (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, car, odd couple, gangster, partner, friendship, chases and races, criminal heroes, fall in love, chase, disorder, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find ...
Style: not serious, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: friends, redneck, chases and races, misfit, racing, car chase, buddies, heroes, incompetent police, countryside, stupidity, justice ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
 3K
Six Pack (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racing, race, auto racing, classic car, car, motor racing, driving, children, auto mechanic, car chase, race car, redneck ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
39%
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