Killer car movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant killer car movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, cult film, serious, psychotronic, scary and weird films and TV shows about / with car, killer car, danger, chase, car chase, murder, terror, supernatural, death and vengeance plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Horror genres shot in USA, Australia, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as killer car: The Hearse (1980), Christine (1983), The Car (1977), Ferat Vampire (1982), Death Proof (2007), The Wraith (1986), Highwaymen (2004), Super Hybrid (2010), Duel (1971), Death Race 2000 (1975).
Best films
List of killer car movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, tense, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, killer car, haunted house, supernatural, small town, woman in danger, car, cult, cemetery, suspense, killer, exploitation ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
san francisco
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86K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, macabre, killer car, supernatural, murder, friendship, objects come to life, suspense, betrayal, bullying, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1978 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, plymouth, detroit
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11K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it ...
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
killer car, desert, car, suspense, police, violence spree, vengeance, native american, supernatural, psychopath, small town life, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, allegory, psychotronic ...
Plot:
vampire, killer car, car, race, monster car, killer, satire, investigation, car chase, medical, supernatural, coworker relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
central europe, czech republic, czechoslovakia, hungary
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297K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style:
road movie, sexy, absurd, scary, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, violence, psychopath, dark humor, vengeance, car chase, exploitation, revenge, stalking, car, violent, stuntman ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
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Genre: Action, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, road movie, dark ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ghost, righting the wronged, reincarnation, car, chase, car chase, gang, supernatural power, supernatural ability, afterlife, killer car, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
arizona, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, road movie, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, car chase, obsession, suspense, murder, hit and run, death of wife, vengeance, psychopath, car, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
graphic violence, escapades, chase, man versus machine, rivalry, chaos, survival, heroes, female protagonist, car, female fighter, technology gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
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73K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, exciting, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, car chase, truck, chase, road rage, car, psychopath, truck driver, survival, stalking, highway, mysterious villain ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, canada, usa, los angeles
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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. ...
Style:
road movie, suspenseful, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Plot:
car, cult, distopia, car chase, rivalry, dark hero, visceral, exploitation, reckless driving, contests and competitions, car racing, highway ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
usa
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461
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jealous invalid husband tries to kill sexy blond wife, who uses occult powers and devices to try to kill him.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, weird
Plot:
car, car chase, killer, dracula, cult, paranormal, aviation, terror, possession, occult, black magic, car accident ...
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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, tense, psychotronic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, chase, motorcycle, biker, survival, race against time, battles, leadership, against the odds, chaos, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style:
futuristic, road movie, suspenseful, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
apocalypse, chase, post apocalypse, vengeance, car chase, revenge, car, biker, dystopic future, chaos, violence spree, exploitation ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway.
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
car chase, serial killer, car, terror, killer car, killer, psychopath, driving, disturbed person, female murderer, burn victim, gas station ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
road movie, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, car chase, desert, loner, dystopic future, biker, chase, car, survival, gang ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style:
slasher, road movie, psychotronic, neo noir, perverse ...
Plot:
truck, serial killer, murder, on the road, hitchhiking, australian outback, suspicion, highway, strangulation, paranoia, framed for murder, van ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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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:
apocalyptic, road movie, dystopian, entertaining, dieselpunk ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, lone hero, desert, end of the world, car chase, car, survival, fight, chase, catastrophe, motorcycle, oil ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
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247
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Meg moves out of her parents' home and buys a beautiful old Jaguar in a bid for independence. She begins to get strange feelings about the car. It seems to have a presence beyond the usual "personality" attributed to eccentric old ...
Style:
slasher, feminist film
Plot:
ghost, killer car, terror, missing person, murder, feminism, jaguar, hitchhiking, bus, neighbor, radio, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
new zealand
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72K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, road movie, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, psychopath, kidnapping, murder, prank, truck driver, twists and turns, paranoia, cat and mouse, truck, road trip, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, salt lake city utah, colorado, wyoming, san diego california ...
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30K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric, splatter ...
Plot:
suspense, ghost, time loop, forest, supernatural horror, fear, supernatural, wrong place wrong time, twists and turns, dark humor, serial killer, survival ...
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646K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, breathtaking, visually appealing, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
alien, robot, military, car, alien invasion, transforming robot, good versus evil, androids and robots, giant robots, save the world, transformation, man versus machine ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
california, washington d.c., los angeles, usa, plymouth ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, road movie, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, road trip, murder, desert, survival, suspense, on the run, car chase, car accident, police station ...
Place:
new mexico, texas, usa
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78K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 105 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, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, future dystopia, society, cannibalism, survival, rescue, chaos, epidemic, quarantine, antidote ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, london, scotland, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, alien, transforming robot, military, giant robots, battles, alien invasion, chaos, heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
18th century, 2000s, stone age, prehistoric times, 21st century
Place:
egypt, washington d.c., virginia, new york, philadelphia ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, tense, road movie, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
truck, psychopath, serial killer, truck driver, sister sister relationship, road trip, chase, kidnapping, breaking and entering, torture, fear, vengeance ...
Place:
las vegas, usa, utah
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, psychological
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
truck, survival, supernatural, deadly creature, psycho, outback, wilderness, curses spells and rituals, desert, insanity, dehydration, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seventeen years ago, NASCAR racer Cutter McCullough died in a fiery crash. But death can’t stop a man driven by revenge. He and his car are back from the grave to settle a score with his old girlfriend Tammy and his rival JJ Sawyer. Now JJ, Tammy, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting
Plot:
true love, teenage life, car chase, supernatural, vengeance, mentally unstable, ghost, chase, killer car, terror, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Sam Witwicky takes his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of Autobot-leader Optimus Prime. The film centers around the space race between the USSR and the USA, suggesting there was a hidden Transformers role in ...
Style:
exciting, heroic, absurd, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
robot, androids and robots, alien, alien invasion, transforming robot, space, good versus evil, warrior, giant robots, battles, fight, transformation ...
Time:
year 1969, year 2011, year 1961, 60s, 2010s ...
Place:
washington d.c., egypt, wisconsin, chicago illinois, middle east ...
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38K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
Style:
parody, absurd, surreal, melancholic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
absurdism, desert, dark humor, supernatural, objects come to life, crazy, twists and turns, filmmaking, monster, cult, surrealism, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, southern california, mojave desert
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a dilapidated cyberpunk city plagued by crime and corruption, an unscrupulous District Attorney is savagely murdered and tossed out of a building onto his brand new car. Mysteriously, the District Attorney and his car come back to life as a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
car, car chase, supernatural, supernatural power, violence spree, psychopath, chase, on the run, vengeance, chaos, society, police ...
Time:
future
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