List of films about automobiles

The following is a List of films about automobiles, in which cars and other automobiles are at the center of, or featured prominently, in their plots.

List of films

• The First Auto (1927), a film about the transition from horses to cars for transportation, and the rift it causes in a family
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), a film charting three generations of owners of a Rolls-Royce Phantom II^[1]
• What on Earth! (1966), a short animated mockumentary in which Martians mistake automobiles as Earth's dominant species^[2]
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), a musical film about a magical car^[3]
• The Love Bug, (1968), a comedy film about an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle racecar^[4]
• Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?, a 1970 Italian comedy about a driving school^[5]
• Vanishing Point (1971), an action road film prominently featuring a Dodge Challenger^[6]
• Killdozer! (1974), a made-for-TV horror movie based on a short story of the same name by Theodore Sturgeon
• Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), a film about a drug lord stealing 48 vehicles over a course of five days
• Race with the Devil (1975), an occult thriller film that blends the car chase and horror genres
• The Car (1977), a film about an anthropomorphic customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III
• Mad Max(1977), an Australian film franchise about a police office named Max and his Ford Falcon XB police car called the Pursuit Suit aka the V8 Interceptor.
• Corvette Summer (1978), a film about a teenager and his stolen Corvette Stingray
• The Hearse (1980), a horror movie about a possessed hearse
• The Devil at Your Heels (1981), a documentary film about daredevil Ken Carter's attempt to jump a rocket-powered car over the Saint Lawrence River
• Christine (1983), a film directed by John Carpenter about a sentient 1958 Plymouth Fury, based on the novel by Stephen King
• Nightmares (1983), a film consisting of four separate story segments; the third segment, "The Benediction", features a traveling priest (played by Lance Henriksen) attacked on the highway by a demonic pickup truck
• Dionysos (1984), a French film about a factory attempting to build the world's first car^[7]
• Back to the Future(1985), a franchise about a teenage boy named Marty McFly and a scienctist named Doc Brown going on an adventure in their time machine made out of a 1981 DMC Deleorean called the Delorean time machine.
• Maximum Overdrive (1986), a horror film; and Trucks, a 1997 made-for-TV remake film; both based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King
• The Wraith (1986), a film starring Charlie Sheen, who plays a man murdered by a gang of car thieves who gets revenge upon his killers by returning as a phantom car and driver set out to eliminate them
• Pink Cadillac (1989), a film about a bounty hunter and a group of white supremacists chasing a woman in a pink Cadillac
• Crash (1996), a film directed by David Cronenberg about a group of people who find sexual pleasure in car crashes
• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), a remake of the 1974 film about car thieves
• The Fast and the Furious, a franchise of films about street racing and car heists; the first film was released in 2001^[8]
• Death Proof (2007), a film directed by Quentin Tarantino about a stuntman and his killer car
• Gran Torino (2008), a film about a young man who conspires to steal his neighbor's Ford Gran Torino^[9]
• Dolan's Cadillac (2009), based on the Stephen King story, about a schoolteacher whose wife is murdered by a man in a bulletproof Cadillac
• Road Kill (2010), an Australian supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less road-train in the harsh Australian outback
• Drive (2011), an action film about a stunt performer who also works as a getaway driver

In television

• "A Thing about Machines", a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone
• "You Drive", a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone in which the car of a hit-and-run driver hounds him to confession
• My Mother the Car, a 1965 television sitcom series
• Knight Rider, a franchise—begun in 1982—featuring an artificially intelligent third generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am named KITT (Knight Industries Two-Thousand)
• "The Honking", a 2000 Futurama episode in which the robot character, Bender, is possessed by a were-virus, transforming him into a murderous car every night at midnight. The curse could only be lifted by destroying the originator of the virus, a project-Satan car located at the "Anti-Chrysler" building. The car that hits Bender is actually a 1958 Plymouth, just like the one in Christine.
• "Route 666", a 2006 Supernatural episode about a driverless black Dodge utiline truck in Cape Girardeau, Missouri killing everyone related to its owner's past.
• Super Hybrid (2011) a science fiction thriller film about a malicious shape shifting sentient car that devours its victims by tricking them into its cab.
• "Christrina", a Grojband episode where Kin's dream catching camera messed up and released Trina's soul from her body and into her car, bringing her car to life. Trina became angry about this and went around on a rampage destroying everything in her car body.

References

1. "Cinema: Back-Seat Romance". Time. May 21, 1965.
2. Ohayon, Albert (June 8, 2012). "What on Earth: Science fiction satire at its funniest". NFB.ca Blog. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
3. Adler, Renata (December 19, 1968). "Movie Review - Chitty Chitty Bang Bag". The New York Times. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
4. Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, p. 163, ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1.
5. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
6. Zazarine, Paul (March 1986). "Kowalski's Last Ride". Muscle Car Review.
7. "Dionysos". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
8. Elvis Mitchell (June 22, 2011). "Getaway Drivers, Take Note: This One's Made for You". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
9. Whittey, Stephen. "Clint Eastwood on 'Jersey Boys,' taking risks and a life well lived". NJ.com. Retrieved 10 October 2015.