Best Movie Featuring Open-Wheel Car Racing (AKA, Indycar or Formula One)
In honor of all Grand Prix, Drag Racing Dragsters, and the annual running of America's primiere car race, the Indianapolis 500, what is the best movie or your favorite movie featuring an Open-Wheel Car? Wikipedia defines Open-wheel car as
"An Open-wheel Car ("Formula Car", or often "Single-Seater Car" in British English) is a car with the wheels outside of the car's main body and usually having only one seat"Fuel Sources for these cars include gasoline, electric, and hydrogen. Indycars, formula one, Karts, Top fuel dragster, and top Alcohol Dragster cars all fall under this category. Discuss it here
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- DirectorRon HowardStarsDaniel BrühlChris HemsworthOlivia WildeThe merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsJames GarnerEva Marie SaintYves MontandAmerican Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloMartha HyerA 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.Believe it or not, this movie has a drag race with dragsters in it.
- DirectorDaniel ZirilliStarsMircea MonroeJustin GuariniDwier BrownA young woman dreams of becoming a race-car driver, even though the career claimed the life of her father.This was suggested by Jen for another poll suggestion. Thank you. I had remembered your excellent suggestion.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsVirginia ValeRobert KentBarney OldfieldBeverly Blake, the "Blonde Comet" and the daughter of a tire-manufacturer, gets behind the wheel of a race-car and is soon tearing up the tracks and winning races in Italy, France, and Germany (prior to 1938 when those countries were no longer running international car races in Europe.) When she returns to race on American tracks she meets Jim Flynn, another race-driver, and a rivalry is created--along with a romance. Beverly gives up her chance to win THE BIG RACE by letting Jim race her car and he wins. His win also means a triumph for the racing-car carburetor he has invented and also for the tires manufactured by her father. (It may have been somewhat of a setback for Women's Liberation, though.)
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsJames StewartWendy BarrieUna MerkelWith the help of his mechanic buddy, an engineer, and the company's attractive new publicist, an automotive test driver struggles to develop a new carburetor by entering cars in the Indy 500 and speed trials at California's Muroc Dry Lake.Not to be confuse with the one about a bus. James Stewart? Anything with him is Watch list automatically.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsSylvester StalloneKip PardueTil SchweigerA young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give him guidance.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAyrton SennaReginaldo LemeJohn BisignanoA documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
- DirectorRichard HeapStarsDenise CookeChris HiltonDavid TremayneIn the 1960s and early '70s it was common for Grand Prix drivers to die while racing, often watched on television by millions. Featuring many famous drivers, this film tells the story of how Grand Prix drivers rebelled against the powers that be, took control of their destiny and became no longer at the mercy of track and car design failure.
- DirectorMarcos BernsteinCesario de Mello FrancoCesario Mello FrancoStarsClaudio CarsughiEmerson FittipaldiMaurício GugelminAn intimate look at the history of Brazilian drivers from the '70s to the '90s, an era in which Brazil dominated Formula 1 racing, from the colorful point of view of its protagonists, especially Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna, but without forgetting the drivers who failed to reach the profession's pinnacle, and the many behind-the-scenes helpers.
- DirectorOsvaldo CiviraniStarsLang JeffriesErna SchurerMaurizio BonugliaFormer racing champion John Lee Scott coaches young driver Dustin Rich. The learn of a new Italian model that can reach 300 kilometers an hour developed by an 80 year old racing expert.
- DirectorDavid SorenStarsRyan ReynoldsPaul GiamattiMaya RudolphA freak accident might just help an everyday garden snail achieve his biggest dream: winning the Indy 500.It parodies the Indianapolis 500 Race.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardRobert WagnerFrank 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.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsAl PacinoMarthe KellerAnny DupereyBobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
- DirectorJohn JopsonStarsMario AndrettiRené ArnouxElio de AngelisJohn Jopson's film about the life of Grand Prix race drivers on the Formula One racing circuit.
- DirectorMen LareidaStarsAdiano CimarostiJaques DeschenauxAntonietto FossattiIn 1971 50,000 people mourned in the streets of Fribourg, Switzerland: Jo "Seppi" Siffert had died in a crash at Brands Hatch (GB). Until today, Jo Siffert is considered to be one of the ten best racing drivers ever.
- DirectorStuart CabbStarsGerhard BergerMartin BrundleDamon HillThe BBC's award winning documentary looking at the impact the death of Ayrton Senna had upon the world of motor racing. Featuring interviews with key people from Senna's life in motor sport.
- DirectorPaul CrowderStarsMichael FassbenderLewis HamiltonNiki LaudaSet in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellAnn DvorakRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.