Obscure Automotive themed films-What have you found?

[Derventio]

As I was listening to a bit of Synthwave whilst I worked, I noticed an interesting film clip being played in the background. It turned out to be a car racing film called "King of the Mountain" from 1981 I've never heard of it before nut my goodness the Porsche Speedster that features looks very fit for purpose.
Clip below, please excuse the music itself, I appreciate it may not be to everyones taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMxZUJfcHg&li...

I also found a clip to a Charlie sheen film I'd never heard of called "No Mans Land" from 1987 that has some excellent 911 footage.
Again, please excuse the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkuHI3oRjZw

I am now trying to see where I can download these films to watch. (Any recommendations would be appreciated.)

So what relatively unknown car flicks have you found?

[freedman]

Two Lane Blacktop

An all time Classic

[carinaman]

I am not a film buff but have seen thumbnails for a recent Japanese film that features a red SAAB 900 Turbo.

[Big Raff]

Old Australian movie. Guy is a car guy, dreams of driving a Porsche with a girl next to him, steals Porsche, gets girl, evades the police then pushes Porsche off a cliff. Movie is called Freedom.
Porsche flying off cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsnSRoWdUo

Not a movie, but there was a documentary of a street racer from Detroit which was just awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0io1zktqI&t=...

[DodgyGeezer]

I remember enjoying this in my younger days... no idea if it holds up today though

[V1nce Fox]

freedman said:

Two Lane Blacktop

An all time Classic

Featuring the Millennium Falcon itself.

[Punctilio]

Paint Your Volkswagen ?

Last American Hero [1973]

[Wafu7]

'The Wraith'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092240/

Guilty 80's pleasure. Plenty of road races. Available to watch for free via Freevee on Amazon Prime.

(Tip: don’t watch the trailer on IMDB - it gives away a little too much of the story.)

[Scrump]

Radio On
Old British roadtrip movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_On

Songs by Kraftwerk etc,. Lots of period road footage, especially of Bristol and the surrounding area.

[Greedydog]

Is Love the Beast obscure enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aCRD6iJIA

[ZedLeg]

Watched this the other day after finding it on Amazon

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079138/

Directed by David Cronenberg, no body horror but definitely worth a look if you like old car movies.

[witteringon]

Scrump said:

Radio On
Old British roadtrip movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_On

Songs by Kraftwerk etc,. Lots of period road footage, especially of Bristol and the surrounding area.

Brilliant suggestion! Good music too.

Trafic - Jacques Tati

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8S8pmJ9Tn0&ab...

[cuprabob]

Wafu7 said:

'The Wraith'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092240/

Guilty 80's pleasure. Plenty of road races. Available to watch for free via Freevee on Amazon Prime.

(Tip: don’t watch the trailer on IMDB - it gives away a little too much of the story.)

I remember renting that from the local video shop.

[sam greenock]

Soft Top, Hard Shoulder

The Cars That Ate Paris

Restless Natives

[Derventio]

Is that the same Restless Natives that had the two fellas on a little motorbike, robbing coaches in Scotland? Big country did a most excellent job on the soundtrack.

[PositronicRay]

Leningrad Cowboys go America.

Finnish director take on a rock and roll bands American road trip to play at a mexican wedding.

Worth a watch. (if you like road trips, rock and roll and Aki Kaurismaki)

[SpeedBash]

The Driver.

[DodgyGeezer]

SpeedBash said:

The Driver.

an excellent film - not obscure though

[droopsnoot]

Derventio said:

As I was listening to a bit of Synthwave whilst I worked, I noticed an interesting film clip being played in the background. It turned out to be a car racing film called "King of the Mountain" from 1981 I've never heard of it before nut my goodness the Porsche Speedster that features looks very fit for purpose.

"King of the Mountain" was one of my favourite car-related films back in the day. I remember it being on BBC1 late one night, I'd never heard of it, and had to scramble to stick a clean tape into the video recorder so my recording always had the start missing from it. Starring Dennis Hopper and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) about the street-racing scene in LA, with some very cheesy seventies music. I haven't watched it for ages. I went to the trouble of sourcing a VHS copy of it, mainly so I could see the part I'd missed off the beginning during my hunt for a blank tape, which turned out not to be much.

It's always a film I mention in threads like this, and usually no-one else has heard of it.






As for where you can see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FpuDoiakdg

Quality is awful, I seem to recall my VHS isn't much better, and I don't think it was ever released on DVD.

[droopsnoot]

Separately, I recall recording a film again on late-night BBC and I can't remember what it was called. I did ask on a thread like this years ago and someone replied with the name, but I've forgotten it again. Set in Australia, a guy gets involved with a woman, somewhere along the line they get hold of a Porsche 911 and run away together - I think he might have taken it on a test drive and not brought it back. Sad ending, though, as the 911 develops oil pressure problems and they end up seizing the engine.