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Series
Fast and Furious volume 3
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military and serving in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
22) Cars 3
Description
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage!
"No matter how slack the...
23) Christine
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A lonely teenager finds Christine, a car that becomes devoted to him and tries to destroy anyone who comes between it and the teen.
25) The last race
Description
Riverhead Raceway is a rare beast. For decades it has hosted showdowns between local residents who bring their stock cars to do battle on a quarter-mile track, passions spilling out of the cockpit when the checkered flag drops. Forty such tracks used to exist on Long Island alone. Today Riverhead is the last, with the track2s owners struggle to maintain an American tradition as a real estate boom surrounds them.
26) Class action
Pub. Date
2004, c1991
Description
Two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics.
28) Vanishing Point
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A remake of the 1971 cult classic. A former army ranger learns that his pregnant wife has become quite ill while he is a thousand miles away. Without a second thought, he hops into his car and races off to be with her. But following his speeding automobile, a small army of cops grows, at first annoyed at the speed but eventually fearful that his refusal to stop could be a sign of dangerous intentions.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Investigates the development and demise of the fuel-efficient, environment-friendly electric car. Examines the Bush administration's role in the car's being peremptory pulled from production, the influence of the automobile industry and oil interests, and implications for the future of sustainable energy in the United States.
33) Rush
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
By 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America's future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. It's not just the next generation of green cars that's on the line, it's the future of the automobile itself.
37) Superfast!
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Undercover cop, Paul White joins Vin Serento's LA gang of illegal street racers. They're fast and they're furious and they plan to double cross LA's crime kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell. The gang's outrageous plan is as daring as it is ridiculous and will see them towing the whole damn restaurant, at crazy speeds, half way across the city.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The Carters are an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to remain empty. When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they find themselves stranded. As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually...
39) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan's domestic...
40) Love the beast
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Bana's directorial debut explores the importance of his 25-year-long love affair with his first car- a Ford XB Falcon Coupe "The Beast". Obsessed with cars and racing since he was a child, Eric takes us on a journey that spans a lifetime and culminates in The Beast's untimely death in one of the world's most dangerous races, the Targa Tasmania.