Special Report

Greatest Car Chases in Movies

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
> Directed by: James Cameron
> Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
> IMDb user rating: 8.6/10

John Connor (Edward Furlong), pursued by T-1000 (Robert Patrick) and the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), takes off on his motorbike, with T-1000 in hot pursuit in a truck.

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
> Directed by: George Miller
> Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugo Keays-Byrne
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10

British actor Tom Hardy took over the eponymous role in the reboot of the dystopian “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The antagonist drives the predatory-looking gigahorse, a fusion of two 1959 Cadillac DeVilles placed on top of each other atop a truck chassis powered by two Chevy large block V-8 engines.

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Drive (2011)
> Directed by: Nicholas Winding Refn
> Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10

Ryan Gosling stars as a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. Nicholas Winding Refn won for Best Director at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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Goldfinger (1964)
> Directed by: Guy Hamilton
> Starring: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10

The quintessential James Bond film, in which 007 has to thwart a plot to contaminate the gold at Fort Knox. The movie is famous for Bond’s gadget-heavy Aston Martin DB5, complete with twin Browning machine guns and dispensers for oil slicks and a smokescreen – which made life difficult for the villains chasing him..

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The Fast and the Furious (2001)
> Directed by: Rob Cohen
> Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordan Brewster
> IMDb user rating: 6.8/10

The first of the long-running franchise introduces viewers to Los Angeles police officer Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) who’s tasked with stopping street racing but becomes enamored with the street-racing culture and befriends the people in it (including Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez). The movie features a 1970 Dodge Charger.

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