Movies Like The Great Race (1965)

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Chasing the feel of watching The Great Race ? Here are the movies we recommend you watch right after.

Bad guys wearing black, good guys wearing white, suffragettes, the longest pie fight in film history (arguably, never to be bested), a sword fighting duel, a huge western bar fight, slapstick humor, very good music. Truly a comedy that's epic in scope. The movie zips along without a moment that's boring. It doesn't let up until the final scene. Sit back for a fun ride. It features a great comedic cast starring Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, and Keenan Wynn with Jack Lemmon stealing the show.. Our stuntman hero convinces an automobile company to sponsor a race from New York to Paris. Followed by an arch-rival stuntman, they race across the US with stops in the old west; across the bering straits dealing with ice bergs and water; across Russia and southward through Europe to Paris. It's all done for laughs.

New York’s hottest club was Studio 54. It has everything– the lights, the exclusivity, the drugs, the tax evasion legal issues that brought its founders to jail… But in all seriousness, the documentary about the notorious studio-turned-disco already has an interesting story to tell, and while it’s done with the usual Netflix flair, but director Matt Tyrnauer keeps focus on the actual club, rather than the notoriety surrounding it, by interviewing the crew behind Studio 54 rather than the famous celebrities, and thankfully, former studio owner and one half of the duo Ian Schrager finally opened up to talk about the whirlwind success he went through nearly half a century ago. The documentary may be a bit more tame than the real life club, but Studio 54 is a long overdue documentary that’s refreshingly candid, if a bit more calmer than expected.

Genre: Documentary

Actor: Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Bill Murray, Boy George, Divine, Donald Rubell, Farrah Fawcett, Ian Schrager, Jack Benny, John Belushi, John Travolta, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nile Rodgers, Ronald Reagan, Steve Rubell, Walter Cronkite

Director: Matt Tyrnauer

Rating: TV-MA