Car chases have long been those sequences in motion cinema that captivates the viewer, thrills them, and enhances their cinematic experience. The last 40 years in particular have been largely effective in creating the art of on-screen motorized feats. Cameras have grown smaller, thereby enabling them to be mounted in places where an embellished sense of speed is obtained. Stunt performers have become fearless, and developments in safety measures allow them to put on more and more dangerous stunts. Physical effects have grown highly sophisticated. Above all, the ever advanced graphics and visual effects allow filmmakers to improve the excitement even more. Some of the most spectacular car chases caught on professional cameras are listed below.

10. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

The director William Friedkin portrays in this movie, the life of a Secret-Service agent sliding into chaos. Legit car enthusiast William Petersen plays the role. He takes many greater chances with his own and kith & kin’s life. That brings home the chaotic chase that concludes with William piloting his Chevrolet the wrong way down the street. That is just part of the madness that makes this chase so baffling and thrilling at the same time.

9. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

The film explored the event of street racing through a world of ultra-hip hijackers who steal high-end electronic components using highly modified Japanese cars. The Fast and Furious lifted the lid on an adrenaline-charging race scene that flourished in popularity in the U.S and Japan in the late 1990s. It features some highly customized old-school cars including Toyota Supras, Honda Civics and Mazda RX-7 and a retro Dodge Charger. The phenomenal nitrous boosters exalted the viewers worldwide. Drift racing where drivers skids all 4 wheels around a tight turn was brought into the limelight through this movie.

8. Against All Odds (1984)

The film directed by Taylor Hackford is a sincere effort to revive film noir with its depiction of moral turpitude in L .A. What caught the limelight was the action Hackford portrayed along L.A.’s packed Sunset Boulevard between a Ferrari 308 GTSi and Porsche 911 Cabriolet. It was filmed on consecutive Sunday mornings with roads closed for 15-minute bursts. Both vehicles emerge without damage from this contest and this one stands uncommon amongst movie car chases.

7. Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)

This is not the Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie starrer movie it is a classic. The car chase was the one that highlighted the director-producer- star- stunt driver turned H.B. Halicki’s original Gone in 60 Seconds. The acting is not even gracious enough, and every frame of the film looks overexposed. It does boast a 35-minute chase in which, about 100 cars were wrecked. This sequence shot over the Long Beach, California ports-complex is one of the best ever captured on celluloid. The film centers on a group of car thieves’ attempt to steal 48 cars over a couple of days. An impressive collection of Rolls-Royces, Cadillac-limos and Mustangs make up the wreckage list.

6. The Italian Job (1969)

The film features a group of car thieves bid a high-stakes bank robbery in the Italian city of Turin. Italian Jobs fans love the British actor Michael Caine’s Cockney twang and 1969 funny car stunt. The hugely, popular car chase featuring 3 red-white-and-blue Mini Coopers speeds through narrow streets and even indoors. It was a milestone in kinky, car-chase sequencing and cinematography. The remake in 2003 cleverly, twinned fans passion for the film featuring the 2001 release of BMW’s new Mini Cooper.

5. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

This film’s classic climax will be crystal clear in the minds of everyone who have seen it at least once. The footage of the1969 Dodge Charger in lime-green trim, hitting a locomotive is an eye-pooping stuff. The nerve-racking pursuit beforehand is as impressive as the smashing impact. The film was directed by John Hough and the affable actor Vic Morrow is casted as the pursuing sheriff in a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter. Along with veteran stunt-pilot Gavin, they pursue that Charger at extremely low altitudes through citrus orchards.

4. The French Connection (1971)

William Friedkin won five Academy Awards including the Best Director and the Best Picture in this tale of cops and smugglers in New York City. Gene Hackman claimed the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Detective Jimmy Doyle. In the rough, and tumble ride he seizes a ‘71 Pontiac Le Mans to pursue the killer speeding in an elevated train. The hunt remains a classic as a result of its spontaneous crashes out of the scripts were left in the sequence after several stuntmen mistiming, and striking Hackman’s car as he chases down a train-bound drug dealer. The sequence took numerous days to shoot even though the chases on-screen time is roughly two and a half minutes.

3. Vanishing Point (1971)

Vanishing Point features some of the finest stunt driving ever recorded. Stanley Kowalski, used five different first-generation Dodge Challengers, including the 375-hp 440 Magnum, to maximum effect in the 15 hour sprint from Denver to San Francisco. Directed by Richard Sarafian, the legendary Hollywood stuntman Loftin executes Vanishing Point’s driving scenes. He handles the iconic 1970 white Dodge Challenger R/T with starling daring, crossing median strips while fractionally missing cross traffics, sliding along dirt roads, and speeding at a high velocity.

2. Bullitt (1968)

The chase in Bullitt has set a milestone against which other car movie chases are measured. Steve McQueen, who is a real-life, racing enthusiast, barrels after bad guys through the streets of San Francisco. He speeds through the cityscape’s nervous ups and downs, in an epically tony Ford Mustang in an attractive Highland Green color. The exhilarating ride in which the Mustang GT 390 outdoes the VW Bug many times and hubcaps flying off the’68 Dodge Charger earned widespread praise. This is a must-see film and one of the best car chase movie of all time.

1. Ronin (1998)

Veteran director John Frankenheimer applied his impeccable techniques to the three nerve-racking chases in this story of mercenaries pursuing one another through Europe. Viewers are treated to a large scale with chase scenes including sport sedans such as a Peugeot 406, BMW M5 and most famously, an Audi S8. To provide the real-time chases a metal-crunching realism, over 300 stunt drivers were employed and plenty of police cars, motorcycles and trucks meet their end. The sequence featuring muscle-machineries battling one another on narrow city-streets and road-cuts along the French Riviera coast while driving against crowded highways exhilarated viewers worldwide.