Motorcycle/Biker Movies

These movies are available for loan from the Club Rooms.
They are located in the green folder.

- Please borrow only one movie at a time.
- Fill in the loan book.
- Return the movie within one week.


Recent Hits

    

Motorcycle Diaries aka Diarios de motocicleta (2004)

Synopsis:
Before becoming the global revolutionary icon known as "Che," Ernesto Guevara was a middle-class Argentinean medical student who, in 1952, left his Buenos Aires home with friend Alberto Granado on a rickety motorcycle. Follow their 5,000-mile trek across South America, from the Andes Mountains to the Amazon jungle, and see how the journey opened Guevara's eyes to the world around him, in director Walter Salles' acclaimed biodrama.

 

    

Wild Hogs (2007)

Synopsis:
In the midst of mid-life crises, Cincinnati-based friends Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy hop on their motorcycles for a road trip out West. Hoping to find themselves, the "Wild Hogs" instead encounter a gay policeman who lusts for them and a mean gang of bikers whom they quickly run afoul of.

 

    

The World's Fastest Indian (2007)

Synopsis:
Believing that the custom-designed Indian motorcycle he has tinkered with for years (with unbridled love and a fair share of household parts) is ready to compete in the 1967 Bonneville speed trials, over-the-hill loner Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) raises the funds to travel from his home in New Zealand to America.

 

    

Ghost Rider (2007)

Synopsis:
Years after selling his soul to the devil in order to save his father's life, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) has to live up to his end of the deal. Becoming the fiery-skulled Ghost Rider, he must defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the son of Satan, who has a plan to conquer the Earth.


The Classics

 

    

Easy Rider (1969)

Synopsis:
With proceeds from a cocaine sale to nameless character (Phil Spector), leather clad Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and groovy Bill (Dennis Hopper) buy a pair of stylish choppers and set off on road trip from Los Angeles, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Along the way they meet hippies on a commune, befriend wild-eyed small town attorney played by Jack Nicholson, drop acid in a graveyard with hookers, smoke lots of dope, and surely use every phrase from the hipsters' anti-establishment handbook (dig-it, freak out, far out).

 

    

On Any Sunday (1971)

Synopsis:
This Academy Award-nominated documentary from Bruce Brown ("The Endless Summer") reveals the thrilling, action-packed world of motorcycle racing. Watch incredible races, meet the bikers, and see Steve McQueen, a lifelong bike fan, partaking in the proceedings.

 

    

The Wild One (1954)

Synopsis:
Marlon Brando wears leather and sneers like no one else can in the original biker drama, as a motorcycle gang terrorizes a small town until their violence turns member against member. "What are you rebelling against?" "What have you got?"

 

    

Electra Glide In Blue (1973)

Synopsis:
Robert Blake shines in this cult favorite action film as a feisty bantam-size motorcycle cop who makes the streets his own personal battleground. Violent, funny and oddly moving!

 

Not so Classic!
 

    

Torque (2004)

Synopsis:
Acclaimed music video director Joseph Kahn's debut feature stars Martin Henderson as a biker who gets set up to take the fall for the murder of motorcycle gang leader Ice Cube's brother. Now, Henderson must race against time to prove his innocence before Cube and determined FBI agent Adam Scott track him down.

 

    

Hells Angel’s Forever (1983)

Synopsis:

The True Story of an American Phenomenon.

 

 

    

Hells Angel’s on Wheels (1967)

Synopsis:

At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns how brutal they are - not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader's girlfriend falls in love with him - and he welcomes her approaches

 

 

    

Beyond the Law aka Fixing the Shadow (1992)

Synopsis:

Based on a true story. Charlie Sheen is Dan Saxon, an intense and unpredictably aggressive Arizona cop losing his grip on life. But his unique talents bring him to the attention of the FBI. They hire him, change his identity and send him deep undercover into the heart of the country's most notorious outlaw bike gangs "The Jackals", who deal in drugs and firearms, their leader the wild and crazy Blood (Michael Madsen). But it's also a world where the line between cop and criminal becomes a blur, one from which only Dan will be able to free himself if he is able to confront his own demons and "Fix the shadow".

 

    

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

Synopsis:

The tuff biker Harley (Mickey Rourke) and his no less tuff Cowboy friend Marlboro  (Don Johnson) learn that an old friend of them will lose his bar, because a bank wants to build a new complex there and demands 2.5 million dollars for a new contract in advance. Harley and Marlboro decide to help him by robbing the corrupt bank. Unfortunately they target the wrong safety transport and get hold of an amount of a new synthetic drug. Now they are targeted both by criminal bankers and killers of the drug mob.

 

  The Death Wheelers aka Psychomania (1972)

Synopsis:

A Gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorise the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide ones after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...

 

  Naked Under Leather aka The Girl on the Motorcycle (1968)

Synopsis:

The girl in question is played by leather-clad Marianne Faithfull, who speeds through Alsace on her cycle, en route to a tryst in Heidelberg with her ex-lover (Alain Delon). In a series of flashbacks, she recalls the events leading up to the present critical moment, including her desultory marriage.

 

  Biker Boyz (2003)

Synopsis:

A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway (Fishburne), also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets. The focus of this story takes place at an annual drag-racing event in Fresno, as Manuel tries to retain his championship title.

 

  The Wild Angels (1966)

Synopsis:

Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party

 

 

    

Steve and Ray’s Postie Bike Adventure (2002)

Synopsis:

Watch the adventures of these two wacky bikers as they ride from Brisbane to Darwin via the Gulf of Carpentaria on 110cc postie bikes.