Updated: 5/17/2023
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Movies without cars (* for top picks)
Alice in Wonderland (1951 Disney Version)
All Creatures Big and Small
Colette
Corpse Bride
Dances with Wolves*
Discovering Olivia De Havilland
Dumbo
Eragon
Ex-Machina
Hugo
Kinky Boots
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring*
Macbeth (2015)
Maya the Bee (2015)
Neverending Story (original)(Except in wide city shot, not specific to movie)
Noah
Solomon Kane
Space Jam
Swimming in Auchchwitz
Tangled
Ten Commandments
The Illusinist*
Movies without SUVs (*for top picks)
Airplane*
Alice in Wonderland (1951 Disney Version)
All Creatures Big and Small
Astro Boy (A little hard to tell though as it is a cartoon with cars that fly, but I don’t think they look like SUVS)
A Walk in the Woods
Bad News Bears
Blue Chips
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Capote
Colette
Corpse Bride
Dances with Wolves*
Dennis the Menace
Dumbo
Elvis and Nixon
Edge of Love
Eragon
Ex-Machina*
Gattaca
Hackers
Hugo
I’ll See You in My Dreams
Kinky Boots
Little Monsters
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Love and Mercy
Macbeth
Margin Call
Maya the Bee (2015)
Muppets Take Manhattan
Neverending Story
Noah
Pretty in Pink
Project Almanac (possibly none-hard to tell)
Raging Bull*
Rango
Reservoir Dogs
Rocky IV
Sea Level
School Ties*
Solomon Kane
Space Jam
Tangled
Ten Commandments
The Apartment
The Boondock Saints (with the exception of city shots that are non-specific to the movie)
The Illusionist*
The Score
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Movies with low use of cars
Air Force One
Airplane
Annie
A Walk in the Woods
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dr. Zhivago (2000s version)
Elvis and Nixon
Everybody’s Fine
Hackers (I’m going to put it here because the good gal/guy Hackers use public transit, etc to get around)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (maybe none?)
Little Monsters
Muppets Take Manhattan (Spoiler Alert: Cars not in a good light. Taxi driver hits Kermit and gives him temporary amnesia).
Raging Bull
Rango (no real cars, just a few cartoon cars)
The Perfect Crime
Movies with low use of Suvs (or other gas guzzlers)
Air Force One
Aviator
Da Vinci Code
Dennis the Menace
Ghost Busters
If I Stay (Surprising less than one would think for a movie about a car accident and characters also ride bikes)
I Smile Back
JKF
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Love and Mercy (I actually don’t remember seeing any SUVs in the movie, but oddly the vehicle on the cover looks SUV like?)
Men in Black
Pineapple Express
Project Almanac (possibly none-hard to tell)
Sea Level
Sliding Doors
The Big Lebowski
The Whistleblower
Valkyrie
Where Hope Grows (Seem to only be driven by unlikeable characters)
Wild Card
Wolf of Wall Street
X-men (original 2000)-they show an SUV with a group of cars, but it isn't driven. Not sure about other X-men movies.
Movies excessively promoting car culture/ car centric or aggressive driving
6 Souls
Aloha
American Beauty
Amy
Anchorman 2
Aviator
Bernie (2011)
Cape Fear (1991)
Da Vinci Code
Everything Must Go
Ghost Busters
Instellar
I Smile Back
Les Diaboliques (French)
Love and Mercy
Man of Tai Chi (By the way this movie is so terrible, I couldn’t even finish watching it. I’ve done tai chi and the movie violates every principle of tai chi I’ve seen and is senseIess violence with a boring plot. I gave up when he blew his earnings on a stupid useless gas guzzler which I’m sure he will them use to drive around an urban area).
Men in Black
Mocking Jay Part II (note this movie gets knocked down not because of what is directly in the movie, but because of using the movie and its actors to do commercials for gas guzzling pick-up trucks)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Mortdecai
My Fair Lady
Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief
Pineapple Express
Room
Spiderwick Chronicles
Sunshine Cleaning
The Big Lebowski
The Captive
The Holiday
The Soloist
The Transporter Refueled
The Voices
The Whistleblower
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Twister
War Games (1983)
Where Hope Grows (Spoiler Alert: Drives me crazy he is using the cell phone while driving even after what happened to his friend)
Wild Card
Wolf of Wall Street
Wonder Boys
Z for Zachariah
Movies excessively promoting SUV culture (or other gas guzzlers) or aggressive driving of gas guzzlers
6 Souls
Age of Adaline
Aloha
American Beauty
Anchorman 2
Cape Fear (1991)
Instellar
Man of Tai Chi (By the way this movie is so terrible, I couldn’t even finish watching it. I’ve done tai chi and the movie violates every principle of tai chi I’ve seen and is senseIess violence with a boring plot. I gave up when he blew his earnings on a stupid useless gas guzzler which I’m sure he will them use to drive around an urban area).
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Mocking Jay Part II (note this movie gets knocked down not because of what is directly in the movie, but because of using the movie and its actors to do commercials for gas guzzling pick-up trucks)
Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief
Room
Rules of Engagement
Seventeen Again (2000 version)
Spiderwick Chronicles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The Captive
The Holiday
The Soloist
The Voices
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Twister
War Games (1983)
Z for Zachariah
I have found there are a few grey areas that can be challenging. The first being any modern movie that includes wide shot city scenes due to poor design of our cities will almost always contain cars or suvs including when they are showing characters engaging in people and environmentally friendly modes of transportation such as walking, cycling or taking transit. Unless there is a particular focus on the car or SUV I have decided to include these on my list of movies without cars or suvs.
Another, grey area is old cars that are often SUV like in design. I have decided in these cases to not include these movies on the movies without SUVs list, but also to not include them on the movies with SUVS list either.
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