20 best movies like Speedway (1968)

List of the best movies like Speedway (1968): Viva Las Vegas, The Cheetah Girls: One World, It Happened at the World's Fair, Lemonade Mouth, Paint Your Wagon, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Rock of Ages, A Day at the Races, Shrek the Musical, Billy Rose's Jumbo.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family, music
CountryCanada, USA

Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when there they discover that they will have to compete against each other to get the role in the movie. Will the Cheetah's break up again?

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school elite.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:38

    A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, musical, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

      A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, musical, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      Shrek The Musical is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation's film Shrek and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek! It was nominated for 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical. On July 19, 2013, following the closure of the national tour and West End productions, Amazon.com confirmed that the filmed performance would be available for instant viewing on September 17, 2013. A DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download was also released on that day.The performance is an edit of several live performances as well as a performance shot without an audience. The original principal cast appear, as well as various alumni across the show's Broadway run. Also, it keeps the song "Donkey Pot Pie" instead of the replacement, "Forever."

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, musical, family
      CountryCanada, USA

      A high school choir is fading in popularity, as it continues to lose most of its' members one by one. A wannabe rock singer is convinced to join the choir, in hopes of winning the upcoming competition and cash prize.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! Written by A.L. Beneteau

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the recommendation of his advisers. Stacks believes that he's Annie's guardian angel, but the plucky youngster's confidence and sunny outlook may mean that Annie will save Will instead.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
      Duration02:38

      Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA

      Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition — featuring newcomers Luke (Matthew "Mdot" Finley) and Dana (Chloe Bridges). In a sensational battle of the bands, with Camp Rock's future at stake, will Camp Star's flashy production and over-the-top antics win out, or will Camp Rockers prove that music, teamwork, and spirit are what truly matter?

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantastic, comedy, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, music
      CountryUSA

      A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical, biography
      CountryUSA

      A television adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genreaction, comedy, musical, adventure, crime, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrecomedy, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.

      Markimdb: 3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of that. Rick soon finds that those nightmares could be excellent material for writing his own comic books.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:37

      A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical
      CountryUSA

      When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom’s big wedding.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical
      CountryUSA

      The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Offbeat but endearing romantic comedy about unlikely match-up (by computer dating) of straitlaced Dooley, under the thumb of overbearing father, and singer Heflin, whose life is wrapped up with her familial rock group.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Italy
      Duration01:33

      Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:52

      A funny musical story about a most popular Russian TV show "The Voice" and it's participants.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:17

      Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.




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