Love Sons of Anarchy? The FX series ended in 2014 and since then, there haven't been any other notable biker movies or TV shows except for the spinoff Mayans MC. For everyone who enjoyed Sons of Anarchy, the hunger for something similar (that isn't linked to the show) must be at an all-time high.
Those who love motorcycles as a whole might also be yearning for feature films that portray the love for bikes or the madness surrounding them. A number of biker movies have been made over the past few decades. Being aware of their existence is the challenge. Here are the ones that will definitely entertain you.
10 Easy Rider (1969)
Easy Rider follows two drug-dealing bikers named Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt (Peter Fonda) as they ride from Los Angeles to New Orleans to find clients and discover more of America. Dennis Hopper also directed the film and brought Jack Nicholson on board. Nicholson plays an alcoholic attorney who the bikers bond with along the way.
This is the role that is also credited for changing Jack Nicholson's career trajectory, plucking him from B-list status into the A-list. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Aside from Nicholson's standout performance, the film's amazing score and beautiful motorcycles also add to its appeal.
9 Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (1991)
Here's a movie where four characters are named after motorcycle brands. In it, two childhood friends, Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and Marlboro (Don Jonhson) give themselves the mission to save their once-favorite hangout joint when they become aware that its facing closure over unpaid loans to a bank.
They go ahead hijack the bank's armored vehicle. However, shock lands on them when they discover that the vehicle contains a new street drug called the Crystal Dream and not money. It turns out the bank's owners are corrupt drug leaders and now they want their product back.
8 Hells Angels On Wheels (1967)
Before Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson also starred in this biker film that is actually the most similar to Sons of Anarchy. Nicholson plays a gas station attendant named Poet who impresses the Hells Angels biker gang and ends up being absorbed into their circle.
Since Poet has spent most of his life in solitude, he is initially glad to be part of a group of tough guys. However, his conscience soon kicks in when he witnesses the gang's brutal crimes, including robbery and murder. The motorcycles are a joy to watch and so is the often worried young Nicholson as Poet.
7 The Wild One (1953)
Given that Marlon Brando looked too cool by just standing, how would he look when riding a bike? The Wild One answered this question quite convincingly. This movie is often credited for popularizing the idea of motorcycle gangs in Hollywood movies. Soon after it came out, many more followed.
Brando plays Johnny Strabler, the cop-hating leader of the Black Rebels biker gang. Most of the cast members were said to be real biker gang members. these extras. The British Board of Film Classification banned the movie for its glorification of crime and violence. Later on, some local councils in the UK overturned the ban.
6 The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Helmed by popular Brazilian director Walter Salles, The Motorcycle Diaries is a movie about Che Guevera but it isn't a movie about revolution. Based on the revolutionary leader's own memoirs, the movie is about his experiences traveling through South America in the 1950s as a medical student.
The adrenaline of most biker films lacks here but the movie slowly takes you through the little events that shaped the iconic leader's mind. When his bike breaks down, he interacts with people, thus realizing how much they are suffering from poverty and political oppression.
5 Eye Of The Tiger (1986)
Imagine Rambo: First Blood with biker gang members substituting the cops and you get an idea of what this movie is about. Eye Of The Tiger stars a badass Gary Busey, back when his characters didn't die in every movie. He is Buck, a military veteran who comes back home from Vietnam to find that his town is being colonized by a biker gang.
Buck becomes Super Buck and decides to fight the bikers and drive them away. There's no shortage of action, with fistfights, Kung Fu kicks and motorcycle chases happening every few minutes. And what would a movie called Eye Of The Tiger be without the classic song by the band Survivor?
4 Hell Ride (2008)
Hell Ride was directed by Larry Bishop who also stars as Prez, the leader of a South California gang knows as the Victors. The plot revolves around the gang's efforts to avenge the killing of a fellow gang member. Motorcycle gang members really stand up for each other, don't they?
Bishop confessed to coming up with the idea of the movie after being shown a script for a different film by Quentin Tarantino. He realized there hadn't been a popular biker film in the 2000s and so he and Quentin contacted Bob Weinstein to have the movie made.
3 Stone Cold (1991)
Stone Cold is not about the wrestler. But how cool would it be if he starred in a remake? The movie—which is packed with 90s action movie tropes—is about a cop from Alabama who takes an undercover gig for the FBI. The gig involves infiltrating a murderous biker gang in the south of Mississippi.
The gang is not only involved in drugs but it also plans to murder the District Attorney and free a member who has been arrested. William Forsythe plays Ice, the most psychotic member of the gang while Lance Henriksen plays Chains Cooper, the gang’s leader.
2 The Loveless (1981)
In one of Willem Dafoe's first-ever roles, he starred as the motorcycle gang member Vance. The movie sees a group of bikers congregating in a roadside diner on their way to the Daytona race. The diner's management starts getting nervous and a customer even becomes hostile towards them.
The hostility soon leads to an endless string of violence. The movie was filmed on a tight budget. Filming only took three weeks. When it came out, it received tons of praise from critics, earning an 89% score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. This made it one of the highest-rated biker films of all time.
1 The World's Fastest Indian (2001)
The title might mislead you. The movie revolves around New Zealand, bike racer Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) and his obsession with making his old Indian Scout motorcycle, the fastest bike in the world. He spends a lot of time modifying the bike and trying to make it move like a Ferrari 512 BBi.
Initially, the bike has a top speed of 58 mph but after the modifications, the speed shoots to 201 mph. Munro ends up winning a race with the bike and setting a world speed record. Most of the film's props were actually those owned by Munro. Hopkins later admitted that Munro was the easiest character he ever played because their values were similar.
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