Moto Films

Welcome to the world of motorcycle cinema, where speed, freedom, and rebellion come alive on the big screen. From the gritty realism of the 1950s to today’s high-octane thrillers, this is your ultimate destination for motorcycle films.

We begin with the iconic The Wild One (1953), a landmark in motorcycle culture, where Marlon Brando’s unforgettable portrayal of Johnny Strabler helped define the rebel spirit of a generation. Fast forward to today, and the latest masterpiece, The Bikeriders (2023), takes us on a journey through the rebellious and rugged world of biker clubs, capturing the same raw energy and sense of freedom.

Explore these films and more, celebrating the timeless bond between motorcycles and cinema. Whether you’re a fan of classic rides or modern-day biker tales, you’ll find a collection that fuels your passion for two wheels and storytelling.

All information is sourced from IMDb.

Films

A young man with a motorcycle on a city street at night, with dark stormy clouds overhead and a fiery glow near the horizon, promoting the film "Burn Out".

Burn Out

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller | Length: 1h 47m | Year: 2017 | Watch Trailer

To save his loved ones, Tony must use his motorcycle talents for drug deliveries.

Director: Yann Gozlan

Writers: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans, Jérémie Guez

Stars: François Civil, Olivier Rabourdin, Manon Azem

Movie poster for 'Beyond the Law' featuring Charlie Sheen, with police cars and motorcycles in a dark landscape background.

Beyond the Law

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller | Length: 1h 48m | Year: 1993 | Watch Trailer

An undercover cop joins a murderous, arms-dealing biker gang to try to put them behind bars.

Director: Larry Ferguson

Writer: Larry Ferguson

Stars: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen

A vintage movie poster for 'Easy Rider' featuring a stylized black and yellow illustration of two people on a motorcycle, with text indicating awards and cast.

Easy Rider

Genre: Adventure, Drama | Length: 1h 35m | Year: 1969 | Watch Trailer

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

Director: Dennis Hopper

Writers: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern

Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson

Movie poster featuring a young man in a black leather jacket with a motorcycle in the background, mountainous landscape, cloudy sky, title 'One Week,' and text 'What would you do?' in gray

One Week

Genre: Adventure, Drama | Length: 1h 34m | Year: 2008 | Watch Trailer

Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Director: Michael McGowan

Writer: Michael McGowan

Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange

Movie poster for 'Quadriphenia: A Way of Life' featuring a black and white image of a young man wearing a coat, with a colorful target graphic in the background, and text describing the film's praises and release date.

Qadrophenia

Genre: Drama, Music | Year: 1979 | Watch Trailer

Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

Director: Franc Roddam

Writers: Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman, Franc Roddam

Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis

Movie poster for 'The Bik Riders' featuring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy. The poster shows these actors' faces at the top, with a background of bikers riding motorcycles on a road. The title is in large red letters, and there is text about the film's release date and other credits.

The Bikeriders

Genre: Crime, Drama | Length: 1h 56m | Year: 2023 | Watch Trailer

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

Director: Jeff Nichols

Writers: Jeff Nichols, Danny Lyon

Stars: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy

Movie poster for 'The Motorcycle Diaries' featuring two men riding a motorcycle through a mountainous landscape with green fields and snow-capped peaks in the background.

The Motorcycle Diaries

Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama | Length: 2h 06m | Year: 2004 | Watch Trailer

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

Director: Walter Salles

Writer: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Alberto Granado, Jose Rivera

Stars: Gael García Bernal,Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro

Movie poster for 'Marlon Brando' featuring a large close-up of a woman's face and a side profile of a woman in a coat, with scenes of people on motorcycles in the background.

The Wild One

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance | Length: 1h 19m | Year: 1953 | Watch Trailer

Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.

Director: Laslo Benedek

Writers: John Paxton, Frank Rooney, Ben Maddow

Stars: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith

Movie poster titled 'Anthony Hopkins The World's Fastest Indian' featuring a large image of Anthony Hopkins smiling, with a scenic desert background and a vintage motorcycle racing scene.

The World’s Fastest Indian

Genre: Biography, Drama | Length: 2h 07m | Year: 2005 | Watch Trailer

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Director: Roger Donaldson

Writer: Roger Donaldson

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea

Movie poster for 'Torque' featuring four motorcycle riders, two men and two women, with motorcycles, dark background, and bold text.

Torque

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime | Length: 1h 24m | Year: 2004 | Watch Trailer

A biker returns from Thailand to set things straight with his girlfriend. One gang leader wants him for delivery of 2 motorbikes filled with crystal meth and another gang leader wants him for murdering his brother.

Director: Joseph Kahn

Writer: Matt Johnson

Stars: Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur

Documentaries

A Road Trip to Remember

Genre: Documentary | Length: - h -m | Year: 2025 | Watch Trailer

Chris Hemsworth helps his father Craig, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, by taking him on a memory-filled road trip across Australia, exploring how social bonds and connection can protect brain health and fight dementia.

Director: Tom Barbor-Might

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Craig Hemsworth, Leonie Hemsworth

Close-up of a man wearing a motorcycle helmet with a serious expression, the helmet visor slightly lifted to show part of his face, eyes, and nose. Text overlay promotes the movie 'Closer to the Edge,' ending with show dates.

Closer to the Edge

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 44m | Year: 2011 | Watch Trailer

Motorcycle racers reveal their motivation to participate each year in the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, the most dangerous and deadliest event in the sport.

Director: Richard De Aragues

Stars: Guy Martin, Ian Hutchinson, John McGuinness

A promotional poster for the film 'Dark Rider' featuring a woman's profile in shadow with a large hat, two distant motorcycles on a water or snow landscape, and a sunset. The tagline is 'Finding Light Within the Darkness'.

Dark Rider

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 31m | Year: 2021 | Watch Trailer

Ben Felten (51), who as a teenager was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease that left him completely blind in his mid-thirties. Despite his visual impairment, he wants to fulfill his childhood dream: top-level motorcycle racing.

Director: Eva Küpper

Star: Kevin Magee

Vintage poster for the movie "Dust to Glory" showing motorcyclists racing on a dirt track with cheering crowd and overpass in background.

Dust to Glory

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 37m | Year: 2005 | Watch Trailer

A documentary on the Baja 1000, an annual off-road race held in Baja, Mexico that attracts hundreds of racers, their souped-up machines, and thousands of fans.

Director: Dana Brown

Writer: Dana Brown

Stars: Chad McQueen, Mario Andretti, Sal Fish

Movie poster for 'Into the Dust' featuring close-up images of two motocross racers, Larry Janesky and Tanner Janesky, wearing helmets, with additional images of them riding dirt bikes on a desert landscape background.

Into the Dust

Genre: Documentary | Length: Unknown | Year: 2017 | Watch Trailer

Into the Dust is a movie that follows a father and son race team through the toughest twenty five hours that anyone could ever face. The Baja 100.

Director: Ted Waldron

Stars: Larry Janesky, Tanner Janesky, Chris Haines

DVD cover for the documentary film 'On Any Sunday,' showing a motorcyclist mid-wheelie in an open landscape with water and sky in the background. The title is in large orange letters, and there is a quote from the San Francisco Examiner in red at the top.

On Any Sunday

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime | Length: 1h 36m | Year: 1971 | Watch Trailer

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.

Director: Bruce Bown

Writer: Bruce Brown

Stars: Steve McQueen, Dave Aldana, Mark Brelsford

Movie poster for 'One Crazy Ride' featuring four motorcyclists with luggage riding on a road against a blue sky with clouds.

One Crazy Ride

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 27m | Year: 2009 | Watch Trailer

A motorcycle expedition on uncharted roads across the Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, situated in North-east India. But more than an expedition, it's a film on friendship, camaraderie and the "never say die" attitude of five motorcyclists in the face of unforgiving terrain. Shot in the same format as "Riding Solo To The Top Of The World" with no back-up vehicle or film crew, in parts of India hardly seen, filmed or explored, the documentary captures the interactions and experiences of the riders who are trying to chart a route, which according to everyone does not exist.

Director: Gaurav Jani

A motorcycle loaded with yellow and gray luggage parked on a sandy desert landscape with mountains in the background, overlaid with awards and recognition for the documentary "Riding Solo to the Top of the World."

Riding Solo to the Top of the World

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 34m | Year: 2006 | Watch Trailer

Riding Solo is a film about filmmaker Gaurav Jani's brave solo motorcycle journey from Mumbai to one of the remotest places in the world, the Changthang Plateau in Ladakh bordering China. The film is even more extraordinary for the fact that Jani was a one man camera crew unit who loaded his bike with 300 kg of equipment/supplies and set off on a journey to one of the world's most difficult terrains.

Director: Gaurav Jani

Stars: Gaurav Jani

A sailboat floating on water with a sailor wearing a hat and sunglasses on board, and a large fading face of a man wearing a hat in the background. The text says, 'When the road ends, lost in the Pacific.'

When the Road Ends

Genre: Documentary | Length: 1h 30m | Year: 2020 | Watch Trailer

After riding 200,000 km across four continents, Dylan reaches the impassable Darién Gap. To continue his journey, he builds a raft powered by his motorcycle and sails 700 km toward Colombia.

Director: Dylan Wickrama

Writer: Dylan Wickrama

Stars: Jacques Ronald Larsson, Stephen Marsh, Eusebio Perez

TV Series

Two men stand in front of their motorcycles in a mountainous landscape with rugged terrain and mountains in the background. The scene appears to be a scenic outdoor adventure.

Long Way Round

Genre: Docu Series | Year: 2004 | Watch Trailer

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman embark on a grueling quest to motorbike from London to New York. Going east through Europe, Asia and then to Alaska, they experience different cultures and have to overcome the elements and adversity.

Creators: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian

DVD cover for 'Long Way Down,' featuring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman standing beside motorcycles in an African landscape with a sparse tree and clear blue sky.

Long Way Down

Genre: Docu Series | Year: 2007 | Watch Trailer

Two guys take a trip of several months on motorcycles. They travel from the North of Scotland, down through Europe, into Africa, finally winding up in Cape Town, South Africa

Creators: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian

Two men in leather jackets and jeans standing next to touring motorcycles on a dirt road in a desert landscape with mountains in the background, under a partly cloudy sky. Large text at the top reads 'LONG WAY UP'.

Long Way Up

Genre: Docu Series | Year: 2020 | Watch Trailer

Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman travel on electric Harley-Davidsons 13,000 miles through Central and South America.

Creators: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin

Poster for 'Long Way Home' featuring two men on motorcycles outdoors on a rural road, with clouds and hills in the background, and the names Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman at the top, and the Apple TV+ logo in the center.

Long Way Home

Genre: Docu Series | Year: 2025 | Watch Trailer

They'll ride refurbished vintage bikes from McGregor's Scottish home to Boorman's in England, taking a circuitous route through Northern Europe and the continent before reaching their destination..

Creators: David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian