Movies are one form of culture which can show bicycles under a story. Similarly as I wrote about songs and bikes here, here you have a list about movies and such inspirational vehicles:
- 6 day bike rider (1934, comedy)
- Bicycle thieves (1948, drama)
- Cinq tulipe rouges (Five red tulips, 1949, murder mystery)
- Skid kids (1953, drama)
- Onna keirin-o (1956)
- For a yellow jersey (1965, short)
- A Sunday in hell (1977, documentary)
- Breaking away (1979, comedy-drama)
- BMX bandits (1983, adventure)
- American flyers (1985, drama)
- Rad (1986)
- Quicksilver (1986)
- The cyclist (1987, drama)
- Jo jeeta wohi sikandar (1992. drama)
- Il grande Fausto (1995)
- El amateur (1999)
- Road to Paris (1991, documentary)
- Cyclomania (2001)
- Le Vélo de Gishlain Lambert (2001, comedy)
- Nasu: Summer in Andalusia (2003, anime)
- Triplets of Beleville (2003, animated)
- Cycling chronicles: Landscape the boy saw (2004)
- Hell on wheels (2005, documentary)
- Overcoming (2005, documentary)
- The flying scotsman (2006, drama)
- Island Etude (2006, drama)
- Klunkerz: A film about mountain bikes (2006)
- Clorophilla (2006)
- The cycling genius is coming (2008)
- Bicycle dreams (2009, documentary)
- The birth of big air (2010, documentary)
- Ride the divide (2010, documentary)
- The last kilometer (2012, documentary)
- Premium rush (2012, action film)
- Pantani: The accidental death of a cyclist (2013, documentary)
- The Armstrong lie (2013, documentary)
- La grande boucle (2013, comedy)
- Bicycle (2014, documentary)
- Slaying the badger (2014, documentary)
- Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE (2014, animated)
- To the fore (2015, drama)
- Yowamushi Pedal Re:ROAD (2015, animated)
- Yowamushi Pedal Re: The movie (2015, animated)
- The program (2015, drama)
- Le ride (2016, documentary)
- Blood road (2017, documentary)
- Tour de pharmacy (2017, comedy)
- The climb (2019, comedy)
- LANCE (2020, documentary)
- Tour de France: Unchained (2022, documentary)