The Road Warrior (1982) aka Mad Max 2 (1981, Aus.)

This post-apocalyptic film was the sequel to the grim revenge/action film Mad Max (1979). It featured a spectacular, 12-minute chase sequence in the finale, in which "Mad Max" Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) in a semi-trailer fuel-oil MACK truck-tanker was pursued and viciously attacked at breakneck speed by a convoy of bizarre vehicles, souped-up cars and motorcycles, and a marauding savage band of punkish desert vandals wearing hockey-like masks; during the hot chase across the outback, the nomadic warriors flung grappling hooks at the truck, and arrows were shot from crossbows while pursuers lept from vehicle to vehicle; even a fire-bombing gyroplane hovered above the action; the climax occurred when the 40-foot tanker crashed into Lord Humungus' (Kjell Nillson) car -- also killing Wez (Vernon Wells), who was clinging to the front fender of the tanker -- and the giant tanker (filled with sand) rolled over onto its side.

Earlier in the film, Mad Max drove a super-charged Ford Falcon XB Coupe. This film was followed by Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

Return of the Jedi (1983)

The famous scene in which Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) battled with Imperial Stormtroopers on flying "speeder bikes" at breakneck speeds through a dense forest on the planet Endor.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

With a thrilling roller-coaster-like chase in which Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), American singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and Indy's young sidekick Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) were chased by cultish Thuggees in underground mine-shaft carts, including a tense tug-of-war with Short Round suspended over a lava flow between two carts.

Also, the climactic "bridge" scene in which the heroes were pursued onto a rope bridge and surrounded by Thuggees and the villainous high priest Mola-Ram (Amrish Puri) -- Indiana Jones growled at Mola-Ram: "Prepare to meet Kali... in hell!" and then cut the bridge.

Back to the Future, Part II (1989)

With two Hoverboard scenes, including a reprise of the Hill Valley skateboard chase scene around the town square in the future year of 2015, and another tense scene in which Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), riding a hoverboard, retrieved Grays Sports Almanac from young Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) in 1955 as Biff drove his vehicle (with Marty hanging on for his life) into the river road tunnel. Earlier in the same sequence, Marty was being chased by Biff and his cronies at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance -- he was distracted by another Marty playing "Johnny B Goode," forcing the first Marty to figure out a way to eliminate Biff's goons without interfering with history.

And the earlier chase scene in 1985 in which Marty was chased to the top of Biff's high-rise casino "Pleasure Paradise" by Biff's goons and by Biff himself wielding a gun to murder him. Marty seemingly stepped off the building to commit suicide (he actually stepped atop the flying DeLorean time machine-car and was whisked away by "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd)).

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

This film had a high-speed, electrifying chase - a showdown between a mini-bike, a semi-tractor-trailer cab and a Harley Davidson motorcycle. The T-1000 Terminator (Robert Patrick) stole and commandeered a big-rig truck, rammed cars, crashed through a barricade and landed down below in the concrete-sided, flood control drainage channel in Los Angeles. He was in pursuit of young John Connor (Edward Furlong) on a small motorbike. Chasing both of them on a Harley motorcycle was the T-800 Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger). The truck crashed down 15 feet from an upper highway onto the canal.

The T-800 Terminator followed the action from above them on a service road which ran parallel to the canal. The big-rig became a 'convertible' when the top was sheared off by one of the overpasses. The T-800 sailed his bike down into the canal, miraculously keeping the bike upright when it bottomed out on the ground. He caught up to John, swept him off his motorbike and swung him onto his own Harley, while firing his rotary-cocked rifle at the truck's tires behind him. Too big to fit through a concrete abutment, the big rig at full speed crashed into the divider which bisected the canal into two channels - the small Harley passed through one of the channels ahead of the massive truck.

The rig exploded into flames that came from ignited gasoline after the collision. From the inferno, the figure of the T-1000 emerged from the flames as a smooth, chrome-surfaced man - a featureless, liquid mercury-like shape. With each step, the human features and colors of the shape emerged on the surface - chameleon-like, it was transformed back into the human cop.

(Chase scenes from Grease (1978) and Repo Man (1984) were also filmed in the same location.)

In another sequence, the T-1000's motorbike smashed through the upper-story glass wall of a building - then, the rider leapt onto a hovering helicopter as the bike fell.