Railway in the film
This list includes articles on individual films in which the railroad or railroad operations represent a theme or main theme.
Film genre
Movies
| Movie title | Original title | year | genre | Director | Railway related content |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:50 p.m. from Paddington | Murder She Said | 1961 | Detective film | George Pollock | |
| Adventure in the night express | 1925 | Detective film | Harry Piel | ||
| Alert level: Red 2 | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | 1995 | Action movie | Geoff Murphy | |
| Alois Nebel | 2011 | Graphic novel | Tomáš Luňák | ||
| The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat | L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat | 1896 | Silent movie | Auguste and Louis Lumière | |
| Railway under the hammer | 2007 | documentary | Herdolor Lorenz , Leslie Franke | ||
| encounter | Brief Encounter | 1945 | drama | David Lean | |
| The blue express | The Mystery of the Blue Train | 2005 | Detective film | Hettie Macdonald | |
| Burning India | North West Frontier | 1959 | adventure | J. Lee Thompson | |
| The bridge on the Kwai | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | Anti-war film | David Lean | Prisoners of war build a railway bridge in the Burmese jungle. |
| Buster | Buster | 1988 | tragicomedy | David Green | |
| Colonel of Ryan's Express | From Ryan's Express | 1965 | War Movie | Mark Robson | |
| The Commuter | The Commuter | 2018 | Action movie | Jaume Collet-Serra | |
| A lady disappears | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Detective film | Alfred Hitchcock | Diverting a part of the train to overwhelm agents |
| Death Train | Death Train | 1993 | Action movie | David Jackson | |
| Derailed - terror on the train | Derailed | 2002 | Action movie | Bob Misiorowski | |
| The iron horse | The Iron Horse | 1924 | Western film | John Ford | |
| The hijacking of the Pelham 123 subway | The Taking of Pelham 123 | 2009 | thriller | Tony Scott | |
| The rebel fist | Boxcar Bertha | 1972 | drama | Martin Scorsese | |
| Final Speed - Stop the Death Train! | Final run | 1999 | Action movie | Armand Mastroianni | |
| The stranger on the train | Strangers on a train | 1951 | thriller | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| The five feared | Un esercito di 5 uomini | 1969 | Western film | Don Taylor | Assault on a train |
| The general | The General | 1926 | comedy | Buster Keaton , Clyde Bruckman | A locomotive is hijacked in the American Civil War. |
| The gentlemen ask for cash | 1966 | Heist movie | John Olden , Claus Peter Witt | Assault and train separation of a mail train with a very large amount of cash. | |
| The great train robbery | The Great Train Robbery | 1903 | Western film | Edwin S. Porter | Assault on a train |
| The great train robbery | The First Great Train Robbery | 1979 | Heist movie | Michael Crichton | Assault on a train |
| Henry the Sawyer | 2001 | Crime comedy | Klaus Gietinger | ||
| Istanbul Express | Istanbul Express | 1968 | thriller | Richard Irving | |
| Kindertransport - To a strange world | Into the Arms of Strangers | 2000 | documentary | Mark Jonathan Harris | |
| Lasko - On behalf of the Vatican | 2005 | Action movie | Diethard Küster , Stefan Richter | ||
| Avalanche Express | Avalanche Express | 1979 | Spy movie | Mark Robson | |
| The last train | 2006 | drama | Joseph Vilsmaier , Dana Vávrová | ||
| The last train from Gun Hill | Last train from Gun Hill | 1958 | Western film | John Sturges | |
| Love on schedule | Ostře sledované vlaky | 1966 | comedy | Jiří Menzel | |
| From Moscow with love | From Russia with Love | 1963 | Agent movie | Terence Young | |
| A man on the train | 1993 | Family series | |||
| The man on the rails | Człowiek na torze | 1957 | drama | Andrzej Munk | |
| My name is Nobody | The mio nome è Nessuno | 1973 | Spaghetti Western | Tonino Valerii | |
| The Midnight Meat Train | The Midnight Meat Train | 2008 | Horror movie | Ryuhei Kitamura | |
| Not with me, gentlemen | It happened to Jane | 1959 | comedy | Richard Quine | |
| Moebius | Moebius | 1996 | Mystery / Sci-Fi | Gustavo Mosquera R. | |
| Money train | Money train | 1995 | Action movie | Joseph Ruben | |
| Monster in the night express | Terror Train | 1980 | Horror thriller | Roger Spottiswoode | |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Detective film | Sidney Lumet | Revenge murder in the confines of a sleeping car compartment by a multitude of perpetrators. |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Murder on the Orient Express | 2017 | Detective film | Kenneth Branagh | |
| Narrow Margin - 12 hours of fear | Narrow margin | 1990 | Action movie | Peter Hyams | |
| Nevada Pass | Breakheart Pass | 1975 | Action movie | Tom Gries | |
| Night train | Night train | 2009 | Mystery thriller | Brian King | |
| Night Train to Venice | Night Train to Venice | 1996 | thriller | Carlo U. Quinterio | |
| The Olsen Gang sets the course | Olsen bands på sporet | 1975 | Detective comedy | Erik Balling | Separation and hijacking of a single safe wagon. |
| Operation: Broken Arrow | Broken Arrow | 1996 | Action movie | John Woo | |
| Panic on the Tokyo Express | Shinkansen Daibakuha | 1975 | Disaster movie | Jun'ya Sato | |
| The polar express | The Polar Express | 2004 | Children's film | Robert Zemeckis | A child is traveling to the North Pole on a passenger train. |
| The wheel / rolling wheels - raging blood | La Roue | 1923 | drama | Abel Gance | |
| Rheingold | 1977 | drama | Niklaus Schilling | ||
| RR | RR | 2007 | Travel film | James Benning | |
| Runaway Train | Runaway Train | 1985 | thriller | Andrei Konchalovsky | |
| E 417 saloon car | 1939 | Fantasy film | Paul Verhoeven | ||
| Rail battle | La bataille du rail | 1946 | War Movie | René Clément | |
| Shanghai Express | Shanghai Express | 1932 | adventure | Josef von Sternberg | |
| Sherlock Holmes: Play in the Shadows | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 2011 | Adventure thriller | Guy Ritchie | |
| Sin nombre | Sin nombre | 2009 | Independent film | Cary Fukunaga | |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | C'era una volta il West | 1968 | Spaghetti Western | Sergio Leone | Construction of a transcontinental railroad in North America |
| Station agent | The station agent | 2009 | Comedy / drama | Tom McCarthy | |
| Stop the deadly journey of the subway 123 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 | thriller | Joseph Sargent | |
| the Super brain | Le Cerveau | 1969 | comedy | Gérard Oury | Assault on a train |
| Le Train - Just a touch of luck | Le Train | 1973 | Film adaptation | Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
| Train to Busan | Busan-haeng | 2016 | Zombie movie | Yeon Sang-ho | |
| Trans America Express | Silver streak | 1976 | Thriller / comedy | Arthur Hiller | After the murder and exposure, the driverless train rushes into a terminus. |
| Transsiberian | Transsiberian | 2008 | thriller | Brad Anderson | |
| Death bridge meeting point | The Cassandra Crossing | 1976 | thriller | George Pan Cosmatos | |
| By a hair's breadth | The narrow margin | 1952 | thriller | Richard Fleischer | |
| Union Pacific | Union Pacific | 1939 | Western film | Cecil B. DeMille | Construction of the first transcontinental railroad |
| Unstoppable - out of control | Unstoppable | 2010 | thriller | Tony Scott | A driverless train must be stopped. |
| Conspiracy in the Berlin Express | Skenbart - a film om day | 2003 | Thriller comedy | Peter Dalle | |
| Waller's last course | 1988 | drama | Christian Wagner | ||
| Those who love me take the train | Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train | 1988 | drama | Patrice Chereau | |
| The train | The train | 1964 | War Movie | John Frankenheimer | |
| The train | Lenin: The Train | 1988 | TV movie | Damiano Damiani | |
| Train of life | Train de vie | 1998 | tragicomedy | Radu Mihăileanu | |
| A train for two scoundrels | Emperor of the North | 1973 | Action movie | Robert Aldrich | Competition between train attendant and tramp for his illegal ride. |
| Train ride to the afterlife | Atomic Train | 1999 | TV movie | David Jackson , Dick Lowry | |
| Migratory birds ... once to Inari | 1996 | comedy | Peter Lichtefeld | ||
| The second life of Monsieur Manesquier | L'Homme you train | 2002 | Comedy / drama | Patrice Leconte | |
| Twelve noon | High noon | 1952 | Western film | Fred Zinnemann | The main opponent arrives by train at 12 noon. |
| Snowpiercer | Snowpiercer | 2013 | Science fiction action | Bong Joon-ho | |
| Arrival of a railroad train | 1896 | documentary | Max Skladanowsky |
literature
- George H. Douglas: Cinema and Railroads . In: William D. Middleton , George M. Smerk, Roberta L. Diehl (Eds.): Encyclopedia of North American Railroads . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 2007, ISBN 978-0-253-34916-3 , pp. 239-242 .
- John Farr: 100 Greatest Train Movies . Trains Magazine Special Edition NO. 5-2010. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha 2010, ISBN 978-0-89024-790-7 (English).