Topic: Trains

Direction Buster Keaton · Clyde Bruckman

Cast Buster Keaton · Marion Mack · Glen Cavender · Jim Farley

Synopsis The General (1926) follows Johnnie Gray, a brave train engineer in the American Civil War, whose true love, Annabelle, doubts his loyalty when he's rejected by the Confederate Army. When Union spies steal his beloved locomotive, "The General," and kidnap...

Direction Wang Bing

Synopsis Over 9 hours long, the film consists of three parts, "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails." Tie Xi Qu was filmed over the course of two years between 1999 and 2001 and details the slow decline of Shenyang's industrial Tiexi district, an...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Farley Granger · Ruth Roman · Robert Walker · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis En route from Washington D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guys life....

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Scofield · Jeanne Moreau · Michel Simon

Synopsis Oberst von Waldheim wants to bring modern paintings, the ones the Nazis called "degenerate", out of Paris before the Allied Forces liberate Paris. He is able to persuade his bosses to give him the train. Labiche, a French railway official...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Broderick Crawford · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder.

Direction Haruo Sotozaki

Synopsis TV Series (2021). 7 Episodes. TV series version of "Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train", including a new prologue episode and new scenes and music score.

Direction Henry Chalfant · Tony Silver

Synopsis Style Wars is an early documentary on hip hop culture, made by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, made in New York City in 1983. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although breakdancing and rapping are covered to a lesser...

Direction Aitor Rei

Direction Owen Dennis · Madeline Queripel

Synopsis 13-year-old Tulip finds herself on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one its own universe, and must find a way to get home

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Martin Sheen · Tony Musante · Beau Bridges · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together.

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Luisa Della Noce · Sylva Koscina · Saro Urzi

Synopsis The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas

Synopsis In The Lady Vanishes (1938), a young Englishwoman named Iris befriends an elderly Miss Froy on a train in pre-WWII Europe. When Miss Froy mysteriously disappears, Iris is shocked to find that none of the passengers recall seeing her. Determined...

Direction Youssef Chahine

Cast Farid Shawqi · Hind Rostom · Youssef Chahine · Hassan el Baroudi

Direction Takahiro Omori · Harume Kosaka · Hideaki Nakano · Hiroshi Haraguchi

Synopsis TV series (2007-2008). 1 season. 13 episodes and 3 OVAs. Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies,...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · Simone Simon · Fernand Ledoux · Julien Carette

Synopsis In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Direction Garth Davis

Cast Dev Patel · Sunny Pawar · Nicole Kidman · Rooney Mara

Synopsis Lion (2016) follows Saroo, a five-year-old Indian boy who gets accidentally separated from his family after falling asleep on a train. Lost thousands of miles from home, he survives the streets of Kolkata before being adopted by an Australian couple....

Direction Sohrab Shahid Saless

Cast Zadour Bonyadi · Mohammed Kani · Habib Safaryan · Zahra Yazdani

Synopsis It clearly shows the spare life of a railroad-station manager, in a remote area, who lives in a single room with his rug-weaving wife. His retirement, when he learns of it, is virtually a sentence of death; even fully employed,...

Direction Dave Minchin · Tom Richardson · Cassie Farrell · Dean Griffiths

Cast Michael Portillo

Synopsis TV Series (2012-). 7 Seasons. 33 Episodes. Michael Portillo travels across the European continent with his handy Bradshaw guide book. Looking at history and trying 21st century things that changed since before The Great War

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Shinobu Otake · Ryoko Hirosue · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is...

Direction Joachim Kunert

Cast Albert Hetterle · Annekathrin Bürger · Horst Jonischkan · Walter Richter-Reinick

Synopsis Dark secrets from the Nazi era emerge in 1960's East Germany.