Freight train movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant freight train movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious, intense, exciting and tense films and TV shows about / with freight train, train, murder, runaway, chase, vengeance, dialogue, catastrophe, violence and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as freight train: The Gauntlet (1977), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Sin Nombre (2009), Unstoppable (2010), Contagion of Fear (2023), The Christmas Tree Train (1983), Hard Times (1975), Collision Course (1989), Southern Comfort (1981), Fair Game (1995).
Best films
List of freight train movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a ...
Style:
exciting, road movie, suspense, entertaining, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, hitman, tough cop, motorcycle, biker, police officer, police corruption, organized crime, on the road, attempted rape, ambush, corrupt official ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona, arizona, usa, san francisco ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to ...
Style:
tense, exciting, breathtaking, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, runaway train, disaster, save the day, train crash, chase, train engineer, race against time, determination, freight train, courage, danger ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After escaping from jail, two teens flee to Tijuana and stay with one's childhood protector, a man masquerading as a nun.
Style:
intense, cult classic, controversial, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, road trip, schizophrenia, female protagonist, sexual perversion, mental illness, teenage girl, paranoia, on the run, childhood trauma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tijuana mexico, mexico, latin america
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train wreck, biohazard, pandemic, infection, problem, survival, catastrophe, freight train, struggle for survival, chaos, apocalypse, train ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
Bear cub, Buttons, and his fox companion, Rusty, take a ride on a freight train bound for the city. Now they're lost and must get home before Christmas but first they gotta dodge people, cars, and other dangers.
Style:
sentimental, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
christmas, friendship, holiday, house, train travel, fox, children, heartwarming, companionship, railway, bear cub, freight train ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Style:
realistic, tense, harsh, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
boxing, great depression, street fighter, illegal fistfight, streetfighting, drifter, fistfight, boxer, businessman, tough guy, martial arts, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, north america, louisiana, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tony Costas, a brash, obnoxious, sexist and racist Detroit cop who has long since stopped following the rules, gets told that he will have to work with Inspector Fuji, a straightlaced policeman from Japan. Fuji is in Detroit searching for a Japanese ...
Style:
detective, action comedy, independent film, fast, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
murder, buddy cop, car chase, villain, investigation, shootout, crime boss, tough cop, fight, hitman, culture clash, buddy ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa, asia, japan
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, lost in the woods, ambush, poacher, murder, american south, dog attack, pursuit, on the run ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, vietnam, texas ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, suspense, detective, erotic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police protection, hostage, conspiracy, female lawyer, chase, gunfight, sex scene, car chase, lawyer, female killer, female assassin, lust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escapechained to each other.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
singing, chase, escape, on the run, racism, prison, racial prejudice, fugitive, sheriff, single mother, truck accident, racial slur ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, non-linear ...
Plot:
world war two, time travel, surrealism, existentialism, assassination, sent to the future, aerial bombardment, slaughterhouse, prisoner of war camp, stream of consciousness, alien abduction, soldier ...
Time:
future, 1940s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, indiana, europe, philadelphia, new england ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style:
road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
train, prison escape, survival, runaway train, escaped prisoner, escape, prison, violence, prisoner, wilderness, fugitives, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, small town, femme fatale, twists and turns, unemployment, desert, war injury, crime gone awry, danger, murder, gas station, contract killer ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
texas, wyoming, usa
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
Style:
suspense, clever, tense, political thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, manly, kids
Plot:
surveillance, conspiracy, cia, on the run, espionage, political conspiracy, intelligence, violence, murder, manhunt, fighting the system, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., baltimore, iraq, maryland, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish ...
Style:
art house, sexy, breathtaking, visually stunning, visually appealing ...
Plot:
farmer, love triangle, impossible love, farm, train, love, autumn, harvest, passion, childhood, class differences, photograph ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1978, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
usa, chicago, texas, midwest, austin texas
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' ...
Style:
retro, suspense, southern gothic, neo noir, crime drama ...
Plot:
racism, social commentary, manhunt, adultery, small town, lynch mob, drunkenness, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, escaped prisoner, on the run ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, southern usa, new jersey, california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Australia, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Style:
touching, road movie, emotional, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
genius, young heroes, prodigy, children, coming of age, childhood, on the road, child prodigy, train, loneliness, tragedy, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, usa, washington d.c., chicago
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, scenic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
wolf, coming of age, friendship, human animal relationship, great depression, dog, tomboy, on the road, youth, animal, human dog relationship, train ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1935, 80s
Place:
usa, washington state, chicago, colorado, california ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are ...
Style:
harsh, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, war, military, prisoner of war camp, escape, hopes, jungle, christian, soldier, war crime, human spirit ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
japan, asia, scotland, hawaii, india ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a ...
Style:
black and white, crime drama, tense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
ex convict, rivalry, gang, character study, redemption, conflict, criminal underworld, second chance, moral dilemma, reputation, power struggle, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
balkan
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
Style:
grindhouse, eurospy
Plot:
spy, cold war, swing, espionage, james bond spoof, secret service agent, helicopter, secret passageway, music festival, stalking, female singer, yacht ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, detective, retro, colorful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
bridesmaid, stupidity, cougar, class differences, shoplifting, framed for murder, fiance fiancee relationship, reckless driving, impulsiveness, interrupted wedding, convict, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, future
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the ...
Style:
pastoral, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, revenge, feminist, folk horror, witchcraft, occult, supernatural horror, paranormal, monster, exploitation, curse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 17th century, 20th century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style:
psychological, bleak, rough, serious, sadistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sadism, murder, sexual abuse, rape victim, sexual perversion, rape, teenage rape, maniac, hostage, sexual torture, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.
Style:
action thriller, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, terrorism, railway, runaway train, disaster, subway, stranger on a train, die hard, bomb, train travel, speed, race against time ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, japan, hokkaido, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style:
black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
40-year-old foreman Vital is chosen by Alix (25) as a guinea pig in the anonymous study she is carrying out in her father's factory. The boss's daughter soon finds herself falling under the spell of this reserved, enigmatic worker as he ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, romantic comedy
Plot:
business, love, fall in love, factory, boss, father daughter relationship, worker, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship, love story, workplace, couple relations ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small time crook and a newly-orphaned teenage boy team up to perform a string of robberies.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
man boy relationship, teenage boy, road trip, robbery, cross country, teenager, lost child, accomplice, ex convict, armed robbery, father son estrangement, child in peril ...
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