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, serious, suspenseful, interesting, unusual plot structure and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with freight train, dialogue, runaway, chase, catastrophe, mentor, storytelling, train, violence and suspense plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as freight train: Doctor Zhivago (1965), Sin Nombre (2009), The Defiant Ones (1986), Unstoppable (2010), Runaway Train (1985), Red Rock West (1993), Midnight Run (1988), Enemy of the State (1998), Days of Heaven (1978), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985).
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List of freight train movies
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:
epic, atmospheric, emotional, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, communism, deportation, love triangle, revolution, war, train, rape, poet, wartime, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1940s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia
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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, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, hopes, juvenile delinquency, street gang, family reunited, train, immigrants, gang member, social problems, u.s. mexico border, gangsters, rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, los angeles, new jersey, california ...
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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, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, escape, on the run, racism, prison, prison escape, interracial relations, racial prejudice, single mother, manhunt, fistfight, sheriff ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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201K
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:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, runaway train, train crash, race against time, chase, disaster, save the day, suspense, train engineer, train wreck, determination, partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, north america, pittsburgh, california
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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:
suspenseful, road movie, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
train, survival, runaway train, train crash, prison, disaster, prisoner, wilderness, suspense, violence, winter, prison warden ...
Time:
20th century, 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, suspenseful, surprise ending, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, twists and turns, hitman, unemployment, crime gone awry, criminal, war injury, femme fatale, murder, brutality, greed, suspense ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, wyoming, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style:
road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, chase, on the road, train, gangsters, car chase, organized crime, hitman, race against time, police surveillance, buddy, bail bondsman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york, las vegas, los angeles ...
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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:
clever, tense, suspenseful, political, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
conspiracy, surveillance, suspense, espionage, political conspiracy, cia, uncover truth, investigation, politics, on the run, twists and turns, intelligence ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., baltimore, maryland, usa, north america
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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, atmospheric, breathtaking, sexy, psychological ...
Plot:
farmer, love triangle, impossible love, farm, love, loneliness, train, autumn, harvest, class differences, childhood, society ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
usa, austin texas, chicago illinois, texas
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, 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
Plot:
prodigy, coming of age, loneliness, young heroes, children, childhood, cowboy, dysfunctional family, tragedy, unlikely friendships, train, train travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana, usa, washington d.c., chicago illinois
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Genre: Adventure, 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, feel good, sweet, scenic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
great depression, friendship, coming of age, wolf, dog, disney, youth, animals, on the road, hopes, custody, against the odds ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, 80s
Place:
usa, washington state, california, london, chicago illinois ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 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, war, pow, military, jungle, survival, prisoners of war, prisoner of war camp, captivity, soldier, war crime, hopes ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1943, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
japan, asia, poland, hawaii, scotland ...
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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:
road movie, exciting, entertaining, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, motorcycle, biker, police corruption, organized crime, bus, motorcycle chase, hitman, police officer, tough cop, corrupt official, on the road ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, san francisco, usa, phoenix arizona, arizona ...
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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 ...
Plot:
prison, rape, rivalry, murder, police operation, ex convict, motorcycle accident, police officer, gang leader, soccer, freight train, black ...
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6K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
Style:
disturbing, mystical, bleak, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, supernatural, psychologist, imaginary friend, suicide attempt, hide and seek, supernatural horror, father son relationship, sister sister relationship, house fire, husband wife relationship, paranormal activity ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Visiting his Grandpa in the small town of Harvest, Eric is haunted in his dreams by Julia, a ghost who falls in love with him, appearing first as a little girl and later as an adult. In the dreams, Julia reveals that she was burned alive and her ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
ghost, suspense, sleepwalking, basement, halloween, voyeurism, murder, arson, nightmare, home invasion, freight train, attempted rape ...
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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:
ambiguous ending, psychological, tragicomedy, motivational, touching ...
Plot:
small town, police brutality, rape, death of daughter, loss of daughter, regret, revenge, guilty conscience, anger, desperation, suicide, small town life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, missouri, idaho
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Style:
humorous, sad, surprise ending, talky, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, train, world war two, deportation, nazi, judaism, railway, anti semitism, village, wartime life, bittersweet, sexual content ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
eastern europe, germany, poland, europe, central europe ...
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36K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Style:
epic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, war, fighter pilot, airplane, interracial relations, aerial combats, aviation, military life, discrimination, african american, soldier, military base ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1942
Place:
europe, cuba, germany, italy, pentagon ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, abduction, suspense, twists and turns, conspiracy, small town, urban legend, mysterious character, uncover truth, dysfunctional family, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, washington state, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Style:
witty, clever, sexy, funny, noir ...
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, alcoholic, gang, organized crime, alcohol abuse, love and romance, rehabilitation, polish, going straight, killer, gunfight ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san francisco, usa, los angeles, california, new york
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644K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, time travel, time warp, life philosophy, groundhog day, love, redemption, repeated event, fall in love, hopes ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
orangutan, road trip, on the road, farce, revenge, biker, motel, motorcycle, country music, monkey, boxing, beer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, san francisco, colorado, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien ...
Style:
scary, psychological, apocalyptic, slasher, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, supernatural, first contact, virus, supernatural ability, forest, alien encounter, evil alien, apocalypse, transformation, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
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15K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, betrayal, chase, on the run, drug trade, drug dealing, vengeance, criminal heroes, dishonesty, corrupt law enforcer, war on drugs, teamwork ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, latin america, usa, mexico, thailand
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12K
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:
surprise ending, sexy, unusual plot structure, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
racism, manhunt, small town, adultery, lynch mob, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, drunkenness, on the run, infidelity, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, new jersey, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the ...
Style:
lyrical, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
depression, lovers on the run, justice, loneliness, mafia, visceral, train, female nudity, on the road, gangsters, male nudity, great depression ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 80s, 70s, 1920s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois, memphis, arkansas
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, not serious, absurd ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
old west, small town, irreverent, stereotypes, fall in love, male nudity, satire, notoriety, newcomer, teaching the ways of the world, self discovery, cowboy ...
Time:
victorian era, future, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
usa, arizona
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51K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political, tricky, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, suspense, spy, anarchist, environmentalism, espionage, fbi, revenge, radical, undercover, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, political, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
immigration, mexican, world history, family relations, farm, misfit, immigrants, society, hopes, politics, ice cream, heart attack ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mexico, latin america, arizona, colorado
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