Train robbery movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant train robbery movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, realistic, humorous, tense, suspense and feel good films and TV shows about / with train robbery, train, heist, gang, outlaw, revenge, criminal, gunfight, robbery and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Western and Crime genres shot in USA, Italy, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as train robbery: The Great Train Robbery (2013), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), Money Train (1995), Tough Guys (1986), The Ridiculous 6 (2015), Cat Ballou (1965), The Wild Bunch (1969), A Cop (1972), Free Money (1998), Red Fighter (1966).
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List of train robbery movies
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Two-part BBC drama portraying The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963. The first part shows it from the point of view of the robbers, and the second part from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
train robbery, train, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, group of criminals, friends, danger, post war, mafia, organized crime, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place:
england, britain, europe, scotland, scotland yard
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, talky, exciting ...
Plot:
heist, train robbery, robbery, gold, perfect crime, victorian england, betrayal, british, gangster, train travel, master criminal, partner ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, 1800s, turn of the century, year 1979 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, united kingdom, london
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Style:
melancholic, suspense, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train robbery, subway, train, new year's eve, bank robbery, arson, happy ending, new year, perfect crime, tough girl, buddy cop, caper ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, light, road movie, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, partner, aging, nothing goes right, gangster, police investigation, odd couple, dishonesty, buddies, elderly, stalking, disorder ...
Time:
80s, year 1956, year 1986
Place:
bolivia, mexico, new jersey, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
Style:
parody, satirical, spoof, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot:
bank robbery, train robbery, gunfight, stupidity, satire, baseball, brothers, justice, chase, indians, mentor, runaway ...
Time:
year 2015, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Style:
funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
revenge, alcoholic, murder, female protagonist, vengeance, train robbery, ranch, redemption, horse, drunkenness, father daughter relationship, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
wyoming, persia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style:
cult classic, controversial, epic, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mexican revolution, friendship, gang, gunfight, violent, desert, robbery, honor, soldier, on the run, one last job, bounty hunter ...
Time:
1910s, year 1969, 20th century, 19th century, edwardian era
Place:
texas, mexico, arizona, yuma arizona, persia ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, visually appealing, hood, cynical ...
Plot:
french police, gang, police inspector, gangster, train robbery, bank, corruption, robbery, criminal, driver, police, double life ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style:
homoerotic, epic, period piece, freeze frame, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
buddy, friendship, shootout, old west, bank robbery, cowboy, friendship between men, last stand, gunfight, fugitive, heist, robbery ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 20th century, ancient times, year 1969 ...
Place:
bolivia, south america, wyoming, new york, latin america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prison, partner, fbi, government agency, cons and scams, special agent, confined, criminal heroes, dishonesty, heroes, friends, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Style:
spaghetti western, ambiguous ending, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, native american, vengeance, small town, one against many, train, one man army, rescue, massacre, doctor, navajo indian, scalping ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
Style:
detective, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, outlaw, old west, two man army, male bonding, friendship between men, fugitive, sheriff, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bank robbery, train robbery ...
Time:
year 1979, 19th century
Place:
wyoming, utah
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
Style:
erotic, spaghetti western, anime, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
tough girl, prostitution, revenge, girl gang, rape, female protagonist, female gunfighter, cowgirl, outlaw gang, train robbery, ranch, u.s. marshal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
texas, oregon, usa, colorado, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the autumn of 1900, outlaw Claude Barbee puts his 'retirement plan' in action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a cash stash hidden after a botched railroad heist.
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
train robbery, old west, mind game, gang, supernatural, danger, criminal, supernatural power, killing, demon, vengeance, death ...
Time:
1900s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
The good, the bad, and the drop-dead gorgeous. The train en route to Sunshine Hill City holds six very deadly and beautiful women. In the days of stagecoaches, cowboys, and highway robbery. On this particular day when a steam-train hauling valuable ...
Style:
anime, captivating
Plot:
train robbery, train, female protagonist, heist, burglar, bandit, sheriff, gang, fight, robbery, criminal gang, gunfight ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, period piece, noir
Plot:
train robbery, fugitive, exile, heist, prison escape, moral ambiguity, criminal underworld, anti hero, cat and mouse, manhunt, double life, crime boss ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, london, scotland yard
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
old west, shootout, wild west, gang, widow, treasure hunt, rivalry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, escapades, dishonesty, bank ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1870s
Place:
mexico, latin america, tucson arizona, texas, arizona
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.
Style:
suspense, bleak, scary, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
witch, cowboy, brothel, outlaw gang, church, train robbery, sex scene, nymph, violence, fight, seductress, ritual ...
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Genre: Western, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
2 buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, surprise ending
Plot:
mexican revolution, making love, shooting, gold, train robbery, mexican army, seduction, friendship, revolutionary, shootout, cannon, machine gun ...
Time:
year 1900
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.
Style:
independent film, action thriller, noir, british noir
Plot:
robbery, car chase, railway, train, caper, train robbery, heist, criminal, casino, true crime, ambulance, driver ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
england, london, new york
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, brutal, noir, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gunslinger, train robbery, outlaw, sniper, pursuit, bounty, vigilantism, vigilante, courage, bar brawl, brawl, escape ...
Time:
year 1967, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After stealing money transported in a train, Sacramento, Big Jim and Tequila arribe to "La Paz" town. They rent a room there in order to hide the money but Sacramento and Big Jim, while Tequila is sleeping, run away with the money. Tequila ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, lighthearted, action comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train robbery, bandit, heist, outlaw, unhappiness, betrayal, caper, irreverent, anti hero, hiding place, showdown, revenge ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in ...
Style:
buddy comedy, lighthearted, retro, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
heist, train robbery, friendship, heist gone wrong, scheming, scam, jail, satire, prison escape, loyalty, road trip, revenge ...
Time:
70s
Place:
denmark, spain, copenhagen
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping ...
Plot:
junkyard, brothers, father son relationship, heist, working class, train robbery, inheritance, family business, small town, brotherhood, blue collar, legacy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is about a group of conspirators fighting against Tsarism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main character is young Józef Pilsudski and his closest friends - later prime ministers and presidents. The action takes place in ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, period piece, historical drama, thrilling ...
Plot:
biopic, polish history, conspiracy, friends, historical event, political conspiracy, friendship, intrigue, assassination plot, teamwork, police officer, nationalism ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, edwardian era
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, stylized, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
old west, outlaw, criminal heroes, gang, fear, robbery, deal, society, tragic hero, arrest, courage, dishonesty ...
Time:
1890s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, patriotic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
freedom fighter, revolution, underground movement, struggle, conflict, dangerous mission, national identity, heroism, mission, patriotism, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly ...
Style:
grim, period drama, grotesque
Plot:
fistfight, workplace, working class, factory, survival, realism, danger, blue collar, machismo, poverty, machinery, heroism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, humorous, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenager, theft, partner, coming of age, escapades, adaptation, life is a bitch, youth, danger, friendship, love, family relations ...
Place:
indiana, idaho
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of outlaws awaken to find their hard-earned bag of loot from a daring train heist is empty. A high-stakes interrogation begins as each cowboy becomes the focus in an attempt to unmask the thief among them. With no witnesses and only ...
Plot:
train robbery, civil war veteran, woods, childhood trauma, outlaw, con man, wild west, double barreled shotgun, revenge, suicide, steam train, mexican standoff ...
Time:
1880s, 1850s, 19th century
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