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List of train movies

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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style: bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, america
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 7.2
 36K
Runaway Train (1985)
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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 5.3
 119
Train Master (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 62 year old Jeremiah Wilson is truly the Train Master of Willamette Western Railroad. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad. When Brett Banner, 32 year old heir to New York Eastern talks his dad into purchasing Willamette Western, there is ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: train, runaway train, danger, youth, railway, workplace, save the day, escapades, workplace situations, adolescence vs adulthood, chases and races, railroad ...
Time: 21st century
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, sexy ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, friendship, witch, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, magical, best friend, chosen one, boarding school, children ...
Time: year 1981, year 1991, year 2001, year 1992, 80s ...
Place: england, london, yorkshire, europe
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This Is Christmas (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot: train, christmas, train travel, christmas party, christmas season, love story, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, love and romance, love interest, love affair ...
Place: london
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 3.3
 429
Death Train (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, one man army, tough heroes, save the day, on the run, hostage, undercover, danger, train, one against many, gunfight, die hard ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
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Night Train to Terror (1985)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a ...
Style: anthology, claymation, classic horror, cult horror, slasher ...
Plot: train, devil, railway, rock and roll, satan, exploitation, supernatural horror, rock band, monster, demon, surrealism, rape ...
Time: year 1979, 80s, 1940s, 70s, year 1944
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Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, retro, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: train, behind enemy lines, world war two, prison, pow, prison escape, gestapo, nazi, great war, world war, prisoner, wartime ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: italy, germany, europe, swiss alps, milan italy ...
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 7.9
 87K
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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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 8.2
 298K
The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: witty, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gambling, revenge, con artists, murder, twists and turns, caper, con man, gangster, chase, cons and scams, casino, organized crime ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1973
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
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Man on the Train (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a ...
Style: emotional, touching, atmospheric, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: train, friendship, teacher, odd couple, character study, loneliness, human nature, buddies, mysterious character, criminal heroes, heist, small town ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Larry Donner is a author and writing professor who tutors people who want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his Ex-wife has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: dark humor, train, writers, murder, disorder, strangulation, family relations, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, railway, domineering mother, mother ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hawaii, los angeles, new jersey
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Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A film director, Jean, his producer, Marc, and his assistant, Lucette, board the Trans-Europ-Express in Paris bound for Antwerp. Once in their compartment it occurs to them that the drama of life aboard the train presents possibilities for a film, ...
Style: erotic, sexual, neo noir, slasher, cult classic ...
Plot: train, sadomasochism, female nudity, sex scene, nudity, rape, bondage, railway, hotel room, lust, sexuality, stranger on a train ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: antwerp, france, europe, belgium, paris france
Is relevant?
 6.9
 23K
Silver Streak (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes ...
Style: funny, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, clever ...
Plot: train, train crash, black white relations, runaway train, profanity, false accusation, murder, mistaken identity, death, comedy team, chase, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: kansas, arizona, illinois, colorado, north america ...
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 7.5
 33K
Mystery Train (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Style: anthology, independent film, humorous, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hotel, train, tourist, ghost, hotel room, rock and roll, drinking, recording studio, drunkenness, robbery, cafe, italian woman ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa, rome italy, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
 6.6
 12K
Narrow Margin (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hitman, mafia, witness protection, testimony, police investigation, gangster, chase, organized crime, train travel, danger, district attorney ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, canada, usa
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The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, love, world war, railway, occupied france, refugee, unhappy ending, judaism, wartime, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
Is relevant?
 7.8
 21K
The Train (1964)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat ...
Style: black and white, realistic, suspenseful, retro, exciting ...
Plot: train, world war two, french resistance, saboteur, art, art theft, sabotage, nazi, resistance, military, railway, resistance movement ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s
Place: paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany ...
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 6.7
 4K
O'Horten (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, France, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: retirement, train, skinny dipping, surrealism, train conductor, social relations, lifestyle, elderly, self discovery, unemployment, aging, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oslo norway
Is relevant?
 7.6
 10K
Train of Life (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Netherlands, Romania, 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, feel good, road movie ...
Plot: holocaust, train, nazi, world war two, shoah, judaism, deportation, great ending, railway, wartime life, bittersweet, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, year 1941
Place: eastern europe, germany, palestine, europe, central europe ...
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.
Style: intense, suspense, perverse, saga, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, terrorist, martial arts, terrorism, violent, military, hostage, railway, die hard, disaster, 007, one man army ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado, pentagon, los angeles
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Schindler's List (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place: poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Style: suspense, detective, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, whodunit, investigation, murder mystery, murder, twists and turns, justice, private detective, railway, multiple suspects, conspiracy, nobility ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1935, 70s
Place: new york, turkey, persia, britain, greece ...
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Titipo Titipo (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Germany
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Titipo the train is out to prove that he's got what it takes to help the folks of Train Village ride the rails safely and reliably.
Style: lighthearted, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot: train, friendship, train conductor, children, teamwork, anthropomorphic train, friends, lifestyle, anthropomorphic vehicle, anthropomorphism, toy train, role model ...
Is relevant?
 3.8
 183
Mighty Express (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story: Catch a ride with the Mighty Express — a team of trains and their kid friends who overcome trouble on the tracks with quick thinking and teamwork!
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, lighthearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: train, children, friendship, teamwork, friends, mischievous children, group of friends, problem solving, rescue, community, safe, small town ...
Is relevant?
 7.3
 113K
Witness (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, ...
Style: sexy, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, police, amish, police corruption, forbidden love, female nudity, police detective, twists and turns, witness, childhood, corruption, train ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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 7.6
 301K
Train to Busan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, dark, emotional, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, pandemic, survival, virus, apocalypse, train, epidemic, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, living dead, undead ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, busan, china, indiana ...
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 6.9
 3K
Tickets (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, anthology ...
Plot: train, self discovery, couple relations, society, couples, social differences, on the road, railway, multiple storylines, soccer, football, migration ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: italy, scotland, europe
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The Missing Person (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: missing person, train, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, taxi driver, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, investigator, private investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york
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Nayak: The Hero (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and ...
Style: black and white, contemplative, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: train, actor, suicidal thoughts, self awareness, voyeur, voyeurism, railway, memory, glory, celebrity interview, reflection, celebrity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: kolkata, india, new delhi, asia
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