Railway movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant railway movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic, exciting and intense films and TV shows about / with railway, train, catastrophe, danger, redemption, friendship, stranger on a train, death, runaway and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Russia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as railway: Emperor of the North (1973), Train Driver's Diary (2016), The Cassandra Crossing (1976), The Bullet Train (1975), Runaway Train (1985), Final Run (1999), The Railway Children (1970), Transsiberian (2008), Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), Back to the Future Part III (1990).
Best films
New films
| Elevation (2024) | 5.6 | |
| Railway Heroes (2021) | 5.6 | |
| Peninsula (2020) | 5.5 | |
| Euphoria (2019) | 8.2 | |
| Reaptown (2020) | 3.5 |
List of railway movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Style:
terrifying, cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
homeless, train, railway, great depression, drifter, locomotive, villain, hobo, homeless man, history lesson, politics, hunting ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1933, year 1973
Place:
oregon, usa, turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
Style:
realistic, humorous, thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
railway, murder, train engineer, ordinary person, silly humor, disorder, old man, elderly, on the road, accident, cross country, socially awkward ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The Cassandra Crossing is an all-star disaster spectacular telling of the terrifying odyssey of 1000 doomed passengers trapped aboard a plague-infested train. A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, train, terrorism, race against time, plague, survival, railway, train crash, quarantine, undercover, train wreck, disease ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, europe, switzerland, germany, geneva switzerland ...
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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: 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: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing the controller and gradually increasing its already high speed, at the rate of 2 more miles per ...
Style:
action thriller, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
runaway train, stepmother, railway, train, disaster, forces of nature, hijacking, technology gone awry, heroes, on the run, save the day, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, semi serious, feel good, family saga ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
train, teenage girl, countryside, child's point of view, railway, children, friendship, christmas, missing father, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
yorkshire, england, britain, northern england, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, train, travel, couples, murder mystery, transgression, sexual tension, violent, drug, winter, drug smuggling, train travel ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
china, russia, siberia, moscow russia
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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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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. ...
Style:
light, saga, futuristic, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, mad scientist, changing the past or future, old west, sent to the past, time, time loop, inventor, alternate timeline, time paradox, duel ...
Time:
19th century, 1950s, future, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
space western, los angeles, north america, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, murder mystery, obsession, infidelity, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, investigation, missing person, female protagonist, flashback, learning the truth ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
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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: Drama, Western
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with ...
Style:
intercultural, stylized, intense, suspense, thought provoking
Plot:
apache territory, railway, native american, friendship, culture clash, leader, love story, love and romance, love affair, interracial relations, courage, apache indian ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1860s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Through mud, garbage, and muck, Thomas and his engine friends show that being really Useful can be a dirty job! See James turn into the Really Muddy Engine, and Thomas get showered with rubbish. Watch Peter Sam make a big mess trying to keep things ...
Style:
light, entertaining, captivating, funny, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
thomas the tank engine, railway, friendship, teamwork, train, children, anthropomorphic train, workplace situations, friends, garbage collector, toy train, friend ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The Island of Sodor's railway is to help in the construction of a new airport, but a fierce summer storm and a rivalry between the steam and diesel engines endanger the job.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, light, educational ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
thomas the tank engine, friendship, train, railway, airport, anthropomorphic train, fantasy world, teamwork, children, collaboration, best friend, young heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s
Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min.
Story:
The Mighty Express welcomes a new train and speeds into a snowstorm to deliver Santa’s presents and save Christmas for all the kids in Tracksville.
Style:
feel good, fairy tale, touching, stylized, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, railway, friendship, train, snow, winter, children, miraculous event, magic, belief, dream ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Story:
During the New Year eve Alexey is trying to get back his first love.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
relationships, railway, tragic love, escapades, love affair, first love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love interest, relationship problems, love story, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, first love, lesbian, railway, winter, lesbian love, love interest, secret, forbidden love, mother, teenager, women ...
Place:
south korea, japan, hokkaido, korea
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Seeking revenge, a railroad employee puts two passenger trains on a collision course in this made-for-TV disaster movie.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
runaway train, railway, train, train crash, vigilante justice, die hard, vigilante, subway, stranger on a train, police, race against time, collision ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, China
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
railway, immigration, racism, gender disguise, female protagonist, father son relationship, cross dressing, problem, romantic relationship, survival, forbidden romance, perseverance ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
canada, china, british columbia, north america
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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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak
Plot:
girl heroine, danger, world war two, life is a bitch, construction, historical event, adaptation, friendship, hopes, death, redemption, youth ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style:
feel good, road movie, funny, light, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens
Plot:
thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, train, travel, airplane, on the road, airport, husband wife relationship, railway, buddy, traveling salesman ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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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: Action, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey they must ...
Style:
political thriller, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, cold war, terrorist, railway, disaster, train, secret agent, natural disaster, law enforcement, cold war era, covert operation, intelligence ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, central europe, moscow russia, milan italy, europe ...
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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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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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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, child murder, murder mystery, stalinism, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, politics, murder investigation, totalitarian regime, justice, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, year 2015, 50s ...
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ukraine, berlin germany ...
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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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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two Passengers (Sobieski and Zahn) and the conductor (Glover), discovered that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
Style:
surreal, suspense, atmospheric, intense, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
train, supernatural, conspiracy, greed, characters murdered one by one, rivalry, obsession, curse, death, railway, murder, snow ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
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