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Top Train Movies

Movies and trains — what better combination? Here are just a few movies you may remember that feature trains, or just have some great train scenes.

  • Polar Express, 2004
    Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara
  • The Station Agent, 2003
    Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1997
    Steve Martin, John Candy
  • Mission: Impossible, 1996
    Tom Cruise, Jon Voight
  • Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 1995
    Steven Segal, Morris Chestnut
  • Narrow Margin, 1990
    Gene Hackman, Anne Archer
  • Throw Momma from the Train, 1987
    Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal
  • Night Train to Venice, 1986
    Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell
  • Runaway Train, 1985
    Jon Voight, Eric Roberts
  • The Great Train Robbery, 1979
    Sean Connery, Lesley-Anne Down
  • Silver Streak, 1976
    Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
  • Murder on the Orient Express, 1974
    Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman
  • The Sting, 1973
    Paul Newman, Robert Redford
  • The Train Robbers, 1973
    John Wayne, Ann-Margret
  • The French Connection, 1971
    Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969
    Paul Newman, Robert Redford
  • Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969
    Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale
  • The Professionals, 1966
    Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin
  • Closely Watched Trains, 1966
    Vaclav Neckar
  • Doctor Zhivago, 1965
    Omar Sharif, Julie Christie
  • Von Ryan’s Express, 1965
    Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
  • The Train, 1965
    Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
  • A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
    The Beatles
  • From Russia With Love, 1963
    Sean Connery, Robert Shaw
  • North by Northwest, 1959
    Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
  • North West Frontier, 1959
    Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More
  • Some Like It Hot, 1959
    Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
    William Holden, Alex Guiness
  • The Great Locomotive Chase, 1956
    Fess Parker, Slim Pickens
  • Strangers on a Train, 1951
    Farley Granger, Ruth Roman
  • The Third Man, 1949
    Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
  • Brief Encounter, 1946
    Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
  • Night Train to Memphis, 1946
    Allan Lane, Roy Acuff
  • Lady on a Train, 1945
    Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy
  • Night Train to Munich, 1940
    Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood
  • The Lady Vanishes, 1938
    Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
  • Twentieth Century, 1934
    John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
  • Shanghai Express, 1932
    Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong
  • Danger Lights, 1930
    Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur
  • The General, 1927
    Buster Keaton