Trains on Film

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.

Unstoppable, 2010 Chris Pine, Denzel Washington	Transsiberian, 2008 Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley	Polar Express, 2004 Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara
The Darjeeling Limited, 2007 Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman	The Station Agent, 2003 Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin	Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1997 Steve Martin, John Candy
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 1995 Steven Segal, Morris Chestnut	Throw Momma from the Train, 1987 Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal	Money Train, 1995 Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson
Night Train to Venice, 1986 Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell	Mission: Impossible, 1996 Tom Cruise, Jon Voight	Narrow Margin, 1990 Gene Hackman, Anne Archer
Runaway Train, 1985 Jon Voight, Eric Roberts	The Sting, 1973 Paul Newman, Robert Redford	Silver Streak, 1976 Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
The Great Train Robbery, 1979 Sean Connery, Lesley-Anne Down	Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall	Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969 Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale
The French Connection, 1971 Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 Paul Newman, Robert Redford	The Train Robbers, 1973 John Wayne, Ann-Margret
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	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	The General, 1927 Buster Keaton

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