Best movies taking place in trains

[Kakihara]

After watching Terror Train recently, I've had a sudden interest in watching movies taking place in trains. Which ones would you recommend?

The best ones that come to mind for me are:

1. Train to Busan
2. Snowpiercer
3. The Night Train Murders
4. Terror Train

Any others?

[Michael24]

Some of my favorites.

* Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (although it's an anthology and only the framing story is set on a train)
* Horror Express
* Narrow Margin (only seen the remake, but sadly neither it nor the original are on Blu-ray yet)
* Night Train to Munich
* Terror Train
* Train to Busan
* Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

[SPilgrim]

Throw Momma from the Train

[TripleHBK]

Nearly the entire film takes place on a train and the film itself is quite enjoyable. It can also be found quite cheaply these days.

Night train to terror also has segments within a train and is quite enjoyable in an insane sort of way.

[Rich65]

Murder on The Orient Express
Strangers on A Train
Silver Streak
Train

[Kakihara]

Thanks guys! Keep them coming! How could I forget Strangers on a Train and Horror Express?! Great movies! There's also Runaway Train with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts but I can't say I liked it much.

[DR Herbert West]

The Cassandra Crossing
From Russia with Love

[BuraddoRun]

D-Railed

It's a low-budget B movie but the premise is interesting. A group of people board a "murder train," which is like those dinner events where there is a scripted murder mystery where the patrons interact with the actors and try to solve it. But stuff happens and the train gets derailed and ends up in a lake where they run into a monster that's out for blood.

It's really not that great, but for a B-movie, it isn't horrible. The acting is decent, the story interesting (though in the middle it slows), and the costumes are nice (including the monster). Plus the ending makes you think a little.

[hky828]

Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes

[Kyle15]

[DR Herbert West]

Von Ryan's Express

[JupiterMission]

Weirdly enough, there is already a thread for this:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=244855

[professorwho]

Speed (with Keanu Reeves) was pretty much a remake of this except they swapped the Shinkansen for a bus in LA.

[Kakihara]

Originally Posted by JupiterMission

Weirdly enough, there is already a thread for this:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=244855

Oh wow....I should've checked first!

[Bolty]

I don't know how many movies there are about trains but I do know that there aren't enough of them!

[mulscul]

Narrow Margin
Unstoppable
Murder on the Orient Express

[SeanJoyce]

The one that doesn't get talked about enough is The Tall Target, a noirish thriller based on a true story about a Pinkerton agent (played by noir stalwart Dick Powell) trying to thwart an assassination attempt on Honest Abe's life aboard a train hurtling towards his next presidential address. It has a decent DVD-R through the WAC, so it's obtainable, but I wouldn't turn a Blu-ray down.

The all-star "Agatha Christie meets Alistair MacClean" Breakheart Pass is one of Charles Bronson's best movies from the 70s.

Transsiberian is a decent potboiler, and Woody Harrelson/Emily Mortimer/Ben Kingsley is a pretty cool trio.

Oh, and the classic card game between Paul Newman and Robert Shaw in The Sting is possibly the greatest train sequence of all time...after Shaw's fight to the death with Connery nearly a decade earlier in From Russia with Love, that is

[LMFAObros]

Taking of Pelham 123

[JEDGAR1000]

The Commuter. Far from a great film, but a pretty enjoyable popcorn thriller imo.

[ChipmunksDad]

Silver Streak. End of thread.

For that stomach churn roller coaster ride, Polar Express on a really big screen. Assuming you can survive the film itself.