20. The Train

• Burt Lancaster
• Paul Scofield

As WWII draws to a close, a German colonel tries to transfer a loot of French art pieces to Germany before the Allies take control of Paris. The French resistance fighters are left to come up with a...Read more plan to keep their national treasures on their lands with the help of a station master.

20. Shanghai Express

• Marlene Dietrich
• Clive Brook

The notorious woman, Magdalene, boards a train, bound for Shanghai, where she accidentally meets her old lover, Captain Donald Harvey. However, events begin to escalate, after the forces of the rebel...Read more officer Henry Chang attack the train, and capture Harvey.

18. Money Train

• Wesley Snipes
• Woody Harrelson

Two brothers working in the police; one successful in his work, and the other suffers from the accumulation of debts and constant failures. He loses his job and everyone abandons him including his...Read more brother. He decides to get rid of his problems by robbing the train transporting revenue of The New York subway system, but the operation fails and he turns to his brother for help.

17. The Lady Vanishes

• • MPAA
  • PG

• Elliott Gould
• Cybill Shepherd

The American heiress Amanda meets the nanny Froy, who disappears on a train in Germany and everyone denies seeing her, so Amanda turns to the photographer Bob to help her find Froy.

16. Silver Streak

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  • PG

• Gene Wilder
• Jill Clayburgh

When the book editor George Caldwell takes a trip from Los Angeles to Chicago by train, things take a turn when he witnesses a murder. As he finds himself chased by a gang who kidnapped his...Read more sweetheart, he teams up with a car thief and sets out to save her.

15. Transsiberian

• Woody Harrelson
• Emily Mortimer

While traveling on board a train from China to Moscow, Roy and Jessie, an American couple, find themselves enmeshed in a web of murder and deceit after they meet two mysterious passengers.

14. Runaway Train

• • MPAA
  • R

• Jon Voight
• Eric Roberts

When two escaped prisoners end up in an out-of-control train in Alaska, the lives of hundreds of passengers and themselves become in imminent danger.

13. Murder on the Orient Express

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  • PG-13

• Kenneth Branagh
• Johnny Depp

Hercule Poirot investigates the mysterious murder of a famous businessman on the Orient Express.

12. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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  • TV-14

• Edward James Olmos
• Vincent D'Onofrio

With their eyes on a huge ransom, a group of criminals takes the passengers on a subway train hostage to force the authorities to comply with their demands. With hostages under their mercy, they...Read more bargain with the officers who arrive to defuse the situation.

11. The Great Train Robbery

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  • PG

• Sean Connery
• Donald Sutherland

With a cargo of gold bars on board, a moving train becomes the target of three criminals, who have to come up with the perfect plan to seize the gold and escape without getting caught.