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Toccata for Toy Trains (1957)
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Courmétrage réalisé en 1957 par Charles et Ray Eames, un des nombreux films que le couple a fait pendant leur carrière
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
, 1h24Directed by Charles Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Hugh Griffith, Godfrey Tearle
The residents of the (fictional) rural village of Titfield rely on the railway branch line to commute to work and transport their produce to market. So they are shocked when the government announces that the line is to be closed. Particularly hard hit is the local vicar, railway enthusiast Rev. Sam Weech (George Relph); he comes up with the idea to run it locally. He and the local squire, Gordon Chesterford (John Gregson), persuade wealthy Walter Valentine (Stanley Holloway) to provide the financial backing by telling him they can legally operate a bar while the train is running, so he will not have to wait all morning for the local pub to open.
, 1h36Directed by Claude Mouriéras
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Miou-Miou, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natacha Régnier, Michel Piccoli, Laurent Poitrenaux, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Un père, se sachant atteint de la maladie d'Alzheimer, décide de réunir ses trois filles afin de les revoir une dernière fois et d'apaiser les tensions familiales.
Train (2008)
, 1h34Directed by Gidi Raff
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Transport films, Rail transport films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Derek Magyar, Kavan Reece, Gloria Votsis, Ivan Barnev
In Eastern Europe, a group of US college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride. The students are participating in a wrestling championship; they include Todd (Derek Magyer) and his girlfriend Alex (Thora Birch), Sheldon (Kavan Reece), Claire (Gloria Votsis), and young assistant coach Willy (Gideon Emery). After a hard match, they sneak away from their hotel to an underground club. However, the next morning, they return too late for their train to Odessa.
Twentieth Century (1934)
, 1h31Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Dale Fuller, Edgar Kennedy, Ralph Forbes
Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe (Barrymore) takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Lombard) and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two long-suffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb and the consistently tipsy Owen O'Malley. Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protegée into the actress "Lily Garland", and both she and the play are resounding successes. Over the next three years, their partnership spawns three more smash hits, and Lily is recognized as a transcendent talent.
Night Train (1959)
, 1h33Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Aleksander Sewruk, Barbara Horawianka, Czesław Piaskowski
Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Night Train (2007)
, 1h34Directed by Diao Yi'nan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about capital punishment
The film follows a young woman, Wu Hongyan (Liu Dan), who works as a prison guard who aids in the execution of female prisoners. Lonely and widowed, Wu finds herself taking the night train to a dating service in a neighboring city.
Night Train to Munich (1940)
, 1h35Directed by Carol Reed, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Wyndham Goldie
As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plating, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna (Margaret Lockwood), is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to a concentration camp, where she is interrogated by Nazis who are after her father. Anna refuses to cooperate. Soon she is befriended by a fellow prisoner named Karl Marsen (Paul Henreid), who says he is a teacher imprisoned for his political views. Together they are able to escape and make their way to London. Anna does not know that Marsen is in fact a Gestapo agent assigned to gain her trust and locate her father.
Train de plaisir (1936)
, 1h30Directed by Léo Joannon
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Frédéric Duvallès, José Noguero, Marguerite Moreno, Raymond Cordy, Baron fils, Saturnin Fabre
Biscoton, chef de rayon dans un grand magasin parisien, a très envie d'aller passer un dimanche au bord de la mer avec Marguerite, une charmante vendeuse. Comme il est marié, il annonce à son épouse qu'il doit se rendre aux obsèques de sa vieille tante. Il prend donc un train de plaisir vêtu de deuil, avec une couronne mortuaire à la main.
Train of Life (1998)
, 1h43Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes French war films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Transport films, La culture tzigane, Rail transport films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Lionel Abelanski, Rufus, Agathe de La Fontaine, Michel Muller (humoriste), Clément Harari, Gad Elmaleh
The movie starts off with a man, named Schlomo (Lionel Abelanski), running crazily through a forest, with his voice playing in the background, saying that he has seen the horror of the Nazis in a nearby town, and he must tell the others. Once he gets into town, he informs the rabbi, and together they run through the town and once they have got enough people together, they hold a town meeting. At first, many of the men do not believe the horrors they are being told, and many criticize Schlomo, for he is the town lunatic, and who could possibly believe him? But the rabbi believes him, and then they try to tackle the problem of the coming terrors. Amidst the pondering and the arguing, Schlomo suggests that they build a train, so they can escape by deporting themselves. Some of their members pretend to be Nazis in order to ostensibly transport them to a concentration camp, when in reality, they are going to Palestine via Russia. Thus the Train of Life is born.
Train in Royal Gorge (1902)
Directed by Harry Buckwalter
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Train Ride to Hollywood (1975)
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Musical films
Actors Jay Robinson, Phyllis Davis
Harry Williams, membre d'un groupe de rhythm and blues, Bloodstone, se cogne la tête juste avant de monter sur scène pour un concert. Le reste du film se déroule alors dans ses rêves délirants : lui-même et les 3 autres musiciens se retrouvent conducteurs d'un train dont les passagers sont des personnages célèbres de la littérature (Dracula, Scarlett O'Hara,…) ou des acteurs célèbres, avec en toile de fond la musique du groupe. Mais les conducteurs-musiciens doivent avant tout résoudre des mystères : Marlon Brando est suspecté d'avoir assassiné Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald et d'autres encore en les étouffant sous ses aisselles…
Train without a Timetable (1959)
, 2h1Directed by Veljko Bulajić
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Stole Aranđelović, Olivera Marković, Bata Živojinović, Mirko Boman, Zlatko Crnković, Ljubica Jović
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
, 1h32Directed by Jiří Menzel
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Václav Neckář, Vlastimil Brodský, Josef Somr, Jiří Menzel, Jiří Kodet, Josef Abrhám
The young Miloš Hrma, who speaks with misplaced pride of his family of misfits and malingerers, is engaged as a newly trained station guard in a small railway station during the Second World War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He admires himself in his new uniform, and looks forward, like his prematurely-retired railwayman father, to avoiding real work. The sometimes pompous stationmaster is an enthusiastic pigeon-breeder with a kind wife, but is envious of the train dispatcher Hubička's success with women. Miloš holds an as-yet platonic love for the pretty young conductor Máša. The experienced Hubička presses for details of their relationship and realizes that Miloš is still a virgin.
Tram (2012)
, 7minutesDirected by Michaela Pavlátová
Origin France
Genres Erotic, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Rail transport films
Une conductrice de tramway laisse place à ses pulsions et fantasmes, transformant la réalité en un délire surréaliste et phallique.