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Railroad Man (1999)
, 1h52Directed by Yasuo Furuhata
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ōtake, Ryōko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masanobu Ando, Tomoko Naraoka
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
, 2h1Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Rail transport films, Musical films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien
It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, Joe (Tony Curtis) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a sensible jazz double-bass player. They accidentally witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. When the gangsters, led by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft), spot them, the two run for their lives. Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami. Disguised as women and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's vocalist and ukulele player.
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
, 1h31Directed by Wes Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies
Actors Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Natalie Portman, Waris Ahluwalia
A businessman in India (Bill Murray) fails to catch his train as it pulls out of a station. He is beaten to it by a younger man, Peter Whitman (Adrien Brody). Peter reunites with his brothers Francis (Owen Wilson) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) on the train called "The Darjeeling Limited", which is traveling across India. The brothers have not seen each other since their father's funeral a year prior.
The Warriors (1979)
, 1h32Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon, David Shaber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Hip hop films, Road movies, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly, Brian Tyler
Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, calls a midnight summit of all New York area gangs, requesting them to send nine unarmed delegates to Van Cortlandt Park. The Warriors, from Coney Island, attend the summit. Cyrus proposes to the assembled crowd a permanent citywide truce and alliance that would allow the gangs to control the city. Most of the gangs laud his idea, but Luther, leader of the Rogues, shoots Cyrus dead. In the resulting chaos, Luther frames the Warriors' leader Cleon for the murder, and Cleon is beaten down by the Riffs. Meanwhile, the other Warriors have escaped, unaware that they've been implicated in Cyrus' murder. The Riffs put out a hit on the Warriors through a radio DJ. Swan, the Warriors' "war chief", takes charge of the group as they try to make it back home.
Tough Guys (1986)
, 1h44Directed by Jeff Kanew
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach, Darlanne Fluegel, Dana Carvey
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who've served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security.
Julia (1977)
, 1h58Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell
The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a beachhouse.
Nighthawks (1981)
, 1h33Directed by Gary Nelson, Bruce Malmuth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport
Three armed assailants mug a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva in drag. His partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the suspects as Deke chases the third upstairs to the subway station platform, taunts him, and incapacitates him with a scarf. On the same day in London, terrorist Heymar Reinhardt, alias Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) bombs a department store. Meanwhile, back in New York City, DaSilva and Fox serve a high-risk warrant in the Bronx. They raid a known drug distribution spot, where they discover corrupt police officers among the dealers. After the arrest, DaSilva meets his estranged wife, Irene, and professes his love for her. Irene initially rebuffs DaSilva's advances but eventually renews their relationship.
, 1h26Directed by Britt Allcroft
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Animation
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Children's films
Actors Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Mara Wilson, Cody McMains, Michael E. Rodgers, Edward Glen
Sir Topham Hatt, the director of the Island of Sodor Railway, is on holiday leaving Mr. Conductor (Alec Baldwin) in charge. Meanwhile, while talking at Killaban station, Thomas (originally going to be voiced by John Bellis/voiced by Edward Glen) and Gordon (voiced by Neil Crone) encounter an evil and cross diesel locomotive named Diesel 10 (originally going to be voiced by Keith Scott/voiced by Neil Crone), who has a claw on top of him who he names "Pinchy" He states that he has incomplete work on Sodor. Meanwhile, in Shining Time, Mr. Conductor has his own problems as his supply of gold dust, which allows him to magically teleport from place to place, is running low and isn't enough to allow him to travel back from Sodor.
Steamboy (2004)
, 2h10Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films
Actors Anne Suzuki, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Masane Tsukayama, Kiyoshi Kodama, Ikki Sawamura
In 1863, where an alternate nineteenth century Europe has made tremendous strides in steam-powered technologies, scientist Lloyd Steam and his son Edward have succeeded, after a lengthy expedition, in discovering a pure mineral water. They believe the water can be harnessed as an ultimate power source for steam engines (the main industrial engine of the time). An experiment in Russian Alaska goes terribly wrong, with Edward being engulfed in freezing gases, but results in the creation of a strange spherical apparatus.
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
, 1h57Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Adolfo Celi, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
, 2h9Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner
When the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) is revealed at the U.S. mission at the International Health Organization, three terrorists seek to blow up the U.S. mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish. Dr. Elena Stradner (Ingrid Thulin) and U.S. Colonel Stephen Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) (Military Intelligence assigned to the IHO) argue over the nature of the strain, which Stradner suspects is a biological weapon but which Colonel Mackenzie claims was in the process of being destroyed.
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
, 1h33Directed by John Hough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films
Actors Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey, Lynn Borden
Two NASCAR hopefuls, driver Larry Rayder (Peter Fonda) and his mechanic Deke Sommers (Adam Roarke), successfully execute a supermarket heist to finance their jump into big-time auto racing. They extort $150,000 in cash from a supermarket manager (Roddy McDowall in an uncredited role) by holding his wife and daughter hostage.
North by Northwest (1959)
, 2h16Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Films about marriage
Actors Cary Grant, Sol Gorss, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein), who take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. He is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm's "associate" Leonard (Martin Landau) intends to get rid of Thornhill once they finish questioning him.
, 1h50Directed by Michael Crichton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Pamela Salem, Malcolm Terris
In 1854, Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), to all appearances a charismatic and well-established member of London's high society, is secretly an opportunistic and cynical master thief. He plans to steal a shipment of gold (sent monthly to finance the Crimean War) travelling from London to Folkestone. The bank has taken strict precautions, including locking the gold in two heavy Chubb safes, each of which has two locks, requiring a total of four keys to open them. When a test robbery (using a hired stooge to test the security measures) goes awry, Pierce recruits his old acquaintance Robert Agar (Donald Sutherland), a pickpocket and screwsman. Pierce's mistress Miriam (Lesley-Anne Down), a beautiful actress, and his driver Barlow (George Downing) join the plot, and the guard to the safe car, Burgess (Michael Elphick), is also bribed into participation. Pierce plans the robbery in exquisite detail, and procures information on the security measures and locations of the keys. The executives of the bank who store the gold and arrange its transport, Mr. Henry Fowler and Mr. Edgar Trent, each possess a key; the other two are locked in a cabinet at the offices of the South Eastern Railway at the London Bridge train station. The keys are not to be stolen, but wax impressions are to be made of them in order to hide the robbers' intentions.
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
, 1h27Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Les Beatles
Actors John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Wilfrid Brambell, George Harrison, Norman Rossington, Ringo Starr
Bound for a London show, the Beatles escape a horde of fans. Once they are aboard the train and trying to relax, various interruptions test their patience: after a dalliance with a female passenger, Paul's grandfather is confined to the guard's van and the four lads join him there to keep him company. John, Paul, George, and Ringo play a card game, entertaining schoolgirls before arriving at their destination.