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- DirectorRichard FleischerWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsCharles McGrawMarie WindsorJacqueline WhiteA woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
- DirectorPeter HyamsStarsGene HackmanAnne ArcherJames SikkingA Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael RedgravePaul LukasWhile travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsElliott GouldCybill ShepherdAngela LansburyWhile travelling by rail in interwar Nazi Germany, a young socialite finds that a fellow female passenger has disappeared from the train, but nobody else remembers her having been on board.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsMuriel AkedJoan BarryDonald CalthropA sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyck painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers, including adulterous lovers, a very annoying golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent film star any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsJean KentAlbert LievenDerrick De MarneySpies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsVictor McLaglenMarjorie WoodworthDennis O'KeefeA publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddBilly GilbertThelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddAnita GarvinThe girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAlbert FinneyLauren BacallIngrid BergmanIn December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsFrank SinatraTrevor HowardRaffaella CarràAn American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.
- DirectorEugenio MartínStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingAlberto de MendozaWhile on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsGene WilderRichard PryorJill ClayburghOn a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsJohn 'Dusty' KingMarjorie ReynoldsGeorge ClevelandThe Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsRichard TravisCatherine CraigChick ChandlerA train leaves Los Angeles with a Nazi spy, a woman, a reporter, their respective sidekicks, and the wrong suitcase: one with a bomb in it.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDick PowellPaula RaymondAdolphe MenjouA New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCharles BronsonBen JohnsonRichard CrennaJohn Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsMary AstorRicardo CortezDudley DiggesA variety of suspicious characters try to get their hands on a priceless diamond necklace aboard the Orient Express.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsNeil HamiltonSheila TerryArthur ByronA trainload of silk puts Neil Hamilton on the fast track to murder in this full-throttle thrill ride costarring Sheila Terry and Guy Kibbee. As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton (Arthur Hohl) corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore (Hamilton) imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsEdmund LoweMadge EvansPaul LukasRival reporters pose as honeymooners on a European train to track a munitions magnate.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsEdmund LoweConstance CummingsThomy BourdelleA wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMarjorie MainJames WhitmoreAnn DvorakA paroled embezzler skips town with his $100K loot and boards the Chicago-New York train, followed by an assortment of shady characters who want the money, but en-route to NYC the embezzler is murdered and his loot disappears.
- DirectorJohn RawlinsStarsKent TaylorIrene HerveyHenry StephensonA murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsFred KeatingDorothy ComingoreClarence MuseFrankie Terris and Mannie Robbins are the two most powerful gangsters in their city. Frankie has a young sister, Louise, whom he has kept at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering. Mannie's young son, Joe, is also ignorant of his father's profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her. Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears for Louise's safety and makes her promise to take a trip abroad. Louise learns that Mannie plans to shoot Frankie on the train taking him to prison, and she stows away in hopes of warning her brother. On the train, she falls into the protective arms of Federal Agent Bill Adams. Before she has a chance to warn Frankie, Mannie's henchmen go to work and a gangland shootout ensues.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsCharles RugglesUna MerkelMary CarlisleA sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsJack OakieSally EilersKent TaylorNewspaper reporter Bangs Carter and his rich buddy Wally Tucker end up on a train bound for Florida with jewel thieves and Wally's ex-girlfriend. Bangs falls for a passenger along the way as they try to catch the crooks.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsLloyd NolanLynn BariMary Beth HughesMike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsJon VoightEric RobertsRebecca De MornayTwo escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsLee MarvinErnest BorgnineKeith CarradineIn 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsSteven SeagalEric BogosianEverett McGillCasey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite.
- DirectorThomas AtkinsStarsBurlington ZephyrSally BlaneCharles StarrettThe crew of the Pioneer Zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the Boulder Dam construction site.
- DirectorPierre Granier-DeferreStarsJean-Louis TrintignantRomy SchneiderMaurice BiraudTwo people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsBen JohnsonJamie Lee CurtisHart BochnerThree years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
- DirectorPeter MervisStarsA.J. CastroJulia RuizGiovanni BejaranoA Zombie curse is placed upon a woman, which causes her to have living snakes inside her. Brujo, who is looking after her, attempts to take her to Los Angeles on the train. After several confrontations on the train, Brujo's collection of snakes manage to separate themselves from their owner and go on the hunt. Whilst all this is happening, normal, everyday passengers are relaxing, what is unknown to them is that something deadly is heading their way, and that there is no way out.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsBen LyonBarbara WeeksKenneth ThomsonA man (Nat Pendleton) tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
- DirectorPhil WhitmanStarsHedda HopperMarceline DayNick StuartA group of passengers is trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsMary BrianRussell HoptonDon DillawayA man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution is a reporter who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJoseph CottenCorinne CalvetEdmund GwennA group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsWillard ParkerMarguerite ChapmanChester MorrisA Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when one takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and another must write commercial jingles.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsHugh WilliamsGodfrey TearleJulien MitchellBob, a railroad engineer on his final trip before retiring, deals with suspicions about his wife and fireman while transporting peculiar passengers. Unanticipated occurrences lead to unforeseen character interactions and resolutions.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceAlan MowbrayWhen the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsBrian DonlevyGloria StuartDouglas FowleyGangster Benson is on a train with G-man Evers and newswoman Marvis. First these two have to get the gangster, then they have to get each other.
- DirectorTed TetzlaffOtis GarrettStarsJohn BarrymoreFrances FarmerEugene PalletteA producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.
- DirectorGuy FergussonStarsIvy St. HelierAnn WalfordVernon GrayThe robbery of gold is planned from a train which also carries several eccentric passengers, including two elderly ladies who write lurid thrillers under a pseudonym.
- DirectorRolf HädrichStarsJosé FerrerSean FlynnNicole CourcelCold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.