16 Train Movies To Check Out Before 'Bullet Train'

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16 Train Movies To Check Out Before 'Bullet Train'

Trains have had an interesting history alongside cinema, even at the very beginning of the art form. Any film student can tell you about the unverified account of early film audiences fleeing in terror at The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, thinking of it as a real train heading toward them. Trains provide a nice vehicle (pardon the pun) for film stories.

Having a movie set on a train can definitely raise the stakes, regardless of genre. It creates potential isolation of all the main characters being stuck in one setting (the train). It can open up discussion about class issues and transportation in general from a wide range of periods in time. Plus, think of all of the action sequences featuring a train going off track or heading towards peril, or two people climbing on top of a moving train, and so on.

Here are some quality movies involving trains for you to check out.

Train to Busan

Train movies Train to Busan 2016 Not only does this South Korean film take place on a train and feature high impact action, but there are zombies! A favorite among audiences and critics. CRACKED.COM

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Murder on the Orient Express

Train movies 1974 Murder on the Orient Express While the 2017 version is good, this adaptation of the Agatha Christie murder mystery was nominated for multiple academy awards. As the title suggests, a murder takes place on a luxury train and famed detective Hercule Poirot is tasked to solve it. CRACKED.COM

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Burt Lancaster

Train movies 1964 The Train Burt Lancaster is part of a French Resistance against the Nazis, who are shipping stolen paintings to Germany by train. A vintage war film that takes place on the tracks rather than the typical battlefield. CRACKED.COM

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Snowpiercer

Train movies 2013 Snowpiercer Based on a French graphic novel series, this story takes place on a train that carries the last bit of humanity alive, as the lower classes in the back fight their way to depose the elite in the front. CRACKED.COM

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The Battle of the Rails

Train movies 1946 The Battle of the Rails This is a French film about the railroad workers who sabotaged German trains during World War II, with much of the cast being actual railway workers. The movie won the Prix international du jury at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. CRACKED.COM

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Night Train to Munich

Train movies 1940 Night Train to Munich A Criterion Collection classic about an inventor and his daughter kidnapped by the Gestapo as a British Secret Service agent follows them, disguised as a Nazi officer that's trying to WOO them to the Führer's cause. CRACKED.COM

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Money Train

Train movies 1995 Money Train Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson are transit cops who decide to rob a subway train carrying the collected fares in order to pay off a debt to a mobster. It's a very 1990s action film. CRACKED.COM

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Throw Momma from the Train

Train movies 1987 Throw Momma from the Train An author with writer's block and his student recreate a comedy version of Strangers on a Train. This Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito movie is a classic, with an amazing performance by Anne Ramsay as DeVito's shrill mother. CRACKED.COM

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The Darjeeling Limited

Train movies fama 2007 The Darjeeling Limited Three brothers meet in India a year after their father's funeral, to go on a spiritual journey aboard a luxury train ride. If you're into Wes Anderson's stark color palette and twee, this movie is for you. CRACKED.COM

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The Girl on the Train

Train movies 2016 The Girl on the Train An alcoholic gets involved in a missing person case in this psychological mystery. Emily Blunt received several award nominations for her performance. CRACKED.COM

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Back to the Future Park III

Train movies 181 1990 Back to the Future Part III Driving a car at 88 MPH wasn't an option in 1885, a time before gas stations. Doc and Marty have to steal a whole train to get back to their future. CRACKED.COM

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