Best Movies about Train track

Movies about Train track

The thriller starring Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny is the latest in a long line of movies where railroads are at the center of the action.

Cary Darling August 1, 2022 Updated: February 19, 2023, 1:21 am

Brad Pitt and Bad Bunny face off in «Bullet Train,» and it’s just the latest such movie to put its action on rails.

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«Bullet Train,» the new, mano-a-mano action-thriller starring Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Bad Bunny opening in theaters Aug. 5, gets its kung-fu kicks aboard a high-speed, Japanese train, and it’s just the latest such movie to put its action on rails. After all, having lots of people trapped in a metal box flying down the track at full speed is a good setting for some cinematic chaos. With that in mind, here are 10 favorite train-centric action films that you should catch if you want to get in the mood before boarding this «Bullet Train.»

You talkin’ to me? Gong Yoo gets ready to do battle in ‘Train to Busan.»

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1. ‘Train to Busan’ (2016)

South Korean director Yeon Song-ho proves that zombies on a train trump snakes on a plane every time. His suspenseful, heart-pounding and absolutely electric thriller, in which the undead turn a Seoul-to-Busan commuter railway into a first-class feeding frenzy, careens just like the train in the title but never derails. Just when everyone thought that nothing new or exciting could be done with the zombie genre, Song-ho shrugged and said, «Yeah, whatever.»

“Snowpiercer” is marked by bold visuals and a strong performance by Tilda Swinton.

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2. ‘Snowpiercer’ (2013)

In Bong Joon-ho’s «Snowpiercer,» a locomotive ferrying what’s left of humanity after a climate disaster, becomes a rather obvious metaphor for late-stage capitalism with the wealthy residing in luxury up front while the laborers suffer in squalor in the back. But «Snowpiercer» is marked by impressive world-building, bold visuals and strong performances from Chris Evans as revolutionary Curtis and especially Tilda Swinton as the grimly authoritarian Mason. The film spawned a TV series of the same name and Joon-ho went on to make an even more celebrated film about class, the Oscar-winning «Parasite.»

It’s a really stressful day for Jake Gyllenhaal stars in «Source Code»

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3. ‘Source Code’ (2011)

Duncan Jones’ inventive twist on the «Groundhog Day» nightmare stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who wakes up in another guy’s body, finds out he has eight minutes to uncover who planted a bomb on a morning commuter train and has to keep re-living this nightmare of a scenario. Thanks to a solid cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, Vera Farmiga and Michelle Monaghan, and a sense of narrative propulsion that keeps viewers from sweating the details of the film’s mumbo-jumbo science too much, «Source Code» makes engrossing use of its Hitchcock-meets-«Twilight Zone» premise, and the result is a sleek and satisfying ride.

No windshield, no problem. Jon Voight in ‘Runaway Train’

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4. ‘Runaway Train’ (1985)

Though parts of Andrei Konchalovsky’s «Runaway Train» seem dated now, this story of two escaped convicts and a railroad worker trapped on a conductor-less train hurtling through the frosty Alaskan wilderness is held together by a sense of suspense and strong performances, especially from Jon Voight as the bad-tempered Manny. To the surprise of many at the time who considered «Runaway Train» just another throw-away genre film, Voight and co-star Eric Roberts received Oscar nominations, for best actor and supporting actor respectively.

Hector Elizondo takes over a subway train «The Taking of Pelham One Two Three» from 1974.

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5. ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’ (1974)

The New York City subway system in the ’70s didn’t have the best reputation and, no doubt, this adrenaline rush of a film from director Joseph Sargent didn’t help with the Big Apple’s public relations. When four hijackers commandeer a subway car and demand a ransom, it’s up to the police department’s Lt. Garber (Walter Matthau) to bring them down. Matthau had a strong supporting cast including Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Robert Shaw and Jerry Stiller (Ben’s dad). The film has been remade a couple of times, as «The Taking of Pelham One Two Three» with Edward James Olmos and Vincent D’Onofrio in 1998 and «The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3» in 2009 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta. But the original still reigns.

Denzel Washington plays a railroad worker who deserves to be named Employee of the Month in «Unstoppable»

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6. ‘Unstoppable’ (2010)

In most of these films about trains of terror, there’s usually at least one bad guy (or zombie) on board. Not so with «Unstoppable» in which two nice-guy, low-level railroad employees (played by Denzel Washington and Chris Pine) with personal issues find themselves as the only ones who can stop an out-of-control, unmanned locomotive. Directed by Tony Scott («True Romance,» «Crimson Tide») with verve and tension, the crisply edited, high-octane «Unstoppable» lives up to its title.

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder make for an unlikely team in ‘Silver Streak.’

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7. ‘Silver Streak’ (1976)

The only comedy on this list is not only propelled by the hilarious chemistry of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (that still holds up, though the blackface scene lands differently in 2022 than it did 46 years ago). Still, a fair amount of railcar-hopping action, including a spectacular crash at the film’s climax based loosely on an actual 1953 incident, makes this Arthur Hiller film essential for those who like their cinematic train trips mixed with a few laughs and some credibility-stretching criminality.

A stoic Vinnie Jones in ‘The Midnight Meat Train’

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8. ‘The Midnight Meat Train’ (2008)

A very young, pre-«Limitless» Bradley Cooper is an ambitious photographer who, in his quest to capture the underbelly of New York City, stumbles into the path of a stone-silent serial killer (Vinnie Jones, «Snatch») who turns late-night subway riders into deli slices. Japanese director Ryûhei Kitamura, working from a script based on a Clive Barker short story, has a stylish sensibility that elevates the material beyond the usual slasher predictability. Many viewers missed this film when it came out because Lionsgate unceremoniously dumped it into only 100 theaters nationwide. But decent reviews (73 per-cent on Rotten Tomatoes), word-of-mouth among horror fans and the advent of streaming platforms have helped keep its bloody spirit alive.

A trip from China to Moscow across Siberia is turning into a nightmare for Emily Mortimer in «Transsiberian.»

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9. Transsiberian (2008)

This tense little thriller is set on board the Trans-Siberian Railway, a journey that summons up images of intrigue and danger. That’s exactly what an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) finds after unwittingly getting involved with two drug smugglers posing as couchsurfing wanderers out to see the world. All are being pursued by a Russian cop (Ben Kingsley).

Frank Sinatra means business in ‘Von Ryan’s Express.»

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10. ‘Von Ryan’s Express’ (1965)

Frank Sinatra stepped away from the recording studio to star in this WWII action flick about a group of Allied POWs who make their escape from an Italian camp by commandeering a train. The film was notable at the time for shooting on location in Europe and using real trains and aircraft.

Čestná uznání

Burt Lancaster in «The Train» in 1964

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In John Frankenheimer’s suspenseful, surprisingly downcast and Oscar-nominated 1964 WWII drama “The Train,” Burt Lancaster has to figure out a way to stop a German train full of valuable French art from getting to Germany — without damaging the art.

Neither Gareth Evans’ «The Raid 2» from 2014 nor Stanley Tong’s «Supercop» (starring Jackie Chan) from 1992 are train films per se but each includes an eye-popping action scene set on a train. In «The Raid 2,» the Hammer Girl (Julie Estelle) uses dvě hammers to take down her knife-wielding opponents in a subway car in a violent confrontation while in «Supercop,» Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan pull off an amazing series of stunts on top of a moving locomotive, including Yeoh’s motorcycle leap onto the top of the train. Similarly, while everyone associates the «Mad Max» franchise with cars, a train had a starring role in «Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome» in 1985. And, of course, Tom Cruise clung to the top of a speeding bullet train in “Mission: Impossible” in 1996.

Other trains, different tracks

Lars von Trier’s «Europa»

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Danish indie director Lars von Trier is not known for making action films but in 1991 he released one of the more tensely hypnotic and unsettling train films, «Europa.» Shot in a luxuriant black and white (with splashes of color) as a nod to the classic film noir movies it resembles, it tells the story of a young American in 1945 Germany who decides to blow up the train on which he works.

Similarly, there have been so many mysteries and thrillers set on trains over the years: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 hit «Strangers on a Train» (which inspired Danny Devito’s «Throw Momma from the Train» in 1987) as well as his «The Lady Vanishes» (1938) a „Na sever od severozápadu“ (1959); «The Great Train Robbery» (with its notable performances from Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland) in 1978; «Emperor of the North» starring Lee Marvin (1973) with its conductor-vs.-hobo conflict and the many versions of «Murder on the Orient Express.»

Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman in ‘The Darjeeling Limited.’

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And then, of course, there are the films where trains don’t involve murder and mayhem but something more transcendent. They represent freedom in Hal Ashby’s Woody Guthrie biopic, «Bound for Glory» (1976) and the spirit of Christmas in «The Polar Express» (2004). In Richard Linklater’s «Před východem slunce» (1995), the characters played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy meet on a train in Europe, beginning a relationship that would last through two more films. And in Wes Anderson’s «The Darjeeling Limited» (2007) three brothers try to repair their fraternal bond on a train trip across India.

Beyond Bullet Train: cool movies set on trains

Cinema has a long history of popular movies set aboard choo-choos. Given this, it’s no surprise that Rychlovlak –about assassins and thieves pursuing a McGuffin on a train headed from Tokyo to Kyoto — did brisk business during its first weekend in theaters, despite lukewarm reviews. Brad Pitt in the lead role surely didn’t hurt the box office either.

• Generál (1926)
• Z Ruska s láskou (1963)
• Vlak (1964)
• Von Ryanův expres (1965)
• Vražda v Orient Expressu (1974)
• Runaway Train (1985)
• Půlnoční běh (1988)
• Mission Impossible (1996)
• Snow Piercer (2013)
• Train to Busan (2016) Show 6 more items

Perhaps audiences are drawn to these films because trains are inherently cinematic. Sleek, modern, containing multiple human stories simultaneously, and thundering toward a final destination, trains have a lot in common with movies. Below we celebrate ten classics set aboard locomotives.

Generál (1926)

Buster Keaton’s silent epic (co-directed with Clyde Bruckman) was not a hit during it day, but has since become considered one of the greatest of all films, not least because of the incredible action choreography that has influenced generations of filmmakers including George Miller and his Mad Max Filmy.

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Keaton the actor stars as a Confederate railroad engineer who becomes embroiled in a Civil War plot that gives Keaton the director excuses to stage amazing train chases that include crashing a real locomotive into a river — surely an inspiration for the similar scene in Projekt Most na řece Kwai. The most expensive silent film ever, Obecné became the template from which every action comedy has sprung.

Z Ruska s láskou (1963)

Often considered among the best James Bond films — including by actors who have played Bond — Od Ruska s láskou is a subdued and elegant affair, at least by Bond standards. Much of the action takes place on the Orient Express (yes, že one) and features Bond trying to outwit and outmuscle the SPECTRE assassin, Red Grant (a bleached blonde Robert Shaw), while shaking and stirring up a romance with Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi, also very blonde) who may or may not be a Soviet spy.

Od Ruska s láskou is one of the few Bond films that depend more on plot than action for its storytelling effects, allowing the train scenes especially to unfold with rare leisure. Like all the early Bond films, the movie is shot in glorious Technicolor, which makes the Turkish locations look especially stunning.

Vlak (1964)

Director John Frankenheimer’s forgotten masterpiece is a tough, gritty piece of work starring Burt Lancaster as a French resistance fighter who attempts to stop a Nazi Colonel (Paul Scofield) from looting France’s great art works and sending them by train to Berlin. Though made in 1964, the movie’s high contrast black and white photography gives it a timeless feel, as does the use of beautiful old locomotives from the pre-War era.

Lancaster is about as convincing a Frenchman as Peter Sellers doing Inspector Clouseau in the Růžový panter movies, (and at least Sellers attempts a French accent). But it hardly matters. He brings every ounce of his muscular charisma to a movie that delivers realistic war action and thoughtful themes about the value of art and culture vs. human life.

Von Ryanův expres (1965)

More WWII train action! This handsomely mounted production stars Frank Sinatra as an American air colonel, Joseph Ryan, who finds himself leading an Allied escape from an Italian prison camp alongside a skeptical English officer (Trevor Howard) who questions his leadership. Nazis capture the escaped soldiers and put them on a POW train to Berlin, but of course Ol’ Blue Eyes commandeers the train from their captors.

From there, it’s a race to Switzerland, with Ryan and his men having to outwit and outfight the Germans at every turn. The movie makes beautiful use of the Spanish and Italian countryside and the extended climax featuring Messerschmitts attacking the train as it hurtles over a mountain pass is as exciting and technically accomplished as anything in the genre.

Vražda v Orient Expressu (1974)

The original film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel about members of the landed class stranded on a snowbound train who are lucky enough to have Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney), the world’s greatest detective, aboard when murder breaks out. (Or are they? No spoilers here!)

Sidney Lumet was an inspired choice as director, given the more contemporary crime movies he made during the same period, Serpico a Den psa odpoledne. And with apologies to the talented cast of Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 version, Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, and Ingrid Bergman bring heaps more star power than Branagh, Willem Dafoe, Penélope Cruz, and Daisy Ridley. The elegant film was a critical and commercial hit and earned a clutch of Oscar nominations including Best Actor for Finney and Supporting Actress for Bergman, who won.

Runaway Train (1985)

Jon Voight and Eric Roberts earned Oscar nominations for this bruising action drama about two escaped convicts who find themselves barrelling across the snowy Alaskan wilderness after they commandeer a train that loses both its conductor and its brakes.

It’s actually not a full train, but four locomotives strung together, and stopping them is basically an impossible feat, explains the one railroad worker aboard (Rebecca De Mornay). The movie skillfully piles up the obstacles and complications as the three nonetheless try to stave off a wreck, while prison authorities attempt to recapture the fugitives via helicopter and dispatchers work to prevent catastrophe from the ground. The way the train thunders along, completely impervious to human will, becomes an allegory for that out-of-control choo choo otherwise known as life.

Půlnoční běh (1988)

Midnight Run stars Robert De Niro as bounty hunter Jack Walsh who must return bail skipper Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin) to L.A. from New York in five days. Mardukas claims to be afraid of flying, forcing Walsh to find alternative modes of transportation, including trains. Thus begins the pair’s odyssey across the continental U.S. with the mob, FBI, local cops, and rival bounty hunters in hilarious pursuit.

Though not a train movie per se, the classic road trip features two indelible train sequences. The first, set on an Amtrak, showcases the actors’ incomparable comic chemistry as Mardukas criticizes Walsh’s lifestyle choices and Walsh threatens to shove his head in the toilet. Later, the men hop a freight train and lament life’s bummers around a boxcar bonfire, while also confessing their attraction to chickens.

Mission Impossible (1996)

The one that started it all, and who knew it would virtually never end? The series, based on the 1960s TV show, became known for its outrageous stunt sequences, often performed by Tom Cruise himself as Agent Ethan Hunt of Impossible Mission Force. The big sequence in the first film is the climax set aboard a speeding train that drags a helicopter with it into the Chunnel (the underwater tracks beneath the English Channel).

The special effects look a bit dated, especially compared to the utterly amazing sequences in more recent Mission Impossible films, such as Cruise climbing the side of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in Duchový protokol (2011). But it’s still pretty exciting, and the wind and G-Forces contorting Cruise’s face impressively convey how rychle these high-speed trains really move.

Snow Piercer (2013)

Bong Joon-Ho’s modern sci-fi classic uses a train as an allegory for a world riven by class differences. Perhaps it’s a bit of an obvious one, given that trains are already stratified into economic classes based on fare, but it doesn’t matter when it’s this effective. The train in Snowpiercer also has the distinction of being the last one in the world, chugging humanity’s few survivors through a climate change-induced ice age that can no longer sustain life.

Chris Evans plays the leader of the proletariat who occupy the wretched rear of the train and eventually revolt against their oppressive overlords (which include Tilda Swinton as a nasty fascist in oversized glasses). As they commandeer the locomotive car by car, they are stunned to discover the lush and opulent environments of the rich. Joon-Ho imagines a chilling Orwellian dystopia which — like any Marxist manifesto worth its salt — suggests that to start fresh you need to wreck the whole machine.

Vlak do Pusanu (2016)

Zombies on a train? Any New Yorker will tell you it’s a common experience, especially before 9 a.m., though perhaps not quite so deadly as the zombie apocalypse that breaks out during a high-speed trip from Seoul to Busan in this movie. Like many Korean films, Vlak do Busanu has a father at its heart (Gong Yoo) who must protect an adorable child (Kim Su-an), thereby learning to be…all together now…a better man.

Given their essential inertness as characters, you’d think that zombies would have worn out their welcome as horror subjects long ago. But their persistent popularity means that filmmakers continue to invent new scenarios in which the bloody-mouthed louts can mindlessly infect their brethren. Vlak do Busanu is one of the most inventive and entertaining thus far and makes a perfect capper to our classic movies about trains list.

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The Most Iconic Train Scenes In Movies

All aboard! Since the early silent films, trains have been a staple in practically every movie genre imaginable. People often go to the movies as a way to escape their everyday lives, and what better metaphor is there for travel than the exotic and often luxurious world of trains?

Depending on the type of movie you’re watching, however, a train scene can evoke a wide range of emotions. Romantic movies offer tearful farewell scenes at train stations. Action-adventure films provide exciting fight sequences in (and sometimes on) a high-speed train. And then there are the fantasy films that allow trains to literally soar off the tracks and fly past the boundaries of imagination.

If you’re a dedicated trainspotter like Sheldon Cooper of «The Big Bang Theory,» or just love the romance that comes from riding the rails, get ready to revisit some amazing journeys. These are the most iconic train scenes in movies.

Obecné

Let’s start with one of the very first iconic train movies — now regarded as one of the greatest American films ever made. In 1926, United Artists released «The General,» a silent comedy film starring the legendary Buster Keaton. Taking place during the American Civil War, we follow the adventures of Western & Atlantic Railroad Confederate train engineer Johnnie Gray (Keaton) and his beloved locomotive «The General.»

In the film, The General is stolen by Union spies and Johnnie pursues it into Union territory. At one point, Johnnie crosses a bridge and sets it on fire to prevent The General from following. When the Union officer in pursuit orders the train to cross anyway, The General chugs across the bridge which collapses beneath its weight and sends it falling into the river.

What’s truly remarkable about this scene is that the train that falls into the river really is a full working steam locomotive and cars and not a model. This made the train scene the most expensive scene ever filmed in the silent era with an estimated cost of $42,000 (about half a million dollars today). The train wreckage actually stayed at the bottom of Oregon’s Row River until it was salvaged for iron during World War II . although you can still see bits of it today.

Mission: Impossible

Tom Cruise’s «Mission: Impossible» movie franchise seems intent on topping their stunt sequences with each film. Over the years, we’ve seen Cruise, as secret agent Ethan Hunt, hang from the outside of a plane, scale the tallest building on Earth, and perform a high-altitude halo jump. The fact that these stunts are real and not achieved with green screens speaks volumes about the lengths the filmmakers and Cruise will go for their fans.

But it’s Ethan’s epic battle atop a speeding TGV train in the original «Mission Impossible» (1996) that first made audiences sit up and take notice. Having secured a top-secret «NOC List» containing the true identities of covert Impossible Mission Force operatives, Ethan attempts to flush out a traitor in the IMF by delivering the list to arms dealer Max (Vanessa Redgrave) in return for the identity of the mole . who turns out to be none other than Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), Ethan’s former mentor.

But Jim won’t go down easily. After stealing millions of dollars from Ethan, he makes his way to the roof of the speeding train to rendezvous with his getaway helicopter. Ethan follows and, against insane wind resistance, tethers the helicopter to the train so that it flies into the Channel Tunnel. He then climbs onto the helicopter, blows it up with a stick of exploding gum, and rides the explosion back to the train. Impossible? Absolutely. But then, that’s his job description.

Spider-Man 2

Sam Raimi’s «Spider-Man» did an amazing job of telling the webslinger’s origin, but it’s «Spider-Man 2» that many fans consider the best film in the trilogy — and it’s easy to see why. No other Spider-Man movie has depicted Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire)’s terrible «Parker Luck» so well. In the first hour, Peter loses his job, his spider-powers, and any chance of being with Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), the woman he loves.

Fortunately, Peter recovers his powers for the film’s climax — just in time to face off against Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina), on top of a high-speed train. From there, things get crazier. Doc Octopus snatches passengers out of the train with his mechanical arms and hurls them at Spider-Man — only for Spidey to weave web hammocks and save them. Undaunted, Doctor Ock sabotages the train’s brakes, and Peter is forced to slow down the train with his webbing and superhuman strength as the train hurls toward an unfinished bridge.

Spider-Man triumphs — but his road to victory is one of the most painful and exciting sequences ever filmed in a superhero movie. The scene of Spider-Man holding back a massive train with nothing but a few strands of webbing and his body is so excruciating you’ll swear you’ll pull a muscle watching it. Heroes like Superman can stop runaway trains with minimal difficulty, but Spidey really has to work for this win. And we love him for that.

Mravenčí muž

Not all train scenes need to be giant epic sequences to be memorable. Sometimes, what makes a good train scene is all a matter of perspective. While other superheroes end up battling on the Bifrost or in Wakanda, Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) has his most memorable battle on a toy train set in «Ant-Man.»

After gaining size-altering powers from Doctor Hank Pym’s Ant-Man suit, Scott Lang secretly uses his abilities to watch over his daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson). But when Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll), another size-shifting villain, threatens Cassie, Scott rushes to her defense. Shrinking to the size of insects, the two take the fight to Cassie’s bedroom table — and nearly get flattened by her Thomas the Tank Engine toy train.

It’s a hilarious yet still exciting fight depending on what angle you’re watching it from. Seen up close, the battle takes on epic proportions as Ant-Man lifts entire box cars and flings them at his enemy. Seen from far away, it looks ridiculous since all of those superhero moves amount to a toy train falling off its tracks. Yet by the end, everyone gets to see just how dangerous Thomas the Tank Engine can be when one of Ant-Man’s growth discs accidentally lands on the toy, expanding it to the size of a real train that smashes through the house of Scott’s ex-wife and crushes a police car. Think that’ll come out of his alimony payments?

Indiana Jones a poslední křížová výprava

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is one archeologist with plenty of fun quirks. During «Raiders of the Last Ark» and «Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,» we learn Indy has a pathological fear of snakes, is proficient with a bullwhip, wears a trademark hat, and has a distinctive scar on his chin (actually a real-life scar Ford sustained in a car crash).

Jak se ukazuje, každý jeden of these character quirks were acquired by Indy during a train ride. In the opening scene of «Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,» we discover that a teenage Indiana (River Phoenix) witnessed some grave robbers steal a golden crucifix from a cave back in 1912. Feeling the artifact belongs in a museum, Indy takes the crucifix, causing the robbers to chase him onto a circus train.

As he moves from one car to another, Indy falls into a snake pit, giving him a crippling new phobia. He fends off a lion with a bullwhip that gives him his facial scar. And while he loses the crucifix thanks to a corrupt sheriff, he gains the admiration of the leader of the robbers who gifts Indy with his hat.

The Indiana Jones movie franchise has always been a love letter to the adventure serials from the 1930s, and this scene celebrates this by explaining Indy’s entire backstory in one wonderfully traumatic train ride.

Od té doby, co jsi odešel

So far, we’ve placed the spotlight on action sequences involving trains. But train scenes can deal with more somber material, as the 1944 classic «Since You Went Away» reveals. The film follows a family traveling by train to reunite with their husband and father before he ships off to fight in World War II. Over the course of the trip, teenager Jane (Jennifer Jones) fall in love with Bill (Robert Walker), a corporal in the U.S. Army. They get engaged, but Bill asks Jane to wait until after the war to get married, leading to a crying Jane running after his departing train to tell him goodbye as he throws her his watch as a parting gift.

Sadly, this marks the last time Bill and Jane get to be together since Bill dies in the war. Although considered cliché by audiences today, and even parodied in films like «Airplane!» (1980), the scene is very poignant in «Since You Went Away.» Train stations are often associated with romance, and you couldn’t ask for a more romantic goodbye scene than seeing your lover off at a train.

Zpátky do budoucnosti část III

Train heists are a popular cinema trope, but according to Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), hijacking an 1885 steam train in «Back to the Future Part III» wasn’t a stick-up but «a science experiment.» Regardless, this train scene ranks as one of the tensest action sequences in the trilogy. Needing to get the train up to 88 miles per hour so it can push the DeLorean time machine into the future, Doc develops his version of «Presto Logs» to provide the engine with enough power. Unfortunately, this means the engine will overheat and blow up in minutes.

That’s not the only problem Doc and Marty (Michael J. Fox) need to deal with. After powering up the furnace, they make their way back to the DeLorean by climbing na the roof of the speeding train as it hurls toward an unfinished bridge. Unfortunately, Doc’s girlfriend Clara (Mary Steenburgen) unknowingly boards the doomed train, forcing Doc to go back for her just as the furnace explodes.

Fortunately, Marty provides Doc with a last-second save by passing him a hoverboard, allowing Doc and Clara to fly to safety seconds before the train falls off the side of a ravine. That’s not the last we see of Doc though. In the final scene, we learn Doc built a new steam-powered locomotive time machine with the ability to fly. Where they’re going, they won’t need . tracks.

Inception

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending film «Inception» delighted in playing with audience’s minds. Taking place largely within a lucid dream where the normal rules of physics no longer apply, the film allowed the FX artists and set designers to truly test the limits of imagination.

After accepting a risky job to plant an idea deep within a powerful man’s subconscious, professional dream thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team of specialists craft a complex con involving military-developed shared dream technology. Unfortunately, Cobb has a bizarre problem — the guilt he feels over his wife’s death causes a mental construct of her to manifest in his dreams and sabotage his missions. To the team’s horror, «Dream Mal» (Marion Cotillard) makes her presence felt almost immediately after they arrive in their target’s mind — by creating a massive dream train smashes through a city street and rams their tax cab, nearly killing them all.

This isn’t the only time we see a train scene in «Inception.» Turns out the reason «Mal» used a train is because the real Mal and Cobb had once been trapped inside a dream world for the mental equivalent of decades. When Mal began seeing their dream as reality, Cobb planted the idea that their world was an illusion — and woke them both up by allowing a train to run over them. Sadly, the idea of the world’s unreality continued to infect Mal, and she later killed herself in real life, believing she was returning to her dream reality.

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«The Incredibles» gave us one of animation’s best superhero families — but it all started with a massive train accident that completely destroyed the superhero community. When Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) meets up with his old enemy Bomb Voyage (Dominique Louis), it looks like the start of another one of their usual battles. But when Buddy Pine, an overzealous fan boy, gets in the way, an errant bomb winds up destroying a huge section of the city’s elevated train tracks.

Mr. Incredible manages to stop the train from falling, but the resulting bad press from all the injured passengers forces all the public superheroes to go undercover. The fallout proves particularly devastating to Mr. Incredible who falls into depression and becomes an overweight shadow of his former self. Maybe he should have taken some lessons from Spider-Man. Everyone loved the webslinger after he saved a New York train from Doctor Octopus in «Spider-Man 2.»

The Polar Express

Most of the films on this list only feature a train in one or two key sequences. «The Polar Express,» however, builds the entire premise of its movie around a train. Based off of the celebrated picture book by Chris Van Allsburg, «The Polar Express» follows a boy (Daryl Sabara) struggling to hold onto his belief in magic and Christmas. When a mysterious magic train appears in front of his house one night, the boy takes a leap of faith and climbs onboard, joining a bunch of children on their way to the North Pole.

What follows is a magical journey that’s equal parts heartwarming movie and roller coaster ride. Those audiences lucky enough to see the film as it was meant to be seen in IMAX 3-D know the film is filled with scenes showing the train careening over icy hills, sliding across frozen lakes, and generally executing feats only Santa Claus’ train could perform. Then there are all the musical numbers being performed inside the diner cars as dancing waiters serve hot chocolate to the kids.

With the «Hero Boy» and «Hero Girl» as our viewpoint characters, we even get a peek at the inner workings of the train, including the engine and a spooky section occupied by a creepy (but friendly) ghost. If Christmas is defined by «scary ghost stories» and «tales of the glory,» then it’s no surprise that «The Polar Express» has become a regular Christmas movie for some families.

Harry Potter a kámen mudrců

Let’s be honest — if you could choose only one fantasy train to ride in, the Hogwarts Express would easily top the list. Originally only found in the pages of J.K. Rowling’s «Harry Potter» books, audiences got to see the train on the big screen in «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.»

Practically everything about the train is memorable, from the way young Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) manages to find his way to the hidden «Platform 9 ¾» at London King’s Cross Station to his first meeting with future best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). Then there’s the Trolley Witch (Jean Southern) who arrives mid-journey to offer magical confections like Chocolate Frogs and Cauldron Cakes to the young witches and wizards.

Still, the Wizarding World is dangerous, and Harry’s encountered numerous dangers during his train rides. In «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,» he nearly gets the life sucked out of him by a dementor. Then in «Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,» rival Draco Malfoy petrifies Potter when he spies on the Slytherin carriage.

Dangers aside, riding on the Hogwarts Express ranks high on the wish lists of many fans. This is why many travel to Scotland to board The Jacobite, the actual train used in the «Harry Potter» films, which journeys through many familiar sights from the movies. Just stay clear of the dementors.

The Lone Ranger

«The Lone Ranger» (2013) was a box office bomb and disappointed audiences. However, even the harshest critics couldn’t help but admire the final chase scene where the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) engage in one of the most epic train battles in movie history.

The scene sees the Lone Ranger confront corrupt railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) and his henchman Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) during Cole’s railroad union ceremony. Realizing Cole will use the mined silver on one of the trains to gain more power, Tonto steals the train. Simultaneously, the Lone Ranger pursues another train holding his love interest and her son captive.

What follows is an insanely over-the-top fight scene accompanied by the Lone Ranger’s theme song, «The William Tell Overture.» Highlights include the Lone Ranger’s unusually intelligent horse Silver galloping over rooftops and leaping onto the top of the train to chase the bad guys. At one point, the hero catches a bullet thrown to him from a moving train, reloads his gun, and shoots the gun out of Cole’s hand from half a mile away.

And just when it looks like Cole will get away, Tonto gleefully reveals they blew up a railroad bridge, causing the train to fall into the river and drown Cole beneath all his silver. Box office flop or not, this scene holds up remarkably well in repeat viewings.

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