# The best train movies of all time

From The General to Snowpiercer: the films where the train is the star (decine21, The Cinemaholic, All Gifts Considered).

- 58 votes · 12 items
- May 11, 2022 · Ignacio Pereyra Ortiz
- https://even.best/en/l/1998/the-best-train-movies-of-all-time

## Top 12

1. **The General (1926)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Buster Keaton's best film, all on rails.
2. **Strangers on a Train (1951)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Hitchcock and a swap of murders.
3. **The Train (1964)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Burt Lancaster tries to stop a train loaded with art stolen by the Nazis.
4. **3:10 to Yuma (1957)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A western with the wait for a train as its clock.
5. **Shanghai Express (1932)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg in war-torn China.
6. **The Lady Vanishes (1938)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Hitchcock and an old lady who vanishes on a train.
7. **Brief Encounter (1945)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — David Lean and an impossible love at a station.
8. **Train to Busan (2016)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Zombies on a Korean high-speed train.
9. **Snowpiercer (2013)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bong Joon-ho and humanity divided by carriages.
10. **Von Ryan's Express (1965)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Frank Sinatra and prisoners who steal a train.
11. **Murder on the Orient Express (1974)** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Sidney Lumet and Albert Finney's Poirot.
12. **Unstoppable (2010)** (-2 · ▲1 ▼3) — Denzel Washington and Chris Pine against a runaway train.

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