Greatest Train Sequences of All Time

[Qrazy]

What are the greatest train sequences and train crashes ever? Old Black and White ones are preferable (foreign also), but any will do. I"ll start off with a couple.

The Train
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The General
The Great Train Robbery
Stand By Me
Mission Impossible
North by Northwest
Twenty Days Without War
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Professionals
Brief Encounter
La Bete Humaine
Doctor Zhivago
A Hard Day's Night
Some Like it Hot
Closely Watched Trains
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Fall

[Sven]

Greatest Show on Earth
Isn't there one in Lawrence of Arabia?

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The Cassandra Crossing
Back To The Future III

[number8]

Legend of the Drunken Master.

[Morris Schæffer]

Emperor of the North!
Runaway Train

[Watashi]

The Iron Giant

[Qrazy]

From Russia with Love
Man with a movie Camera
The Last Train
Kino-Nedelya/Kino-Pravda
The Silence
Stardust Memories
Blazing Saddles
Cinema Paradiso

[Dead & Messed Up]

Temple of Doom

[Sven]

Opening scene of Dead Man. So good.

[Lucky]

Strangers on a Train, The Darjheeling Limited, Transsiberian, Goldeneye, and 2046 come to mind.

[Sven]

Two Hitch's:

Strangers on a Train (which is a duh)
Shadow of a Doubt

[Boner M]

Opening of Omirbaev's Kairat, which now that I think of it, could've inspired Dead Man's.

[Yxklyx]

I'll second Runaway Train. The one in Super 8 was great until it became ridiculous.

[Sven]

BoundforGloryBoundforGloryBoun dforGlory!

by that token

Boxcar Bertha

[Morris Schæffer]

I can't believe no one's said "Money Train" yet! :D:)

Joking aside, Silver Streak.

[Morris Schæffer]

Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers!

[Sven]

I can't believe no one's said "Money Train" yet! :D:)

Or Speed.

[Sven]

Or Dumbo.

[Sven]

Or Murder on the Orient Express.

When I actually stop to think about it, it's like a deluge.

[Qrazy]

The Fugitive

[Dukefrukem]

The Fugitive

First thing that came to mind.

How about Eraser. :lol:

Broken Arrow when Howie Long gets kicked off the side.

and then of course

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[Qrazy]

Ikiru

Can we get some more black and white in foreign selections if possible? Once I get 10 more suggestions I will unveil to you all what this is for.

[MadMan]

Damn, I was gonna say Under Siege 2.

[Dukefrukem]

Damn, I was gonna say Under Siege 2.

Two trains collide and one goes through the other while the hero escapes car by car running away from the crash. Best train sequence of all time found.

[MadMan]

Two trains collide and one goes through the other while the hero escapes car by car running away from the crash. Best train sequence of all time found.Everytime they play that movie on TV, I tune in. Its one of my all time favorite guilty pleasures.

[Morris Schæffer]

Ikiru

Can we get some more black and white in foreign selections if possible? Once I get 10 more suggestions I will unveil to you all what this is for.

You're gonna buy a train?

[Dukefrukem]

Source Code
Fast Five
Spider-man 2
Final Destination

[Russ]

Can we get some more black and white in foreign selections if possible?
The train sequence at the end of Yearning may be the most memorable thing Naruse ever shot.


EDIT: Another good b&w is The Palm Beach Story.

[Skitch]

Opening of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

[Ezee E]

Ha. In the script I'm writing, I'm doing a train sequence.

[Watashi]

Ikiru

Can we get some more black and white in foreign selections if possible? Once I get 10 more suggestions I will unveil to you all what this is for.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Casablanca

[elixir]

Pather Panchali

[Yxklyx]

Black and Whites:

Night Train by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Night Train to Munich by Carol Reed

[Derek]

Black and Whites:

Night Train by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Was just coming in here to post that. Good pick.

[Spinal]

Europa

[Spinal]

Oh, and Dancer in the Dark, for that matter.

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[DavidSeven]

Kurosawa's High and Low.

[dreamdead]

Not black and white but Hou's Café Lumière might fit this in a general sense. I'm also thinking that Denis's 35 Shots does as well.

[Qrazy]

Can anyone remember which Kusturica films feature trains? I know Life is a Miracle has a few. Do Black Cat, White Cat and/or Underground?

[Ezee E]

It's not any of the recent ones but:

Just because there's a scene on a train, it doesn't mean you have to list it here...

[Li Lili]

A World without Thieves by Feng Xiaogang
Tie Xie Qu by Wang Bing
Days of Being Wild by Wong Kar Wai

[Li Lili]

A world without thieves is fiction with Andy Lau and Li Bingbing the story is about thieves in a train...
Tie Xie Qu (West of Tracks) is a documentary about an old massive industrial complex, there are 3 parts, and you travel with the train to go one site to another.
Days of Being Wild is especially for the last scene with Leslie Cheung (each time I watch this scene, I found it very moving, very special)

[Morris Schæffer]

You know, Unstoppable is, certainly train-wise, a superbly crafted piece of mayhem.

[Li Lili]

I forgot to write also, and I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but Shanghai Express by Josef von Sternberg, with Marlene Dietrich should be in the list !

[Dukefrukem]

Polar Express

[Morris Schæffer]

There's this Spanish horror movie Horror Express, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing that seems to have become a cult fave. I never saw it, but it was recently released as a decent blu-ray flick. It's apparently in the vein of Hammer movies too.

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Can anyone remember which Kusturica films feature trains? I know Life is a Miracle has a few. Do Black Cat, White Cat and/or Underground?

No to the last two. But Life is a Miracle does have a lot of train action.

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I can't believe I didn't think of "Mystery Train".

[MadMan]

There's this Spanish horror movie Horror Express, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing that seems to have become a cult fave. I never saw it, but it was recently released as a decent blu-ray flick. It's apparently in the vein of Hammer movies too.I can't believe I failed to post that one, as its actually one of my favorite horror movies. Its a fairly solid movie, and the alien taking over its victims bit was probably taken from the short story that inspired all three versions of The Thing.

[Morris Schæffer]

I recall an old black and white movie, may even have been silent. It may have starred Laurel and Hardy. And all I remember are a train barrelling down a mountain, out of control. It was goofy of course, the mountain seemed almost circular as the train seemed to go around it, and right next to the tracks the mountain just gave way to nothing, just emptyness. These images have always been in my head, but I must have seen this about 25 yers ago withno idea then what it was. Anyone got a clue?

[Dukefrukem]

how about this for a good train sequence?

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[Morris Schæffer]

As a kid, I was a huge fan of Avalanche Express starring Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Maximilian Shell,etc.... Not that good of a movie, but it's always cool when a train barely escapes a massive avalance by narrowly making it to the tunnel.

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:)

[Qrazy]

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