Train Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

It was one of the greatest heists in British history. £3 million – worth over £40 million today – stolen from a moving train...

Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the...

A saxophonist plays at a train station.

A woman is stalked while waiting for her train.

Twelve strangers embark on the Trans-Asia Express, a four-day train journey from Tehran to Istanbul. But not everyone is who they pretend to be or...

First days of September 1939. The government decides to transport the Polish gold stored in the treasury of the National Bank of Poland out of the...

A living person and a ghost balance their long distance relationship.

A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. This first volume looks at the first three letters in Grandma's encyclopaedia: A for 'Automobile', B for...

A modern Irish comedy western set in sleepy rural Sligo.

A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators...

Goofy visits a train station to see how it and the trains there operate.

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

Henrique's melancholic life becomes a stage for mysteries and suspicions after a dark night in the industrial suburbs of a forgotten city.

Dr Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, sits at a desk addressing workers. Intended to be shown before a programme of other...