The Train (1964)

Every action movie is better with train sequences and this has a lot of train sequences (it’s called The Train)

Patrick Willems

I have a running theory that the truest, purest capital-C cinema is really just any movie that prominently features a train—both literally and symbolically. Anyway by that measure this is the best movie of all time. At one point two real trains crash into each other and…

Josh Lewis

“You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs.” John Frankenheimer’s extraordinarily crafted thriller about rail workers of the French resistance in the days before the liberation of Paris. A groundbreaking practical action film decades ahead of its time, with…

Christopher McQuarrie

In the waning days of the Nazi occupation, heroic French railroad workers attempt to stop the theft of France's cultural heritage: a train loaded with thousands of racist cartoons.

Will Menaker

A movie that shows you remarkable feats of heroism and derring-do and then asks you, at the very end, whether the lives lost were actually worth the victory.

Jamelle Bouie

John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN is a goddamn masterpiece. A big scale yet taut & tight adrenaline-fueled action flick that leaves you at the edge of your seat until the very end. It's crazy how much of a spectacle and how much fun the film is, despite the grim premise. Also…

Nakul

This film stands as one of the most underrated technical achievements in the history of cinema. A spectacle of 200-ton steel giants colliding amid devastating explosions, choking smoke, and relentless crossfire, it perfectly captures the brutality and adrenaline of war, all…

basty2049

frankenheimer's style is heavy and loud, but easy to appreciate -- the luxuriant deep focus recreation of WW2 french/german trainyards gives the train a half-prestigious feel, one step in jean-pierre melville territory, another step near the dadcore canon. the astonishing…

comrade_yui

Out of all the forms of transportations that help us get into a place much quicker or to transport any form of merch, trains might be the least deadliest (don't quote me on that), yet they make for some of the most thrilling movies with plots that may range from unstoppable…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine