CHUFF CHUFF CHOO CHOO: FILMS FOR TRAIN LOVERS

By: Kenji

Closely Observed Trains

Trains are a speciality of Hitchcock and Ozu in particular

Missing from the site:

Railroaders (Coté)
Railway Junction (Karabasz)
Trains (Hirata)
Palyamunkasok (Gaal)
Day in, Day Out (Karabasz)
Black Diamond Express
Pop (Kuri)
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Ozu and trains

• 01
  Arrival of a Train
  Auguste Lumière
• 02
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 03
  Closely Watched Trains
  Jiří Menzel
• 04
  La bête humaine
  Jean Renoir
• 05
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 06
  John Frankenheimer's The Train
  John Frankenheimer
• 07
  The Steel Animal
  Willy Zielke
• 08
  Dumbo
  Samuel Armstrong
• 09
  The 39 Steps
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 10
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 11
  Trans-Europ-Express
  Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 12
  The Lady Vanishes
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 13
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 14
  The Bridge
  Joris Ivens
• 15
  The American Friend
  Wim Wenders
• 16
  Oh, Mr. Porter!
  Marcel Varnel
• 17
  Madame Tutli-Putli
  Chris Lavis
• 18
  The First Great Train Robbery
  Michael Crichton
• 19
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 20
  The Palm Beach Story
  Preston Sturges
• 21
  Twentieth Century
  Howard Hawks
• 22
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 23
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 24
  The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah
• 25
  Heaven's Gate
  Michael Cimino
• 26
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Grigori Chukhrai
• 27
  From Russia with Love
  Terence Young
• 28
  Europa
  Lars von Trier
• 29
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 30
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  Joseph Sargent
• 31
  Les rendez-vous d’Anna
  Chantal Akerman
• 32
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 33
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 34
  L'avventura
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 35
  Dead Man
  Jim Jarmusch
• 36
  Café Lumière
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 37
  Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
  Patrice Chéreau
• 38
  Before Sunrise
  Richard Linklater
• 39
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 40
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Wes Anderson
• 41
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 42
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 43
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 44
  Night Train
  Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• 45
  La bataille du rail
  René Clément
• 46
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 47
  The Narrow Margin
  Richard Fleischer
• 48
  Cairo Station
  Youssef Chahine
• 49
  Fast Film
  Virgil Widrich
• 50
  The Station Agent
  Thomas McCarthy
• 51
  Tickets
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 52
  Night Mail
  Harry Watt
• 53
  Spies
  Fritz Lang
• 54
  Transsiberian
  Brad Anderson
• 55
  Murder on the Orient Express
  Sidney Lumet
• 56
  The Railrodder
  Gerald Potterton
• 57
  RR
  James Benning
• 58
  The Iron Horse
  John Ford
• 59
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 60
  Night Train to Munich
  Carol Reed
• 61
  The Artist and the City
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 62
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 63
  Man on the Tracks
  Andrzej Munk
• 64
  Assault on the Pay Train
  Roberto Farias
• 65
  The Stationmaster's Wife
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 66
  3:10 to Yuma
  Delmer Daves
• 67
  The Great Train Robbery
  Edwin S. Porter
• 68
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean
• 69
  Runaway Train
  Andrei Konchalovsky
• 70
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 71
  The Grey Fox
  Phillip Borsos
• 72
  The French Connection
  William Friedkin
• 73
  The Cloud-Capped Star
  Ritwik Ghatak
• 74
  The Straits of Love and Hate
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 75
  Back to the Future Part III
  Robert Zemeckis
• 76
  Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
  Serge Bromberg
• 77
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 78
  The Train Stop
  Sergei Loznitsa
• 79
  Emperor of the North Pole
  Robert Aldrich
• 80
  Train of Hunger
  Viorel Timaru
• 81
  Silver Streak
  Arthur Hiller
• 82
  Throw Me a Dime
  Fernando Birri
• 83
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 84
  The Girl and Her Trust
  D.W. Griffith
• 85
  Leave Her to Heaven
  John M. Stahl
• 86
  Terror by Night
  Roy William Neill
• 87
  Union Pacific
  Cecil B. DeMille
• 88
  Still Life
  Sohrab Shahid Saless
• 89
  Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  John Hughes
• 90
  Un soir, un train
  André Delvaux
• 91
  End
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 92
  Mission: Impossible
  Brian De Palma
• 93
  Berlin Express
  Jacques Tourneur
• 94
  Stand by Me
  Rob Reiner
• 95
  Travellers
  Marc Isaacs
• 96
  Zhou Yu's Train
  Sun Zhou
• 97
  Kairat
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 98
  Westinghouse Works
  G.W. Bitzer
• 99
  The Rendezvous
  Kôichi Saitô
• 100
  Mickey's Choo-Choo
  Ub Iwerks
• 101
  The Lonedale Operator
  D.W. Griffith
• 102
  Toccata for Toy Trains
  Charles Eames
• 103
  The Last Train
  Pierre Granier-Deferre
• 104
  Caught on a Train
  Peter Duffell
• 105
  Train of Life
  Radu Mihăileanu
• 106
  The Hero
  Satyajit Ray
• 107
  The Last Train
  Aleksei German Ml.
• 108
  Robbery
  Peter Yates
• 109
  Black Wind
  Servando González
• 110
  Railroad of Hope
  Ning Ying
• 111
  The Railway Children
  Lionel Jeffries
• 112
  The Second Track
  Joachim Kunert
• 113
  Intentions of Murder
  Shôhei Imamura
• 114
  July
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 115
  L'amour braque
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 116
  Wind Across the Everglades
  Nicholas Ray
• 117
  Derailed
  Mikael Håfström
• 118
  Carson City
  André De Toth
• 119
  The Sleeping Car Murders
  Costa-Gavras
• 120
  Caucasia
  Farid Hümbatov
• 121
  The Spider's Stratagem
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 122
  The Wheel
  Abel Gance
• 123
  Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
  Clyde Geronimi
• 124
  The Illusionist
  Sylvain Chomet
• 125
  The Titfield Thunderbolt
  Charles Crichton
• 126
  Panorama From Top of a Moving Train
  Georges Méliès
• 127
  The Railroad Man
  Pietro Germi
• 128
  Mouvements du désir
  Léa Pool
• 129
  Von Ryan's Express
  Mark Robson
• 130
  Crossing the Line
  Pietro Marcello
• 131
  The Kiss in the Tunnel
  George Albert Smith
• 132
  Railway Trip Over the Tay Bridge
  Peter Feathers
• 133
  A Trip on the Metropolitan Railway
• 134
  View from an Engine Front - Barnstaple
• 135
  View from an Engine Front - Ilfracombe
• 136
  NIght on the Galactic Railroad
  Gisaburō Sugii
• 137
  The Eleventh Year
  Dziga Vertov
• 138
  The Station
  Valerio Zurlini
• 139
  A Railroad Wreck
  Walter R. Booth
• 140
  Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 141
  The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
  Frank Launder
• 142
  Perestroika
  Sarah Turner
• 143
  Yamanote Lightblast
  Jürgen Reble
• 144
  Chicago
  Jürgen Reble
• 145
  Railway
  Lutz Mommartz
• 146
  Of Events
  Mathieu Tremblay
• 147
  The Night It Rained
  Kamran Shirdel
• 148
  Trotteur
  Arnaud Brisebois
• 149
  Once Upon A Train
  Wassim Sookia
• 150
  Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00
  Shiloh Cinquemani
• 151
  Junction
  Krsto Papić
• 152
  It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
  Richard Linklater
• 153
  Rail
  Geoffrey Jones
• 154
  Pacific 231
  Jean Mitry
• 155
  Avalanche Express
  Mark Robson
• 156
  Turksib
  Victor Turin
• 157
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 158
  Maine-Ocean Express
  Jacques Rozier
• 159
  Sibérie
  Joana Preiss
• 160
  Krystyna M.
  Kazimierz Karabasz
• 161
  Source Code
  Duncan Jones
• 162
  Night Train Murders
  Aldo Lado
• 163
  Railroad Mixup
  Sam Loyd Jnr.
• 164
  Swan Lake: The Zone
  Yuri Ilyenko
• 165
  The Land of the Fathers
  Shaken Aimanov
• 166
  Death Train
  Bill Morrison
• 167
  Time and Tide
  Peter Hutton
• 168
  Train of Thought
  Jim Jennings
• 169
  Twenty Days Without War
  Aleksei German
• 170
  To Parsifal
  Bruce Baillie
• 171
  Dos almas en el mundo
  Chano Urueta
• 172
  Six Shooter
  Martin McDonagh
• 173
  After the Fire
  Jacques Perconte
• 174
  Every Young Man
  Pavel Jurácek
• 175
  89mm from Europe
  Marcel Lozinski
• 176
  House with a Turret
  Eva Neymann
• 177
  The Good Soldier Schweik: Schweik's Trouble in a Train
  Jiří Trnka
• 178
  Avetik
  Don Askarian
• 179
  Traveling Light
  Gina Telaroli
• 180
  The Georgetown Loop
  Ken Jacobs
• 181
  Omnibus
  Sam Karmann
• 182
  Mountain Vigil
  Artavazd Peleshian
• 183
  The White Bus
  Lindsay Anderson
• 184
  Trace
  Wojciech Wiszniewski
• 185
  Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
  Alexandre Promio