I Love Trains

By: Doinel

… everyone loves trains. Name me someone who doesn’t like trains.

There’s a good reason that one of the very first, if not the first, narrative films was “The Great Train Robbery”.

Great directors love trains. Ozu and Hitchcock.

Trains cross genres. Trains are part of our collective psyche.

So here are some films with choo-choo’s. Everyone loves trains.

• 01
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 02
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 03
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 04
  Closely Watched Trains
  Jiří Menzel
• 05
  Ballad of a Soldier
  Grigori Chukhrai
• 06
  Twentieth Century
  Howard Hawks
• 07
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  Joseph Sargent
• 08
  La bête humaine
  Jean Renoir
• 09
  Café Lumière
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 10
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 11
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 12
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 13
  Spies
  Fritz Lang
• 14
  3:10 to Yuma
  Delmer Daves
• 15
  The Lady Vanishes
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 16
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 17
  The Wheel
  Abel Gance
• 18
  Arrival of a Train
  Auguste Lumière
• 19
  Trains of Winnipeg: 14 Film Poems
  Clive Holden
• 20
  Trans-Europ-Express
  Alain Robbe-Grillet
• 21
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 22
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 23
  Cairo Station
  Youssef Chahine