 | The General
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $2.92 This silent classic is the CITIZEN KANE of train films. Orson Welles himself considered it the greatest film ever made. Buster Keaton's masterpiece.
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 | From Russia With Love
Buy used from: $3.96 The scene on the Orient Express where Sean Connery's James Bond encounters Robert Shaw's maniacal killer is as good as a train scene can get.
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 | Twentieth Century
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.35 Devious Svengali John Barrymore tries to woo his former protege Carole Lombard back into his grasp aboard The Twentieth Century.
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 | Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $4.49 No one used the claustrophobia of trains greater than Hitchcock. Here two men randomly meet on a train, and one suggests they trade murders.
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 | North by Northwest
Buy used from: $7.39 The train scenes as Cary Grant flees New York for Chicago in search of an assassin are timeless. What can that train entering the tunnel at the end possibly mean?
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 | The 39 Steps (Criterion Collection Spine #56)
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $14.00 The transition from scream to train is one of the classic scenes of cinema. The scene on the Forth Bridge is a classic train scene.
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 | The Lady Vanishes - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $7.00 Hitchcock's greatest train film, and next to THE GENERAL perhaps the greatest train movie ever. Funny and suspenseful. A brilliant masterpiece.
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![Night Train to Munich (B&W) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71HQ68N451L._SL75_.gif) | Night Train to Munich (B&W) [VHS]
Buy used from: $6.99 Sir Carol Reed's attempt to mimic THE LADY VANISHES, but a very good mimic indeed. Unfortunately only available in bad public domain versions at present.
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 | Once Upon a Time in the West
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $2.52 Westerns go with trains like hands and gloves. This Sergio Leone masterpiece is completely structured around trains.
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 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $2.97 Which to hold up? Trains or banks?
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 | High Noon (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $8.45 A cheat of sorts. No scenes on trains, but we all known what arrives at high noon. Woodcock, is that you?
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 | The Professionals (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.97 Amazing cast features Lee Marvin (with great hat), Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Jack Palance. Several great train scenes.
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 | Ealing Studios Comedy Collection (The Maggie / A Run for Your Money / Titfield Thunderbolt / Whisky Galore! / Passport to Pimlico)
Buy used from: $59.95 THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT is a great Ealing Studios comedy available only in this set. Luckily, it is a great set. Stanley Holloway is phenomenal.
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 | Brief Encounter - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $17.85 One of the most heartbreaking love stories in movie history. The central scene takes place in a train station.
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 | Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $44.90 Only a brief train scene, but the scene where they relocate to the countryside is a stunning sequence.
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 | The Palm Beach Story
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.67 The scene with the Ale and Quail Club is the funniest scene ever to take place on a train. The rest of the movie is great too, including the Weenie King.
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 | The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $19.59 Only a brief train scene, but Barbara Stanwyck's rendention to Henry Fond on their wedding night of her past affairs is unforgettable.
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 | A Hard Day's Night
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.55 Who can forget the wonderful beginning of the film with the Beatles's escapades on a train. I especially love their escape to the baggage car to sing "I Should Have Known Better."
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 | Some Like It Hot
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.75 Classic scenes featuring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dressed as dames and a slightly inebriated Marilyn Monroe. To Billy Wilder's chagrin, Marilyn's song took over fifty takes to complete.
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 | Narrow Margin
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.04 One of the best train films of recent years, FBI Agent Gene Hackman attempts to guide crucial witness Anne Archer to safety aboard a train.
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 | Closely Watched Trains - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.49 One of the great films to come from behind the Iron Curtain during the 1960s. Bleak, cynical, and extremely moving.
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 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Harry Potter 3)
Buy used from: $0.50 Any child fan knows about the train that takes the students to Hogworts, but the scene on this one is one of the finest scenes in the series so far.
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 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $11.49 OK, no actual scenes on a train, though one beside one. The parting lovers' singing "I Will Wait for You" is over-the-top magnificent.
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