This 1957 Miss Marple offers the satisfaction of her solution to the murder witnessed by her friend Elspeth McGillicuddy as one train runs momentarily beside another.

On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, an American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately attracted. Despite knowing this may be the only time they will see each other, in the next few hours in the city of Vienna, they share everything and promise to meet again. Ten years later Jesse sees Celine in a bookstore in Paris.

This film reunites Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. In Before Sunrise, Jesse and Celine met on a train and disembark in Vienna, where they spend his last night in Europe and promised to rendezvous in 6 months. A promise he failed to keep. Now a published novelist attending a book signing in Paris, Jesse again encounters his soul mate and they continue the conversation they began nearly a decade ago.

David Lean's impeccable three-hanky movie explores a life-defining affair of unrequited love. Against the emotion-drenched musical backdrop of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, the movie charts the passion unleashed during a chance meeting at a railway café between Laura, an unfulfilled housewife (Celia Johnson), and Alec (Trevor Howard), a doctor locked in a similarly passionless marriage.

Family tension again provides dramatic comedy in Wes Anderson's new film, The Darjeeling Limited, about three American brothers traveling by train to find their reclusive mother in rural India.

March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride, and Tey quickly finds herself plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any of those in her own works.

Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, the terrain has drastically changed.

Meet Akhila: 45 and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car, Akhila asks five women a single question: Can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?

A man is murdered on a train between Washington and Pittsburgh. The evidence thoroughly and absolutely incriminates three entirely different people. But only one of them can be guilty. And it is left to Miss Cornelia Van Gorder to figure out which one.

One of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by two real-life crimes and the author’s own experience being stranded on the Orient Express during Christmas of 1931.

In this gem of a B-picture from RKO two cops have to guard a gangster's widow against assassination as she rides the Golden West Limited sleeper train from Chicago to give evidence in L.A. Soon there's only one cop, and he's finding the sharp-tongued widow (Marie Windsor in excelsis) as obnoxious as she is endangered.

Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, murder, politics and passion along the way.

Starring David Suchet. The Mystery of the Blue Train features a young, and suddenly very dead, heiress, with a dissolute husband, an overprotective father (a fabulously blustery Elliott Gould), greedy cousins, and all sorts of scheming money-owing hangers-on--all cocooned and coddled on a luxury train on the French Riviera.

In this suspenseful tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while traveling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. Henshui sweeps us on board with them and takes us through train stations and back and forth between first-, second-, and third-class cars, evoking the sights and sounds and smells of this microcosm of the urban world.

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.

This 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders.

This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight Train Riders of America. Shepard rode the rails throughout the western half of the United States with the disenfranchised, the homeless, the punks, the gangs, and the joy riders for the magazine article The FTRA Story.

A collection of stories about favorite train journeys by the inveterate railway enthusiast and train traveler, Bill Middleton. A half-century career as an engineer, Naval officer, and university administrator took Middleton to almost every part of the globe, and everywhere he took with him an abiding interest in railways, and a notebook and camera to record his experiences.

2nd in a series. Jacob Bransby is brutally strangled with a length of wire while on board a train carriage crowded with lowlife Londoners, all bound for an illegal bare-knuckle prizefight in Berkshire in 1852. That the deceased's wallet was not purloined leaves Scotland Yard Inspector Robert Colbeck wondering at the motive for this heinous act and additional crimes.

4th in a series. A disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are assigned to the case and are soon snarled up in a web of skullduggery stretching across the country. They are forced to ask themselves, just how much is someone prepared to hazard to win?