My alphabetical picks for the Letterboxd Showdown, Locomotion. Guidelines:
We’re going station to station hunting for your ten favorite films of the twentieth century (and the centuries either side) set on the railway. Some like it hot, some like it polar; the general rule is there has to be some significant action on a train. Think dining cars, roof chases, conversations in compartments (especially number six), strangers meeting, ladies vanishing and brief encounters at railway stations. 1, 2, 3: all aboard. There’s a blind chance you’ll make it before sunrise after a hard day’s night piercing snow—as long as you’re not in the wrong tros.
Two things: 1) You haven't lived until you've seen Wilford Brimley drive a stolen train engine through a police barricade in End of the Line. 2) I really wanted to include The Transformers: The Movie for having the scene inside Astrotrain where the Decepticons turned on Megatron and then one another.