Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Batman Begins (2005), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The General (1926), Castle in the Sky (1986), The Iron Giant (1999), The Last Command (1928) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Train Wreck movies.
Storyline: Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future.
Plot Keywords: year 1955, woman, girl next door, part of trilogy, teenage boy, kiss, irish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her. The family hopes that by winning her affection, they can eventually be named sole beneficiaries in her will. But will a change of heart soften their mercenary feelings before that time comes?—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: screwball comedy, last will and testament, generation gap, engagement ring, construction site, car salesman, con artist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a deadly satellite weapon system falls into the wrong hands, only Agent James Bond 007 (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from certain disaster. Armed with his licence to kill, Bond races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for "GoldenEye", an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward Earth. But 007 is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: a mastermind motivated by years of simmering hatred. Bond also squares off against Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
Plot Keywords: official james bond series, nuclear weapons, good versus evil, year 1986, year 1995, opening action scene, official bond film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 2031, the entire world is frozen except for those aboard the Snowpiercer. For seventeen years, the world's survivors are on a train hurtling around the globe creating their own economy and class system. Led by Curtis (Chris Evans), a group of lower-class citizens living in squalor at the back of the train are determined to get to the front of the train and spread the wealth around. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the group who have to battle their way through. A revolution is underway.
Plot Keywords: train, revolt, ice, social commentary, rebellion, post apocalypse, dystopia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus, who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off to fight in the Civil War with their son, with bloody results. Eve's sister, Lily, heads farther west and has adventures with a professional gambler, stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
Plot Keywords: imperialism, saloon, san francisco california, singing, small town, spinster, st. louis missouri ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: grief, sadness, henchman, railroad, train movie, blizzard, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: train crash, train, speedboat, face slap, wedding ring, bigamy, marriage of convenience ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
Plot Keywords: assassin, rejuvenation, secret organization, car chase, missing father, loss of father, lie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarizes music from a voodoo ceremony; a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: surprise ending, jazz band, cellar, skeptic, chimpanzee, jazz music, anthology ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Let the show begin!
Plot Keywords: car hit by a train, train, old flame, train crash, police chase, love triangle, fistfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one.—Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: zombie, train movie, siberia, crate, corpse, cave, train wreck ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them ...until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally lovely wife, wretchedly jealous. But worse trouble comes to Maximus when he's accused of causing a disaster he predicted.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, unrequited love, audience, blindfold, courtroom, fainting man, fainting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah dead in his chair, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens.
Plot Keywords: taxidermy, decomposing body, reference to alice in wonderland, abandoned house, imagination, kiss, attic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) returns from Paris, France to her childhood home in New Orleans, Louisiana to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry a rich man to attain the status and respectability her mother never had, but falls for Texas gambler Colonel Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper) instead. When he leaves New Orleans for the horse racing season at Saratoga Springs, she follows him there to seek her fortune - or someone else's.—Joyce Bradsher <joyceable@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, new orleans louisiana, opera, passion, poker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The powerful superhero John Hancock has become a joke because of his alcoholism and clumsiness. He has also become the most hated man in Los Angeles. Though he has saved many lives, he also destroyed a lot of property, costing the city millions every time he goes into action. When he saves the life of PR expert Ray Embrey from an oncoming train, the executive is thankful and believes he can restore Hancock's image as a true superhero. He brings the anti-hero home for dinner and introduces him to his son Aaron, a big fan, and to his wife, Mary. But for some mysterious reason Mary doesn't want Hancock anywhere near her or her family.
Plot Keywords: superhero, los angeles california, car accident, prison, bully comeuppance, action heroine, action hero ...
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