Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sleeping-car"

1. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 346,046 | Gross: $13.28M

2. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery

Votes: 69,122 | Gross: $0.07M

3. White Christmas (1954)

Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Votes: 51,124 | Gross: $30.00M

4. Silver Streak (1976)

PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan

Votes: 21,709

5. Leatherheads (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, David de Vries

Votes: 33,439 | Gross: $31.20M

6. Europa (1991)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Votes: 23,197 | Gross: $1.01M

7. A Cop (1972)

PG | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Riccardo Cucciolla

Votes: 10,741 | Gross: $0.05M

8. Human Desire (1954)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 6,343

9. The Narrow Margin (1952)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert

Votes: 8,652

10. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 12,872 | Gross: $0.44M

11. The Honey Pot (1967)

Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy ex-girlfriends into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine

Votes: 2,846

12. Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney, Paul Dupuis

Votes: 645

13. Night Train (1959)

99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something - as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski

Votes: 3,625

14. She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger

Votes: 577

15. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 2,239

16. The Seven Little Foys (1955)

Approved | 93 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.

Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias, Angela Clarke

Votes: 1,629

17. The Children of Times Square (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Joanna Cassidy, David Ackroyd, Larry B. Scott

Votes: 425

18. The Keys to the House (2004)

PG | 111 min | Drama

Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Andrea Rossi, Charlotte Rampling, Alla Faerovich

Votes: 2,472

19. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,136

20. Now or Never (1921)

Passed | 35 min | Comedy, Short

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Mae Bilson, Roy Brooks

Votes: 886

21. Choo-Choo! (1932)

20 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Sherwood Bailey, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Votes: 290

22. Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A paroled embezzler skips town with his $100K loot and boards the Chicago-New York train, followed by an assortment of shady characters who want the money, but en-route to NYC the embezzler is murdered and his loot disappears.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk

Votes: 623

23. The Runaways (1975)

Action, Comedy, Drama

On the run from murderers, two men disguise themselves as women and join an all girl band.

Director: Narendra Bedi | Stars: Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Rajendranath Malhotra, Faryal

Votes: 304

24. The Viking Who Became a Bigamist (1969)

99 min | Comedy

The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists only in connection with marriage, he is secretly married twice.

Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Teri Tordai, Raffaella Carrà, Peter Weck

Votes: 86

25. Murder on the Orient Express (2015– )

280 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

Stars: Mansai Nomura, Nanako Matsushima, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Anne Watanabe

Votes: 199

26. Beautiful But Broke (1944)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

When theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the Army, he turns his currently-clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis), who decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Joan Davis, Jane Frazee, John Hubbard, Judy Clark

Votes: 84

27. Cesta z mesta (2000)

104 min | Comedy, Romance

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

Director: Tomás Vorel | Stars: Tomás Hanák, Barbora Nimcová, Michal Vorel, Anezka Kusiaková

Votes: 495

28. One Step to Eternity (1954)

95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper (who justifies his actions by calling attention to his poverty-stricken childhood), invites four women to a housewarming ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Corinne Calvet, Gérard Buhr

Votes: 149

29. La coqueluche (1971)

90 min | Comedy

Pierre is employee of the sleeping-cars company and is going home on the morning to have a rest.Just when begins to fall asleep a rooster is crowing.So Pierre climbs on the roof where the ... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Paul Arrighi | Stars: Pierre Richard, Michel Galabru, Claude Piéplu, Jean-Pierre Darras

Votes: 43

30. Sleeping Car (1933)

82 min | Comedy

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Ivor Novello, Kay Hammond, Claud Allister

Votes: 85

31. Italiani (1996)

99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.

Director: Maurizio Ponzi | Stars: Giulio Scarpati, Giuliana de Sio, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Vanessa Gravina

Votes: 123

32. Prezumptsiya nevinovnosti (1988)

88 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

One of the train passengers loses her jacket and with it her passport, using which she wanted to go abroad on tour. Two stowaways travelling to Leningrad to study pretend to be police officers and start an "investigation".

Director: Yevgeni Tatarsky | Stars: Lyubov Polishchuk, Stanislav Sadalskiy, Vasiliy Funtikov, Leonid Kuravlyov

Votes: 80

33. Heinrich der Säger (2001)

99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When railroad lines are shut down again and again and employees are laid off, Kurt Grantke takes the initiative and, armed with an angle grinder, tries to dissuade the commercial railroad from its goals by committing acts of sabotage.

Director: Klaus Gietinger | Stars: Meret Becker, Rolf Becker, Alexander Beyer, Holger Fuchs

Votes: 69

34. Pikajuna pohjoiseen (1947)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the Norht.

Director: Roland af Hällström | Stars: Ansa Ikonen, Leif Wager, Tauno Majuri, Aku Korhonen

Votes: 98

35. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)

TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice.

Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: David Suchet, James D'Arcy, Alice Eve, Nicholas Farrell

Votes: 2,629

36. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Der Stichtag (1987)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Oskar Winters, the manager of a lamp factory (which belongs to his spouse Martha Winters) is traveling in the night train from Hamburg to Munich with his secretary ,Karin Meyrat.They have a... See full summary »

Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 23

37. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Die Entscheidung (1980)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Alf Hauff avoids a murder attempt by sheer luck. But does someone want the new boss of a family business dead? Alf's stepbrother's babbles confuse Derrick even more.

Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Hannes Messemer

Votes: 78

38. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode: How Time Flies (1998)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A self-taught expert in antique clocks is being stalked because of a clock in his possession and calls on Hetty for help.

Director: David Giles | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Frank Mills

Votes: 87

39. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955)
Episode: Host: Donald O'Connor; Guest Stars: Corinne Calvet, Kay Starr, Ben Blue (1952)

Comedy, Romance

Episode highlights include Donald O'Connor performing a song-and-dance about women's hats, Ben Blue starring in a sketch about the upper berth in a train's sleeping compartment, a ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Hamilton | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Corinne Calvet, Kay Starr, Ben Blue

40. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Episode: Part VIII (1989)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War

Still in the camp at Theresienstadt, where prominent Jews have been interned, Natalie and Aaron have to deal with the fact that more and more of ghetto residents are being shipped to ... See full summary »

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant

Votes: 100

41. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997– )
Episode: China (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Palin travels through China and visits Qingtao, Shanghai, and a trip along the Yangtze. Finally, he reaches Vietnam.

Director: Clem Vallance | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 76

42. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997– )
Episode: Vietnam/Philippines (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael sees Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue, the Mekong Delta, Saigon and then on to the Philippines including Manila, Zamboanga and faith healers.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 75

43. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Murder on the Orient Express (2010)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot investigates the murder of a shady American businessman stabbed in his compartment on the Orient Express when it is blocked by a blizzard in Croatia.

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: David Suchet, Tristan McShepherd, Sam Crane, Toby Jones

Votes: 4,978

44. Archer (2009–2023)
Episode: The Limited (2012)

TV-MA | 21 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

ISIS transports a Canadian terrorist by train to Mounties in Canada. Will Nova Scotian terrorists free him? Will the drunk Sterling fulfill his dream of fighting on the roof of a moving train?

Director: Adam Reed | Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Dave Fennoy, Judy Greer, Robb Wells

Votes: 1,836

45. Amazing Train Journeys (2011– )
Episode: Argentine du Sud (2023)

Documentary

A nice journey from El Maiten (the steam train "La Trochita"-the narrow gauge-, the 100 years old steam locomotive and the the barbecue on the locomotive) to the Perito Moreno Glacier ( the... See full summary »

Director: Nicolas Boero | Star: Philippe Gougler

46. Amazing Train Journeys (2011– )
Episode: Norvège du Nord (2022)

Documentary

A nice journey of Philippe from the island of Spitzberg in the Svalbard archipelago (the visit of the coal mine with the little train, Longyearbyen, the meeting with the Lutheran female ... See full summary »

Directors: Philippe Gougler, David Perrier | Star: Philippe Gougler

47. Amazing Train Journeys (2011– )
Episode: Australie du Sud (2023)

Documentary

A nice journey from Queenstown in Tasmania (the West Coast Wilderness Railway, the steam locomotive, the wooden cars) and the fishing moment ( the Tasmanian giant crabs) to Kalgoorlie (the ... See full summary »

Directors: Philippe Gougler, David Perrier | Star: Philippe Gougler

48. Amazing Train Journeys (2011– )
Episode: Serbie (2023)

Documentary

A nice journey from Novi Sad ( the man with the bottle of water wishing good luck to a man walking towards the railway station, the COKO rapid train to Belgrade, the talk with a Serbian ... See full summary »

Directors: Alex Badin, Philippe Gougler | Star: Philippe Gougler

49. Hannibal (2013–2015)
Episode: Contorno (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Jack and Will along with Chiyoh arrive in Florence with different agendas for Hannibal while Detective Pazzi gets close.

Director: Guillermo Navarro | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson

Votes: 5,973

50. Inside No. 9 (2014– )
Episode: La Couchette (2015)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A group of passengers on a train from France try to get some sleep, but the compartment quickly fills up and the possibility of sleep dwindles away. Then one of the passengers suddenly dies.

Director: Guillem Morales | Stars: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mark Benton

Votes: 2,301