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Closely Watched Trains

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to

1966

Brief Encounter

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo

1945

Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The mo

2002

Blind Chance

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

1987

Europa

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try t

1991

Three Tickets to Hollywood

The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a

1993

Hana and Alice

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

2004

Show Business

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

1932

One Night with You

Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Ni

1948

The Station Agent

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a w

2003

The Wounded Man

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g

1983

It Started with Eve

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a

1941

Human Desire

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by t

1954

The Major and the Minor

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old t

1942

Halt, Or I'll Miss!

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

1998

Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

1933

The Sun of Another Sky

In a small railway station a group of building workers are organized by a man called Jakov to travel to Germany for work. In the meantime, local bar o

1968

Café Lumière

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajim

2004

Oh, Mr. Porter!

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless

1937

Bank Holiday

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty conte

1938