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1. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,393 | Gross: $119.50M
2. Silver Bullet (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror
In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the close knit community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf.
Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Megan Follows
Votes: 31,480 | Gross: $5.40M
3. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook | Stars: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi, Chopper Bernet
Votes: 85,261 | Gross: $73.28M
4. Tall Tale (1995)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young boy's imagination summons cowboy legend Pecos Bill, who helps him save the family farm from a greedy land-grabber. With the help of a lumberjack and a railroad worker, they all embark on a surprise-filled adventure.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl
Votes: 4,264 | Gross: $8.25M
5. Desperation (2006 TV Movie)
R | 131 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning
Votes: 11,760
6. This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid
Votes: 6,310
7. Night Passage (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster
Votes: 4,541
8. To End All Wars (2001)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.
Director: David L. Cunningham | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciarán McMenamin, Mark Strong
Votes: 11,647
9. The Pajama Game (1957)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 4,106
10. Pickup (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain
Votes: 838
11. Carry on Matron (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,327
12. Nothing But a Man (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Votes: 1,984 | Gross: $0.02M
13. George Washington (2000)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III
Votes: 8,663 | Gross: $0.24M
14. The Aviator (1985)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 1,456 | Gross: $1.30M
15. Second Coming (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A look at the life and struggles of a family living in London.
Director: Debbie Tucker Green | Stars: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis, Sharlene Whyte
Votes: 669
16. The Battle of the Rails (1946)
85 min | Drama, War
Recounts the courageous efforts by French railroad workers who were part of an organized resistance during German World War II occupation.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Lucien Desagneaux
Votes: 1,266
17. The Railroad Man (1956)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his ... See full summary »
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina, Saro Urzì
Votes: 1,406
18. John Henry (2000)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Disney's retelling of the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man.
Director: Mark Henn | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Geoffrey Jones, Tim Hodge, Dave Murray
Votes: 1,880
19. Carbine Williams (1952)
Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 2,097
20. Other Men's Women (1930)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney
Votes: 1,392
21. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 801
22. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers
Votes: 617
23. Buckskin Frontier (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Western
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 225
24. Town Tamer (1965)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 325
25. Hitched (1971 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Comedy, Western
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sally Field, Tim Matheson, Neville Brand, Slim Pickens
Votes: 93
26. Night Mail (1936)
Approved | 25 min | Short, Documentary
Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
Directors: Harry Watt, Basil Wright | Stars: Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae
Votes: 1,451
27. The Unruly Hare (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
As a surveyor, Elmer Fudd is disturbing Bugs Bunny's peace. So Bugs harasses Fudd, who is also trying to get revenge.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Tedd Pierce, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 474
28. The Midnight Express (1924)
Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jack Oakes, the playboy son of a railroad president, is disowned by his father, and takes a job in the railroads yards under an assumed name. Mary Traves still believes he has the right ... See full summary »
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Elaine Hammerstein, William Haines, George Nichols, Lloyd Whitlock
Votes: 57
29. The Days of Our Years (1955)
20 min | Short, Documentary
A priest describes how the disabling injuries of railroad workers affect those around them.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Art Gilmore, William E. Hill, C.S. Reynolds, Henry Rupp Jr.
Votes: 254
30. Why Play Leap Frog? (1950)
10 min | Animation, Short
Joe, who works at a doll factory, gets an economics lesson explaining why a doll that has only ten cents worth of materials costs two dollars at the toy shop.
Director: George Gordon | Stars: John Hiestand, Frank Nelson
Votes: 45
31. The Rainmakers (1935)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Berton Churchill
Votes: 142
32. The Ghost Train (1903)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
A stationary camera looks down several sets of tracks; workmen are on either side. A train comes into view: engine, with engineer leaning out, coal car, and four passenger cars. In the ... See full summary »
Votes: 252
33. Ratavartijan kaunis Inkeri (1950)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A locomotive driver falls in love with a beautiful woman without knowing that she is the wife of an older railroad worker.
Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Helena Kara, Erkki Viljos, Eino Kaipainen, Matti Aulos
Votes: 79
34. Railroad Workers (1947)
108 min | Drama
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Victor Sjöström, John Elfström, Gunnel Broström, Åke Grönberg
Votes: 40
35. Metal Road (2017)
27 min | Documentary, Short
For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads, through the lens of one workday on the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang.
Director: Sarah Del Seronde | Stars: Kenneth Barney, Jerry Curley, Marshall Ben, Burt Carter
36. Rallarblod (1979)
123 min | Drama
In a rich town somewhere in Norway in 1910, a railroad is made with the bare hands of traveling railroad workers. With them follows noise and trouble, due to drinking and fighting. On of them, Sjugurd, sets his eye on a farmer daughter.
Director: Erik Solbakken | Stars: Nils Ole Oftebro, Ragnhild Hilt, Svein Tindberg, Katja Medbøe
Votes: 43
37. Bam (2008)
71 min | Documentary
BAM or Baikal - Amur Magistral was Leonid Brezhnev's plan to build more than 3500 km of railroad and 200 stations and communities in five years in Southern Siberia. The work was to be done ... See full summary »
Director: Jouni Hiltunen | Stars: Juhani Rajalin, Alexander Bondar, Ivan Varshavski, Nina Filatova
Votes: 16
38. Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Jim Endicott has organized the ranchers into building a spur rail line so they can ship their cattle and avoid the rustlers. Faro Jack gets banker Potter to lend them the money and then ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Frances Robinson, Stanley Brown, Norman Willis
Votes: 15
39. At This Moment (1954)
26 min | Short
A "short" documentary style, with footage of real railroad workers in addition to reenactments. The purpose of the film is to stress the importance of railroads on the industry of America ... See full summary »
Director: Haford Kerbawy | Stars: Cliff Hall, Pat Englund, James Gregory, Bill Kennedy
Votes: 22
40. Sepelimurskaamon kauniin Jolantan ihmeellinen elämä (1996)
35 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Lenka Hellstedt | Stars: Ona Kamu, Peter Franzén, Juha Veijonen, Tarja Heinula
Votes: 29
41. The Manager of the B & A (1916)
Drama
Thomas Emory, manager of a local branch of the Buckhorn and Antioch, finds one day that he is minus a position due to his negligence in office. In his place is appointed temporarily his ... See full summary »
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, Paul Hurst, N.Z. Wood
42. Rautatieläiselämää (2009 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Ilona Laurikainen | Stars: Taisto Reimaluoto, Vesa Kinnunen, Paavo Kinnunen, Saga Kinnunen
43. Nazywa sie Blazej Rejdak (1969)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Krystyna Gryczelowska
Votes: 11
45. Cactus Gold (2013)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Western
A woman bounty hunter named Squinty is returning to her hometown to take revenge on those who wronged her. Along the way, she teams up with a worrying railroad worker named Sheng, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ryan Sargent | Stars: Romy Cutler-Lengyel, Tian Wang, Michael Milford, Alex Burger
46.
Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode:
Tod am Bahngleis
(1975)
56 min | Crime, Drama
Three dead women have been dumped on the same railroad section during a short period of time.
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Peter Kuiper, Mascha Gonska
Votes: 111
47.
The Gene Autry Show (1950–1955)
Episode:
The Poisoned Waterhole
(1950)
30 min | Western
After nearly drinking from a poisoned waterhole, Gene and Pat finds themselves in the middle of a fight between railroad workers and an Indian tribe.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Pat Buttram, Sheila Ryan
Votes: 15
48.
The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode:
A Matter of Faith
(1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
Because of a terrible drought the railroad has sent two men into North Fork to recruit workers. But when a water-witch gives the people hope, the railroad takes a different approach.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Parley Baer
Votes: 139
49.
The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode:
Blaster Blues
(1985)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When the Decepticons hijack Earth's airwaves, the music-loving Autobot Blaster is the only one who can stop them.
Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Jack Angel, Arlene Banas, Michael Bell, Corey Burton
Votes: 128
50.
Kino's Journey (2003)
Episode:
Three Men Along the Rails
(2003)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Kino meets a series of workers along a railroad, all of which are apparently performing pointless tasks. She tells each one a story which reflects their own, even if they don't realize it.
Director: Ryûtarô Nakamura | Stars: Ai Maeda, Ryuji Aigase, Yoshimi Akiba, David Born
Votes: 100