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The Lady Vanishes and From Russia With Love
From Russia With Love (James Bond 2) (Country: UK; Year: 1963; Director: Terence Young; Writer: Johanna Harwood, based on the book by Ian Fleming.; Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewellyn, Anthony Dawson) , Official Site , Trailer
James Bond tries to foil a plot involving a stolen espionage machine, and faces off against a deadly assassin. Enjoying a reissue.
The Lady Vanishes (Country: UK; Year: 1938; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Sidney Gilliat, based on the book by Ethel Lina White.; Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford)
Young Iris is horrified when the woman she has been talking to on a train disappears and no-one seems to remember her.
The Narrow Margin (Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Richard Fleischer; Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Queenie Leonard, David Clarke, Peter Virgo, Don Beddoe, Paul Maxey, Harry Harvey)
Passengers on a train are threatened by assassins in this twisty film noir.
North By Northwest (Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Ernest Lehman; Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt)
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang.
Snowpiercer (Snow Piercer) (Country: South Korea, US, France; Year: 2013; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Masterson, based on the story by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, Jean-Marc Rochette; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, Luke Pasqualino, John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Alison Pill, Ed Harris, Ewen Bremner, Song Kang-ho, Kenny Doughty, Steve Park, Adnan Haskovic, Clark Middleton, Tómas Lemarquis)
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

North By Northwest and Snowpiercer
Strangers On A Train (Country: US; Year: 1951; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Patricia Highsmith, Whitfield Cook, Czenzi Ormonde, Ben Hecht, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler; Stars: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Kasey Rogers, Marion Lorne, Jonathan Hale, Howard St. John, John Brown)
Story of men who meet on a train and decide to exchange murders.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Joseph Sargent; Writer: John Godey, Peter Stone; Stars: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick, Dick O'Neill, Lee Wallace, Tom Pedi, Beatrice Winde, Jerry Stiller, Nathan George, Rudy Bond, Kenneth McMillan, Doris Roberts)
A subway train is hijacked.
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