The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
A Non-Stop Suspense Thriller
Genres
Overview
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
82 min
Release Date
1952-12-01
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
21
Vote Average
6
Claude Rains
Kees Popinga
Marius Goring
Inspector Lucas
Märta Torén
Michele Rozier
Anouk Aimée
Jeanne
Herbert Lom
Julius de Koster, Jr.
Lucie Mannheim
Maria Popinga
Felix Aylmer
Merkemans
Ferdy Mayne
Louis
Eric Pohlmann
Goin
Michael Nightingale
Clerk
Gibb McLaughlin
Julius de Koster Snr.
Joan St. Clair
Frida Popinga
Robin Alalouf
Karl Popinga
Michael Alain
Train Conductor
Jean Deveaux
Train Official
Roy Purcell
Pierre
MacDonald Parke
American Businessman
Mary Mackenzie
Madame Lucas
Louis Matto
Joie de Vivre Barman (uncredited)
Arthur Mallard
(Uncredited)
Pat Ryan
Joie de Vivre Patron (uncredited)
Charles Wood
Chess Player (uncredited)
6.0
Blind Date
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
1959-08-01 | en
7.3
5 Centimeters per Second
Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.
2007-03-03 | ja
6.4
Narrow Margin
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
1990-09-21 | en
6.0
The Marker
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
2017-06-25 | en
6.9
Brighton Rock
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
1948-01-09 | en
5.5
Wild Seed
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.
1965-05-05 | en
9.0
The Station In-Between
Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past.
2021-08-14 | de
6.5
The Grifters
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
1990-08-08 | en
6.4
Lassie
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
2005-12-16 | en
5.5
Our Ten Years
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.
2007-09-29 | zh
6.3
Anthony Zimmer
François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend with her on the Riviera. But when the lady disappears the next morning and the police drag him in for questioning, François discovers he's been set up to pass for her notorious outlaw husband on the run, Anthony Zimmer. Even though he's been lied to and manipulated, François' life is changed forever and he's ready to give anything - maybe even his life - to hold this mysterious beauty in his arms again.
2005-04-01 | fr
5.7
Last Train to Freo
Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman boards the train a few stops later, they begin talking and find out not everyone on the train is not who they seem to be.
2006-09-14 | en
5.4
Let the Cat Out of the Bag
Waitress Doris meets a stranger on a train to Leipzig. This well-dressed thirty-something man decides to follow her, as they are drawn to each other, but neither seem prepared to admit to their loneliness.
2005-01-20 | de
6.3
Blues in the Night
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
1941-11-15 | en
0.0
Encontradouro
Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley.
2014-12-13 | pt
5.8
Murder Is My Beat
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
1955-02-27 | en
8.0
Hello Darlin'
Les Dalton is on parole after nine years in prison for armed robbery, and now everyone wants to know what happened to the missing gold. He claims it never existed, but no-one believes him, including the retired detective who headed the original manhunt. Whilst Dalton tries to build a new life in a world he wants no part of it, plans are afoot to force him to tell the truth -- a move which will ultimately cost someone their life.
2020-03-01 | en
5.7
Corridor of Mirrors
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
1948-02-23 | en
7.0
Yield to the Night
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
1956-06-19 | en
6.2
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
1948-04-15 | en