Ex-piloten og krigsveteranen Ted Striker kæmper med et krigstraume, der har ledt til et alvorligt “drinking problem” – han forsøger konstant at indtage væske gennem alle andre ansigtsåbninger end munden. På et fly fra Los Angeles til Chicago forsøger han at vinde sin gamle flamme, stewardessen Elaine Dickinson, tilbage. En mission, der viser sig sværere end først antaget, da en stor del af flyets passagerer, samt det meste af besætningen, bliver syge af madforgiftning.
Det er en udsøgt skare, der mødes på Orientekspressens perron i Istanbul. Man hilser, og man konverserer, men før toget når Paris, er den fornemme overflade krakeleret. En af passagererne dør en frygtelig død. Heldigvis er den skarpsindige belgiske detektiv Hercule Poirot også med toget, og han giver sig straks i kast med opklaringsarbejdet.
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Jafar Panahi agerer selv taxichaufføren, der med sit kamera indbygget i instrumentbrættet dokumenterer sine finurlige, morsomme og ind i mellem stærkt bevægende møder med allehånde iranere. På raffineret vis - og med stor menneskevarme - tegnes et portræt af et moderne Iran, som ikke ligner noget, vi kender fra tv-reportagerne og ej heller noget, de lokale myndigheder billiger.
DEN 11. SEPTEMBER 2001 gjorde passagererne på Flight 93 oprør mod de terrorister, der havde taget kontrol over flyet. Flyet blev det eneste af fire fly, der ikke nåede sit mål, på dagen hvor World Trade Center kollapsede, og Pentagon blev hårdt ramt. Med hjælp fra autentiske lydoptagelser fra flykabinen, historier fra familie og venner og dybdegående efterforskning fremlægges den virkelige historie om flykapringen, der mislykkedes takket være 40 tilfældige passagerers samarbejde.
U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins come upon an overturned stagecoach with the driver and the passenger dead. They learn that the passenger, Hinkley, an archaeologist, has discovered an old Indian site that contains gold relics, and a gang has robbed him of the relics he was carrying. Jane Condon, daughter of Hinkley's partner who was also murdered, tells Nevada that an old Indian guide, Shag, is the only one who knows where the site is. The outlaws find Shag first, and kill him after forcing the information from him. Hinkley's son, Joel, arrives and knows where the site is and leads Nevada and Sandy there ahead of the outlaws.
I oktober 2013 var den 77-årige John Wildey på vej hjem fra en fredelig dag på landet som eneste passager i en vens fly. Pludselig bliver vennen utilpas, og ti minutter efter er han kollapset over instrumenterne, efterladende John uden flyveerfaring alene i et fly 500 meter over jorden, mens dagen begynder at gå på hæld. Nu begynder et timelangt mareridt for den ældre mand, mens flypersonale på jorden forsøger at guide ham til landing i bælgmørke og uden lys i kabinen!
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
The film narrates how two guys, Sathyanath and Adv. Nandan Menon, who never had anything to do with one another, come into each others lives and what all things happen consequently.
July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine. During an inspection, she crosses the way of a passenger who diverts her from her new functions.
After shooting more short films and documentaries, Deschanel wrote, directed and shot Trains, a short film that won the Silver Bear at the 1976 Berlin Film Festival. Trains is an exquisitely filmed short format documentary on passenger trains throughout the course of one day.
Dystopian vision of public transportation set in near future.