El vuelo 209 de la Trans American sale de Los Ángeles con destino a Chicago. Entre el pasaje se encuentran una serie de curiosos personajes. Entre ellos, un ex-piloto de combate que, en pleno vuelo, se verá obligado a hacerse con el mando del avión comercial, tras quedar los pilotos indispuestos por una comida en mal estado.
Adaptación de una de las novelas más conocidas de Agatha Christie. Narra la historia de un asesinato perpetrado durante un viaje en el legendario Orient Express. La investigación del famoso detective belga Hercules Poirot (Albert Finney) tropieza con grandes dificultades, pues los ilustres pasajeros disponen de una coartada que los excluye como sospechosos. Inmejorable reparto para un film que consiguió un Óscar (mejor actriz secundaria:Ingrid Bergman) y seis nominaciones.
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.
Jafar Panahi maneja un taxi amarillo por las vibrantes calles de Teherán, recogiendo a un grupo diverso de pasajeros en un solo día. Cada hombre, mujer y niño que aborda el vehículo expresa abiertamente su propia visión del mundo, mientras es entrevistado por el director/conductor.
Durante un viaje en un trasatlántico, Charles Pike, un soltero millonario experto en serpientes que vuelve de la jungla, se enamora de Jean Harrington, una jugadora profesional que, junto con su padre, hace trampas con las cartas. Jean, que también se ha enamora de Charlie, decide abandonar el juego pero, cuando Charlie se entera de cuál es su medio de vida, rompe su compromiso con ella. Jean, dolida, intenta vengarse. La oportunidad se presenta cuando Los Harrington se encuentran con un estafador amigo suyo. Entonces Jean decide hacerse pasar por su sobrina: Lady Eve Sidwich. Charlie conoce en una fiesta a Lady Eve y queda anonadado por su parecido con Jean.
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.
Cuatro personas coinciden en un tren camino a Dublín con algo en común: todos sufren la pérdida de un ser querido pero no todos lo expresan de la misma forma.
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled 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 traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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.
Short TV documentary on John Wildey, who had to land a Cessna after his pilot died mid-flight.
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.
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.
Dystopian vision of public transportation set in near future.
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.