Radnja Snowpiercera odvija se u budućnosti, na Zemlji koja je zbog neuspjelog eksperimenta koji je trebao zaustaviti globalno zatopljenje okovana u snijeg i led.
Jedini preživjeli nalaze se u vlaku, „snowpierceru”, kojeg pokreće stroj po principu perpetuum mobilea.
No ljudi u vlaku podijeljeni su po staležima, pa se najbogatiji voze u prvom vagonu sa svim povlasticama, a oni najsiromašniji u posljednjem. Sve dok se obespravljeni na začelju ne pobune!
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Jimmy Popeye Doyle i Buddy Cloudy Russo dvojica su newyorških detektiva zaposlenih u odjelu za narkotike. Dopadne ih zadatak da prekinu lanac transporta heroina iz južne Francuske u Sjedinjene Države. Saznavši tijekom istrage da se radi o velikoj pošiljci droge, trag ih dovede do newyorške trgovine slatkišima čiji bi vlasnici, Sal Broca i njegova supruga Angie, mogli biti umiješani u slučaj. Istodobno, u francuskom gradu Marseilleu, otmjeni bogataš Alain Charnier, "kralj" mjesnoga narkomiljea, organizira poslove vezane uz prodaju heroina Amerikancima. Kako je informiran o napredovanju istrage Popeyea i Cloudyja, odluči ih ukloniti i osigurati protok droge.
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.
Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard, they are now trapped, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers.
A pantry boy falls in love with the touch-up girl of an actress travelling on his train, but an incident turns the train into an unstoppable force posing a threat to the passengers, and the romance.
Three old man, a little boy training to protect an old patrimony, La "33", the last train.
A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.