Runaway Train

The very definition of existential cinema, Andrei Konchalovsky’s action masterpiece finds two escaped prisoners aboard an out-of-control train.

  • Director

    Andrei Konchalovsky

  • With

    Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay

  • USA 1985. 110min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Two convicts break out of a hellish prison to find themselves trapped on a speeding train they can’t control. Is this Jon Voight’s finest moment? (He and Roberts both received Oscar nominations.) On the surface very American, this superb edge-of-the-seat existentialist parable was directed by Russian Konchalovsky and based on an unproduced Akira Kurosawa screenplay.