There is a short film 'Sur le Quai" [On the Platform] by Robert Cahen which
is quite a haunting film.
Bollywood has several films incorporating 'trains' in the plots. A 1970 film
is called 'The Train".
Amrit
PS: If you connect trains with Jewish history, the entire 'imagery' gets
hugely 'grotesque'. Think of the Nazis' Final Solution! And the trains ...
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> Don't forget Alain Robbe-Grillet's _Trans-Europ-Express_
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> The train provides the setting for the self-reflexive film.
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> http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0061113/
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