Runaway Train

Frozen Alaska. A crack in the cell door. Rust. Two cons claw out into snow-weighted dark. One stumbles onto moving steel, the other dragged aboard—body still shackled—as throttle opens by itself. Andrei Konchalovsky turns a locked-box train into a steel maze with no walls at all.

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Andrei Konchalovsky directed Runaway Train in 1985. See Andrei Konchalovsky's full filmography, where to start with Andrei Konchalovsky, or where to go after you've seen everything by Andrei Konchalovsky.

Runaway Train was released in 1985 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.