Movies and TvShows featuring "riding-a-freight-train" theme.

Sherlock Holmes is investigating a series of crimes across Europe that are believed to be connected to criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson battle Moriarty's men, they uncover his plan to start a war and make a profit. Holmes ultimately defeats Moriarty, but survives and leaves a question mark on Watson's typewriter.

Starman is a sci-fi romance film about an alien who takes the form of a dead man to travel to Earth. He kidnaps a woman and enlists her help to reach a rendezvous point where his people will pick him up. Along the way, they develop a deep connection and learn about love and humanity.

Selma, an Eastern European immigrant living in Washington state in the 1960s, is going blind and faces the threat of losing her job at a local factory. She forms a friendship with Cathy, but their relationship becomes strained as Selma's blindness worsens. When Selma reveals a secret to the local sheriff, her life takes a downward spiral. However, Selma remains determined to protect her friend's secret. In the end, Cathy realizes the value of Selma's decisions and they reaffirm their friendship.

Two escaped convicts find themselves on a train hurtling through the Alaskan wilderness. With no driver and a massive snowstorm approaching, they must fight to survive the brutal conditions and evade capture.

When a drifter named Dempsey is mistaken for a gunman, he finds himself becoming a ranch foreman for a female ranch owner in Wyoming. As he becomes involved in a battle over land ownership, Dempsey must navigate the dangers of predatory capitalism and hold onto his own principles.

During the Great Depression, 15-year-old Natty Gann embarks on a cross-country journey to find her father. Along the way, she faces various challenges and encounters both friend and foe. With her loyal wolf-dog companion, she navigates through forests, lumber camps, and hobo camps, learning important life lessons and discovering her own strength and resilience.

Up the River is a 1930 movie about a group of inmates who become friends and plan an escape from prison. The movie explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and redemption as the inmates navigate their way through prison life and work together to execute their escape plan.

In this blaxploitation film, a group of female pirates leads an action-packed adventure involving jungle chases, sea battles, and rescues.

On a cross country road trip to rob his home town bank Prince Mccoy finds himself having to rely on the help of an ex convict hitchhiker named Carl Robbins. Along the way the people they meet and the friendships they build begin to heal the ghosts of their pasts. However, they both have one final crossroad to face in the small town of Apple Seed.

Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange environment, Nick learns the value of personal honesty and integrity and discovers what defines true friendship. He finds himself torn between his affection for Angelica, who believes with her Aunt Olivia that the forest should be preserved, and loyalty to his boss, the owner of the lumber company. In the end, this city boy must choose between his own safety and the lives of those he has come to love.