The Vienna Metro

Here is a list of films that are predominantly set in metro stations or are about metro systems. This list is most likely incomplete; please do contact me if you know of a film that is missing.

• Underground (UK 1928)
  Setting: London.
  Director: Anthony Asquith.
  Starring: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen.
  A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s.
• The Incident (USA 1967)
  Setting: New York.
  Director: Larry Peerce.
  Starring: Victor Arnold, Robert Bannard, Beau Bridges.
  Two teenage delinquents terrorize the passengers of a New York City subway train.
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (USA 1974)
  Setting: New York.
  Director: Joseph Sargent.
  Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam.
  Taut 1970s thriller about a gang of terrorists who hijack a train on the New York Subway.
• Subway (France 1985)
  Setting: Paris.
  Director: Luc Besson.
  Starring: Christophe Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer.
  A petty thief living in the Paris metro is pursued by a couple of thugs as he might be in possession of a valuable document. Considered totally stylish when first released, this thriller now seems somehwat dated as a landmark of 1980s aesthetics.
• Money Train (USA 1995)
  Setting: New York.
  Director: Joseph Ruben.
  Starring: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez.
  A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares.
• Moebius (Argentina 1996)
  Setting: Buenos Aires.
  Director: Gustavo Mosquera R.
  Starring: Guillermo Angelelli, Roberto Carnaghi, Annabella Levy.
  A train of the Buenos Aires metro vanishes, apparently into a parallel dimension. A mathematician is sent in to investigate. A somewhat esoteric, but utterly compelling sci-fi thriller.
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (USA 1998)
  Setting: New York.
  Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá.
  Starring: Edward James Olmos, Vincent D'Onofrio.
  Rather pointless remake of the 1974 movie, only with worse actors.
• Tube Tales (UK 1999)
  Setting: London.
  Director: Gaby Dellal, Bob Hoskins, Jude Law, and others.
  Starring: Ed Allen, Tom Bell, Jim Carter.
  Episodic movie about people on the London Underground.
• Kontroll (Hungary 2003)
  Setting: Budapest.
  Director: Nimród Antal.
  Starring: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Eszter Balla.
  Slightly existential, occasionally surreal story about a group of ticket inspectors in the Budapest metro. A perfect mixture of farce and mystery movie strongly influenced by Tarkovsky's "Solaris", this is not to be missed.
• Creep (UK 2004)
  Setting: London.
  Director: Christopher Smith.
  Starring: Franka Potente, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell.
  A girl gets locked into a station of the London Underground late at night and finds herself confronted with a mad serial killer.
• Moebius 17 (Germany 2005)
  Setting: Berlin.
  Director: Jo Preußler.
  Starring: Johannes Benecke, Christian Schellenberger.
  Spaced-out remake of the Argentinian movie that transposes the action into the graffiti scene of the Berlin underground.
• The Taking of Pelham 123 (USA 2009)
  Setting: New York.
  Director: Tony Scott.
  Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta.
  The second remake of Pelham 123 by Top Gun director Tony Scott stars John Travolta as the bad guy.
• Trains of Thoughts (Austria 2012)
  Setting: New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Moscow, Vienna.
  Director: Timo Novotny.
  Starring: Hines Buchanan, Hiroyuki Nagatake.
  Documentary film essay on six subway systems around the world, stylishly photographed and with a soundtrack by the Sofa Surfers.