Trains have been popular in cinema arguably since the beginning of film, when the Lumière brothers’ “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” became one of the first movies ever made and commercially screened in 1896.

Netflix's Bullet Train Explosion hit the screens on 23 April 2025, diving headfirst into adrenaline-pumping action. Set aboard a Shinkansen, aka a bullet train, the movie takes viewers on a high-speed journey with a bold rescue mission amid a bomb threat.