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.

As Shinji Higuchi's Bullet Train Explosion, a 2025 reboot of the 1975 classic The Bullet Train, arrives on Netflix, we decode its ending.

Netflix's new action movie—which was filmed on a real high-speed bullet train in Japan—has me seriously thinking about the railroads at home.