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10 Best Movies Like The First Great Train Robbery

If you loved The First Great Train Robbery, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Footsteps in the Fog

Footsteps in the Fog

1955★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Thriller & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife....

#2
Robbery

Robbery

1967★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Thriller & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash....

#3
The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project

2008★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, ...

#4
Union Station

Union Station

1950★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime an...

#5
Chicago

Chicago

2002★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago....

#6
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Great Train Robbery for fans of Thriller & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigat...

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