The Best Runaway-Vehicle Movies

Denzel Washington must love playing a train conductor. A year after saving the New York subway in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Washington’s reteaming with director Tony Scott to save us all in Unstoppable. This time, he’s fighting the train itself, a freighter with a mind of its own that threatens to destroy a city. With Unstoppable, Washington is joining a mini-genre of action movies: the vehicular thriller, in which vehicles turn on their operators and suddenly can’t be stopped. Whatever the means of transport, these vehicles adhere to the Kanye West lyric “Run away fast as you can”. Here are the best runaway-vehicle movies through the years.