The eternal question

[Curtis, baby]

Yall know my stance on da docks

[oscarwerner]

I always liked train stations

[greennui]

I like train films as well, but train stations? Brief Encounter is the only one that springs to mind really.

[sally]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH PEOPLE

[thoxans]

but train stations?

indiscretion of an american wife!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Chug-a-chug-a-choo-choo! Alongside walking and bikes, trains are my favourite mode of transport, bar none. Cars and planes are the worst. Indifferent to boats.

[nrh]

actually can't think of all that many films that take place at train stations (as opposed to on trains), but shoutout to the purgatorial station space in ijaazat which does spend basically whole running time there -

[liquidnature]

that's tough, i love both equally and would probably choose depending on my mood

[Curtis, baby]

Favourite train station movies include Cairo Station, Kontroll, Underground, Hugo

But nothing beats da docks

[Silga]

There's a train station in my old favorite High Noon.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Let's not forget the most iconic of all movie train stations: that of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, cinema's founding myth.

[sally]

Let's not forget the most iconic of all movie train stations: that of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, cinema's founding myth.

yeah! also mythical and and equally as founding, let's also not forget that louis le prince disappeared from the world on a train journey. everlasting images needed their tangible, temporal sacrifice, so cinema swallowed him up to the rhythms of a choo-choo. the lumières just turned that into very poetic pr.

but i still prefer the docks.
trying to think of non-french ones and i remember liking seagulls die in the harbour

[Lencho of the Apes]

non

I think my favorite non-French docks is The Salvation Hunters.Come to think of it, Docks Of New York was pretty swell as well. Sternberg = poetic realist manque?

[Curtis, baby]

Some more non-French docks: Port of Flowers, Japanese Girls at the Harbor, A Girl in Every Port, Out of the Fog... one Sam Fuller (neo-?)noir has important scenes at the docks but I can't remember which one... Haven't seen it but I will be watching Visconti's La Terra Trema soon because it takes place at the docks.

In the 2015 Genre Cup (I managed "Romance at da Docks") I selected the criminally underseen early Tay Garnett feature Her Man, as well as Kaurismaki's Ariel (more recently Kaurismaki made The Other Side of Hope, as well as Le Havre). My other selection was french too, Remorques

I wonder if the most widely liked docks movie is Carne's Port of Shadows. Never met someone who saw it and didn't love it

There's also the early Korean feature, The Sea Village.

[Umbugbene]

Hard choice, but I went with docks because of Moon in the Gutter.

Just looked up Port of Shadows on lboxd, and you're right! Not a single person I follow has given it less than 7/10. I haven't rated it coz I haven't seen it in decades, but a rewatch is coming up soon.

[wba]

both great, but the docks it is.

Though I prefer films taking place on a train or on a boat/ship