Two young men meet on a train; one an ambitious architect, the other a playboy with a taste for danger. As the train takes them to their destination, the two travelers speculate on what would it be ...

It is difficult to top a truly great thriller. They’re more intimate than action movies, more bombastic than a horror film, and yet thrillers combine some of the best elements of action and horror.

Just before the curtain goes up on The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy’s “Novel in Dramatic Form,” a man attempts to kill himself by leaping in front of a train. He’s saved by a stranger, and the pair ...