Rail Pirates (French: Les pirates du rail) is a 1938 French adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Charles Vanel, Suzy Prim and Erich von Stroheim.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild.

It is based on a novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Oscar Paul Gilbert, who also contributed to the screenplay.

[3] Henri Pierson, an engineer on a railway running through Yunnan in China, tries to resist a series of bandit attacks on the train.

Things come to a head when his wife Marie is taken as a hostage but the local warlord.