Subway is a 1985 French thriller film[3] directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert.

[8] Subway was the third-most popular French film in France in 1986, after Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Les Specialistes.

[11] Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the film's "highly energetic visual style" and "the sheer fun of staging domestic scenes, musical interludes and roller-skate chases in the underground" but added that "[the] characters and situations [are] so thin that they might as well be afterthoughts".

[12] According to film reviewer John Cribbs, "[Much] of Subway is meditative but largely plotless, like a dream being described to you by someone who's still trying to figure out the symbolism of it [themself] ...

The message is clear: [director] Besson thinks it's a crazy world up there on the surface what with folks insisting on constantly "doing" things.

To him the subway is someplace no square bozo would ever think about not moving swiftly through without a thought, therefore it's the ideal environment for outsiders who seek an eden of in-action; a stasis salvation ..

[14] The film was nominated for 13 César Awards in 1986, winning 3: Best Actor (Christopher Lambert), Best Production Design (Alexander Trauner) and Best Sound.