# Movies where knives are prominently featured **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792 "2014-08-04T15:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/41 "2014-08-04T22:13:39Z")
[house of flying daggers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLkedDMb8vI) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/42 "2014-08-04T22:29:31Z")
Exposure. > **[A Grande Arte (1991) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101834/)** > > A Grande Arte: Directed by Walter Salles. With Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Pays, Raul Cortez. An American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models. Handle it until it is like an extension of your arm…cling to it like a new lover. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/43 "2014-08-04T22:32:08Z")
Knife in Water (Polanski) ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/44 "2014-08-04T22:33:17Z")
Gangs of New York [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvG_fZ2-H2A#t=16) [two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTapR73pfrY) [Eastern Promises](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7i9ma_eastern-promises-bathhouse-fight-sc_animals) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/45 "2014-08-04T22:41:33Z")
[Bad Blood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rSBfXMZ8fM) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/46 "2014-08-04T22:45:27Z")
_Aliens_ has a knife scene. The second _Mummy_ movie as well. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/47 "2014-08-04T23:08:45Z")
Crocodile Dundee ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/48 "2014-08-05T00:11:01Z")
With all hope apparently lost, Schwarzenegger in ERASER manages to turn the tables by whipping his trusty concealed knife at the bad guy, prompting a stunned _“I can’t believe you nailed me with this cheap piece of mail-order shit!”_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/49 "2014-08-05T02:06:34Z")
^ The bad guy was James Caan and that was probably the best line in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/50 "2014-08-05T02:29:59Z")
The original _Halloween_ and the original _Friday the 13th_ in, like, every single death scene. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/51 "2014-08-05T02:51:53Z")
[West Side Story.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWb_xz0OakQ) Also [Anchorman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipsPgNEmAXI)(along with several other weapons.) ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/52 "2014-08-05T02:59:47Z")
Romancing the Stone ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/53 "2014-08-05T03:02:52Z")
I did a search. Has \*\*Saving Private Ryan \*\*been mentioned? The scene with a knife is one that will haunt me pretty much forever. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/54 "2014-08-05T04:01:50Z")
[Animal House… at 1:34…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLF5VY20_c) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/55 "2014-08-05T06:44:42Z")
[The Hunted](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunted_%282003_film%29), Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. Not only features knife fighting, but also forging a knife and making an _ersatz_ one are part of the overall plot. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/56 "2014-08-05T08:05:24Z")
[Delicatessen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen_%28film%29) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/57 "2014-08-05T08:19:24Z")
_Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels_ “Guns for show, knives for a pro.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/58 "2014-08-05T11:26:44Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Where else can you [see Bob Dylan use a knife](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gILYTdqqCo0) the way you imagined you could when you were a kid? Or a teen. That clip looks _nothing_ like throwing it end-over-end to pin a lady’s dress to the wall. (Switching gears entirely, there’s some eerily memorable knife work in DRIVE.) ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792/59 "2014-08-10T06:20:46Z")
[127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/) Guy amputates his own arm with a pocket knife. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-knives-are-prominently-featured/694792.md?page=2)