# Name some movies with realistic fight scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381 "2010-04-16T18:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/81 "2012-11-08T05:14:42Z")
Alfred Hitchcock has very real fights in his movies between ordinary men, just grappling. I like the way he films them all in close ups. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/82 "2012-11-08T12:10:17Z")
Did I miss anyone mentioning Haywire, brutal nasty fights, like you’d imagine trained killers would fight… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/83 "2012-11-08T19:36:00Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > My favorite. > > And what does Bond first do after winning the life or death struggle? > > He _straightens his tie_! > 😃 After watching _Diamonds Are Forever_ the other night, I have to add the fight in the lift between Bond and Franks as well. Bone-crunching! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/84 "2012-11-09T06:23:35Z")
From Russia with Love fight between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw. No rolls but very real. Runner up Diamonds are Forever fight on the elevator. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/85 "2012-11-09T09:51:38Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How about the duel between Wesley and Montoya in The Princess Bride? Real moves, real styles, but (in-character) they’re not really trying to kill each other. I don’t have anything to add on the fighting itself, but they those were chess moves they were naming. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/86 "2012-11-10T18:58:31Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > IIRC, the sabre duel in _The Duelists_ is supposed to be pretty accurate, at least in the brutality. Totally seconded. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381/87 "2012-11-23T06:51:34Z")
> [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](#): > > I don’t have anything to add on the fighting itself, but they those were chess moves they were naming. Perhaps, but they are also definitely references to fencing masters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-some-movies-with-realistic-fight-scenes/536381.md?page=4)