Best film with no weapons (guns/knives/swords etc.)?

It is surprising, when you think about it, how few films do not have weapons of any kind in them.

Looking at the IMDB Top 250, only 1 of the 25 highest rated films does not have a gun, knife or sword in it – One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (unless it has one I can't remember). Some even have weapons on their posters.

If you had to name some great films which do not have a weapon of any kind of them, which ones would you choose?

Liam McPoyle

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It is surprising, when you think about it, how few films do not have weapons of any kind in them.

Looking at the IMDB Top 250, only 1 of the 25 highest rated films does not have a gun, knife or sword in it – One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (unless it has one I can't remember). Some even have weapons on their posters.

If you had to name some great films which do not have a weapon of any kind of them, which ones would you choose?

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

Business Cat

Business Cat wrote: »

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

Unless you count a cap gun.

ballyargus

Who has a gun in citizen Kane

jacksie66

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Second Toughest in_the Freshers

Finding Nemo

johnny_ultimate

I wouldn't consider 'no weaponry' cinema a particularly unique thing. The ubiquity of weapons is easily understandable from a dramatic point - a dangerous item is one of the easiest, most universal ways to advance a narrative or add tension, particularly in popular genres such as horror, thrillers or action movies (to name but three). In other genres again - war films, police dramas, samurai films - the presence of weapons is near essential from a historical or contextual perspective. At the same time, though, there's other genres where weapons are naturally uncommon - kids movies or romantic comedies/dramas being the most obvious examples.

Still, even beyond that, I think there's plenty of films where weapons are either non-existent or incredibly fleeting. In fact, if I think of the films I'd usually be inclined to list as my 'favourites' - Playtime, My Neighbour Totoro, Persona, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tokyo Story - are all weapon-free. If I'm mistaken there it's definitely only a fleeting appearance of anything potentially deadly!

I was going to include Lost in Translation on that list above, but it features a toy pellet gun. I'm inclined to give that one a pass too

dan1895

E.T. The version where they edited out all the weapons.

Serious answer; The Lion King.

Skylinehead

dan1895 wrote: »

Serious answer; The Lion King.

Claws are kinda knives

Tipsy McSwagger

Glengarry Glen Ross

A masterpiece in fine acting

e_e

My Dinner With Andre

Hell it even breaks Godard's rule of having a gun AND a girl.

Bizarro Stormy

Kes

Bizarro Stormy

e_e wrote: »

My Dinner With Andre

Hell it even breaks Godard's rule of having a gun AND a girl.

As does My Dinner with Andre the Giant

loyatemu

ballyargus wrote: »

Who has a gun in citizen Kane

there's a big shootout towards the end, Kane standing on a desk with a glock in each hand, big cigar in his mouth. He escapes in a chopper eventually.

e_e

loyatemu wrote: »

there's a big shootout towards the end, Kane standing on a desk with a glock in each hand, big cigar in his mouth. He escapes in a chopper eventually.

It's well noted that Arnie plagiarized "get to da choppa!" from a deleted Citizen Kane scene.

Technocentral

Annie Hall, 2001, 2010, The Lives of Others, Gattica, MOON.

dr.fuzzenstein

I think Scarface has barely any guns in it.

errlloyd

The social network

Technocentral

I forgot one of the best ever: "12 Angry Men".

Littlehorny

One of the better films in the last few years for me was Dallas Buyers Club, really good film, can't remember if there was any weapons in it.

Starscream25

Cast away

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Its a wonderful life !

Icaras

Dont remember any weapons in Withnail and I but its a long time since Ive seen it.

FortuneChip

A good blend in this years Oscar nominations - Brooklyn, Spotlight, The Big Short, The Martian & Room.

WoollyWoman

Icaras wrote:

Dont remember any weapons in Withnail and I but its a long time since Ive seen it.

Even Withnail had a shotgun 😉

Agent Coulson

Technocentral wrote: »

I forgot one of the best ever: "12 Angry Men".

One knife and pretty important to the whole movie

Nervous Wreck

Agent Coulson wrote: »

One knife and pretty important to the whole movie

Two knives.

Optimalprimerib

The wolf of wall street?
A large proportion of romantic comedies.

Icaras

WoollyWoman wrote: »

Even Withnail had a shotgun 😉

I stand corrected and am going to suggest Little Miss Sunshine.

MadDog76

The Bourne Trilogy.

R P McMurphy

The tree of life. Covered a lot of ground in that film without any weapons that I can remember

FunLover18

The Toy Stories (edit: do toys count, I've just remembered Andy definitely has a toy cowboy gun)

The Odd Couple

Ascendant

Cloudy with a Chance at Meatballs.

fruvai

Technocentral wrote: »

2001,

What about the bone? That was a weapon

Ascendant

Can martial arts films count? After all, the people in them act as weapons in themselves...?

Technocentral

fruvai wrote:

What about the bone? That was a weapon

If that's the case any film with a chair, shot of a kitchen drawer or a hammer contains a "weapon".

dr.fuzzenstein

Rock the Kasbah?
I'll get me coat.

Ascendant

Almost Famous

Rothko

Lost In Translation
Good Will Hunting

Rothko

Lost In Translation
Good Will Hunting

loyatemu

fruvai wrote:

What about the bone? That was a weapon

It wasn't just a weapon, it was the weapon.

syklops

Technocentral wrote: »

I forgot one of the best ever: "12 Angry Men".

This was my first thought, but it does have a knife in it.

Edit: Two knives, as pointed out.

dr.fuzzenstein

loyatemu wrote: »

It wasn't just a weapon, it was the weapon.

Since it stands for all weapons, one could say it has the most weapons of all movies.

buried

Raging Bull

syklops

buried wrote: »

Raging Bull

Rocky!

dan1895

When 2001 cuts from the bone being thrown through the air to a sattelite orbiting Earth, that sattelite is actually a nuclear missile.