Highest-Rated Movies about 'Knife In Back'

Oldboy (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), Airplane! (1980), Profondo rosso (1975), Pack Train (1953), Buffet Froid (1979), Natural Born Killers (1994), Ghajini (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Knife In Back movies.

#16. Apt Pupil (1998)

Storyline: Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.

Plot Keywords: nazi, blackmail, falling down stairs, basement, knife in back, tunnel, guidance counselor ...

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#17. Macao (1952)

Storyline: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an American expatriate who runs the biggest casino in Macao and has a thriving business in converting hot jewels into cash. Her new boss thinks one of her traveling companions is a cop. One is -- but not the one the boss suspects.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>

Plot Keywords: singer, hong kong, one word title, nightclub singer, boat, song, phonograph record ...

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#18. Avengement (2019)

Storyline: While released on furlough from prison, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old haunts to take revenge on the people that made him a cold-hearted killer. It's an epic, bloody battle to search for the soul he lost years ago on the streets of an unforgiving city.—Samuel Goldwyn Films

Plot Keywords: death of mother, police sergeant, hostage, cancer, bounty, police brutality, apology ...

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#19. All the Young Men (1960)

Storyline: During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: independent film, winter, farmhouse, racism, racial issues, racial slur, stretcher ...

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#20. Fort Worth (1951)

Storyline: Southern veteran Ned Britt returns home to Fort Worth after the Civil War with his mentor, newspaperman Ben Garvin, along with his young apprentice, in hopes of building the town into a modern metropolis. However, the area is terrorized by the ruthless Gabe Clevenger and his gang of hired guns. Britt wonders whose side his old friend Blair Lunsford is on. Lunsford has used the unrest to buy up parcels of land on the cheap and hopes to profit from this speculation after the territory is cleaned up and ultimately become governor. Britt sees through his friend's ambition, and they are alternately allies and antagonists. Britt is also distracted by girl-next-door Flora Talbott and and seductive Amy Brooks.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: parade, newspaper publisher, wagon, texas, shotgun, sheriff, horse riding ...

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#21. The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)

Storyline: Fernack tries to get Simon arrested as he returns home from a Transatlantic European vacation in order to help old friend and World War I hero Peter Johnson travel safely to Palm Springs in order to deliver $200,000, which has been converted into three rare stamps, to his daughter. While Simon is protecting him in New York, Johnson is murdered in his own apartment, but the killer is unable to get the stamps. The Saint brings them himself to the resort but is assaulted by a gang of foreign agents who steal the stamps. Johnson's beautiful daughter Elna doesn't believe Simon's story but gives him 24 hours to get them back before reporting him to the California authorities. Along with old friend Pearly Gates, a reformed pickpocket turned hotel house detective, they sift through many red herrings to uncover the stamps and the murderer.—duke1029@aol

Plot Keywords: whodunit, golf course, probation, b movie, swimming pool, pith helmet, parole ...

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#22. Starsky & Hutch (2004)

Storyline: Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, and Dave Starsky, who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer who went on to become a white collar criminal.

Plot Keywords: character names as title, russian roulette, bag of money, restaurant, no opening credits, police station, police captain ...

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#23. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

Storyline: Condemned gunman Clayton is given a last minute reprieve on condition he murders rancher Matthew for a railway company. Visiting Matthew's ranch, Clayton is unable to bring himself to kill Matthew and leaves, but Matthew's wife, Catherine, believing she has killed Matthew during an argument joins Clayton. Matthew, still alive, and mad as hell joins Clayton's equally angered employers to hunt down the pair—Tom Seldon <elpuro.msn.com>

Plot Keywords: skinny dipping, sex, female nudity, breasts, female rear nudity, horse riding, jail cell ...

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#24. Gun Fury (1953)

Storyline: After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: stagecoach robbery, 3 dimensional, 3d, revenge killing, lovers reunited, fiance fiancee relationship, shepherd ...

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#25. The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

Storyline: A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia which would be hostile to Greece. Darios flirts with the beautiful Diala, daughter of the statue's mastermind, while becoming involved with a group of rebels headed by Peliocles. These rebels seek to overthrow the tyrannical King Serse as does Serse's evil second-in-command, Thar. The rebels' revolt seems to fail, with Peliocles and his men being captured and forced to provide amusement in the local arena, but an earthquake eventually upsets, not only the Colossus in the harbor, but the balance of power in Rhodes as well.—Wiki

Plot Keywords: ancient greece, marketplace, mummy, poison, rebellion, torture chamber, dungeon ...

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#26. The Void (2016)

Storyline: When Sheriff Deputy Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.

Plot Keywords: tentacle, h.p. lovecraft, gore, mutation, cult, police officer, hospital ...

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#28. Suburbicon (2017)

Storyline: In the bosom of Suburbicon--a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals--a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However--as the young patriarch, Gardner Lodge, and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once-welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly--seemingly random acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will blemish, irreparably, Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?

Plot Keywords: murder, funeral, wheelchair, satire, riot, taking a bath, anger ...

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#29. Stitches (2012)

Storyline: The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle goes to the birthday party of little Tom and the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home and the clown revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: kneed in the groin, kneed in the crotch, high heels, soccer ball, accident, stabbed in the back, race against time ...

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