Characters With Missing Arms
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These are movies with a character who has lost one or two of their arms.
These are movies with a character who has lost one or two of their arms.
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- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.A man without legs is strapped to the back of a man without arms, merging them together in perfect symbiosis.
This would make a great sit-com. - DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".Fenix' father cut off both of his mother's arms and she built a church to worship a raped child-saint. She uses her bewitched son Fenix's hands reaching out from behind her body in a nightclub act she performs and then later when she fights the soul mime girl who Fenix loves until Fenix rises as an eagle from his dead Puppetmaster's ashes as naked zombie brides rise from their graves. I'm not making this up.
- DirectorMehboob KhanStarsNargisSunil DuttRajendra Kumar TuliIn this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.Mother India's husband tried to move a huge boulder by putting both arms under it, but it fell and crushed both of his arms which had to be amputated.
- DirectorRamesh SippyStarsSanjeev KumarDharmendraAmitabh BachchanAfter his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.In this popular Bollywood action rom com musical buddy movie, we learn, after he is accused of being a coward for not picking up a gun, that a main character we've seen always wearing a blanket wrapped around his shoulders, didn't join the fight because both of his arms were cut off by a bandit. We see him do it in a flashback in one easy stroke with one sword in each hand. Yet, oddly, the armless guy is still way better groomed than everybody else. At the end when they're about to fight the bandit says something like "You can't fight me I cut your arms off" and the armless guy says something like "You use your feet to crush a snake not your hands" then they really get into it with hands and feet.
- StarsGünter LamprechtClaus HolmHanna SchygullaIn late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.Franz lost an arm after it was crushed under a car tire.
- DirectorErich von StroheimStarsRudolph ChristiansMiss DuPontMaude GeorgeA con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.A woman seated on a patio drops her book in front of a soldier who wears a military cape that hides his arms. He just sits there without picking it up for her. We see by the look on her face that she is insulted, and we don't blame her. Von Sternberg even reads a passage from her book about how Americans have no honor. Later she drops her purse next to the same soldier in an elevator and again he does not pick it up, to her annoyance, and ours also. Who is this bum? Finally, she exits the hotel door, not looking where she is going, and she bumps into him, knocking his cape to the ground. He stops and looks at her as if he expects her to pick it up and we are just as outraged as she is - until the camera shows us that he has no arms. She picks up the cape and puts it on him then fondles his empty sleeves, kisses the insignia on the wrist, and tearfully apologizes to him in what becomes a very uncomfortable scene because she looks like she's turned on by his lack of arms.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsJames FrancoAmber TamblynKate MaraA mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.Aron Ralson's arm gets caught in a rock slide, trapping him inside a slot canyon, so he slowly cuts off his entire arm with a dull pocket knife to escape.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyNorman KerryJoan CrawfordA criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.Lon Chaney pretends to be a circus freak with no arms who shoots guns and throws knives with his feet, but he's really a crook with both arms and three thumbs. When he falls in love with Joan Crawford and finds out she has a terrible fear of being touched by a man, but trusts him because he has no arms and hands, he blackmails a surgeon and forces him to cut off his arms to win her over. But as soon as his second arm hits the floor, she loses her fear of grabby-armed guys and hooks up with the strongman, the guy with the biggest arms in the circus.
- DirectorEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsJeff BridgesMatt DamonHailee SteinfeldA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.Snakebite cure in the old West was a shot of whisky and a sawed-off arm. These days it is recommended that the victim remain quiet and seek immediate medical help. 14-year-old Mattie Ross falls into a pit where she is bitten on the arm by a rattlesnake. She is rescued and taken to a doctor who cuts her arm off. We see her years later as a grown woman with one arm.
- DirectorSean McNamaraStarsAnnaSophia RobbDennis QuaidHelen HuntBethany Hamilton, a professional surfer, loses her left arm in a shark attack. Unwilling to pay attention to the gravity of her situation, Bethany decides to get back into the ocean and surf again.A shark bites off a surfer's left arm so she breaks an arm off her Barbie Doll and learns to tie on her bikini top with only one arm. She also learns to surf again.
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.King Arthur: [after he has cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] "Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left."
Black Knight: "Yes I have."
King Arthur: "Look!"
Black Knight: "It's just a flesh wound." - DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga BaclanovaA circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.A traveling circus has a freak show with a girl with no arms and a guy with no arms or legs.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.It seems like every Jodorowsky film must have at least one character with no arms. In this one, there is a brief scene of a very small shirtless man with no arms who angrily kicks a fallen statue on the ground with his feet.
Another small man has half of his arms missing, and we see him light and smoke cigarettes with his stumps. - DirectorAndrew DavisStarsHarrison FordTommy Lee JonesSela WardDr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.Dr. Richard Kimble, a fugitive from the law who want him for the murder of his wife, insists that she was killed by a man with a prosthetic arm.
"When I came home, there was a man in my house. I fought with this man. He had a mechanical arm. You find this man. You find this man!" - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerCarl WeathersKevin Peter HallA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.Carl Weathers' character gets his arm shot off by an alien hunter with dreadlocks.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.During the Normandy invasion in WWII a soldier's arm is shot off so he picks it up and carries it with him.
- DirectorStephen NorringtonStarsWesley SnipesStephen DorffKris KristoffersonA half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.A bad guy gets his arm sliced off by Blade's sword.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.The Terminator loses his arms but they can be replaced because he's just a machine.
- DirectorJohn LasseterAsh BrannonLee UnkrichStarsTom HanksTim AllenJoan CusackWhen Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye.It's all in a day's work for a toy cowboy; lose an arm, sew it back on.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorTen years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.Anakin's severed arm is replaced with a mechanical one.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsHayden ChristensenNatalie PortmanEwan McGregorThree years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.Anakin loses his second arm, gets covered in hard black plastic with a respirator, and turns into a really bad guy named Darth.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan HicksAsh Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.Technically, for an arm to be severed the cut must be above the elbow. Ash's arm is cut below the elbow, but he straps a chainsaw to his remaining arm and uses it to rip through demon heads, and that is just too cool to leave out.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.A man's right arm is frozen solid then smashed off with a big hammer. He does OK later using a weapon in his left hand. Another man has only one arm. We learn that he cut it off to feed some starving people and keep them from needing to kill and eat a baby. Hard times.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.A soldier returns from the war missing an arm.
- DirectorFrantisek VlácilStarsJosef KemrMagda VásáryováNada HejnaA grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.A main character Adam was having sex with his sister in a field when a viper bit his arm. His father chopped it off with an axe because of the incest and because of the poison from the snakebite.