16 Movies with Important Briefcases, Suitcases, and Bags
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Luggage has been around ever since mankind decided, “I want to take this stuff here and put it over there.” We have created bags, bindles, backpacks, suitcases, briefcases, saddlebags, attachés, sacks, satchels, totes, and more to fulfill this need. But it’s not just the bag that’s important, but the item or items within that make it significant.
That’s why in several movies there are plots that involve obtaining, stealing, or capturing a bag/briefcase/suitcase with an important MacGuffin or money inside. It’s a cliché now, but it’s effective. The tension of two or more characters struggling to keep the case or use its contents for their personal gain provides quality entertainment and storytelling. Sometimes the contents aren’t just a goal, but a weapon for a character to use. Or the briefcase is a weapon itself!
Here’s a list of movies that contain important plot points or scenes featuring a briefcase, bag, or other such carryable container.
Pulp Fiction
![Movie Briefcases Pulp Fiction Ever since the movie came out in 1994, the question on every viewer's mind has been, What's the glowing thing inside the briefcase? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/8/876028.jpg)
Miramax Films
Bullet Train
![Movie Briefcases Bullet Train All the action revolves around the delivery of the briefcase, but like a good MacGuffin, the story has a lot more to it than that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/1/9/876019.jpg)
Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures
The Big Lebowski
![Movie Briefcases The Big Lebowski Walter Sobchak switching a case full of ransom money with a case full of his unwashed undies creates high comedy and high tension in this modern classic. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/3/876023.jpg)
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Snatch
![Movie Briefcases Out of Time Careers at risk, betrayals, and lots of Denzel running is caused by pursuing money in bags. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/1/876031.jpg)
MGM
Snatch
![Movie Briefcases Snatch All of the characters' troubles revolve around a very expensive diamond in a locked briefcase that gets moved around in a farcical manner. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/0/876030.jpg)
Screen Gems
Jackie Brown
![Movie Briefcases Jackie Brown INGSLEY The tension when Jackie attempts to steal money from gun runners and the ATF via a shopping bag transfer will have your heart racing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/3/2/876032.jpg)
Miramax Films
Fargo
![Movie Briefcases Fargo Steve Buscemi goes through a lot to keep a briefcase containing nearly $1 million from getting into someone else's hands. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/4/876024.jpg)
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
High and Low
![Movie Briefcases Akira Kurosawa's High and Low The briefcase containing the ransom money for the child of Gondo's driver film not only represents actual cash, but Gondo's future. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/9/876029.jpg)
Kurosawa Films, Toho
Escape from New York
![Movie Briefcases Escape from New York The president has an important briefcase with sensitive material handcuffed to his arm in the hellscape of a dystopian New York City. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/1/876021.jpg)
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Dumb and Dumber
![Movie Briefcases Dumb and Dumber Returning the briefcase is the quest of the film (even if the money inside was replaced by IOUs). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/2/876022.jpg)
New Line Cinema
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
![Movie Briefcases 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag The title says it all, doesn't? A wiseguy loses his luggage containing eight severed heads at the airport. (This movie came out way before 9/11, by the way.) EGD SAM CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/0/876020.jpg)
Orion Pictures
Casino
![Movie Briefcases Casino Much of the movie's plot revolves around how the mafia skims money off the casino's profits through suitcases of stolen cash. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/7/876027.jpg)
Universal Pictures
Hail, Caesar
![Movie Briefcases Hail, Caesar! Apparently the ransom money in the case is important to the Communist cause, but not as important as Burt Gurney's dog. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/1/8/876018.jpg)
Universal Pictures
From Russia With Love
![Movie Briefcases - From Russia With Love Sometimes a briefcase isn't an object being chased after, but a weapon. Thanks to Q, James Bond has a carrying case that contains hidden compartments for ammo, a throwing knife, a sniper rifle, tear gas, and more! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/6/876026.jpg)
Eon Productions, United Artists
Kill Bill: Vol 2
![Movie Briefcases Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Sometimes a briefcase is lined with cash. Sometimes it contains a black mamba snake. Unfortunately for Budd, his case contained both. PRESSET ONE VOELOSTOCK STATUAL VILLASEN CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/1/7/876017.jpg)
Miramax Films
Police Story
![Movie Briefcases Police Story In one of the most insane stunts in film history, Jackie Chan's character slides down a pole wrapped in lit light bulbs to chase down a briefcase containing incriminating evidence. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/2/5/876025.jpg)
Janus Films