Trojan Horses in Live-Action Films.
- In The Art of the Steal, Crunch's original plan (as shown in an Imagine Spot) involves smuggling Francie into the warehouse inside some kind of container, with him getting out with three minutes oxygen to spare. Nicky shoots this plan down, but does implement a Trojan horse in an altered form: getting Canadian Customs to bring the forged Gospel into the warehouse by concealing it in a 4 ft. sculpture of a vagina.
- In Buffalo Soldiers a rival army faction sneaks into a defended base during a war game by hiding in trucks delivering breakfast.
- In The Dark Knight, Joker smuggles himself into the headquarters of Gambol (a rival mobster who's placed a bounty on Joker's head) by wrapping himself in trash bags, then playing dead while his mooks carry him in claiming they've killed him and want to claim the bounty.
- Den of Thieves: The crew smuggle Donnie into the Federal Reserve counting room by hiding him inside a currency box, concealed by bundles of cash.
- In the Hellboy movie, Kroenen combines this with My Death Is Just the Beginning. He shuts off his heart, then BPRD carries him back to their headquarters. Then Kroenen revives on the examining table.
- Hudson Hawk. The title character smuggles himself inside the Vatican inside a large mailed crate.
- The final ploy of the heroes of Independence Day was to send two of their men to The Mothership in a captured alien fighter to upload a virus. Went well, up until they tried to leave...
- In Iron Man 3 an Elite Mook gains access to Air Force One by wearing the Iron Patriot suit to disguise his identity. The film even refers to this move as a Trojan Horse.
- A 2006 Australian film of Macbeth updates the setting to a Melbourne crime family. Some hitmen smuggle themselves past Macbeth's security by hiding inside a truck hauling lumber. The lumber company is, of course, called Birnam Wood.
- Mom and Dad Save the World uses a giant bust of the Big Bad. The Big Bad, being an idiot like everyone else on the planet only thinks that the bust got his face wrong, and has it brought in just so people can tell the difference. This particular Trojan Horse scheme hits a little snag since the native rebels forgot to include a way out of the bust after sealing themselves inside it (again, planet of idiots).
- In Money Movers, Eric, Brian and Ed build a fake armoured car, paint it Darcys colours and deck it out with Darcys livery, then copy a number plate from one of Darcys legitimate trucks to allow them to drive into the counting house.
- In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sir Bedevere devises a slight variation to infiltrate the French castle, involving a wooden rabbit. He only gets one little detail wrong — he forgets that there should be somebody inside it. Just as well, since the French just catapult it back out.Bedevere: Um, l-look, if we built this large, wooden badger...
- Ocean's Eleven:
- They smuggle the acrobat into the vault inside one of the cash boxes. And then smuggle most of the team both in and out in the SWAT vehicle.
- Used twice in Thirteen. First to sneak a camera and computer connection into the baddy's office and later to get a magnetron into the computer core.
- Our Man Flint. After Flint is trapped inside an air-tight chamber by Galaxy, he uses his ability to place himself in suspended animation to appear to be dead. Galaxy buys it and takes his body to its Island Base. After he wakes up, he infiltrates their secret headquarters.
- Payment in Blood: Used by the mob as means to get rid of the protagonist and his family, after said protagonist becomes a witness to a series of mob killings. The beautifully-wrapped present box is filled with deadly snakes.
- It begs the question how the wife managed to open the box without hearing the sound of hissing, though.
- In Return of the Jedi, the strike team that lands on Endor to deactivate the Death Star's defense shield uses a stolen Imperial shuttle to get past the security. Turns out that Darth Vader knew what they were up to, but allowed them to land because he wanted Luke alive.
- Serenity film. The title ship was disguised while running the gauntlet through the Reaver ships.
- The Silence (2019): The Cult sends a little girl to the protagonists' hideout, knowing that they'll take her in out of pity, and strap phones under her clothes that are set to activate their alarms not long after the family brings her in, sending the movie's sound-sensitive monsters swarming towards the protagonists.
- In Star Trek Into Darkness, Spock does beam over the 72 torpedoes, but Khan's crew are no longer in them and the warheads are active.
- In The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), thieves sneak into a museum inside a Greek statue of a horse (though, it isn't wooden). It's delivered as an upcoming exhibit. For bonus points, it was actually a Greco-Roman horse.
- Troy, as an adaptation of the Trope Namer, naturally features the incident.
- White Heat has Cody Jarrett and his gang using an empty tanker truck to smuggle themselves into a chemical plant so they can rob its payroll office. Cody lampshades this by mentioning that he got the idea from a story his mother had told him:Cody: Way back there was a whole army tryin' to knock over a place called Troy and gettin' nowhere fast. Couldn't even put a dent in the walls. And, uh, one mornin', one mornin' the people of Troy wake up, look over the walls and the attackin' army's disappeared. Men, boats, the works. Taken the powder. But they left one thing after them: a great big wooden horse. And, according to Ma...
- Who Am I (2014): A digital variant. The hero hacker plants a Trojan inside a Trojan in order to uncover the antagonist's identity. But the plan fails as the latter looks through the trick and rejects the program.
