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Deadfall (1968): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman…; Somewhat lumpy thriller with Caine recruited by a husband and wife to pull of a daring diamond heist. The actual robbery is cross–cut with a…
Farewell, Friend (Honor Among Thieves) (1968): Dir. Jean Herman
Feat. Alain Delon, Charles Bronson; Dependable French caper, centered on an elaborate heist, with warhorses Branson and Delon thick as thieves in vying to crack the same high security…
Grand Slam (Ad Ogni Costo) (1967): Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Janet Leigh, Klaus Kinski, Edward G. Robinson; Smooth–running thriller about an international criminal gang who attempt a gruelling diamond heist during the chaotic Carnival in Rio de…
Robbery (1967): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth…; Topnotch heist film is a tension filled reconstruction of "The Great Train Robbery" with Stanley Baker in the Ronnie Biggs role. Film gets off to…
How to Steal a Million (1966): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach…; A top cast lifts this romantically–inclined suspense caper, wherein Hepburn must steal a forged sculpture belonging to her own family before it…
Killers, The (1964): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…; Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
Topkapi (1964): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…; A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
Doulos, Le (The Finger Man) (1963): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani; Eschewing the French New Wave movement in favour of homage to the then ‘passe’ genre of film noir, dir. Jean–Pierre Melville adds shades of…
Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959): Dir. Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Feat. Steve McQueen; This noir thriller is one of McQueen's best early roles, and although somewhat obscure has a cult reputation for its shootout scenes and intense,…
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters…; Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…

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