Subgenre Sampler
Heist: 178 Films to Buy & Rent
Killer Force (1976)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian…
- Routine heist film made palpable by its oddball casting, with Savalas hot on the heels of Fonda and his crack team of thieves as they plot an…
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Al Pacino
- Al Pacino is stunning as a deluded no–hoper who robs a New York bank to finance his lover's sex change operation. Riveting drama based on a…
Inside Out (1975)
- Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason…
- UK action thriller film, shot in West Berlin and The Netherlands. Thirty years after World War II, a team of former soldiers from both the US and…
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
- Dir. H.B. Halicki
Feat. H.B. Halicki
- Cult action–classic rides shotgun with car–converter Maindrain Pace (dir. Halicki) as he attempts to steal 48 high–performance…
Taking of Pelham 123, The (1974)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam…
- Superlative '70s heist movie – four gunmen hi–jack a train and threaten to kill one passenger for every minute the ransom is late. Taut,…
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges
- Eastwood employs high–powered artillery to blast bank vaults, but complications arise when he teams with carefree Jeff Bridges to retrieve loot…
Dirty Money (Un Flic) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
- Final film by the suspense–specialist Melville (LE SAMOURAI), spins a familiar tale of cops and bank–robbers involving Alain Delon,…
Getaway, The (1972)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw
- Husband–and–wife crime team Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw have a nightmare of a time escaping to Mexico after a botched bank robbery. …
Rentadick (1972)
- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Anderson Tapes, The (1971)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam…
- An inventive, if over–ambitious thriller in which a master–thief (Connery) recently released from prison plans a difficult heist, without…