Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Heist: 90 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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)…
- Man in the Vault (1956)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe
- Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
- Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney
- Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
- Rififi (1955)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Magali Noel…
- The French reclaim film noir with this methodical and stylish heist movie, famous for its 35 minute real–time bank robbery, executed in virtual…
- Violent Saturday (1955)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally…
- Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
- Good Die Young, The (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins…
- Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
- To Catch a Thief (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
- Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
- Kansas City Confidential (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…
- A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld.
Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…