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Locked Down (2021): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Merchant…; Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a newly separated couple confined to their swanky London apartment during a mandatory lockdown, with…
Wrath of Man (2021): Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan…; Pulpy action thriller with director Guy Ritchie (LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) teaming up with actor Jason Statham for the fourth…
Finding Steve McQueen (2019): Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner…; Lighthearted heist caper set in the 1970's, following the unlikely attempt by a group of small–time crims to steal $30 million from Nixon's…
Hatton Garden (TV Mini-series) (2019): Feat. Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham, Brian F O'Byrne…; Four elderly men carry out a large–scale robbery in this series based on the 2015 Hatton Garden Diamond Heist, one of the most audacious…
Heroic Losers (2019): Dir. Sebastian Borensztein
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Chino Darin…; Winning underdog comedy from Argentinian director Sebastian Borensztein (CHINESE TAKEAWAY) based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri (THE SECRET IN THEIR…
Dragged Across Concrete (2018): Dir. S. Craig Zahler
Feat. Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles…; A simmering, witty and entirely unpredictable heist epic from the writer/director of BONE TOMAHAWK that stars an ageing Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan…
King of Thieves (2018): Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Michael Caine, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon…; British heist movie in the classic mould, bringing together an impressive cast to tell the true story of the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of…
Ocean's 8 (Ocean's Eight) (2018): Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway…; A star–studded ensemble cast deliver a slick heist caper in the vein of previous installments. A team of crooks go for a 150 million dollar…
Baby Driver (2017): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx…; Entertainingly preposterous heist–comedy from British upstart Edgar Wright, centred around a precociously talented getaway driver whose every…
Logan Lucky (2017): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig…; Heist–comedy populated by an impressive ensemble cast, following the down–on–their–luck Logan family as they try to strike it…
Hell or High Water (2016): Dir. David Mackenzie
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, Chris Pine…; An exceptional ten–gallon thriller in which a divorced father and his ex–con older brother resort to a desperate but righteous scheme in…
Triple 9 (2016): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie…; Bruising slice of pulp cinema features a team of entirely corrupt cops, in hock to the Russian mob, planning a heist that goes dramatically wrong
Victoria (2015): Dir. Sebastian Schipper
Feat. Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Max Mauff; Dazzling, propulsive thriller shot entirely in one continuous 134 minute take through multiple locations in the city of Berlin has a Spanish woman's…
11.6 (2013): Dir. Philippe Godeau
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Bouli Lanners; A bitter security guard makes off with an armoured van carrying 11.6 million euros in this everyman heist movie. Based on a true story.
Art of the Steal, The (2013): Dir. Jonathan Sobol
Feat. Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel…; Kurt Russell plays a reformed art thief who agrees to round up the old gang for one last heist. A superficially entertaining crime caper.
Kill Point, The (TV Series) (2013): Dir. Steve Shill
Feat. Donnie Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Tobin Bell…; High octane television series that follows a group of U.S. Marines recently returned from serving in Iraq as they come together to pull off a major…
Now You See Me (2013): Dir. Louis Leterrier
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson…; A team of magicians who use their illusionist act to pull off daring heists attempt to outwit the authorities in this dazzling crime caper.
Comes a Bright Day (2012): Dir. Simon Aboud
Feat. Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd…; The cherubic charm of Craig Roberts (SUBMARINE) and Imogen Poots carry this swish, luxuriously shot heist movie–cum–romantic comedy,…
Man on a Ledge (2012): Dir. Asger Leth
Feat. Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell…; An ex–con threatening to take his own life by jumping from a Manhattan high rise may in fact be a decoy to enable an elaborate jewel heist to…
Place Beyond the Pines, The (2012): Dir. Derek Cianfrance
Feat. Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper…; Ryan Gosling re–teams with the dir. of BLUE VALENTINE for this equally arresting crime saga that unfolds after a motorcycling drifter's…
Rise, The (Wasteland) (2012): Dir. Rowan Athale
Feat. Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Timothy Spall…; A flashy heist movie emerges from a dreary Yorkshire setting in this sharp slice of a British deadbeat miserablism, set around the best laid plans of…
Takers (2010): Dir. John Luessenhop
Feat. Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon…; Slick, but generic heist film has a notorious gang of thieves running up against a hard–bitten detective determined to foil their latest heist.
Armored (2009): Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne…; Slick heist film has a down on his luck Iraq war veteran finding for a security company where he finds himself drawn into a forty–two million…
Code, The (2009): Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hardy…; Routine heist film with Freeman playing a veteran thief who recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to…
High Life (2009): Dir. Gary Yates
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Rossif Sutherland; Well–executed crime caper has four laughable lowlifes hatch a plan to rob a series of ATM machines, only for their moronic, stoned–out…
Taking Of Pelham 123, The (2009): Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzman; Flashy remake of the 70s heist movie sees John Travolta as the mastermind behind the hijack of a New York subway train, and Denzel Washington as the…
21 (2008): Dir. Robert Luketic
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth…; Snappy thriller based on the true story of a group of students who cheat the Vegas gambling system in order to pay off their college fees, helped…
25 Carat (25 Kilates) (2008): Dir. Patxi Amezcua
Feat. Francesc Garrido, Aida Folch, Manuel Moron…; Relentless thriller set in the Barcelona underworld where a loan enforcer and a car thief pair up for a particularly dangerous heist.…
Tuesday (2008): Dir. Sacha Bennett
Feat. Philip Glenister, Ashley Walters, Christian Solimeno…; British heist movie concerning a group of infamous criminals, a couple of beautiful bank clerks and a desperate, jobless man, all of whom decide to…
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney…; Intense tragi–thriller centred around a pair of hapless brothers (Hoffman and Hawke) who face devastating family consequences after a botched…
Flawless (2007): Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Demi Moore, Michael Caine; Competent period caper teams up undervalued Diamond Corp exec Demi Moore with disaffected janitor Michael Caine, as they decide to take revenge by…
Lookout, The (2007): Dir. Scott Frank
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher…; It–boy Joseph Gordon–Levitt elevates this small–town crime thriller as an impaired bank janitor who is coerced into acting as an…
No Country for Old Men (2007): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones…; A masterfully executed thriller from the Coen brothers, who return to the suspense–driven fatalism of their most admired films (BLOOD SIMPLE,…
Inside Man (2006): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…; Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
Firewall (2005): Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen…; Bank security expert Harrison Ford is forced into a tight corner when his family home is invaded by gun–toting criminals, led by a…
7 Times Lucky (2004): Dir. Gary Yates
Feat. Kevin Pollak, Liane Balaban, Jonas Chernick…; Solid caper film that benefits from Kevin Pollak's performance as a small time con man who suddenly finds himself with the prospect of a big score…
After the Sunset (2004): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson…; Recently retired jewel thieves Brosnan and Hayek are safely esconsed on a desert island, when an old FBI nemesis turns up simultaneous with a…
Hustle (TV Series) (Hu$tle) (2004): Feat. Robert Vaughn, Rob Jarvis, Adrian Lester…; Popular Brit TV drama about the so–called 'pros of con': five slick yet human ripoff artists who earn their bread by staging elaborate stings…
Foolproof (2003): Dir. William Phillips
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet; A slick if stereotypical heist thriller, in which a group of brainy thieves plan 'foolproof' heists, but find their ambitions go awry when their next…
Good Thief, The (2002): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Nick Nolte, Ralph Fiennes; This woozy, lightly stylised thriller finds Nick Nolte as the titular gambling thief looking to go into retirement by heisting expensive paintings…
Hard Word, The (2002): Dir. Scott Roberts
Feat. Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Damien Richardson…; A lean comic thriller taking its attitude from LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, but given stubbled Aussie charm by leads Guy Pearce and Rachel…
Kaante (Thorns) (2002): Dir. Sanjay Gupta
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty; From a new generation of Bollywood film–making comes a kinetic heist picture, shot and located in LA in which six Indian suspects plot a…
Stick Up, The (2002): Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. James Spader, David Keith, Leslie Stefanson; James Spader robs a small–town bank wearing a clown mask, in this heist thriller with a few noir pretensions. Another one that has fallen…
Welcome to Collinwood (2002): Dir. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Feat. William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell…; A comic 'heist' satire in which Luis Guzman and his girlfriend land in a snowballing mess when trying to spring him from prison to do a big…
Heist (2001): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Gene Hackman, Ricky Jay, Delroy Lindo…; The heisting of Swiss–Bank bullion by professional thieves Gene Hackman, Ricky Jay and Delroy Lindo is given enjoyably intricate spins by…
Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's 11) (2001): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts…; Remodelling the not–so–great ‘Rat Pack’ original from 1960, dir. Soderbergh slickens his heist thriller with a spot–on sense of…
Reindeer Games (2000): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron…; Parolee Ben Affleck may wish he was back in his cell after impersonating his dead cellmate and landing in various spots of leftover bother, namely…
Where the Money Is (2000): Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney; A still–charismatic Paul Newman is an aged bank–robber esconsed in a nursing home after suffering a stroke, though his nurse Linda…
Entrapment (1999): Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones; Veteran cat burglar Sean Connery meets his match in insurance investigator Catherine Zeta–Jones in this glossy fusion of international heist…
Pups (1999): Dir. Ash
Feat. Burt Reynolds; A frustrated thirteen–year–old comes across the family firearm, prompting him to hold up the local bank with his reluctant girlfriend in…
Body Count (1998): Dir. Robert Patton-Spruill
Feat. David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, John Leguizamo…; Derivative thriller following a group of thieves coping with the aftermath of a botched museum heist. RESERVOIR DOGS with a B–list cast, but…
Jackie Brown (1998): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier…; Quentin Tarantino follows–up the fireworks of PULP FICTION with a laidback ode to lowlife dreamers and schemers that reclines comfortably into…
Out of Sight (1998): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames; Neatly complementing JACKIE BROWN, novelist Elmore Leonard is adapted here in purely cinematic terms by the director of SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE. An…
Dobermann (1997): Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci…; Frenetic French crime thriller filled with over the top gun play and colourful yet grimy characters. Vincent Cassel plays a bank robber known as…
Face (1997): Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Phillip Davis; The wily Robert Carlyle plays lead 'face' of an armed–robbery gang, in a tense, grabby thriller that more than holds its own in…
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1996): Dir. Agustin Diaz Yanes
Feat. Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem; Alcoholic and reluctant whore Victoria Abril turns a few clever tricks on a Mexican mob's laundering operation. A Spanish pulpy fiction grafted with…
Normal Life (1996): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Ashley Judd, Luke Perry, Kate Walsh…; Based on a true story of a by–the–book cop who turns to bank–robbing with a bit of encouragement from his off–the–boil…
She's Out (TV Mini-series) (1995): Dir. Ian Toynton
Feat. Ann Mitchell, Linda Marlowe, Maureen Sweeney…; Six–part crime drama written by Lynda La Plante (PRIME SUSPECT) as a sequel to her 1980's series, Widows. Ann Mitchell is superb as Dolly…
Darkness in Tallinn (1993): Dir. Ilka Jarvilaturi
Feat. Elina Aasa, Milena Gulbe, Juri Jarvet; In liberated Estonia, gangsters plan the elaborate ambush of gold bullion being restored from a Paris vault. A humble electrician has the pivotal job…
Real McCoy, The (1993): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer; You've heard this one before: a paroled bank robber wants to go straight, but is persuaded to pull off one last heist. Kim Basinger and Val Kilmer…
Sneakers (1992): Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier…; This reworks the spy–caper genre to dazzling effect as an endearing team of security crackpots attempt to outwit bad egg Ben Kingsley whose…
Subway (1985): Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani; Fast paced action thriller set in the Paris underground. A cool rebel–hero (Christopher Lambert) teams up with Isabelle Adjani in stylish…
Green Ice (1981): Dir. Ernest Day
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif; Cheesy, outlandish heist romance finds Ryan O'Neal embroiled in the high–stakes world of emerald smuggling. Omar Sharif is good value as an…
Thief (1981): Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. James Caan, Tuesday Weld; Exhilarating, distinctive portrait of a criminal professional, here a safecracker played with wired conviction by James Caan. A scorching…
Egouts Du Paradis, Les (The Sewers of Paradise) (1979): Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova; Romantic dramatization of "The Great Drain Robbery" of 1976, in which the Societe Generale Bank of France was robbed of over $10 million dollars by a…
Money Movers (1978): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Terence Donovan, Bryan Brown; Violent thriller has a group of security–guards arranging an inside–job, while the police and criminal–world circle like vultures…
Silent Partner, The (1978): Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer…; A clever twister about a bank heist during the Christmas season involving crafty teller Elliot Gould and psychotic hoodlum Christopher Plummer. A…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
Cercle Rouge, Le (The Red Circle) (1970): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand…; A precisely–crafted colour 'noir' from the French master, dir. Melville, which rejigs the usual ingredients into an exemplary heist…
Danger Diabolik (1968): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…; Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
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)…
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…

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