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Bad Guys, The (2022): Dir. Pierre Perifel; Action comedy from DreamWorks Animation based on Aaron Blabey’s best–selling book series about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws…
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…
Den of Thieves (2018): Dir. Christian Gudegast
Feat. Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, 50 Cent…; Dependably hard–boiled heist movie set in LA, where law enforcement battles to prevent a planned robbery of the Federal Reserve. Gerard Butler…
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…
Hurricane Heist, The (2018): Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten; Preposterous heist movie where the thieves work undercover of a hurricane! Complicating matters is a meteorologist whose brother is kidnapped by the…
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…
Going in Style (2017): Dir. Zach Braff
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin…; Octogenarian buddy–movie has Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin team up to pull a heist when their pensions become a casualty of…
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…
Masterminds (2016): Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig…; The director of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE helms this heist comedy starring Zach Galifianakis as an armoured car driver who is lured into a $17,000,000…
Now You See Me 2 (2016): Dir. Jon M. Chu
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson…; Undemanding sequel with The Four Horseman forcibly reunited by a tech genius in order to pull off their most daring heist yet.
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
Focus (2015): Dir. John Requa, Glenn Ficarra
Feat. Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro…; Will Smith stars as a veteran con man whose latest scheme is thrown for a loop when a woman from his past returns.
Last Panthers, The (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, John Hurt; Globe–trotting crime caper with Samantha Morton and Tahar Rahim on the trail of a gang of diamond thieves.
Point Break (2015): Dir. Ericson Core
Feat. Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone…; Pointless remake of the Kathryn Bigelow action classic about a young FBI agent who infiltrates a team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of…
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…
Last Diamond, The (2014): Dir. Eric Barbier
Feat. Yvan Attal, Bérénice Bejo, Jean-Francois Stevenin; Slick heist film with an ex–con battling gangsters and ruthless killers in the race to pull off a daring diamond heist.
Nut Job, The (2014): Dir. Peter Lepeniotis
Feat. Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson…; An exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren raid a nut store to survive, that is also the front for a human gang's bank robbery
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.
Dom Hemingway (2013): Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Jude Law, Emilia Clarke, Kerry Condon…; Jude Law plays a gloriously profane ex–con trying to make it or break it on the streets of London after 12 years in the slammer. Messily…
Firestorm (2013): Dir. Alan Yuen Kam-Lun
Feat. Andy Lau, Yao Chen; Exhilarating action thriller where a crew criminals manage to pull off a car heist in broad daylight on the streets of Honk Kong, and a hardboiled…
Hunting Elephants (2013): Dir. Reshef Levi
Feat. Sasson Gabai, Moni Moshonov, Patrick Stewart; Three old timers, with the aid of a genius grandson, plot to rob a bank in this enjoyable Israeli heist comedy.
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…
Love Punch (2013): Dir. Joel Hopkins
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall…; A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.
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.
Babymakers, The (2012): Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar
Feat. Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn, Kevin Heffernan…; The Broken Lizard troupe return with this madcap comedy of a man who, after failing to get his wife pregnant recruits his pals to steal the deposit…
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,…
Gambit (2012): Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Cameron Diaz…; An art curator's best laid plans to steal a priceless statue from a tycoon come unstuck when he recruits a slippery blonde as his partner in…
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…
Robot and Frank (Robot & Frank) (2012): Dir. Jake Schreier
Feat. Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler…; Sentimental futurism finds aging Frank Langella search for companionship and purpose in (late) life in the robot servant purchased for him by his…
Thieves, The (2012): Dir. Dong-hun Choi
Feat. Gianna Jun, Hye-su Kim, Yun-seok Kim…; This slickly engineered Korean blockbuster (the second highest earning in the country's box office history) plays all the right cards in its…
30 Minutes or Less (2011): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride…; A pizza delivery boy (Eisenberg) is kidnapped and instructed to rob a bank, or the bomb strapped his chest will explode, in this frantic comedy caper.
Flypaper (2011): Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson…; Passable time–waster with Dempsey as a manic math whiz who has the misfortune to find himself as a hostage in simultaneous bank heists.
Tower Heist (2011): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck…; Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead a group of working class bros on an elaborate take down of a mega–wealthy scamster in this large scale comedy…
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.
Town, The (2010): Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm…; Competent, briskly executed heist drama from actor/dir. Ben Affleck follows an armed robbery crew out of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, and the…
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.…
Bank Job, The (2008): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows; Heavy–for–hire Jason Stratham stars in this enjoyable crime caper based around the true story of a robbery in a London bank vault in…
Mad Money (2008): Dir. Callie Khouri
Feat. Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes…; Heist comedy from THELMA AND LOUISE scripter Callie Khouri, centred on a trio of good–girl bank employees that decide to take a walk on the…
Maiden Heist (2008): Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy…; Agreeable caper with three aging security guards conspire to steal the artwork they're supposed to be protecting. Intended as an affectionate…
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…
Graduation (2007): Dir. Michael Mayer
Feat. Adam Arkin, Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith…; Teen heist flick concerns a quartet of college friends on the brink of graduation who try to pull off a risky bank job to help fund cancer treatment…
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,…
Ocean's Thirteen (Ocean's 13) (2007): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon…; Another high–rolling casino caper from ringmaster Soderbergh, this third flutter on the heist franchise retains his original debonair cast in a…
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…
Employee of the Month (2004): Dir. Mitch Rouse
Feat. Christina Applegate, Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn; Matt Dillon is dumped by his girlfriend (Applegate) and fired from his job in the same day. Thank goodness Steve Zhan is around to pull him out of…
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…
Ocean's Twelve (Ocean's 12) (2004): Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon…; Virtually the entire attractive 'ratpack' of the OCEAN'S ELEVEN remake regroup for a further spin of the heist–comedy wheel, this time on the…
Catch That Kid (2003): Dir. Bart Freundlich
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Max Thieriot, Corbin Bleu…; First there were SPY KIDS, then CODY BANKS and now, three more sub–teens with special skills, this time planning to rob the world's…
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…
Italian Job, The (2003): Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron…; The 60s heist classic, madeover with an attractive young cast and hi–tech savvy, but with the fleet of getaway Minis intact. Vowing revenge…
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…
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001): Dir. Mel Smith
Feat. Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Michael Gambon; Down–at–heels Minnie Driver and Mary McCormack decide to crash a heist they’ve stumbled onto by blackmailing their way into some of the…
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…
Score, The (2001): Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton…; Slick but perfunctory caper–comedy with Marlon Brando luring heist–specialist Robert De Niro into a ‘big score’ with Edward…
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000): Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall; A Jerry Bruckheimer remake of a cult 1974 film about car–thieves, with Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie boosting and revving–up a variety…
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…
Earthly Possessions (1999): Dir. James Lapine
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff; Bored housewife Susan Sarandon, who is planning to leave her husband, gets mixed up in a bank robbery instigated by Stephen Dorff and becomes his…
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…
Running Out of Time (1999): Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan; A crackingly–paced, plot–bending Yin–Yang heist drama, with terminally–ill master jewel thief Andy Lau playing against the…
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…
Con Air (1997): Dir. Simon West
Feat. Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich…; The prison genre meets the airborne thriller(!) but invigorated no end by super–slick production and direction and the ever–dependable…
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…
Hard Rain (1997): Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater; Bank–robber Morgan Freeman targets a Mid–Western town and doggedly continues his heist as rising floodwaters turn the streets into…
I Went Down (1997): Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Feat. Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot…; Irish filmmakers lift a few steps from the TRAINSPOTTING lads and the Coen Bros for this deadpan skid into misadventure, amongst a crew of criminal…
Idiot Box (1997): Dir. David Caesar
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims; Yet another winner from across the Taz, Ben Mendelsohn and Jeremy Sims give career–best performances as a pair of cuddly petrol–heads…
Ronin (1997): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone…; Perfunctory caper round the grey streets of Paris stuffs as much car–chasing and other cliches as possible into its baggy plot concerning…
Bottle Rocket (1996): Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd…; Merciless slacker/heist movie about three no–hopers who struggle at being even small–time hoods. Quirky, charismatic and blessed with a…
Broken Arrow (1996): Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis…; When John Travolta nicks off with a couple of nuclear warheads, its enough to transform his (former) air–force buddy (Christian Slater) into…
City of Industry (1996): Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen; A jewel heist goes wrong with double–crossings eventuating in a bitter wrangle between laconic veteran Harvey Keitel and hot–head upstart…
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…
Once a Thief (1996): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea…; John Woo remakes his Hong Kong hit with an American cast of young unknowns in English. Woo pretty much operates as gun–for–hire here, but…
Two If by Sea (1996): Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Denis Leary, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Dillane…; Petty thieves Denis Leary and Sandra Bullock are a seven year item who plan to settle down after one final heist of a valuable painting. But with…
Dead Presidents (1995): Dir. Hughes Brothers
Feat. Larenz Tate, Keith David, N'Bushe Wright; The Hughes Brothers follow up MENACE II SOCIETY with a heist movie set in 1970s Harlem. A scarred Vietnam vet fails to adjust to civilian life and…
Score (1995): Dir. Atsushi Muroga
Feat. Shu Ehara, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Ryuushi Mizukami; A kinetic, if largely derivative actioner, which comes over as a Japanese RESERVOIR DOGS set around an unstable band of Yakuza henchmen attempting to…
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…
Killing Zoe (1994): Dir. Roger Avary
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy; A heist movie as grim and graceless as its title bears the Tarantino monicker (as executive producer) but director Avary only proves he has much to…
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…
Getaway, The (1993): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen…; A glossy yet respectable remake of the 1972 Peckinpah thriller with real–marrieds Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in the shoes of Steve McQueen…
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…
Shopping (1993): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonathan Pryce; Joy–riding, shop–looting youths cruise the neon–lit urban squalors of Northern England. Realism is bypassed in favour of a visual…
Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (1993): Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis; Second clay–mated adventure has Wallace and Gromit's quiet life disrupted by a pair of mechanical trousers and a criminally–inclined…
Full Contact (1992): Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat; Chow Yun–Fat rescues his friend from a loan shark, but the friend leaves him for dead in a botched robbery and takes off with his girlfriend. A…
Reservoir Dogs (1992): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi…; Partners–in–crime Keitel, Roth, Buscemi, Madsen and others reel from a botched jewel heist in an abandoned warehouse. Tarantino's…
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…
Breaking In (1991): Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley; A Stateside charmer from the director of LOCAL HERO about a veteran burglar who takes on a young petty criminal as an apprentice of his trade.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991): Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson; A self–mocking vehicle for macho stalwarts Rourke and Johnson. They team up to rob a bank, but it's O.K. coz they're helpin' out a buddy who's…
Once a Thief (1991): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang; Whimsical actioner combines directorial flair with the charisma of Chow Yun–Fat. He leads an elite team of art thieves who encounter the…
Point Break (1991): Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty…; 100% pure adrenalin? You bet! FBI rookie Keanu Reeves goes undercover to lynch an elite gang of surfing bankrobbers. Wild and incredulous, but…
Hudson Hawk (1990): Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Sandra Bernhard…; Good–natured adventure with Bruce Willis as a reformed cat burglar who is blackmailed to steal from the Vatican. A major box–office…
Nuns On the Run (1990): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Eric Idle; Bumbling crooks Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle dress in strange habits to avert the law when a million dollar heist goes awry.
Quick Change (1990): Dir. Bill Murray
Feat. Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid; Clever caper comedy features the most ingenious bank robbery ever staged. Rollicking fun with Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid.
Family Business (1989): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick; Star–studded caper film that follows a family of criminals and their struggles when attachment clashes with business. Adapted by Vincent…
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis…; Rarely does a comedy achieve such a high laugh–count and provide substance beyond sheer entertainment value. A comic masterpiece written by and…
City On Fire (1987): Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee; Undercover cop Chow Yun Fat is wounded in the aftermath of a bloody heist gone horribly wrong, and trapped in the thieves' hideout as they determine…
Great Bookie Robbery, The (TV Mini Series) (1986): Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. John Bach, Bruno Lawrence, Andy Anderson…; Classic heist drama based on a multi–million dollar robbery in 1976 Melbourne, and re–enacted by the cream of New Zealand's acting…
Les Fugitifs (1986): Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu; The inept Pierre Richard teams up with the innocent Gerard Depardieu in a madcap criminal escape after a botched bank–job. The situation…
Restless Natives (1985): Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Ned Beatty…; Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.
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…
Hoodwink (1981): Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush…; Devious bank robber Hargreaves eludes the law by pretending to be blind in this low–key Aussie caper–romance. Geoffrey Rush’s first…
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…
Great Train Robbery, The (1978): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland; Smooth–running recreation of purportedly the first train robbery ever, of a load of gold bullion in 19th century Ireland. Sean Connery…
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…
Straight Time (1978): Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, M. Emmet Walsh, Harry Dean Stanton…; Dustin Hoffman is brilliantly convincing as a convicted felon fighting a losing battle to go straight after a six year jail term, as are most aspects…
Brink's Job, The (1977): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands…; In 1950, the Brink’s security firm in Boston was robbed of nearly $3,000,000, in one of the US’ largest ever heists. This version of events…
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…
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…
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…
Mister Jerico (1969): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Patrick Macnee, Herbert Lom, Connie Stevens; Cheesy 60s crime caper stars AVENGERS actor Patrick Macnee as a conman set out to rob a diamond from a millionaire, only to have his plans disrupted…
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…
Italian Job, The (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Michael Caine, Sir Noel Coward, Benny Hill; Petty crook Michael Caine and an incarcerated Noel Coward have a crack at the big one in this ebullient caper movie memorable for its glam car chases…
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…
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966): Dir. Bernard Girard
Feat. James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Camilla Sparv; James Coburn stars as Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full–time con man in this comical crime caper.
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…
Wrong Arm of the Law, The (1962): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins…; Hilarious comic spoof, in which a gang of Australian thieves is pursued by Scotland Yard and criminal underworld alike. Peter Sellers is at the…
League of Gentlemen, The (1960): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes…; A high–class league of British actor gents – Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesy and others – conspire…
Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's 11) (1960): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Jr. Davis, Peter Lawford…; The definitive 'Rat Pack' movie, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among the eleven confederates who…
Two Way Stretch (1960): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins…; Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
Great St Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959): Feat. Steve McQueen, David Clarke; A little known noir gem starring a young Steve McQueen as a getaway driver for a group of criminals plotting to rob a bank in St Louis. Based on…
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)…
Operation Amsterdam (1959): Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton; Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
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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