Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Heist: 90 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…