Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime > Heist: 89 Films to Rent
- 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…