
Heist movies
A robbery/heist engine: planning, timing pressure, obstacles, misdirection, and the getaway fallout.

31. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Crime Drama Thriller Heist Family Drama2007•1h 57min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Sidney Lumet
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When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
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32. Man on a Ledge
Action Thriller Crime Cover-Up Thriller Heist2012•1h 42min
United States
Director: Asger Leth
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An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
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Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
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34. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Comedy Crime Heist Dark Comedy1998•1h 45min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Guy Ritchie
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Four mates stake everything on a card shark’s big poker night, but a rigged game leaves them owing a brutal debt collector half a million in a week, forcing them to rob the gang next door and setting off a chain of double-crosses that spins their small-time hustle into all-out criminal chaos.
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Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
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Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
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37. The Lookout
Crime Drama Thriller Heist Tragic Drama2007•1h 39min
United States
Director: Scott Frank
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Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
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Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
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39. Flawless
Crime Drama Thriller Heist Psychological Drama2007•1h 48min
United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Director: Michael Radford
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A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
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40. Flickering Lights
Action Comedy Crime Dark Comedy Heist2000•1h 49min
Denmark, Sweden
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
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Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.



