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16 films tagged heist
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2010 · Science fiction
A team that steals ideas out of people's dreams is hired to do the opposite and plant one. The job needs dreams inside dreams, and the rules are explained at length as it goes.
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2014 · Comedy
A famous hotel concierge between the wars takes on a new lobby boy, inherits a painting from a wealthy guest, and is accused of her murder. It is told as a story inside a story inside a story, at speed.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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1995 · Crime
A career thief planning one last big score and the detective chasing him circle each other across Los Angeles. It gives both men full lives outside the job, and the two sit down together only once.
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1998 · Crime
Four friends lose half a million pounds in a rigged card game and have a week to find it, so they plan to rob the neighbours who are busy robbing someone else. Several groups end up after the same two antique shotguns.
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1995 · Thriller
Five criminals meet in a police line-up and agree to work together, and the only man left standing after the job tells the story to a customs agent. Almost all of it is that interview.
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2017 · Action
A getaway driver who keeps music playing at all times to drown out the ringing in his ears is working off a debt to the man who hires him. Every chase and shootout is cut to whatever song he has on.
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2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
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2009 · Animation
A fox who promised his wife he would stop stealing chickens takes one more run at the three meanest farmers in the valley, who come after his whole neighbourhood. Stop-motion, dry jokes, everyone talking fast.
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2017 · Crime
After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.
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2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
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2001 · Crime
A thief out on parole puts together eleven men to empty the vault under three Las Vegas casinos on the same night. Cool and chatty, and the plan takes up most of the running time.
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2016 · Science fiction
A group of fighters with little in common are sent to steal the plans for the Empire's new weapon. It sits right before the first Star Wars, and the last hour is one long battle on a beach.
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2020 · Science fiction
An agent is recruited into an operation involving objects and people moving backwards through time, and told not to try to understand it. Loud and fast, and it explains itself while running.
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2010 · Crime
A Boston bank robber starts seeing the woman his crew took hostage on their last job, while the FBI closes in. Straight ahead, with big robberies at either end and a part of town nobody leaves.
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2018 · Crime
Four women in Chicago are left holding their husbands' debts after a robbery goes wrong, and decide to carry out the job the men had planned next. A heist film that spends as much time on city politics and grief.
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