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49 films tagged heist
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A Los Angeles sheriff follows the thief who got away from him to Europe, and talks his way into the crew planning a diamond vault job in Nice. Long and loose, as much hanging around with the crew as it is the heist.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
A disgraced treasure hunter steals a run of old paintings and pulls his estranged sister, a museum curator, into reading the clues in them. They are after the Fountain of Youth, funded by a dying man.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
An unexploded bomb turns up on a London building site, and while the army clears the streets to defuse it, a crew uses the empty cordon to drill into a bank. Two jobs running on the same clock.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
In seventeenth-century Mughal India, an outlaw who robs the rich to feed the poor is sent to take back the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Big Telugu action, with swords, horses, armies and songs.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A London shop worker stealing to pay for her mother's treatment is filmed by the man who installed the store's security system, and he wants a partner for a Christmas robbery. Light, with snow on it.
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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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Little-known
2025 · Action
A wedding on an island is raided and a retired thief's partner is taken hostage, so his old crew has to break into a casino and empty a penthouse safe to get her back. A heist run under orders, watched every step.
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2025 · Crime
Ten years on, the magician thieves are pulled back together to steal a famous diamond from a woman who launders money for criminals, with three young illusionists in tow. Big set pieces and constant misdirection.
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2025 · Crime
A professional thief survives a racetrack job that his own crew turned on, and works his way back toward the people who did it and a much bigger score. Fast, chatty crime plotting with double-crosses stacked up.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A New York piano tuner whose hearing is too sensitive to let him play any more teaches himself to crack safes by ear, and joins a crew of thieves to clear his old mentor's medical debts. Much of it is quiet, close listening.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A crew led by a long-hidden fugitive empties a bank vault and then a Macau tower without leaving a trace, so the police pull a retired surveillance expert back in to find them. Heist first, chase after.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A veteran armoured-truck driver and the rookie beside him are hijacked by a crew whose ringleader had a date with the rookie the night before. Loud and fast, mostly chases and bickering.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
The teenage children of El Paso drug agents start robbing cartel stash houses with their parents' intel and night vision goggles, to help the family of an agent who was killed. It moves fast, and the people chasing them are their own fathers.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A former hitman now running a security firm takes the family to London for Christmas, where a job turns out to be a setup by a half-brother he did not know he had. Chases and family bickering.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
Out after fifteen years for a bank robbery, a man finds the brother who buried the money now believes he is John Lennon and cannot remember where. A psychiatrist suggests playing along.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
Two childhood friends scraping a living in the Gangnam nightlife lose everything to a crime boss, then find out where he keeps his gold. Most of the film is what happens after they take it.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
In 1970 Massachusetts an out-of-work carpenter hires three men to steal four paintings from the local museum, while the country argues about Vietnam. A quiet heist film that stays with him afterwards.
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2026 · Crime
A careful Los Angeles jewel thief plans his robberies to avoid violence, and a detective who thinks one man is behind them all cannot get anyone to listen. It cuts between the two of them.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Three friends in the Bay Area shoplift from a fashion chain and sell the clothes on cheap, until one of them gets close to the designer whose work she admires. An absurd comedy that keeps stepping sideways.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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 · 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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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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Little-known
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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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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Little-known
2018 · Crime
Four students plan to steal rare books from their university library, mostly by copying films about heists. The real men are interviewed throughout, contradicting each other.
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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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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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2018 · Crime
A hard-drinking Los Angeles sheriff's unit works a crew planning to rob the Federal Reserve branch downtown. Long and grubby, built around two shootouts.
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1975 · Crime
Two men rob a Brooklyn bank in the afternoon heat, get it wrong immediately, and end up negotiating with the crowd outside. Almost entirely one branch and one street.
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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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2006 · Crime
A crew takes a Manhattan bank and everybody in it hostage, and the detective outside cannot work out what they actually want. Almost all of it is the branch and the street.
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Little-known
2023 · Drama
An English archaeologist just out of an Italian prison rejoins the gang of tomb robbers he used to dowse for, still looking for a woman who is gone. Loose, sunlit and a bit dreamlike.
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2017 · Crime
Two West Virginia brothers plan to rob a NASCAR speedway during a race, with help from a safecracker who is still in prison. Relaxed and funny, with a real plan in it.
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Little-known
2008 · Documentary
Philippe Petit and his friends smuggle a cable into the World Trade Center in 1974 so that he can walk between the towers. Told like a heist, with the real footage in it.
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2013 · Crime
Four stage magicians rob a bank during a Las Vegas show, and the FBI has to work out how. Fast, flashy, and it keeps stopping to explain itself.
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2002 · Thriller
A mother and daughter shut themselves in the reinforced room of a Manhattan brownstone on their first night, and the burglars need what is inside it. One house, one night.
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2009 · Crime
John Dillinger robs banks across the Midwest while a new federal bureau builds itself around catching him. Shot on video, and the gunfights are very loud.
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1992 · Crime
Men who do not know each other's names meet in a warehouse after a diamond robbery went wrong, and set about working out who talked. Almost all of it is that one room.
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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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2003 · Action
A crew robbed of their own gold by one of their number plan to take it back in Los Angeles. Light, quick, and it ends with three Minis in the storm drains.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Crime
An FBI agent in the Pacific Northwest in 1983 works a run of bank robberies back to a white supremacist cell. Cold, procedural and very tense.
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2012 · Crime
A motorcycle stunt rider starts robbing banks to support a son he has just learned about, and the film then hands over to somebody else, twice. Three stories in sequence.
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Little-known
2019 · Action
Five former special forces soldiers rob a South American drug lord and then have to carry the money over a mountain. The second half is the walk.
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