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Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir
left|thumb|Francisco Goya's Witches in the Air (1798), the painting stolen in the film. In reality, it is part of the collection of the Museo del Prado.During a heist on an auction house, thieves take a package which presumably contains a …
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Slasher Horror, horror film
While traveling cross country, a couple (Betty and a man referred to as "Driver") encounter a gang of robbers. The group, led by dedicated criminal Hoag, consists of Hoag's brother Ethan, his daughter Amber, his girlfriend Tamara, Amber's …
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Action, Auto Racing, Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Maindrian Pace is an insurance investigator who runs an automobile chop shop in Long Beach, California. He is also the leader of a professional car theft ring that steals and resells stolen cars, disguising them using vehicle identificatio…
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Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In California, psychotic criminal Arthur "Cody" Jarrett leads the ruthless Jarrett gang alongside his wife Verna, his beloved mother "Ma" Jarrett, and his right-hand man "Big Ed" Somers. During a robbery of a mail train in the Sierra Nevad…
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Silly Movie, buddy cop film, comedy film, heist film
Los Angeles police officer Frank Dooley is framed for stealing a television set by corrupt detectives Rizzo and Nedler and dismissed from the force. Meanwhile, hapless defense attorney Norman Kane is threatened with death by his latest cli…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Grimm is a burned out New Yorker who's down on his luck. He longs to escape his miserable life in New York City - and the country - but is lacking the means to do so. Desperate, he dresses up as a clown and robs a bank in midtown Manhattan.
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
The Miller family lives in a mansion in Shreveport, Louisiana where the father Kyle Miller works as diamond merchant. The house is later invaded by robbers masquerading as police. They consist of leader Elias, his girlfriend Petal, his you…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
After three years confinement in a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus has recovered his sanity and has been cured of his obsession with killing Inspector Jacques Clouseau, who has replaced Dreyfus as…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, heist film
Recent parolee Michael Zane stops at a run-down desert motel outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He catches a boy, Jesse, stealing from his car, and chases him back to his mother, Cybil Waingrow, whom he seduces. The next day, four men arrive to pi…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Aegis Oil owns various oil refineries and rigs in Alaska, where the company faces strong public opposition due to the increasing environmental damage from its operations. Aegis had purchased the oil production rights from the local tribal …
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman who usually wears a leather jacket and skirt, sports fire-red lips and a platinum bubble cut, and speaks in a high-pitched voice; she is also resourceful and intelligent. One day her boyfriend Johnny se…
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Drama, Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, heist film, romance film
Paxton and Linda, a disgruntled couple in London during the COVID-19 pandemic in London lockdown, face personal and professional challenges. Paxton's criminal past limits his job options, while Linda struggles with her role in laying off e…
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Komödie, Western, Western film
In Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the late 19th century, aging one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn is stripped of his badge by Judge Parker due to his drunkenness and questionable use of firearms. When a shipment of highly explosive nitroglyce…
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Action, Justice Drama, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
The film opens in Los Angeles, 1992. LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a conveni…
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Gangster Film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In Hell's Kitchen 1978, three women are married to members of the O'Carroll crime family. Kathy is married to Jimmy, a kind man who is increasingly disillusioned with the mob; Ruby is married to Kevin, the son of boss Helen O'Carroll; and …
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Action, action film, crime film, disaster film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
During a heavy rainstorm, Tom and his uncle Charlie, two armored truck drivers, are collecting money from banks in the town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been evacuated due to flooding. They are ambushed by Jim and his gang of armed r…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding th…
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Abraham Lincoln High School's head B-Squad cheerleader Lisa Janusch, who recalls about how Diane Weston, the kindhearted popular head cheerleader of Abraham Lincoln High School's A-squad, became pregnant by the well-known football quarterb…
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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, romance film
Buster Edwards is a petty criminal from Lambeth in 1963 London. His long-suffering wife June thinks of him as a lovable rogue. The film opens with Buster walking along his local high street and breaking into a shop to steal a suit, which h…
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Action, Heist, heist film
Luke Vaughn is working in a Southern casino ("The Swan") run by Francis "The Pope" Silva. Vaughn has a sick daughter and needs $300,000 for a necessary surgery. He approaches "Pope", who refuses his plea for a loan.
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, heist film
thumb|The real dagger of Mahmud I Jewel thief Elizabeth Lipp visits Istanbul, where she sees a traveling fair featuring replicas of treasures from the Topkapı Palace. She then cases the Topkapı, fascinated by the emerald-encrusted dagger o…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, action film, heist film
Richard Pace is a professional thief, and prison escapee. Werner Schultz, owner of several private prisons, three of which Pace has escaped from, learns he is about to be released, but Pace escapes the day before Schultz's visit. Pace stay…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Charley Varrick is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot, down on his luck. So he, his wife, and two accomplices, Al and Harman, rob a bank in rural New Mexico. Though the heist results in a big haul, it also claims the lives of Al and Char…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, heist film
Seattle PD Detective Quentin Conners and his partner Jason York are implicated in the death of a hostage taken by a carjacker named John Curtis. After a fellow police officer, Callo, testifies against them, Conners is suspended, and York i…
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