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Caper-Movie, Crime Comedy, drama film, heist film
In 1855, Edward Pierce, a member of London's high society, is secretly a master thief. He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London-to-Folkestone train that is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, heist film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
After resigning from Nova Robotics after the events of the first movie, Benjamin Jahrvi (né Jabituya) starts up his own business, "Titanic Toy Corporation", which specializes in making sophisticated toy robots that he builds by hand from t…
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Action Comedy, Gangster Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, heist film
In 1971, a policeman pulls over Elmo McElroy, a recent college graduate with a degree, for driving under the influence of marijuana. Due to his arrest and conviction, McElroy cannot find work as a pharmacologist. In the present day, drug l…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
In 1971, after John Dortmunder is released from his latest stint in prison, he is approached by his brother-in-law Andy Kelp about another job. Dr. Amusa seeks a valuable gem in the Brooklyn Museum that is of great significance to his peop…
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Heist, High School Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Everyman high school student Kyle needs a high score on the SAT to get into Cornell University's architecture program. He constantly compares himself to his older brother Larry, who is now living above his parents' garage. Kyle's best frie…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, heist film, prison film, science fiction film
A gang robs a bank on behalf of crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers unexpectedly enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas urges his accomplices to abort the robbery, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in t…
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Crime Comedy, Musical, comedy film, crime film, heist film, musical film
In the 1930s "Big" Jim Stevens, undisputed boss of the Chicago underworld, gets an unexpected birthday present from his ambitious lieutenant, Guy Gisborne. Big Jim gets shot by all the guests at his birthday party, and Gisborne takes over.…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, heist film, parody film
Undercover police officer Lucas White enters the world of underground street racing to join a gang of street racers led by Vin Serento to get closer to a crime ring led by Los Angeles kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol. The morning after losing…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Jimmy Kilmartin is a reformed ex-convict living in Astoria, with his wife Bev and their daughter. Both Jimmy and Bev are recovering alcoholics. One day, Bev leaves Jimmy alone to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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heist film, science fiction film
A brilliant, principled mercenary with a traumatic past works on an inside job to steal "the sphere", a valued asset from Peredor Corporation, but the heist goes wrong. Meanwhile, The C & Earth corporation is hoping to use a scientist's pr…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
The film opens with Lehiff (Colin Farrell) charming a cashier. After flirting with the girl, he punches her in the face and steals from the till. It quickly moves to John (Cillian Murphy) and Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), a recently separated…
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Heist, crime film, drama film
Brian Reader is a former thief who is now retired. At the funeral ceremony for his wife Lyn, Brian sees old friends from his days as a criminal. They briefly discuss their interest in pulling off one more heist, targeting the Hatton Garden…
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Drama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, ICE / HSI Special Agent Max Brogan takes care of her son and takes him to the boy's grandparents in Mexico. Later, Mireya is found dead near the border. Brogan returns to the grandparents to tell…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
Zed, a professional safe-cracker, comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. While in the taxi on his way to the hotel, the cab driver offers to procure a sex worker for him in the evening. As Zed emerges from the …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, heist film, romantic comedy
Prominent Paris art collector Charles Bonnet forges and sells famous artists' paintings. His disapproving daughter, Nicole, constantly fears his being caught. Late one night at their mansion, Nicole encounters a burglar, Simon Dermott, hol…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
thumb|Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra An aging gangster, Big Mac M'Gann, is planning a robbery at a fashionable resort hotel in the resort town of Tropico Springs in the Sierra Nevada. He wants the heist led by convicted bank robber Roy Ear…
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action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
Bucum Jackson, a maverick bounty hunter, is out to capture a petty drug dealer, Lil J. Bucum confronts Lil J in his trailer home and nearly handcuffs him, but Lil J's girlfriend, who wields a shotgun, recklessly shoots at Bucum. Bucum mana…
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, female buddy film, heist film
In 1880 Mexico, María Álvarez is an uneducated, poor farm girl whose caring father is being forced off his land by a cruel U.S. land baron named Tyler Jackson. Sara Sandoval is the highly educated, wealthy daughter of the arrogant owner of…
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Drama, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Chris Potamitis lives with his parents and younger sister in Astoria, Queens, New York in the early 1980s. His immigrant father is fired from his job after 10 years of cleaning a shady Greek social club. Chris fails to get into the police …
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Crime, Drama, comedy film, heist film
Lieutenant Colonel Norman Hyde prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback titled The Golden Fleece, one half of each of ten £5-notes, and an invitation to a lunch at the Cafe Royal hosted by "Co-Operative Removal…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Sci-Fi, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, heist film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Set in the near future, aging ex-convict and thief Frank Weld lives alone and suffers from increasingly severe mental deterioration and dementia. Frank's son Hunter, an attorney with a family of his own, grows tired of making weekly visits…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
In New York, veteran thief Keith Ripley recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mafia, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, before they could comp…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, heist film
British art curator Harry Deane decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss Lord Lionel Shabandar conning him into buying a fake Monet (Haystacks at Dusk), to complement the one he already has (Haystacks at Dawn). He teams up with a master…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Driving at night with his lights off on a rural road to show off the dancing fireflies in the dark, high school hockey star Chris Pratt crashes into a combine. Two of his friends are killed, while he and his girlfriend Kelly survive. The c…
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