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Adventure, Family Comedy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Madeline Rose "Maddy" Phillips is a 12-year-old girl who loves to climb, often ascending the nearby water tower. Her father Tom shares her passion, but fell more than 100 feet during a climb years earlier. Tom and his wife Molly are afraid…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, heist film
Ray Winkler, an ex-convict who lives in a small apartment with his wife, Frances ("Frenchy"), and works as a dishwasher, comes up with a plan to rob a bank by leasing a building that used to house a pizzeria and, with his cronies, digging …
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Small-time Boston crook Tony Pino tries to make a name for himself. He and his five associates pull off a robbery whenever they can. Tony stumbles across the fact that the Brink's security procedures are incredibly lax.
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Social Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, heist film
In 2005 New Orleans, four friends; Blink, Miracle, Andre, and Junior prepare for Blink's wedding to Demyra. Hurricane Katrina soon decimates the city. Six months later, Blink, an aspiring artist who is working on a graphic novel he calls "…
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Action, Crime, Heist, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film
In 2024, the U.S. government prepares to activate the American Peace Initiative (API) signal, a "synaptic blocker" that will prevent the population from breaking the law. In Detroit, Graham Bricke leads a crew of bank robbers including his…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, heist film
During the Great Depression, various bank robbers and other outlaws have become folk heroes due to public distrust of financial institutions and the law. Following the Kansas City Massacre in June 1933 in which several law enforcement offe…
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Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, drama film, heist film
Miles Cullen, a teller at a bank in a Toronto shopping mall (the Eaton Centre), accidentally learns that his place of business will be robbed when he finds a discarded hold up note on one of the bank's counters. Harry Reikle, a mall Santa …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, heist film
Cosimo is arrested when he and Toto try to steal a car. In prison, he meets an old man who mentions a “Bellini” - a perfect heist - that he could not carry out because of a life sentence. Cosimo asks his girlfriend Rosalind to find someone…
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Action, action film, disaster film, drama film
A hurricane is approaching Puerto Rico and an evacuation order is in effect. John the Baptist, a thief, steals a painting. Cardillo and Jess Peña, police officers, go out to evacuate anyone who is still in their home.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, crime film, heist film, romantic comedy
In Venice, Gaston Monescu, a notorious thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a pickpocket posing as a countess. The two fall in love and decide to team up. Almost a year later, in Paris, Gaston steals a diamond-encrusted purse worth 1…
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Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, flashback film, thriller film
The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding…
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Western, Western film, heist film
Former rancher Taw Jackson returns to his hometown to settle a score with corrupt businessman Frank Pierce; three years earlier, Pierce had Jackson wrongfully imprisoned and appropriated his land, including his house and some recently disc…
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Action, action film, heist film
Connor Connolly, a disgraced parole officer, becomes indebted to a local drug kingpin, Tyrone Pettis, after having no choice but to kill one of the latter's young enforcers (an "asset"). Upon having his pregnant wife Candice abducted by Pe…
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Action, Heist, Historie, action film, biographical film, crime film
George Kelly, dubbed "Machine Gun" by his partner in crime Flo Becker because of his obsession with Thompson submachine guns, robs a bank and eventually becomes public enemy #1. Discord grows among his inner circle, and Kelly, afraid of be…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, parody film
While enjoying themselves at Madame Zenobia's club on Saturday night, Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin are held up by robbers who raid the club and steal Steve's wallet. When they realize that a winning lottery ticket worth $50,000 is in…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Two extremely clever British men are in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke, an ageing famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle, an aspiring actor, e…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, heist film, neo-noir, thriller film
Alex Gates is a Miami wine merchant who has distanced himself from his wife Suzanne with his philandering, and from his stepson Jason with his indifference. Suzanne is recovering from breaking her ankle after falling downstairs while drunk…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film
The film runs two narratives simultaneously: the preparation for the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in f…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film
The film establishes Jean-Claude Van Damme playing himself as an out-of-luck actor. He is out of money; his agent cannot find him a decent production; and the judge in a custody battle is inclined to give custody of his daughter over to hi…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles after two years of drifting trying to shake off a bad divorce, looking for his ex-wife Anna but tormented over seeing her again. Against all better judgment he continues to, resuming his old job as a d…
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Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, heist film, romance film, romantic comedy
Working as a toll collector on a lonely highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. His wife Debbie is not happy with the situation. One morning Eddie…
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comedy film, heist film
Outside of Cairo, criminal mastermind Okra hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves now need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold into Europe. Aldo Vanucci, a master of disguise known as The Fox, is one of the few men who can handl…
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Crime, Thriller, film noir, heist film, spy film
On a crowded New York City subway train pickpocket Skip McCoy steals Candy's wallet. Unbeknownst to either it contains microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend Jo…
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Action, Heist, action film, heist film, thriller film
Half-brothers Andrew and Garret Foster operate as international car thieves, targeting high-end of the market vehicles. They steal a rare Bugatti in transit after it is purchased at auction in France, unaware that the car was bought by Mar…
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