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Family Comedy, Treasure Hunting, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, heist film
Con-artist Harry Bundage believes that the lost treasure of pirate Captain Joshua St. Edmund is hidden at Candleshoe, the large country estate of Lady St. Edmund.
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Road Movie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Andy is egged on by his best friends to stop worrying so much about his girlfriend, Katy Hartman back home and start enjoying college life to the fullest. While enjoying his life, he remembers Jenna, a former girlfriend who is now a beer p…
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Adventure, Komödie, heist film
In 1950 Ian Hamilton (Charlie Cox), an ardent member of the Scottish nationalist organisation, the Scottish Covenant Association, hopes to eventually see an independent Scotland. Frustrated and saddened by the complacency of his fellow Sco…
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Action, Justice Drama, Komödie, action film, comedy film
1748 England is infested with highwaymen — men such as Will Plunkett, a London-based criminal working with his partner Rob. When Rob is killed by the sadistic Thief Taker General Chance after a botched heist outside debtor's prison, Plunke…
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Action, Crime, Komödie, Sexploitation Film, action film
In Texas in 1932, after stopping her youngest daughter's wedding, Wilma McClatchie takes over her late lover's bootlegging business, but gets caught while doing the delivery route with her two daughters. After handing over all her money an…
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Crime Comedy, adventure film, comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
A British bartender, Monte, hopes to marry Lucy, a waitress at the upscale restaurant where they work, ostensibly so he can obtain his green card and become an American citizen. Monte alludes to likely being killed if he returns to Britain…
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Crime, Film Noir, Mysterie, caper story, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Kansas City Confidential (1952) The ruthless Mr. Big is timing the arrival of an armored car collecting money from a bank and a flower delivery truck driven by deliveryman Joe Rolfe. He plans to rob the armored car with …
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
Crunch Calhoun is given a seven-year prison sentence after a heist went wrong and his partner and brother Nicky betrayed him. They were doing a job in Warsaw, Poland, which was a 'smooth switch' - essentially they have a narrow time frame …
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Family Drama, Gangster Film
Ida "Red" Walker (Melissa Leo), the biological mother of a criminal family, sits rotting in jail. She is a widow as a result of the bust that nabbed her. Now that she's got cancer, she wants to die in freedom.
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Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film
It is 1956, in Natchez, Mississippi. Slim and his crew, Hank and Jodie, are negotiating with Lester, a fence; they are trying to sell the gold they stole in a mining robbery. The deal goes south, and under duress Lester discloses that the …
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Action, Drama, Girls with Guns, Martial-Arts, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, heist film
Lynn and her sister Sue are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they…
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Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1991, small-time crooks Tommy Uva and Rosie DeToma rob a florist on Valentine's Day. He is thereby imprisoned for 18 months. Meanwhile, Rosie works at a debt collection agency run by ex-con Dave Lovell.
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
Five years after the Civil War, freedwoman and former Buffalo Soldier Moses "Mo" Washington travels west to lay claim to a gold mine disguised as a man after her stagecoach is ambushed by a group of murderous thieves. Mo is forced to hold …
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Crime Comedy, comedy television program, crime film
Sven "The Swede" Sorenson is a malicious warden of the county, illegally executing some of his worst prisoners. Everybody in town hates and is scared of him, except his twin daughters. Swede's twins tell their father they are pregnant, lyi…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film
The majority of the film consists of Randy, Carl and Dehling reciting their experiences with Jewel, each narrating over what they consider to be the real version of the recent events. Scenes are often re-enacted twice, with different accou…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, crime thriller film, heist film
A group of grifters rip off their latest mark and celebrate, while de facto group leader, Jake Vig, explains the art of the con. When one of the four, Alphonse "Big Al" Morley, is found shot to death, the other three learn that the latest …
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Drama, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film
Vic Dakin is a ruthless and sadistic London gangster. Dakin’s vicious behavior toward his associates and rivals is contrasted by his care for his elderly mother, who seems unaware of his criminal activities. Dakin is planning an ambitious …
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Source: In the opening scenes, the protagonists are sentenced to hours of community payback.During his first community payback session under the guidance of Harry, Robbie, is interrupted and taken to the hospital by Harry as his girlfriend…
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Action, action thriller, heist film, robbery
Jamie awakens with a start after a nightmare from his time as a United States Marine. He says goodbye to his daughter and is picked up by a van. Inside the van, Mic and three other men are putting on masks and body armour, and checking the…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, heist film
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class criminals in Chicago who have never been caught. Dave is shown at the beginning of the film displaying his expert safecracking skills and burglarizing a large firm, obtaining a large sum o…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Thieves fall out when more than a half-million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money. The heist has been mast…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Romance Film, crime film, drama film
Polly Franklin is a farm girl in the Midwest at the height of the Great Depression. While running into town on errands, she witnesses a bank robbery and is taken hostage. Sleazy journalist Jake Lingle corners her looking for a story, but i…
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Late Western, Western film, action film
Ben Stride walks into a desert cave encampment during a nighttime rainstorm. He encounters two men taking shelter next to a fire and asks to join them. Stride says he is from the town of Silver Springs.
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Cat burglar Henry Clarke checks himself into a Spanish sanatorium for alcoholics under a false pretence. His true motivation is to get closer to a wealthy patient named Salinas and then rob his magnificent house. Clarke is approached by Fé…
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