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Dark Comedy, Heist, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Young police Sergeant David Waters and his older boss and friend Lieutenant Jim Stone both work in the Evidence Management unit of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Disillusioned and bored with their jobs, they also find it har…
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Thriller, heist film, science fiction film
After escaping from a military prison, rogue Air Force General Lawrence Dell and accomplices Powell, Garvas, and Hoxey infiltrate a Montana ICBM complex that Dell helped design. Their goal is to gain control over its nine Titan nuclear mis…
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Drama, Sexploitation Film, drama film, horror film
In Paris during the late 18th-century, Justine (Romina Power) lives with her sister Juliette (Maria Rohm) in a convent. When they learn of their father's death, they are ordered out of the convent with their father's remaining money - 100 …
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Christmas film, Film Noir, heist film
thumb|Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance auditor, "Colonel Gore Hepburn", appears at a provincial bank. Bank manager Harry Fordyce is a cold, officious man who treats his employees with disdain, but…
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Christmas film, Heist, Komödie, heist film
Andy Steele is a 5th grade boy who constantly gets into trouble with his best friend Dulce Gutierrez. They recently pulled a heist involving stealing confiscated toys from their school to return to kids in exchange for money. Andy is const…
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Social Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film
A troubled but dedicated social worker, assisting a working and struggling single mother and her daughter, intervenes when the father returns from prison and drags his family back to his habitual world of crime.
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, buddy film
The story takes place in a mysterious underworld of swanky nightclubs where armed criminals listen to Rat Pack music and hold shootouts from a seated position, behind desks. Mickey Holliday is the top enforcer for Vic, the mob boss, who is…
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Girls with Guns, Heist, LGBTQ-related film, action film, exploitation film, girls with guns, thriller film
Three attractive and voluptuous vixens, a down-and-out stripper named Trixie, a drug-running killer and ex-convict named Camero, and a corporate powerbroker nicknamed Hel, arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive riches from a …
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Crime, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's remarriage. Michael had fled his hometown due to gambling debts and had left his wife Rachel to deal with the mess he created. He now attempts to renew his relationships with his fami…
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Historie, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, heist film
Harry Dighby and Walter Hill are struggling vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth. Worth plans to rob the …
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action film, comedy film, heist film
At the start of the film, Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (then operator of Melbourne's trams). Malcolm, who has autism (see "Development & Production" section below), is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mech…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film
Nick Barrow plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn't had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Luc…
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Heist, thriller film
Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In the mysterious metropolis of Rain City, a former policeman, Hawk, is out of prison after serving eight years on a murder rap. He returns to his former hangout, Wanda's Cafe, run by his former love, Wanda. New arrivals in town are the do…
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Western, Western film, drama film
Stagecoach robber Bill Miner is caught and sent to prison for 33 years. He is finally released in 1901. He wanders around, a man out of place in the new century, until he sees one of the first films, The Great Train Robbery, and is inspire…
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Adventure, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, comedy film
Danny is a young Polish-American living in New York City, who is asked by his briefly jailed brother, Darren, to deliver a briefcase. He is not told about the briefcase’s contents and the abruptly terminated jailhouse call leaves him with …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, heist film
Edward James Olmos plays Detective Anthony Piscotti, a New York City police officer. He is trying to crack the hijacking of a New York City Subway train where the antagonists, led by Vincent D'Onofrio as Mr. Blue, are holding the passenger…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Jack Friar is a police detective who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while…
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Gangster Film, drama film, heist film
Five men, criminals Ray, Dave, Stevie, Julian ("Julie" as a nickname), and Jason, plan a robbery to steal a minimum of £2 million. Using a lorry modified as a battering ram, the group break into a security depot in London and steal a large…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
Action
Terry Savage is a former Marine whose daughter is in need of money for surgery. Desperate and unemployed, he robs drugs from a local gang but is apprehended. The police commissioner makes a deal with Terry to infiltrate a prison to investi…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, gangster film, heist film
To give a better future to his son, traveller Chad Cutler tries to get out of the criminal business which his family has run for generations. However, his own father Colby considers doing so a betrayal, making the task of leaving a well-ro…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, drama film, heist film
In Detroit three friends, Sonny (50 Cent), Dave (Brett Granstaff), and Vincent (Ryan Phillippe), plan out a detailed heist of $5 million in diamonds. Their plans turn deadly when Vincent betrays the others, shooting Sonny and Dave. Dave di…
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Action Comedy, Heist, action film, crime thriller film, drama film
To get back in the good graces of her murderous boss (Bruce Willis), a seductive thief (Claire Forlani) recruits an ex-lover (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) to steal rare and valuable gems.
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