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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, heist film, melodrama, thriller film
Harper is a bank robber posing as a traveling salesman. He arrives in the town of Bradenville, soon to be joined by sadistic benzedrine addict Dill and bookish Chapman. Boyd Fairchild is the self-pitying manager of the local copper mine wh…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Retired thief, Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel), comes out of retirement to help his youngest brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton), with a jewelry heist in Palm Springs. Along for the ride are hired muscle, Jorge Montana (Wade Dominguez), and wheelman, S…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
David Burke is a former policeman who was ruined when he refused to cooperate with state crime investigators. He asks Earle Slater, a tough ex-con and racist, to help him rob a bank, promising him $50,000 if the robbery is successful. Burk…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Thriller, comedy film
As Credit International bank teller Kaitlin Nest prepares to end her shift, a customer, Tripp Kennedy, approaches her and requests to have a $100 bill broken up into a specific configuration of coins. As he flirts with her, the bank is sim…
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Heist, Thriller, thriller film
In 1980, Harry James Barber tells his story about the California bank burglary he committed eight years ago to his girlfriend Molly Murphy, whose relationship is under strain after discovering his secret. In 1972, Harry lives above a refur…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, heist film
Roger is a security guard at an art museum, where he spends a lot of time staring at his favorite painting, The Lonely Maiden, a beautiful woman staring forlornly out into the distance. Despite the fact he has a wife, Rose, he has become r…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Barry Wirth is a retired small-time criminal who is released on parole following the death of his mother, so that he can care for his younger brother, Joey. Wirth was falsely convicted for murder by corrupt police detective Arnie DeViers, …
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Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, drama film
The film opens by following two American high school acquaintances, a few years after graduation. They are now suffering from deep anger and anguish, because they are less successful than they hoped to be. David Hancock is the high school …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, drama film, heist film
Professional thief Henry Manning is in an Oregon nursing home's care. Having apparently had a massive stroke, he is immobile and mute. Henry is in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the p…
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Dance Film, drama film, musical film
Max Washington, just released from prison after serving time for burglary, is a talented tap dancer. His late father owned a dance studio that is now run by Little Mo, whose daughter Amy Simms gives lessons to children. Back on the streets…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
Con man Eli Kotch charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist, but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their e…
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Christmas film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, heist film, romantic comedy
Claude Fitzwilliam serves as butler to Miss Victoria Woodworth, an elderly heiress whose tremendous wealth is a myth fostered by Fitzwilliam; unbeknownst to her, her financier father actually left her $180. "Fitzwilly" has been leading the…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Michael Lynch is one of Dublin's most notorious criminals. He has two wives, sisters Christine and Lisa, as well as many children. When he is not spending time with his family, he is plotting heists with his gang.
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heist film
Based on the 1986 book The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It, the film tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa heist.
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Komödie, Western, Western film, buddy film, heist film
In Wyoming, wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins forces with sharpshooter Harry Longabaugh (who renames himself the Sundance Kid) and they carry out a series of robberies. However, Butch is stalked by a member of his former gang, O.C. Hanks,…
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Drama, drama film, heist film
Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd) and immediately falls in love with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect his mad love for her and they decide to marry. As the re…
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Destiny, Drama, Romance Film, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Big House (1930) Kent (Robert Montgomery), a drunk driver who carelessly kills a man, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is place…
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Komödie, comedy film
Prison psychologist Willis Embry reports for work at a New Jersey jail after his apartment has been burgled and his girlfriend has dumped him. In a supposedly private meeting later, a cancer-stricken elderly convict tells Willis about a jo…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Komödie, heist film
Aspiring Cockney cat burglar Harry Tristan Dean and his sculptor friend Emile Fournier discover exotic Eurasian showgirl Nicole Chang in a crowded Hong Kong nightclub. Nicole bears an uncanny resemblance both to the late wife of the world'…
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Film Noir, Police Film, crime film, film noir
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rob Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man whom he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Marty Brennan and C…
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Crime, Heist, drama film, heist film
The film opens with a safe-break that yields unexpectedly low gains for the robbers. Daniels plots the bank robbery, having targeted this institution because he has discovered that the main subterranean vault, thought to be impregnable, li…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Ty Hackett (Columbus Short), a former armed service veteran is a member of Eagle Shield security in one of their many armored transportation teams. He is the legal guardian of younger brother Jimmy (Andre Kinney) after the death of their p…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, heist film, spy film
Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforce…
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Western, Western film
On the way to meet his former boss—railroad tycoon Ben Kimball—Grant McLaine rescues a young boy, Joey Adams, from villain Concho. Ben informs Grant that his payroll has been robbed three times already by a gang led by Whitey Harbin and th…
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