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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film, heist film
NYPD Detective Tom Loomis and Officer Joe Fortunato are working class neighbors in a high-density residential community in Queens. Though they have rather content lives with families and homes, Tom and Joe are unhappy with their dangerous …
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Cartoon, Crime, Thriller, action thriller, adventure film, crime film, detective film, film noir, heist film, surrealist film
Unlikely as it seems, Ruben Brandt travels by train along with Duveneck's Whistling Boy and is attacked by Velázquez's Infanta Margarita Teresa. It is revealed that he had been having a nightmare. Acrobatic thief Mimi steals Cleopatra's Fa…
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Political Thriller, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Valentin (Jeremy Irons), a gentleman burglar like Arsène Lupin, is wanted by the police. He embarks on a sailboat for a tour of the world. Jane (Patricia Kaas) dreams of leaving the American-style bar in which she works as a jazz singer.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, blaxploitation film, heist film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, a nighttime robbery of an illegal mafia bookmaking operation is carried out by the militant African-American organization BAG (Black Action Group). Though successful, several of the bookmakers and one of the burglars are ki…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Komödie, action comedy film, teen film
Nelson Potter, now retired from bank robbing, runs an insurance business in Tucson, Arizona with his partner Patrice. Their job is to evaluate security measures at local banks by simulating armed robberies. After one such drill, Nelson is …
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Called the “Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century,” the robbers took 22 precious gems, includin…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film, heist film
Duffy is a cunning aristocrat of criminals who is hired by Stefane, a young playboy, to hijack a boat carrying several million dollars of his father's fortune. The plot succeeds, with a little help from Segolene, Stefane's girlfriend, but …
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Action, action film
Five masked robbers steal $10 million from a Las Vegas casino. All but one, who is shot in the head and assumed dead, are captured, but the money goes missing. Ten years later, Cole, the leader, is broken out of jail by the rest of his gan…
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film
A thief has just one morning to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career, all while attempting to repair his relationship with his ex-wife.
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Crime Comedy, heist film, teen film
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teenagers from Glasgow. One day, Ronnie comes up with the idea of stealing stainless steel sinks from a warehouse and selling them. Their plan involves dressing up as women and using a s…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, heist film
Western, Western film
Four passengers in a stagecoach, belonging to the Missouri Western Stage and Freight Line, are heading west through Indian territory: Barbara, a young woman going to meet her fiancée; Reverend Wheedle, a minister who believes the settlers …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Daffy Comedy, comedy film, heist film
The film is partly narrated by Warden Streiger (known as "Bulldog" Streiger). A bank, temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. That is what Al Karp, the former partner of j…
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Drama, Social Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
The main character is Goose (Van Bebber). Goose is leader of "The Ravens", a street gang located in Dayton, Ohio. The Ravens have an ongoing feud with "The Spiders", led by a sadistic goon called Danny (Paul Harper).
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crime film, heist film
London police constables are being killed by a man calling himself "Mr. X". By chance, one of the murders occurs around the same time and place as a diamond robbery, leading Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham to suspect the same man …
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, heist film
A valuable painting belonging to Duchess Blanca is stolen at night from her castle in Spain by one of her houseguests, Jimmy Bourne, who replaces the original work with a duplicate. The debonair gentleman thief then passes the painting to …
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, heist film
A seemingly mild-mannered teacher, Professor James Anders, is an American working in Rio de Janeiro. Bored with years of teaching, Anders retires and sets about putting together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival in…
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crime film, drama film, heist film
Charles Hodgson (Shaw) is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl (Shaw), a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds.…
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Western film, comedy film, heist film
Gold stolen by outlaws is stashed in the impenetrable bank of Friendly, a small town in Texas. A preacher, Rev. Pious Blue, is actually a thief.
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Action, heist film
The plot centers around three brothers, sophisticated armed robbers led by the shrewd Dale, who work with their long-time lawyer, Frank, and corrupt police to pull off the biggest heist in Australian history. Matters become complicated whe…
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Western, Western film
A number of stagecoach holdups have taken place in Arizona Territory. One of them occurs when Mike Ryan, an undercover agent for the stage line, is on board—posing as a paying customer. Another passenger on that trip is the sheriff's daugh…
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heist film
Jack Wild is a Chicago police officer dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder after the murder of his wife and two children during an investigation into organized crime. Nicknamed "Crackerjack" by his colleagues due to his reckless beh…
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Criminal Comedy Film, crime film, heist film
Daniel Foray (Gérard Depardieu) is the leader of an unusual group of burglars in Paris. When he's instructed by fence Laurent (Richard Bohringer) to go to Chicago to steal an expensive necklace in a suburban safe, the seemingly basic job b…
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Biographical documentary, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film, heist film