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heist film
An armoured payroll truck owned by Darcy's Security Services is robbed and the driver, ex-policeman Dick Martin, is removed from armoured cars and put onto night patrols. The robbers are double-crossed by crime boss Jack Henderson, whose h…
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Crime, comedy film, drama film, heist film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Raffles (1930) Famed cricketer A.J. Raffles by day is the notorious gentleman jewel thief the "Amateur Cracksman" at night. After falling in love with lovely aristocratic Gwen, getting engaged to be married-—and gifting …
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heist film
The film is set primarily in Paris and concentrates on a love triangle that gets increasingly complicated as criminal enterprises go wrong.
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Stuart Conway has developed a hand-held, cellphone-like time travel device called "Slipstream" that allows the user to travel back in time 10 minutes by interfacing with a cellphone system regional antenna. At first, he uses the device pri…
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Action, Drama, action film
Mitch Davis, unhappy with his life and seeing no prospects for work, leaves with a friend for a trip to Mexico. After getting a prostitute in a bar, Mitch's friend leaves without paying. When Mitch refuses to pay his friend's debt to the p…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, heist film
Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis) is planning a heist. The story begins with the events which led a young Florea (Sal Mineo) to become a crook. One day he is shot during a robbery and as a result an amenable policeman and his wife take him under …
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Drama, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Frank (Brent Florence) is a Northern California 20-year-old who has just been dumped by his girlfriend. He and his slacker buddies Joey (Kenny Luper) and Neil (Christian Leffler) want to escape their small town but lack the funds. To finan…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The story begins with four men pulling a heist together. The men rob a man named Khan, a well-known French heroin dealer, of his drugs and money. Ben Tuttle and Bobby emerge from the building first.
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Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
In the early 18th century, the notorious bandit Fra Diavolo regales his compatriots at their encampment in Northern Italy with an account of his recent encounter with the aristocratic couple Lord Rocburg and Lady Pamela. Assuming the guise…
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Once you're in the life of drug dealing and organized crime, can you get out? During a brief jail stay two half-brothers, who had rarely seen each other while growing up begin to connect. One of them is 20/20 Mike, a name given because he …
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Action, action film, adventure film
Danny Stratton, a washed-up private security agent, is given the rare opportunity to escort a valuable Chinese antique out of Shanghai, but is ambushed en route. With the safety of the woman he loves in jeopardy, Danny has to work with his…
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Komödie, comedy film, gangster film
Bunny O'Hare, a widow whose savings have been depleted by her selfish, middle-aged children, Lulu and Ad, finds herself homeless when the bank forecloses on her mortgage. She becomes friendly with Bill Green, an aging itinerant salvaging t…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
In Gary, Indiana, U.S. postal inspector Harry Gruber is murdered by two men, Joe Regas and George Soderquist. They dump the body in La Porte during a rainstorm, but when a nun named Sister Augustine walks past, Soderquist tries to distract…
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Brenden Abbott is on the run with fellow criminal Aaron Reynolds, having just escaped together from Fremantle Prison, Western Australia. They rob banks across Australia before Abbott decides that it is time to live the high life for a whil…
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Action, Thriller, heist film
Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, is caught during a robbery. When he get released from prison, a bank owner hires him to design a fool-proof system during the refurbishing of his bank. After he has completed the system, he begins…
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Heist, gangster film, heist film
Mr. Graham, a deputy under manager in a bank in the West End of London, is dissatisfied with his boring life. He meets Lady Britt Dorset, a spendthrift aristocrat and recruits her and her husband, Lord Nicholas Dorset, to help him carry ou…
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Adventure, Thriller, drama film, heist film
Master Sergeant Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is stationed in occupied Berlin shortly after the end of World War II. He encounters a group of German orphans when one of them tries to steal his Jeep. Joe finds Maria (Mai Zetterling), one o…
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Pete Anderson is chief of police of a small western town, Wellerton. Anderson has a run-in with the son of a council official, who gets him fired. His warnings that the town is vulnerable to a criminal takeover were considered scaremongeri…
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Crime Comedy, heist film
Pedley, retiring from the British Secret Service, can't understand why he hasn't yet been knighted. He devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo, recruiting Mike Warden, a writer from America, although his real aim is to capture the …
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Drama, drama film
Duke Bradley's boat is hired to sail a group to the Hawaiian Islands. His passengers include Zac Cotton, alcoholic girlfriend Max McKenzie, and a pair of thugs, Mitch and Stony, who following a lūʻau, without Duke's knowledge, rob a planta…
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Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Vincent Lubeck is a habitual criminal who has recently been released from prison on parole thanks to the pleas of his elderly mother. He begins working at his brother Johnny's gas station, although there is tension between them. Johnny's f…
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Film Noir, film noir, heist film
Mechanic and race car driver Eddie Shannon is chosen by two bank robbers, Steve Norris and his girlfriend Barbara Mathews, to help them with a heist. The heist requires someone with his ability to "soup up" engines and drive at high speeds…
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, comedy film
Tommy Layton, a wealthy bachelor, rents a city bus to take him from Chicago to Los Angeles to participate in a yacht race to Hawai’i. The bus drivers, Algy and Wellington, are pursued by a detective hired by the bus company. They escape ca…
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Hiller (Hill) arrives at Paddington station in London with a boy (O'Brien) following a stay in Torquay. They do not realise they are being tailed by Gort (Bones) as they check into a nearby hotel. A few days later, the child is kidnapped b…
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