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Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
, 1h34Directed by Jacques Becker, Marc Maurette, Jean Becker, Jean-François Hauduroy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, René Dary, Vittorio Sanipoli
The entire film takes place over the course of three days. Max, a decent and principled gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime associate Riton, their burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and his protege Marco. A newspaper is seen to mention eight bars of stolen gold. The group goes to Pierrot's nightclub, where the girls perform. Max gets Marco a job as a drug dealer working for Pierrot. After the show, Max finds Riton's girlfriend Josy making out with Angelo, another gangster.
Band of Outsiders (1964)
, 1h37Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Pierre Delanjeac
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Delorme, Jean-Luc Godard, Louisa Colpeyn
Odile (Anna Karina) meets a man named Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class. She has told him of a large pile of money stashed in the villa where she lives with her aunt, Mme. Victoria and a man named M. Stoltz in Joinville, a Parisian suburb. Franz tells his friend Arthur (Claude Brasseur) of the money – and his nascent romance with Odile – and the two hatch a plan to steal it.
Inside Man (2006)
, 2h9Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), seated in what appears to be a jail cell, opens the film with a prologue about having carried out the "perfect robbery". A van is driving from Brooklyn to the Wall Street area. Inside is a team of masked robbers, dressed as painters, who call each other by variants of the name "Steve" (i.e. Steve, Stevie, Stevo). They seize control of a Manhattan bank and take the employees and patrons hostage. They divide the hostages into groups and hold them in different rooms, forcing them to strip and don painters' clothes identical to their own. The robbers rotate the hostages between various rooms and occasionally insert themselves covertly into the groups, while also taking turns working on an unspecified project involving demolishing the floor in one of the bank's storage rooms.
, 1h44Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Dick O'Neill
In New York City, four men armed with submachine guns and using code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing similar trenchcoat, glasses and mustache disguises, board the Pelham 123 subway train at different station stops. The men take hostage seventeen passengers and the conductor, isolate them in the train's first car and then separate the car from the rest of the train.
Gun Crazy (1950)
, 1h26Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Russ Tamblyn, Morris Carnovsky, Mickey Little, Harry Lewis
At the age of 14, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
, 2h24Directed by John Landis, Andrew Marton, Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod
During a thunderstorm in early September 1944, units of the 35th Infantry Division are nearing the town of Nancy, France. One of the division's mechanized reconnaissance platoons receives orders to hold their position while under counterattack from the Germans; the out-numbered platoon are also on the receiving end of mortar fire from their own side.
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
, 2h8Directed by John McTiernan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about terrorism, Buddy films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp
In New York City, the Bonwit Teller department store is destroyed by a bomb during the morning commute. The New York City Police Department receive a call from a man calling himself "Simon", ordering them that suspended police officer Lt. John McClane be dropped in Harlem wearing a sandwich board that says "I hate niggers" and threatening to detonate another bomb if they don't comply. They collect McClane and follow Simon's instructions; McClane is saved from a potential attack by a group of young men by Zeus Carver, a nearby shop owner. McClane and Carver escape and return to headquarters, where Simon calls again and threatens to detonate more bombs if McClane and Carver do not follow his instructions.
Pickup on South Street (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Willis Bouchey
On a crowded New York City subway train, pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) steals Candy's (Jean Peters) wallet. Unbeknownst to Skip or Candy, in the wallet is microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley). Joey told her it contains stolen business secrets,and she believed him, unaware that Joey is actually a communist spy.
The Ladykillers (1955)
, 1h31Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson
Mrs. Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding "lopsided" house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatever.
Hell or High Water (2016)
Directed by David Mackenzie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey, Kevin Rankin
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother plan a bank robbery to save their family's West Texas farm from foreclosure, while two Texas Rangers are set to catch both brothers.
Hell or High Water (2016)
, 1h42Directed by David Mackenzie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Western
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey
Après la mort de leur mère, Toby et Tanner Howard doivent éviter la saisie de leur propriété familiale. Ils décident alors de commettre une série de braquages, visant uniquement les agences d’une même banque : celle qu'ils doivent rembourser.
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
, 1h38Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Jeu, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy, Isabelle Corey, Howard Vernon, René Havard, Guy Decomble
Bob, a middle-aged gambler and ex-con living in the Montmartre district of Paris, experiences a run of bad luck that leaves him nearly broke. Bob is a gentleman with scruples, well liked in the demi-monde community. He has unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in the past, and has spent time in prison.
Metro Manila (2013)
, 1h54Directed by Sean Ellis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors John Arcilla, Leon Miguel
Looking for a better life in Metro Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family escape their impoverished lives among the rice fields north of the Philippines. Upon arriving, they fall victim to the manipulative ways of city hucksters. Oscar lands a job in an armored truck company. He befriends his senior officer, Ong, who takes Oscar under his wing.
Rajathandhiram (2015)
, 2h15Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Veera, Regina Cassandra, Aadukalam Naren, Ilavarasu, Darbuka Siva, Srihari
Arjun (Veera Bahu) and his two friends make a living out of conning people for a few thousands and are quite good at it. When Arjun falls for a girl, Michelle (Regina Cassandra), he agrees to Deva’s (Ajai Prasath) plan of stepping up to nail a big con job so that he can help her from financial stress. The con job sets off a chain of events that lead to a riveting cat-and-mouse game with a heist at its fulcrum.
How to Steal a Million (1966)
, 2h3Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer, Marcel Dalio
Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith) is a highly skilled art forger who pretends to be an art collector. His daughter Nicole (Audrey Hepburn) disapproves of his forgeries and is afraid that he may get caught. At the beginning of the film, he loans a renowned statue of Cellini's Venus to the Kléber-Lafayette Museum as the centerpiece of an important upcoming exhibition. However, the statue had been made by Nicole's grandfather and would fail even a basic materials analysis.