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- Heist movies have been around since nearly the dawn of cinema, but they truly flourished from the 1950s onward as a series of hardboiled American and French film noirs codified all the famous tropes that now permeate through almost every entry in the genre, from Oscar-nominated dramas like Hell or High Water to blockbuster larks like Solo: A Star Wars Story and Ocean's 8.
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2 days ago · We put together a list of the 78 best-reviewed heist movies of all time for you to look over. Just don't get caught!
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1 day ago · There’s nothing more exciting than a great heist movie, as it's a genre that is exclusively meant to be enjoyed on the biggest screen possible.While there are some dramatic stories that can be ...
- Ant-Man
- Army of The Dead
- Baby Driver
- Bandits
- Dragged Across Concrete
- Drive
- Fast Five
- Hell Or High Water
- Inception
- Inside Man
Director: Peyton Reed Writers: Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Adam McKay Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Michael Pena, T.I. While Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man will stand as one of the best modern “what if” comic-book films, Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man stands as one of the most overlooked Marvel origin stories. It merges the comic b...
Director: Zack Snyder Writers: Zack Snyder, Shay Hatten, Joby Harold Cast: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighofer 2021 was a great year for Zack Snyder. He got to see the distribution of his vision for Justice League four years after the theatrical release, and he got to see the distribution of his Net...
Director: Edgar Wright Writer: Edgar Wright Cast: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Lily James, Eiza Gonzalez, Jamie Fox Baby Driver is a few lines of verbalized melody short of a musical. The action, blocking, cuts, and sound synchronized to the beat of each needle-drop through the nearly two-hour runtime of this epic montage of music and car ...
Director: Barry Levinson Writer: Harley Peyton Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Brian F. Byrne, Stacey Travis Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thorton case banks as a clever and comedic duo in this early 2000s treasure. These aren’t the aforementioned desperate citizens forced into criminality by the system, these are t...
Director: S. Craig Zahler Writer: S. Craig Zahler Cast: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Troy Kittles, Michael Jai White, Thomas Kretschmann When it comes to gritty, masculine movies, S. Craig Zahler is carrying the torch barred by his ‘80s and ‘90s forefathers. Dragged Across Concrete is the latest of the author-turned-filmmaker’s pictures evolving on th...
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Writer: Hossein Amini Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Ron Perlman It’s hard to believe Drive is 10 years old. The neo-noir crime and heist film starring Ryan Gosling is still a masterwork of contemporary filmmaking bolstering a blistering soundtrack by Cliff Martinez and...
Director:Justin Lin Writers: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson Cast:Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris Fast Five is a freaking joy to watch. Despite its age, it remains a contemporary callback to 80s action epics fueled by adrenaline, machismo, and one-liners. It’s the first film to assemble the crew ...
Director: David Mackenzie Writer: Taylor Sheridan Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Dale Dickey, William Sterchi A tale of two Texas brothers stealing money after the death of their mother, Hell or High Water is as reflective as it is exciting. It’s one of the best movies of 2016, and it received four Oscar nominations inc...
Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy While some thieves steal money, and others steal jewels or art, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his associates steal secrets. They don’t break into banks or museums, but they break into the minds of specifically tar...
Director:Spike Lee Writer:Russell Gewirtz Cast:Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe Despite being 15 years old, Inside Man is still a smart, flashy, and modern heist film. The masterful application of the script, nonlinear editing, and plethora of moviemaking tools at Spike Lee’s (Blackkklansman) disposal m...
- Heat (1995) The obsessive cat-and-mouse game between Detective Vincent Hanna and criminal Neil McCauley is so engaging thanks to the incredible chemistry between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
- Ocean's Eleven (2001) Danny Ocean was originally played by Frank Sinatra in the 1960 original, but George Clooney pulls off a magic trick by somehow making the character even more suave and debonair.
- A Fish Called Wanda (1988) Monty Python legends John Cleese and Michael Palin reunite in A Fish Called Wanda for the hilarious story of a heist gone wrong, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis in unforgettable form plus Kevin Kline in an Oscar-winning supporting role.
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Wes Anderson takes the framework of Roald Dahl's beloved children's book Fantastic Mr. Fox and liberally fills in the gaps with his own idiosyncratic flair.
Top 30 Heist Movies of All Time. by KingLeo300 • Created 2 years ago • Modified 1 year ago. Greatest heist films excluding comedies. Links to more lists available below. Organised Crime / Hood / Neo-Noir / Crime.
25 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Goodfellas. 1990 2h 25m R. 8.7 (1.3M) Rate. 92 Metascore. The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito. Director Martin Scorsese Stars Robert De Niro Ray Liotta Joe Pesci. 2. Reservoir Dogs. 1992 1h 39m R.
Movies with heist plot in any form (drama, mystery, action and adventure, fantasy and science fiction, art-house, comedies, noir, police procedural, courtroom drama, e.t.c.). I rank this list based on how well the movie represents the crime heist genre over other genres.
