Best Art Heist
Monsieur Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, portrays an incident during World War II in occupied France. The film centers on a Parisian art dealer falsely identified as a Jewish man named Klein, leading to persecution. He struggles to establish his identity amidst escalating wartime paranoia and dange...
The Duke is a 2020 British comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell, serving as his final feature film before his death. The screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman is based on the true story of Kempton Bunton, a working-class taxi driver who stole Francisco Goya's portrait of the Duke of We...
At an exclusive auction house in New York City, Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, which was believed to be destroyed by a US air raid of World War II, was put up for auction. Jirokichi Suzuki, accompanied by his niece, Sonoko won the auction with a $300 million bid. At a press conference, Suzuki announ...
Gambit is a 1966 American heist comedy directed by Ronald Neame, starring Michael Caine as thief Harry Dean and Shirley MacLaine as dancer Nicole Chang. Harry recruits Nicole for an elaborate plan to steal a valuable antique bust from a wealthy collector, but the crime unfolds differently from his c...
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American romantic heist film directed by John McTiernan and starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. A wealthy financier steals a Monet from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and becomes the focus of an investigation led by an insurance investigator, with their m...
Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action comedy directed by John Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung as a trio of lifelong friends raised by a crime syndicate to become high-stakes art thieves. Blending stylized gunfights with slapstick humor and romantic melodrama, it d...
Gambit is a 2012 heist comedy directed by Michael Hoffman and written by Joel and Ethan Coen. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name and stars Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, with Alan Rickman also in the cast. The story centers on a scheme involving an art-world target, using deception, mis...
