Best Heist Film

“The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 British heist film directed by Charles Crichton. It centers on a group of retired postal clerks who meticulously plan and execute a gold shipment theft from the Bank of England. Alec Guinness delivers a memorable performance in this acclaimed comedy, celebrated for i...

Baby Driver is an action film centered around a young getaway driver who uses music to synchronize his movements during complex heists. The film’s innovative editing, seamlessly blending action sequences with a prominent soundtrack, distinguishes it within the heist genre. It appeals primarily to vi...

The Sting is a 1973 heist film directed by George Roy Hill featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The movie’s innovative use of elaborate deception and its seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, cemented its place as a classic within the period crime genre. It's notable for its intricate p...

The Getaway (1972) stars Steve McQueen as Doc McCoy, a professional thief tasked with transporting a large sum of money across America. Directed by Sam Peckinpah, this neo-noir crime film explores themes of betrayal and desperation through a tense bank heist narrative. It’s notable for its gritty re...

Vabank is a 1981 Polish crime comedy focusing on a daring bank robbery orchestrated by a group of unconventional criminals. The film’s innovative use of split-screen cinematography and its darkly humorous portrayal of resistance against the occupying German forces make it notable. It was primarily i...

Kshana Kshanam, directed by Ram Gopal Varma, is a 1991 Telugu film starring Sridevi and Venkatesh. The movie blends thriller and heist genres, introducing a distinctive road-noir style to Indian cinema. It’s notable for its suspenseful plot and exploration of criminal activity within a journey narra...

Widows tells the story of a group of women who assume control after their criminal husbands’ deaths during a botched heist. The film adapts Lynda La Plante's acclaimed British series, relocating the narrative to Chicago and exploring themes of grief, survival, and political maneuvering. It is for vi...

Mesrine is a two-part French crime biographical film directed by Jean-Francois Richet and released in 2008. Vincent Cassel portrays Jacques Mesrine, the French criminal known for armed robberies, prison escapes, kidnappings, and confrontations with police. The two installments, Killer Instinct and P...

"Armored Car Robbery" is a 1950 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer for RKO Radio Pictures. The film follows a ruthless criminal mastermind who plots an armored car heist at a Los Angeles baseball stadium, only for the plan to unravel when the police intervene. It stars Charles McGraw a...

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...

Special 26 is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language heist thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. The film is inspired by the real-life 1987 Opera House heist in Mumbai, where a team of impostors posed as Central Bureau of Investigation and Income Tax officers to conduct a fake raid on a promine...

"Jewel Thief" is a 1967 Indian Hindi-language spy-heist thriller directed by Vijay Anand and produced by Dev Anand under the Navketan Films banner. The film is renowned for its intricate identity plot, glamorous shooting locations, and stylish production design characteristic of 1960s Bollywood cine...

Den of Thieves is a 2018 crime action film centering on a group of LAPD deputies pursuing a team of former Marine operatives. The plot involves an attempted robbery of the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles, with law enforcement attempting to apprehend the thieves. Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber star...

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...

Plein Soleil is a 1960 French-language crime film directed by René Clément and starring Alain Delon as Tom Ripley. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, it follows Ripley as deception, impersonation, and murder draw him into the life of a wealthy American acquaintance in E...

Cash on Demand is a 1961 British neo-noir thriller produced by Hammer Film Productions and directed by Quentin Lawrence. Starring Peter Cushing and André Morell, the film unfolds almost entirely within a single bank branch on Christmas Eve. Cushing plays an uptight and stern bank manager who is psyc...

"Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal" is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language romantic heist comedy film written and directed by Desingh Periyasamy. Starring Dulquer Salmaan and Ritu Varma, the plot follows two friends who pose as software engineers while actually sustaining themselves through a string of petty t...

'Heist' is a 2001 American crime drama written and directed by David Mamet. The film stars Gene Hackman as a veteran thief who is pressured into completing one last job, featuring Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Rockwell in supporting roles. It is characteristic of Mamet's work, relying on sharp...

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...

Going in Style is a 1979 American heist comedy-drama written and directed by Martin Brest. It stars George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg as three elderly, bored men living in Queens, New York, who decide to rob a bank for excitement. The film balances its comedic heist elements with a melanch...

Thieves Like Us is a 1974 American crime film directed by Robert Altman, adapted from the 1937 novel of the same name by Edward Anderson. Set during the Great Depression in the American South, the narrative tracks two escaped convicts who embark on a series of bank robberies while navigating their p...

Aankhen is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language heist thriller film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. Adapted from Shah's own Gujarati play, the plot centers on a disgruntled bank manager who recruits three blind men to execute a daring bank robbery. The ensemble cast features Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar,...

"Mankatha" is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language action heist thriller film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu. The film stars Ajith Kumar in his 50th lead role, playing Vinayak Mahadevan, a corrupt police officer who becomes entangled in an illegal cricket betting syndicate surrounding the Indian Prem...

"Larceny, Inc." is a 1942 American crime comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Warner Bros. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson as "Pressure" Maxwell, a recently released convict who intends to go straight but ends up orchestrating a bank robbery by tunneling from an adjacent luggage st...

"Going by the Book" is a 2007 South Korean comedy film directed by Ra Hee-chan. The story follows a newly appointed police chief who decides to restore public confidence in the force by staging a highly realistic bank robbery simulation. To make the drill as authentic as possible, he selects a by-th...

Millionaires Express is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy co-written, directed by, and starring Sammo Hung, produced by Golden Harvest. Set in 1930s Republican-era China, the plot involves a planned train derailment near a frontier town that brings together multiple factions, including bandits, lawmen,...

"The Thieves" is a 2012 South Korean heist action comedy film directed by Choi Dong-hoon. The plot involves a team of thieves from South Korea and China who band together to steal a valuable diamond hidden at a Macau casino. The ensemble cast includes Kim Yoon-seok, Lee Jung-jae, Jun Ji-hyun, and Ki...

Grand Slam is a 1967 international heist film directed by Giuliano Montaldo and produced as an Italian, Spanish, and West German collaboration. Edward G. Robinson plays a retired teacher who organizes a carefully planned robbery of diamonds from a secure vault in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. The...