Topic: Heist Film

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Plot When small-time con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), unwittingly con a numbers runner courier, they find themselves in danger from mobster Doyle Lonigan...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Jean Servais · Carl Möhner · Robert Manuel · Jules Dassin

Plot Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais) is a grim, hardboiled crook fresh from a stretch in stir for the noble gesture of taking a rap for his younger buddy Jo le...

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Tim Roth · Harvey Keitel · Chris Penn · Steve Buscemi

Plot They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought...

Direction Christopher Nolan

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Elliot Page · Ken Watanabe

Plot Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Edmond O'Brien

Plot A band of brutal outlaws led by the bitter Pike Bishop (William Holden) is decimated when a railroad company ambush led by Pike's old pal Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) turns...

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Jason Statham · Stephen Graham · Brad Pitt · Alan Ford

Plot Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter, is pulled into trouble when he becomes involved in big time criminal Brick Top, who wants him to arrange a fight and fix it. Meanwhile,...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Plot Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss,...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Sterling Hayden · Coleen Gray · Vince Edwards · Jay C. Flippen

Plot Based on Lionel White's crime novel 'Clean Break'. Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an...

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Nick Moran · Jason Flemyng · Jason Statham · Dexter Fletcher

Plot When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad’s nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he’s got...

Direction Fabián Bielinsky

Cast Ricardo Darín · Gastón Pauls · Leticia Brédice · Tomás Fonzi

Plot Set in a Buenos Aires that is on the verge of economic collapse, the film tells the story of Juan (Gastón Pauls), a con artist with a conscience. Trying to...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Totò

Plot It tells the story of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Plot Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Herbert Marshall · Miriam Hopkins · Kay Francis · Edward Everett Horton

Plot In Venice, Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a pickpocket pretending to be a countess, meets the famous thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), who is posing as a Baron, and they fall in...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand

Plot Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Martin Lasalle · Marika Green · Jean Pelegri · Dolly Scal

Plot Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother...

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Peggy Cummins · John Dall · Berry Kroeger · Harry Lewis

Plot Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl, Annie, a...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Tatum O'Neal · Madeline Kahn · John Hillerman

Plot Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath,"...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Kate Johnson · Herbert Lom · Peter Sellers

Plot A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The...