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The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime films and the caper story, focused on the planning, execution, and aftermath of a significant robbery. One of the early defining heist films was The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which Film Genre 2000 wrote "almost single-handedly popularized the genre for mainstream cinema".
- 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.
1 day ago · In the heist and caper films, we see the hero hatching a plan, putting together a crew, and then pulling off the job, usually in order to turn the screws against an institution or person...
Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. Director Quentin Tarantino Stars Harvey Keitel Tim Roth Michael Madsen
Heist (also called Bus 657), is a 2015 American heist action thriller film directed by Scott Mann and written by Stephen Cyrus Sepher and Max Adams, based on the original story by Sepher. The film stars Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kate Bosworth, Morris Chestnut, Dave Bautista, Sepher, and Gina Carano.
Best Heist Movies Ever Made. 1. Rififi (1955) Photograph: Pathe. The most referenced sequence in heist movie history comes in the second half of Rififi: a wordless robbery that’s impossible...
