Subgenre Sampler
Heist: 179 Films to Buy & Rent
Thieves, The (2012)
- Dir. Dong-hun Choi
Feat. Gianna Jun, Hye-su Kim, Yun-seok Kim…
- This slickly engineered Korean blockbuster (the second highest earning in the country's box office history) plays all the right cards in its…
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
- Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride…
- A pizza delivery boy (Eisenberg) is kidnapped and instructed to rob a bank, or the bomb strapped his chest will explode, in this frantic comedy caper.
Flypaper (2011)
- Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson…
- Passable time–waster with Dempsey as a manic math whiz who has the misfortune to find himself as a hostage in simultaneous bank heists.
Tower Heist (2011)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck…
- Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead a group of working class bros on an elaborate take down of a mega–wealthy scamster in this large scale comedy…
Takers (2010)
- Dir. John Luessenhop
Feat. Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon…
- Slick, but generic heist film has a notorious gang of thieves running up against a hard–bitten detective determined to foil their latest heist.
Town, The (2010)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm…
- Competent, briskly executed heist drama from actor/dir. Ben Affleck follows an armed robbery crew out of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, and the…
Armored (2009)
- Dir. Nimrod Antal
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne…
- Slick heist film has a down on his luck Iraq war veteran finding for a security company where he finds himself drawn into a forty–two million…
Code, The (2009)
- Dir. Mimi Leder
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hardy…
- Routine heist film with Freeman playing a veteran thief who recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to…
High Life (2009)
- Dir. Gary Yates
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Rossif Sutherland
- Well–executed crime caper has four laughable lowlifes hatch a plan to rob a series of ATM machines, only for their moronic, stoned–out…
Taking Of Pelham 123, The (2009)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzman
- Flashy remake of the 70s heist movie sees John Travolta as the mastermind behind the hijack of a New York subway train, and Denzel Washington as the…