Subgenre Sampler
Heist: 179 Films to Buy & Rent
Score, The (2001)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton…
- Slick but perfunctory caper–comedy with Marlon Brando luring heist–specialist Robert De Niro into a ‘big score’ with Edward…
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
- Dir. Dominic Sena
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall
- A Jerry Bruckheimer remake of a cult 1974 film about car–thieves, with Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie boosting and revving–up a variety…
Reindeer Games (2000)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron…
- Parolee Ben Affleck may wish he was back in his cell after impersonating his dead cellmate and landing in various spots of leftover bother, namely…
Where the Money Is (2000)
- Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney
- A still–charismatic Paul Newman is an aged bank–robber esconsed in a nursing home after suffering a stroke, though his nurse Linda…
Earthly Possessions (1999)
- Dir. James Lapine
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff
- Bored housewife Susan Sarandon, who is planning to leave her husband, gets mixed up in a bank robbery instigated by Stephen Dorff and becomes his…
Entrapment (1999)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Veteran cat burglar Sean Connery meets his match in insurance investigator Catherine Zeta–Jones in this glossy fusion of international heist…
Pups (1999)
- Dir. Ash
Feat. Burt Reynolds
- A frustrated thirteen–year–old comes across the family firearm, prompting him to hold up the local bank with his reluctant girlfriend in…
Running Out of Time (1999)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan
- A crackingly–paced, plot–bending Yin–Yang heist drama, with terminally–ill master jewel thief Andy Lau playing against the…
Body Count (1998)
- Dir. Robert Patton-Spruill
Feat. David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, John Leguizamo…
- Derivative thriller following a group of thieves coping with the aftermath of a botched museum heist. RESERVOIR DOGS with a B–list cast, but…
Jackie Brown (1998)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier…
- Quentin Tarantino follows–up the fireworks of PULP FICTION with a laidback ode to lowlife dreamers and schemers that reclines comfortably into…