Highest-Rated Movies about 'Art Thief', Sort by Popularity

Headhunters (2011), The Painter and the Thief (2020), How to Steal a Million (1966), Trance (2013), The Art of the Steal (2013), The Maiden Heist (2009), Thick as Thieves (2009), My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Art Thief movies.

#2. The Painter and the Thief (2020)

Storyline: Young Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova relocates from Berlin to Oslo to launch her career as a painter. In April of 2015, her two most valuable, large-format paintings are stolen - with care - in broad daylight from the windowfronts of Galleri Nobel in Oslo's city center. Desperate for answers about the theft of her paintings, Barbora is presented with an unusual opportunity to reach out to one of the men involved in the heist - Norwegian career criminal, Karl-'Bertil' Nordland. Filmmaker Benjamin Ree begins to document the story after Barbora unbelievably invites her thief to sit for a portrait, capturing the unlikely relationship that ensues as the equally damaged duo find common ground and form an inseparable bond through their mutual affinity for art.—Mae Moreno

Plot Keywords: artist, art thief, emotional, engaging, intricate, striking, oslo ...

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#3. How to Steal a Million (1966)

Storyline: In Paris, wealthy Charles Bonnet is well known in the art world as a collector of rare pieces, mostly of the impressionist masters. He will on occasion sell paintings from his collection at auction. In reality, he is an art forger, he only reproducing those pieces known to have gone missing. His daughter, Nicole Bonnet, wants him to stop this business fearing that some day soon he will get caught. She is most concerned about he loaning out his Cellini Venus statue to the Kléber-Lafayette Museum, as she knows that technology can now test for things such as material age which would prove that the statue and by association he is a fraud. He ends up causing a problem for himself when he signs a $1 million insurance policy for the statue for the museum, which unwittingly allows them to test the piece for its authenticity. To save her father from jail, Nicole feels the only thing she can do is try to steal the statue from the gallery which may not be the easiest thing to do especially as ...

Plot Keywords: forger, art thief, burglar, daughter, father, private detective, amusing ...

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#5. The Art of the Steal (2013)

Storyline: Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell), a third rate motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get back into the con game and pull off one final lucrative art theft with his untrustworthy brother, Nicky (Matt Dillon). Reassembling the old team, Crunch comes up with a plan to steal a priceless historical book, but the successful heist leads to another far riskier plan devised by Nicky. They fail to realize each other's separate agendas when their plan goes awry in this con movie about honor, revenge and the bonds of brotherhood.

Plot Keywords: art thief, brother, criminal, accomplice, thief, girlfriend, suspenseful ...

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#6. The Maiden Heist (2009)

Storyline: Three middle-age guards learn that their museum has sold a wing of art to a Danish museum. Each has a favorite in that collection, and none can imagine life without the peace and completion it brings. Though mere acquaintances, they plot a theft of the three pieces between the time they are packed and the time they're loaded onto a plane. First each must obtain a forgery; then, they have to smuggle the forgeries into the museum and find a way to make the switches. The heist is complicated by Roger's intrusive wife - he's promised her a trip to Florida for their anniversary - and George's proclivity for taking his clothes off when standing in front of the warrior statue he loves.

Plot Keywords: security guard, robber, art thief, senior citizen, couple, wife, witty ...

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#7. Thick as Thieves (2009)

Storyline: In New York, the experienced art thief, Keith Ripley, invites the bold thief from Miami, Gabriel Martin, to team up with him. He plans the heist of two valuable mysterious antique Faberge eggs, located in a safe, of the well protected Russian jewelry Romanov. Each egg is worth twenty million dollars on the black market, and Ripley needs his cut to free himself from his debt to a powerful mobster, known as Nicky. The reluctant Gabriel agrees to participate, after having a one night stand with Ripley's goddaughter Alexandra Karolin. Meanwhile, the persistent Lieutenant Weber, who has unsuccessfully tried to put Ripley in jail for twenty years, figures out how to anticipate the movements of the criminal in order to catch him.

Plot Keywords: veteran, gangsters, art thief, jewel thief, jeweler, mobster, suspenseful ...

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#8. My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)

Storyline: Henry is a young FBI agent. During a three-year absence from his home in Shreveport, his mother Marty loses more than 100 pounds, looks great, and to Henry's embarrassment, has become a party animal. Within a day of Henry's returning home with his fiancée, Emily, who's an FBI profiler, Marty meets Tommy, a suave foreigner. He's posing as a consultant, but he's an international art thief, in town to steal "Mother and Son," a Bernini sculpture. Henry is detailed to head a team keeping his mom's new boyfriend under surveillance. Love, law enforcement, and filial devotion are set to collide.

Plot Keywords: mother, son, art thief, fiancée, accomplice, fbi agent, amusing ...

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#9. The Bride He Bought Online (2015)

Storyline: Ryan is a well-intentioned, but troubled young police officer, just out of training. Senior officer, DCI Guy Sabo, singles Ryan out as a perfect candidate for undercover police work and sets about training him in the art of deception, how to immerse himself in the criminal underworld, and how to become someone else entirely. Ryan transforms into Max, a young criminal with a force-ten temper and soon finds himself crossing the line in order to infiltrate a notorious gang of bank robbers, headed by the enigmatic and elusive master-thief known only as 'the Monopoly Man'. Ryan, as Max, struggles with his own identity and just as he comes to realise his own trappings and tries to restore his former life, he is drawn closer to the gang. He crosses the point of no return when he takes part in their biggest heist yet. The whole gang are caught and locked in a cell together. Max must survive the next hour trapped in the cell with the rest of the gang, whom are now all certain that someone amongst them is a 'snitch'.—Jump Start Productions

Plot Keywords: prostitute, neighbor, teen girl, loner, police officer, bleak, thrilling ...

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