Highest-Rated Movies about 'Burglar', Sort by Popularity

Adam's Apples (2005), After Hours (1985), How to Steal a Million (1966), Detective Story (1951), The Trigger Effect (1996), Menage (1986), Favourites of the Moon (1984), Panic Room (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Burglar movies.

#1. Adam's Apples (2005)

Storyline: Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 12 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring.

Plot Keywords: priest, ex-convict, neo-nazi, burglar, pregnant woman, son, emotional ...

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#2. After Hours (1985)

Storyline: A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.

Plot Keywords: writer, sexy woman, sculptor, owner, burglar, punk, dark ...

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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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#4. Detective Story (1951)

Storyline: Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: police detective, abortionist, wife, burglar, shoplifter, colleague, tense ...

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#5. The Trigger Effect (1996)

Storyline: When a blackout hits, it doesn't take long before Matthew (Kyle MacLachlan) and Annie (Elisabeth Shue) start breaking the law to protect themselves as they steal medicine for their sick child. But when the power stays out for several days and violence erupts, both the couple and their friend, Joe (Dermot Mulroney), decide that the best action is driving to Annie's parents' home. During the long road trip, they must stop to steal gasoline -- but those with resources are desperately guarding them.

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, best friend, burglar, pharmacist, child, engaging ...

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#6. Menage (1986)

Storyline: A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.—Steven B. Blades

Plot Keywords: burglar, husband, wife, art collector, gigolo, bisexual, wild ...

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#7. Favourites of the Moon (1984)

Storyline: Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors, calls to mind the bustling tapestries of Robert Altman. The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: gunrunner, burglar, beautician, detective, terrorist, teacher, quirky ...

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#8. Panic Room (2002)

Storyline: Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room.

Plot Keywords: mother, teenager, burglar, police officer, single mother, daughter, thrilling ...

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#9. The Super Cops (1974)

Storyline: Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don't give up, but develop their own methods to fight against dealers, criminals and corrupt colleagues.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Plot Keywords: teammate, friend, drug dealer, teamwork, burglar, police officer, gripping ...

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#10. Puss in Boots (2011)

Storyline: Years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive. While trying to steal magic beans from the infamous criminals Jack and Jill, the hero crosses paths with his female match, Kitty Softpaws, who leads Puss to his old friend, but now enemy, Humpty Dumpty. Memories of friendship and betrayal enlarges Puss' doubt, but he eventually agrees to help the egg get the magic beans. Together, the three plan to steal the beans, get to the Giant's castle, nab the golden goose, and clear Puss' name.

Plot Keywords: puss in boots, humpty dumpty, burglar, cat, swashbuckler, hilarious, heartwarming ...

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#11. Bad Samaritan (2018)

Storyline: In Portland, the amateurish photographer Sean Falco works with his best friend Derek Sandoval as valet at a fancy restaurant. His girlfriend Riley Seabrook studies in a university and he is estranged of his stepfather. Sean and Derek are also smalltime burglars, stealing the houses of the costumers while they are eating in the restaurant. One day, the obnoxious client Cale Erendreich arrives at the restaurant driving a Maserati and Sean drives his car back to his house using the computer and Derek watches Cale in the restaurant. While snooping around the house, Sean finds a locked room and when he opens the door, he stumbles upon a woman tied to a chair with chains and gagged. He unsuccessfully tries to release her but he is forced to return to the restaurant with the Maserati. Sean decides to call the police, but Cale lures the police officers and turns Sean's life upside-down.

Plot Keywords: burglar, psychopath, photographer, valet, kidnapper, damsel in distress, brash ...

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#12. The Anderson Tapes (1971)

Storyline: A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video tape, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.—Zeke M. Towson <matajame@cwis.isu.edu>

Plot Keywords: burglar, ex-girlfriend, mafia boss, psychopath, henchman, gripping, thrilling ...

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#13. The Bat Whispers (1930)

Storyline: Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. He leaves a note saying he is going to the country to give the police a rest. Pausing only to rob a bank at Oakdale, he proceeds to terrorise the occupants of a lonely country mansion, in a mixture of thrills, chills and laughs. At the end, an actor steps forward through a proscenium arch and asks the viewers not to reveal the Bat's identity to their friends. A film noir shot in black and white, mainly at night in dimly lit scenes.—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>

Plot Keywords: burglar, police detective, dowager, niece, fiancé, bank employee, eerie ...

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#15. The Cracksman (1965)

Storyline: A short, kind, very innocent and efficient locksmith is cheated by a burglar in order to rob a car and to open a safe strongbox. The police catch him and is sent to jail. Once there, some gangsters gain his friendship to cheat him again and to help them escape.—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>

Plot Keywords: con artist, wrongly accused, burglar, police officer, gangster, amusing, engaging ...

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