Le Doulos (1961), Happy New Year! (1973), Fantomas (1964), Shoot to Kill (1988), The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), The Burglars (1971), Adventure in Manhattan (1936), Operation Amsterdam (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jewel Thief movies.
Storyline: A former convict (Serge Reggiani) suspects his best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a burglar with police contacts, of being a stool pigeon.
Plot Keywords: friend, jewel thief, informant, ex-convict, gangster, superintendent, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: jewel thief, accomplice, old flame, partner, police officer, convict, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Criminal mastermind Fantômas, a man of a thousand faces, is unhappy with Fandor, a journalist who's written a fictive interview of him. He kidnaps Fandor, threatens to kill him, but first goes about ruining the journalist's reputation by committing a sensational crime in Fandor's guise. Hot on the trail is police Commissaire Juve, so Fantômas commits a crime looking like him. Soon, our intrepid heroes, Fandor and Juve, with the help of Fandor's girlfriend Hélène, are on the mastermind's trail, but who's in control?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: masked man, man, detective, assistant, commissar, jewel thief, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sidney Poitier returned to the big screen in this action-thriller, after a decade-long absence. When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin (Poitier) must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox (PLATOON'S Tom Berenger). The killer has infiltrated a guided hiking trip led by Knox's girlfriend Sarah (Kirstie Alley, at the height of her Cheers fame). Viewers don't know which of the hikers is the killer, and the tension lasts well into the movie.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, thief, guide, fiancée, jewel thief, boyfriend, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: French country girl Madelon falls for artist Larry, who leaves her after she becomes pregnant. She finds help from jewel thief Carlo, but he commits suicide when the police try to arrest him. Madelon is arrested and receives a ten year term in prison for assisting him in his profession. To support her son, who does not know that she's been in prison, she becomes a street walker, allowing him to attend medical school.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: doctor, single mother, artist, jewel thief, prostitute, farmer, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars led by Azad plan a daring burglary. The victim is the rich gem merchant Mister Tasco. The treasure to be plundered is Mister Tasco's sumptuous emerald collection. The break-in team neutralize the villa's guard, enter the premises and locate the safe. Their sophisticated safe-cracking tools allow the burglars to break the safe open and steal the emeralds. During the caper a lone Greek policeman notices the burglars' car parked outside the Tasco residence and becomes suspicious. When Azad pretends to tinker with the getaway car's engine the Greek cop pretends he believes him. In fact, the Greek Police inspector Abel Zacharia suspects a burglary is taking place but decides to play along in order to allow the burglars to complete their mission. However, the corrupt Greek cop intends to arrest the criminals later and to steal the emeralds for himself. A cat and mouse chase ensues.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: safecracker, accomplice, thief, gang member, commissar, jewel thief, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Melville (Joel McCrea), a criminologist, is hired onto the staff of a newspaper to help apprehend a master burglar whose targets run toward art treasures and priceless gems, on the basis that the thief and the criminologist have similar tastes. He is aided and mocked by Claire Peyton (Jean Arthur), an actress , who is appearing in a play financed by the burglar with impeccable taste.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: reporter, actress, jewel thief, henchman, editor, producer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During WW II, British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna, Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Dutch army, knowing that one of their number may be a traitor.—Mike Rogers <MICHAELPEM@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: commando, british officer, nazi, traitor, jewel thief, major, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having already in their possession two of the rare Napoleon Diamonds, the masterful jewel thief, Max Burdett, and his seductive partner-in-crime, Lola Cirillo, decide to retire in the sun-kissed Bahamas. However--bent on keeping the precious third and last Napoleon diamond out of Max's clutches--the maladroit FBI agent, Stan Lloyd, follows them to the tropical haven, convinced that the intrepid duo is planning the next heist: stealing the last fabulous gem being displayed on the island. But, is this truly Max and Lola's intention? Above all--after a successful and lucrative career in crime--how hard can it be to resist the temptation of one more job?
Plot Keywords: jewel thief, girlfriend, fbi agent, crime boss, accomplice, crafty, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram from his friend Arthur Manleder asking Blackie to go to Manleder's New York apartment, get $60,000 from a wall safe and fly to Hollywood. Blackie has just removed the money when Police Inspector Farraday and his assistant, Sergeant Matthews arrive and accuse him of robbery. They let him escape so they can follow as they think he knows something about the stolen Monterey Diamond. Blackie arrives in Hollywood and learns that Manleder has fallen for Gloria Lane, in cahoots with a gang of crooks, and had been holding the missing diamond in trust for the owner. Gloria had asked Arthur to let her wear the diamond and it was stolen. Two gangsters had appeared at the apartment and offered to recover the diamond for $60,000, which had prompted the telegram to Blackie. The two crooks also steal the money from The Runt. Blackie's plan to catch the crooks and recover the money and the diamond goes awry when another crook, Slick Barton, steals both from his two crook pals. Farraday and Matthews now arrive and accuse Blackie of both thefts.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, police detective, sidekick, millionaire, jewel thief, nemesis, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by an ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her.
Plot Keywords: jewel thief, crime boss, paparazzo, husband, model, doppelganger, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based upon a true story wherein a gang of friends managed to infiltrate one of the biggest credit card companies and pull off the biggest and most audacious diamond heists ever committed.—Terry Stone
Plot Keywords: schemer, student, friend, impostor, jewel thief, gangster, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lassiter is a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s. One day he is arrested and told that if he wishes to avoid prison, he must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy in London and steal millions in Gems.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: girlfriend, jewel thief, german spy, thrilling, embassy, london, the police ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Plot Keywords: squire, ward, frenchwoman, stranger, jewel thief, servant, engaging ...
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