The Gentlemen (2020), The Jokers (1967), Hold-Up (1985), Focus (2015), The Brink's Job (1978), Bandits (1997), Foolproof (2003), The Big Job (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime Adventure movies.
Storyline: A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
Plot Keywords: action, crime, comedy, gangster, british, drug trade, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Michael is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Michael is forced to resign from the Army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Bombs, misdirection, disguises, and acting allow them to enter the tower with all of the alarms turned off.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, heist, london, 1960s, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, heist, french film, action, thriller, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, romance, thriller, con, black comedy, criminal gang ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a long spate of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transports, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, heist, based on true events, usa, 1970s, gangsters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.—Antje
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, action, german film, bank robbery, fugitive, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twenty-something Torontonians and friends Kevin, Sam and Rob play a game they call Foolproof: they plan foolproof heists, but without the intention of actually carrying them out. They have a few rules in the game, including the three having the necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required for the heist, the plan cannot include loaded guns, and there is no violence meaning that no one gets hurt. They try to be as meticulous if not more so than the best high stakes thieves. The fun is in knowing they could do it if they truly wanted. Their collective lives change when someone breaks into Sam's apartment and steals their latest plan for a jewelry warehouse heist. After the warehouse is hit, the culprit identifies himself to them as Leo 'The Touch' Gillette, a known but never convicted high stakes thief who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He tells them that the break-in at Sam's apartment was not by accident, and that part of his grand plan is to use them to map and carry out a $20 million theft of bonds for him. Since he has evidence of their involvement in the warehouse heist, they feel they have no other option but to help him. Their friendship is tested as they try to figure out how best to get themselves out of this predicament, sometimes each looking out solely for him or herself. But their view of helping The Touch may change as they actually begin to work on a real heist with real stakes.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, heist, suspense, teamwork, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen and which George had hidden in a hollow tree during the chase in which they were caught. The only trouble is that the tree was in the middle of a lonely lane when they were imprisoned; now, 15 years later, the tree is in the backyard of a Police Station...—Rhino <rhino@blueyonder.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british film, heist, 1960s, black comedy, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married, has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay Briggs but then he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, smuggling, suspense, adventure, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Seattle, aspiring pickpocket Ray is not very adept at his chosen profession. He thinks he's made it to the big time when he learns that a "cannon" - a pickpocket - is looking for an apprentice. The cannon is Harry, recently arrived in Seattle, with his older associate, Casey, a man with a penchant for cocaine. What Harry and Casey are really looking for is a "stall" - someone to act as the distractor. Harry thinks Sandy, Ray's girlfriend (and one of his former marks), is better suited to the job, but, Sandy will not do it unless Ray's included, as well. Ray appreciates what Harry can and does teach him and Sandy, but, Ray doesn't much like the romantic and sexual interest Harry' starts showing in Sandy. Harry's number one rule; Harry never holds, and after relocating their operation to stay one step ahead of the law, Ray's tired of being the 4th musketeer in the group, and itches to become a world-class cannon himself. This doesn't fit within Harry's grand scheme, and allegiances between each of the individuals within the foursome are tested.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, theft, american film, criminal duo, street crime, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jinx has coasted through life oblivious to the world around him and without a care in the world. His life is thrown into a spin when he gets caught in the middle of a bank heist and is forced to arbitrate this intense situation between the thieves and the police.—Archlight Films
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, action, adventure, independent film, american movie, gang ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Sir Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all of his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything for which he's worked, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).—marktreut
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, adventure, drama, gangster, finance, fraud ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When their boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. They decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns, they have to avoid their boss, Triads, the police, and Brian's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, british film, disguise, gangsters, heist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While fishing on a San Diego beach, Gerald Clamson catches ... a sea diver! Even more weird, the "fish" resembles him. The man, who is not (yet) dead, reveals his secret to the peaceful angler: he is in fact a mobster who has cheated his associates out of their diamonds. What does not help Gerald at all is that the other hoods are persuaded HE is the double-crosser they are supposed to have done away with. Will he get himself out of such a tight situation? He will of course, but not without a little help from Suzie, the girl he only has eyes for!—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, 1960s, british film, heist, gang ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With his reliability in tatters after the audacious theft of a priceless Van Gogh painting while under his supervision, the down-on-his-luck private security agent, Danny Stratton, has been given a shot at redemption. Now, along with his partners, brawny, Mach Ren, no-nonsense, J.Jae An, and tech-savvy, Ding Dong, the members of the Security Management Action Recovery Team, Danny will have to transport a rare ancient Chinese vase out of Shanghai, all the way to London. However, history repeats itself, and once again, Danny's old nemesis, the villainous art-thief, Long Fei, and his murderous henchmen ambush the team. Can Danny protect those he loves, retrieve the precious artefact, and in the process, restore his damaged reputation?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, chase, suspense, adventure, agent ...
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