Highest-Rated Movies about 'Heist Gone Wrong'

The Usual Suspects (1995), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), Paper Moon (1973), The Killing (1956), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Asphalt Jungle (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Heist Gone Wrong movies.

#16. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Storyline: Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

Plot Keywords: sex scene, brother in law sister in law relationship, unhappy marriage, unfaithfulness, panties, undressing, divorce ...

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#17. Ant-Man (2015)

Storyline: Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Plot Keywords: heist, ant, sabotage, miniaturization, no opening credits, origin of hero, ex convict ...

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#18. Shor in the City (2011)

Storyline: An NRI faces threats from extortionists when he opens a small business and goes out with an aspiring model. He refuses to pay, both are stalked, and when he complains to the police, they not only shrug it off but offer 'protection' for a price. With increasing pressure, he must now make a decision to re-locate or submit to their demands. Tilak and his friends are career criminals, and sell merchandise that they steal from passengers using public transportation. He also buys best-selling novels, has copies printed, and has them sold at busy traffic signals. Things change when his group find guns and an explosive device in a stolen bag. Sawan Murthy wants to be a cricketer and must come up with Rs.10 Lakhs in order to be inducted in the 20/20 team. He has no money, nobody will lend him any, and he considers robbing the Citizen's Co-operative Bank. Just some of the challenges faced by regular Mumbaites and criminals in this crime-laden city.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: gun held to one's head, redemption, gangster, crime boss, on the run, crime gone awry, mumbai india ...

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#19. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Storyline: Six strangers, (Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny and Lewis Pullman) each with their own secrets, meet at the El Royale hotel of Lake Tahoe. Taking place over one night, alliances are made and secrets are revealed.

Plot Keywords: neo noir, hotel, hotel room, surveillance, heavy rain, fbi agent, year 1969 ...

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#20. Payback (1999)

Storyline: Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss.

Plot Keywords: revenge, anti hero, neo noir, based on novel, greed, tough guy, criminal ...

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#21. American Animals (2018)

Storyline: In this crime drama, four bright and well-off college students in Kentucky plot to steal some rare books from their university's Special Collections Library in a misguided quest for personal glory. Based on the story, the film includes interviews with the foursome who attempted the bizarre heist. Starring Barry Keoghan, Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson and Ann Dowd.

Plot Keywords: heist, travel, theft, 2000s, university, library, disguise ...

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#22. Rancho Notorious (1952)

Storyline: A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.—Andre'a M. Thompson <athompso@ziggy.st.hmc.edu>

Plot Keywords: revenge motive, bank robbery, corruption, armed robbery, hideout, crooked politician, murder suspect ...

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#23. The Lookout (2007)

Storyline: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the ...

Plot Keywords: amnesia, sex, female nudity, casual sex, seduction, bank robbery, brain damage ...

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#24. Trance (2013)

Storyline: A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.

Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, shaved vagina, female star appears nude, female nudity, breasts, female rear nudity, female full frontal nudity ...

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#25. Widows (2018)

Storyline: "Widows" is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Plot Keywords: heist, car chase, harlot, profanity, restaurant, penthouse, n word ...

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#26. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Storyline: With the emerging demand of hyperfuel and other resources, Han Solo finds himself in the middle of a heist alongside other criminals, where they meet the likes of Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian in an adventurous situation exposing the criminal underworld.

Plot Keywords: spin off, prequel, crime lord, gambler, gangster, heist, space opera ...

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#27. 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: panic, cat and mouse, secret room, female protagonist, hostage, psychological torture, neo noir ...

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#28. Bandits (2001)

Storyline: Two convicts, one charismatic (Willis) and the other a hypochondriac (Thornton), break out of prison and immediately start a bank robbing spree, kidnapping bank managers, spending the night with their families, then going with the managers in the morning to rob the banks. Using a dim-witted stunt man as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs (even gaining the attention of a television show about American criminals), and become known as "The Sleepover Bandits." Things are going great until the bank managers begin to realize that the robbers are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees, changing the game for the Bandits. To add to the complications, a bored & unhappy housewife (Blanchett) ends up in the hands of the criminals, and begins to have romantic feelings for both Willis and Thornton, causing a sticky love triangle.

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, unhappy marriage, armed robbery, career criminal, heist gone wrong, heist, impulsiveness ...

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#29. How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)

Storyline: It is with a heavy heart that Monsieur Charles has to close his Parisian brothel in 1946, following new legislation outlawing such establishments. As a parting gift, he offers the brothel's red lantern to one of his star employees, Lucette.—morroviolet

Plot Keywords: thief, burglar, courtroom, trial, ex prostitute, prostitute, brothel ...

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#30. The Good Thief (2002)

Storyline: Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand--two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft--identical twins Albert and Bertram.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: heist, mini skirt, double cross, poker, sex with a minor, gambling, blackjack ...

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