The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), Office Space (1999), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), How to Steal a Million (1966), A Simple Plan (1998), Raising Arizona (1987), Drowning by Numbers (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unlikely Criminal movies.
Storyline: Tom and Joe are disillusioned New York City cops who decide to pull off one big robbery and retire on the proceeds. Bearer bonds are what the local Mafia boss will buy, so that's what they go for. Central Park is the location for the switch. Can they come out of it with their lives and the money ?—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: reference to jesus christ, obscene finger gesture, title same as book, basket, counting money, money counting, long haired male ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manager of a high-rise condo, Josh Kovaks' a good relationship with the tenants; especially financier, Arthur Shaw. When Shaw's arrested for fraud. Josh thinks it's a misunderstanding that can be resolved, but later he learns that the employees' pension fund - which he asked Shaw to handle - is gone. When one of the employees tries to kill himself, Josh's views of Shaw change. He goes to see him and loses his temper - and his job. An FBI agent tells him Shaw might just walk, and recovering the fund is unlikely. She tells him it's been rumored that Shaw has $20 million lying around if he needs it in a hurry. Josh thinks he knows where it is. Josh, along with 2 other (fired) employees, a(n evicted) tenant, and an (criminal) acquaintance, they set out to get into Shaw's, and get the money.
Plot Keywords: manager, drunkenness, house arrest, chess, suicide attempt, arrest, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The not so smart Dwayne intends to open a massage parlor with his partner Travis, but he does not have money for the investment. He decides to hire a hit-man to kill his father, The Major, who won a large amount of money in the lottery years ago, but the killer demands US$ 100,000 for the job. Dwayne and Travis kidnap the pizza delivery boy Nick and they dress Nick in a vest with a timer and several bombs. Then Dwayne tells Nick that he has ten hours to rob US$ 100,000 from a bank. Once he does, he would give Nick the code to release the vest. Nick summons his best friend Chet to help him in the heist but the scheme does not work the way Dwayne has plotted.
Plot Keywords: unlikely criminal, strapped to a bomb, race against time, dumb criminal, kidnapping, bank robbery, scene after end credits ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: moving van, painting, partnership, rappelling, security camera, surveillance, walkie talkie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Plot Keywords: bank heist, unlikely criminal, theater, stage play, actress, hit by a car, ex convict ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three mischievous employees of a bank in a small deserted town all make plans to rob at the same time, however none of them knows about the others. Meanwhile, a clothing store employee has plans for revenge against a local millionaire.—<miguelcarmelo@cuba.com>
Plot Keywords: heist, desert, diner, dog, fantasy sequence, firefighter, fistfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. They have twenty hostages inside and the Police have laid siege to The Bank. There are two and a half hours before their plane leaves, and seventy million pounds in hard cash to steal. A daunting task, even for the most seasoned Blagger!—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: bank, gambling, gun, heist, helicopter, police officer, swat team ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four college buddies enjoying a night at a Reno casino are told by a cop that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they hear that it will only be a college hoax, his plan being to let the police know where the money is afterwards. The thing is, one of his friends has a head injury from the war, and has no intention of returning a dime.—Rone Barton Lokarr <sandbox2@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: casino, based on novel, mental hospital, marriage, marriage proposal, loot, law student ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Frank Sangster is a straight-laced dentist who because of one innocent lie, finds his tidy, prosperous life transformed into a comic quagmire of illicit sex, illegal drugs and inexplicable murder in this brilliantly offbeat, bitingly comedic film!
Plot Keywords: frame up, dentist, black comedy, femme fatale, drug use, suit and tie, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin.
Plot Keywords: theatre audience, watching tv, nightmare, swimming pool, dream, suspense, menstruation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis (Liam Hemsworth), settles for a security guard job with the EMPIRE STATE Armored Truck Company. Chris makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, Eddie (Michael Angarano), and is soon unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored there - resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S. History. As the stakes continue to rise, Chris and Eddie must outwit James Ransone (Dwayne Johnson), the veteran NYPD Detective that is hot on their trail, as well as the local crime bosses that want to know who pulled a job on their turf, or suffer the consequences.
Plot Keywords: bulletproof vest, deception, queens new york city, bronx new york city, surveillance, security camera, news report ...
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