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But what might be some of the greatest heist movies of all time?
Today, the heist genre isn’t limited to cool cats in suits and sunglasses with sacks of cash.
Here are 32 of the greatest heist movies ever made.
21 (2008)
The score: Money from casinos, from right under their noses.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
The score: The Tablet of Reawakening.
Good Time (2017)
The score: Robert Pattinson’s brother.
Ronin (1998)
The score: A briefcase.
Its contents don’t matter.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The score: The Infinity Stones, spread across time.
The success of their plan hinges on collecting the Infinity Stones from earlier chapters across the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Italian Job (2003)
The score: Gold… and sweet revenge.
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
The score: A cache of diamonds in London.
House of Games (1987)
The score: $80,000 in a high-stakes poker game.
The Killing (1956)
The score: $2 million in cash.
Case in point: The Killing from 1956, and one of the director’s earliest feature-length films.
But bad luck and unexpected betrayals bring the heist to a collapse.
Now You See Me (2013)
The score: Oodles of cash from European banks.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The score: Diamonds.
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The score: $91 million in drugs.
The Sting (1973)
The score: Ruthless mob boss Doyle Lonnegan.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The score: Bank money for gender-affirming surgery.
What was meant to be a straightforward heist morphs into a tense hostage negotiation with the police.
Triple Frontier (2019)
The score: Millions in cash from a drug lord’s compound.
Three Kings (1999)
The score: Kuwaiti gold.
A unique mixture of gritty war action and heist capers, Three Kings is true genre royalty.
Widows (2018)
The score: $2 million.
Sneakers (1992)
The score: A cutting-edge decryption unit.
Baby Driver (2017)
The score: USPS money orders.
You do the math."
Thief (1981)
The score: Diamonds, worth about $4 million.
Hell or High Water (2016)
The score: Enough to pay off a bank debt.
The problem is the volatile nature of Foster’s Tanner, whose unpredictability is a liability to their success.
Hot on their tail is a seen-it-all Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges).
Logan Lucky (2017)
The score: Millions of dollars from the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
(Exploding gummy bears, for example.)
The Town (2010)
The score: Over three million dollars in gate money at Fenway Park.
Leave it to Ben Affleck to make the best heist movie ever set in Boston.
Bottle Rocket (1996)
The score: A safe at a cold storage facility.
A quirky take on the heist genre, Bottle Rocket foreshadows Anderson’s forthcoming brilliance.
Drive (2011)
The score: $40,000 from a Los Angeles pawn shop.
Eventually, things go very wrong, and Gosling grows compelled to protect Irene and her young son.
When such an individual’s reputation is at stake, who is really doing the world a disservice?
Inception (2010)
The score: Not stealing, butplantingan idea in a CEO son’s dreams.
Heat (1995)
The score: A cash-filled armored truck and a Los Angeles bank.
But forgetwhatis being fought over and think about the characters instead.
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
The score: $160 million from Las Vegas casinos.
