American short silent film shot with a budget of $150. Bandits break into a railroad telegraph office and force the operator at gunpoint to stop a train. Once it is stopped, the criminals steal from the train and flee with the stolen possessions.
1941: High Sierra
A heist film and film noir. A crime boss hire his former
'employee', a notorious thief, recently released from prison, to help a group
of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
1960: Ocean's 11
Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II
compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven
friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
1969: The Italian Job
A cockney criminal, recently released from prison plans
to steal a gold shipment from Turin by creating a traffic jam.
1973: The Sting
In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking
revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a
fortune from a criminal banker.
1991: Point Break
An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers
who may be bank robbers.
2000: Snatch
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a
Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers
fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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