Best Heist Movies of All Time, a list by HD Movie Lists

8.1

/36850/

79

/532/

78

/503/

4.2

/29878/

93

/54/

Audience

95

/7018/

97

/13/

4.0

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

87

7.9

/28176/

77

/528/

76

/579/

4.2

/33743/

96

/69/

Audience

92

/6903/

92

/19/

4.0

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

87

8.3

/280018/

82

/3818/

80

/2443/

4.2

/105063/

93

/109/

Audience

95

/61976/

83

/17/

4.0

age 13+

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

86

8.0

/273170/

79

/3561/

78

/2766/

4.3

/241738/

96

/54/

Audience

90

/110545/

86

/15/

4.0

age 15+

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

86

7.9

/90407/

75

/1342/

76

/1114/

4.1

/52445/

91

/66/

Audience

90

/34349/

98

/20/

4.0

age 16+

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

86

7.9

/97572/

76

/1410/

76

/1418/

4.0

/92107/

96

/47/

Audience

92

/22384/

91

/15/

4.0

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

86

8.8

/2552428/

86

/70922/

83

/35645/

4.2

/2117604/

87

/372/

Audience

91

/41764/

74

/42/

4.0

age 14+

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

83

7.7

/120653/

75

/1672/

74

/1484/

3.9

/88655/

90

/69/

Audience

88

/56730/

86

/20/

4.0

age 16+

In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

83

7.4

/12208/

74

/197/

73

/169/

3.9

/18938/

98

/41/

Audience

87

/212/

84

/12/

4.0

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

83

8.3

/719812/

81

/13051/

79

/6880/

4.3

/495142/

83

/151/

Audience

94

/223047/

76

/23/

3.5

age 16+

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

83

7.6

/13363/

73

/198/

73

/231/

3.8

/13662/

97

/36/

Audience

90

/5218/

80

/9/

4.0

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

82

7.6

/31413/

75

/496/

72

/429/

3.8

/18879/

100

/32/

Audience

87

/10590/

91

/7/

age 10+

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

82

7.8

/29981/

76

/472/

75

/441/

3.9

/22979/

97

/37/

Audience

87

/7184/

85

/15/

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

83

82

7.6

/27069/

75

/360/

75

/522/

3.9

/43073/

94

/52/

Audience

91

/12495/

93

/22/

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

82

7.9

/57162/

80

/961/

78

/674/

4.0

/48420/

92

/96/

Audience

94

/743/

80

/30/

3.0

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").

82

8.3

/1088760/

82

/20061/

81

/13835/

4.2

/926496/

90

/82/

Audience

94

/25900/

81

/24/

2.5

age 18+

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

82

7.5

/153976/

74

/3231/

72

/2066/

3.8

/81013/

96

/69/

Audience

84

/181425/

80

/17/

4.0

age 16+

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

81

7.5

/611596/

76

/39279/

74

/15136/

3.7

/1648016/

92

/397/

Audience

86

/4214/

86

/53/

3.5

age 17+

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

81

7.4

/411127/

75

/20682/

71

/8500/

3.7

/334608/

94

/327/

Audience

87

/94395/

75

/46/

4.0

age 13+

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

80

7.8

/704837/

77

/19322/

75

/12183/

3.9

/1124732/

93

/277/

Audience

79

/120210/

79

/43/

3.5

age 18+

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

79

7.6

/37522/

75

/603/

77

/1000/

3.9

/22911/

92

/25/

Audience

83

/11611/

77

/5/

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

79

7.1

/180530/

71

/3543/

67

/1964/

3.5

/55524/

94

/132/

Audience

77

/186307/

82

/34/

4.0

age 16+

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

79

7.6

/35845/

76

/773/

74

/474/

4.0

/44882/

98

/45/

Audience

88

/9557/

68

/4/

3.0

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

79

7.4

/79797/

74

/1479/

73

/1386/

3.7

/69874/

92

/53/

Audience

84

/52186/

82

/19/

age 13+

An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.

79

7.5

/375244/

75

/7898/

73

/6036/

3.9

/347459/

88

/96/

Audience

85

/215906/

62

/23/

4.0

age 16+

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

79

8.1

/616535/

82

/10663/

81

/6270/

4.0

/177589/

75

/67/

Audience

93

/308666/

65

/30/

3.0

age 17+

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

79

7.6

/252671/

75

/14241/

73

/4284/

3.9

/246879/

97

/290/

Audience

88

/40784/

88

/47/

2.5

age 17+

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

78

7.8

/686845/

79

/45763/

74

/14795/

3.7

/934625/

84

/462/

Audience

87

/9505/

65

/51/

3.5

age 11+

A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

78

7.3

/69325/

72

/1273/

70

/716/

3.9

/81348/

87

/141/

Audience

85

/38759/

79

/30/

3.5

age 17+

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

78

8.0

/226792/

78

/2784/

76

/2083/

4.1

/113746/

89

/61/

Audience

92

/71398/

66

/13/

2.5

age 13+

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

81

78

7.5

/15569/

75

/244/

71

/213/

3.7

/8542/

100

/31/

Audience

86

/5531/

90

/13/

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

78

7.4

/39058/

74

/977/

71

/622/

4.1

/98241/

80

/84/

Audience

81

/7347/

78

/8/

3.5

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.

78

8.5

/1146018/

84

/18278/

81

/9942/

4.1

/430096/

88

/82/

Audience

96

/435746/

76

/22/

1.5

age 17+

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

77

7.4

/528608/

75

/17027/

70

/9561/

3.7

/327893/

93

/253/

Audience

76

/474400/

73

/47/

3.5

age 13+

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

77

7.5

/415946/

75

/9548/

72

/4830/

3.6

/196656/

92

/238/

Audience

85

/12137/

74

/42/

3.0

age 17+

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

77

7.0

/99364/

70

/1732/

66

/1182/

3.7

/56001/

94

/106/

Audience

74

/59969/

84

/30/

3.5

age 16+

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

77

7.7

/619596/

79

/21127/

74

/11203/

3.9

/655509/

83

/187/

Audience

80

/969989/

74

/35/

3.0

age 13+

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

76

6.8

/104148/

70

/6207/

65

/2217/

3.5

/125124/

91

/427/

Audience

61

/5547/

84

/57/

4.0

age 16+

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

76

7.6

/398124/

77

/9640/

73

/5538/

3.7

/166041/

86

/210/

Audience

85

/351985/

76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

76

7.2

/25864/

72

/299/

68

/258/

3.6

/8357/

89

/63/

Audience

81

/436/

71

/21/

3.5

An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

76

7.0

/162243/

72

/9963/

67

/3346/

3.5

/211177/

92

/289/

Audience

76

/1210/

78

/51/

3.5

age 13+

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

74

7.2

/722413/

74

/44079/

70

/19213/

3.2

/964272/

83

/341/

Audience

85

/170038/

64

/44/

3.5

age 12+

Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor 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.

74

7.2

/50366/

74

/1419/

69

/692/

3.5

/33510/

81

/32/

Audience

85

/71225/

70

/10/

age 11+

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.

74

6.9

/18469/

76

/570/

71

/328/

3.7

/16926/

70

/37/

Audience

89

/55137/

62

/24/

3.5

age 16+

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.

74

8.2

/911314/

82

/17501/

78

/8611/

4.0

/380943/

74

/143/

Audience

93

/395291/

55

/31/

2.0

age 17+

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

74

7.1

/208027/

73

/12273/

76

/4993/

3.2

/120855/

67

/260/

Audience

90

/1245/

57

/38/

4.0

age 17+

A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

73

7.3

/407329/

74

/14854/

72

/7896/

3.5

/247398/

78

/208/

Audience

83

/11957/

66

/41/