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  1. 1Ocean's Eleven (2001)Ocean's Eleven (2001) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 7 Dec 2001Three casino vaults give Danny Ocean's team a wonderfully legible objective, while the specialists provide different ways for the evening to go wrong. Steven Soderbergh makes waiting, observation and misdirection feel as pleasurable as action. Start here for a buoyant ensemble in which the audience…0
  2. 2Logan Lucky (2017)Logan Lucky (2017) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Aug 2017The speedway's cash-handling system turns an enormous sporting event into a problem of pipes, timing and access. The Logan family's skills are more useful than their polished appearance, and Joe Bang is a magnificently volatile specialist. The comic pleasure lies in practical knowledge meeting the…0
  3. 3Inside Man (2006)Inside Man (2006) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Mar 2006A Manhattan bank becomes a carefully controlled performance for hostages, negotiators and the people watching outside. The robbers' management of what each group can see makes ordinary movements worth scrutinising. Spike Lee gives the detective enough personality to make the negotiation compelling…0
  4. 4The Bank Job (2008)The Bank Job (2008) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased 28 Feb 2008Getting into the safe-deposit vault is only the first problem when the contents belong to people with very different kinds of power. The tunnelling gives the job a physical shape; the intersecting interests make escape from its consequences harder to calculate. Its real-event inspiration is a…0
  5. 5Heat (1995)Heat (1995) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Dec 1995Neil McCauley's crew treat a robbery as professional work, which makes a breach of discipline feel immediately expensive. Michael Mann gives routes, vehicles and the surrounding city enough clarity for improvisation to remain readable. The attraction is watching operational competence collide with…0
  6. 6Thief (1981)Thief (1981) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Mar 1981Safecracking has weight, noise and duration here, so you understand what Frank believes his expertise is worth. The larger plan is to turn criminal labour into a life he controls. That makes the pressure from a powerful employer more disturbing than a simple alarm going off: technical mastery…0
  7. 7Rififi (1955)Rififi (1955) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Apr 1955The celebrated near-wordless burglary lets tools, dust and patient movement explain the operation. Its clarity makes the human complications around the job feel especially costly. This older French procedural is the choice when you want to watch the labour before the consequences, with an austere…0
  8. 8Sexy Beast (2001)Sexy Beast (2001) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jan 2001Persuading a retired safecracker to join the job becomes a frightening operation in itself. Ben Kingsley's Don Logan makes refusal feel almost physically impossible, long before the London robbery. Choose it for a plan whose unstable component is the person doing the recruiting, with savage…0
  9. 9The Town (2010)The Town (2010) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Sept 2010A robber's attempt to keep a witness close brings a personal attachment into a crew already dependent on trust and silence. The Boston jobs are forceful and easy to follow, but the emotional complication changes what each escape might cost. It works best when you want the professional plan and the…0
  10. 10Widows (2018)Widows (2018) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Nov 2018The women inherit both a debt and a criminal plan, then must acquire the working knowledge that the dead men's notes cannot supply. Steve McQueen connects recruitment and preparation to Chicago's political and financial power. The heist is satisfying because competence has to be built under…0