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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
A Monet gives Pierce Brosnan’s thrill-seeking billionaire and Rene Russo’s insurance investigator something to circle around. Their scenes are most fun when a question about the painting sounds like flirting and a flirtation sounds like an interrogation. Start with the 1999 version for a caper that takes as much pleasure in the pursuit as in the theft.
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How to Steal a Million (1966)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
Audrey Hepburn needs to get a little Venus out of a Paris museum before an appraisal exposes her family’s forgery. Peter O’Toole is the man she enlists. The unusual pleasure of this caper is watching two people try to make a sculpture disappear precisely because it has fooled everyone who takes it seriously.
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The Mastermind (2025)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Josh O’Connor’s would-be mastermind chooses a group of Arthur Dove paintings. Kelly Reichardt gives the theft an awkward rhythm and spends more time on what the paintings are like to live with once they’re missing. Pick it when you want a quiet character study about someone who has mistaken good taste for good judgment.
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Trance (2013)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
An auctioneer helps steal Goya’s Witches in the Air and wakes up unable to remember where he put it. Danny Boyle makes the object a test of what you’re willing to believe as a hypnotherapist enters the search. Try it for the pleasure of revising your idea of the theft every time someone tells a better story.
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The Duke (2021)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington disappears from London’s National Gallery. The ransom demand is tied to a campaign for free television licenses for older people. Jim Broadbent plays the man behind the demands, and the movie gets its warmth from how stubbornly he turns an object of national pride into an argument about who the country should look after.
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The Maiden Heist (2009)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Museum guards learn that the works they love are going away and decide to take them first. Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and William H. Macy make that impulse feel like the result of years spent in the same rooms. Choose it for a gentle caper about the attachment you can develop to something you only ever get to look at.
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Gambit (1966)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
In the 1966 Gambit, a thief recruits Shirley MacLaine’s nightclub performer to help take a Chinese statuette. She resembles both the figure and the owner’s late wife. Come for a breezy comedy built around the difference between how neatly one man imagines a job and how much another person can complicate it.
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Once a Thief (1991)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
John Woo’s 1991 Hong Kong caper sends three art thieves after a painting they hear is cursed. Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung keep the movie nimble as an assignment gives way to romantic rivalry. It’s a good pick when you want the ease of people who have known one another for years alongside bursts of broad comedy.
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Headhunters (2011)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
In this Norwegian thriller, a recruiter learns that a man he could place in a new job owns a Rubens. The same habit of sizing people up that makes him good at recruiting makes him think he can handle the theft. Pick this when you want the art to set off a much uglier chase.
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The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
A powerful collector offers an ambitious critic access to the reclusive painter Jerome Debney, with a request to steal one of his works. The picture matters because it can buy the critic a place in a world he already talks as if he owns. Choose it for slow, prickly distrust in a setting where everyone has a reason to sound sincere.
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American Animals (2018)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
The target is Audubon’s illustrated Birds of America, which four young men set out to take from a Kentucky university library. Bart Layton cuts between the dramatization and interviews about the real crime. The two versions make for an uneasy watch when the men’s fantasies about an exciting life come up against the people they hurt.
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Topkapi (1964)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
The prize in Jules Dassin’s caper is an emerald-studded dagger from Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace. The courtly splendor of the object makes the crew’s uneasy alliances especially funny. Peter Ustinov’s outsider is the one to watch for the growing difference between what the plan demands and what a nervous person can actually do.
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The Train (1964)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
A German officer wants to carry a museum’s paintings out of occupied France. A railroad inspector has to decide what saving them is worth. This is the list’s wartime reversal, where the people running the operation are trying to stop a theft and the value of the cargo is argued over in human terms.
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Hudson Hawk (1991)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
A cat burglar gets pressured into stealing three works by Leonardo da Vinci. They’re needed to put an imagined invention back together, which tells you how far this movie is willing to run with a joke. Try it when you want a broad, gleefully improbable caper where the art is closer to a puzzle box than a collectible.
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Vinci (2004)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
A newly released thief is given a job that involves Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine. Juliusz Machulski makes the painting’s fame part of the caper’s problem. Anyone who recognizes it knows it can’t simply disappear. Try this Polish comedy when you want the value of a convincing copy to matter as much as the object itself.
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Vinci 2 (2025)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
Vinci’s art thief comes out of retirement and heads back to Kraków when a rival plans another job. The painting at stake this time is Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man, a work lost during World War II. Watch the first movie before this one if you want to see what time away from the job has done to a man who still hates being left out.
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Stealing Rembrandt (2003)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
A father and son go after a painting and find themselves with a Rembrandt whose importance they barely understand. The central relationship gives this Danish caper more bite than the muddled job can supply on its own. Watch it for a pair of people whose problems would survive even if they could find a buyer.
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The Forger (2014)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
John Travolta’s forger has to make a replacement for a museum’s Monet as part of a deal to get out of prison early. His father and son are drawn into the work. Pick it if you want a quieter thriller where matching someone else’s brushwork is a reason to spend time with people he has been missing.
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The Fake (1953)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci is headed for the Tate when someone tries to steal it. Take this 1953 thriller for the way a question about authenticity becomes a clue to who wants the picture and how much they know. It’s a compact change of pace after a caper that stays with the thieves.
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