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  1. 1The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 6, 1999A 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…0
  2. 2How to Steal a Million (1966)How to Steal a Million (1966) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 13, 1966Audrey 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…0
  3. 3The Mastermind (2025)The Mastermind (2025) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 16, 2025Josh 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…0
  4. 4Trance (2013)Trance (2013) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 27, 2013An 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…0
  5. 5The Duke (2021)The Duke (2021) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 23, 2021Goya’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…0
  6. 6The Maiden Heist (2009)The Maiden Heist (2009) 6.0/10 on IMDbReleased May 9, 2009Museum 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…0
  7. 7Gambit (1966)Gambit (1966) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 16, 1966In 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…0
  8. 8Once a Thief (1991)Once a Thief (1991) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 2, 1991John 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…0
  9. 9Headhunters (2011)Headhunters (2011) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 26, 2011In 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.0
  10. 10The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020) 6.1/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 6, 2020A 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…0