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The Brain (1969)

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The Brain
Movie
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch two teams board the same train with very different ideas about who gets to rob it. The petty thieves depend on luck and each other, while the confident planner has coordinated his own operation. You get a farce where simply noticing the other crew would save everyone trouble.
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The Brothers Bloom (2009)

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The Brothers Bloom
Movie
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Watch the brothers recruit an unusually eager heiress for their art con. One brother loves writing parts for people while the other is tired of having a part assigned to him. When their accomplice Bang Bang reacts with little or no explanation, you get a third attitude toward all the talking.
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45

The Perfect Score (2004)

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The Perfect Score
Movie
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Watch students from different parts of the school agree to steal the SAT answers. They can agree that the test is worth worrying about, but that is about all they agree on. You get to see a crew built out of people accustomed to keeping their school problems private.
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46

Sneakers (1992)

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Sneakers
Movie
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a team of security specialists go after an object it understands less well than the building around it. Banter among the conspiracy enthusiast, the blind technician, and the boss makes the electronic puzzle feel like a job only this crew could work through together.
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47

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Movie
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Edgin and the others leave the magical part of the plan to Simon. His uncertain performance gives every straightforward instruction a second, awkward interpretation. If you’ve played a tabletop game, you can almost hear the moment when a player asks whether their character can really do that.
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48

Bandits (2001)

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Bandits
Movie
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Joe and Terry turn taking a bank manager hostage overnight into their shared routine. Joe’s ease around people and Terry’s inventory of possible disasters keep the partnership funny until Kate gives both men something else to concentrate on. The caper starts to change shape as the relationship does.
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49

The Instigators (2024)

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The Instigators
Movie
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Rory and Cobby pull a therapist into the trouble left by a failed robbery. She has more practice getting people to talk than getting them away from anyone pursuing them. The three of them trying to settle their disputes on the move makes this an unusually talkative getaway movie.
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50

The League of Gentlemen (1960)

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The League of Gentlemen
Movie
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a retired colonel get former soldiers to treat a bank robbery like a military operation. Their careful manners and training make it easy to forget the personal troubles that brought them to the table. The dry comedy comes from watching men apply a respectable routine to a very different kind of career.
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51

The Ladykillers (2004)

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The Ladykillers
Movie
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch the 2004 crew pretend to practice music in a widow’s house while actually tunneling out of the cellar. The professor’s elaborate courtesy and the other men’s constant bickering are hard to keep in the same conversation. You can see why every check-in from the landlady threatens to bring the performance down.
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52

The Thieves (2012)

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The Thieves
Movie
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch the Korean and Hong Kong crews try to share a single job in Macau. Macao Park knows some of the people he’s hiring a little too well, and his old ties make every introduction sound like an invitation to settle a score. The banter gives you a way to keep track of so many conflicting loyalties.
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53

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Gustave enlist lobby boy Zero to take a painting from a dead patron’s estate. His insistence on hotel manners carries into a job no etiquette manual could cover. Zero’s willingness to take him literally keeps a small theft funny even as it sets off a much larger scramble.
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54

Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)

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Ruben Brandt, Collector
Movie
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a psychotherapist’s patients decide that stealing famous paintings might be a way to help him. Their different specialties give you clues to their characters as the art grows more familiar. The Hungarian animated film puts the crew on unusual footing by making its robberies resemble group therapy.
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55

Lupin III: The First (2019)

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Lupin III: The First
Movie
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Lupin meet Laetitia while they’re both pursuing the Bresson Diary. She understands things about the object he wants that a practiced thief can’t learn by opening a lock. Their different reasons for wanting it give you a new angle on the jokes between Lupin and his old crew.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Movie
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch four friends decide they can settle a card debt by stealing from the crooks next door. Each thinks he knows which people need to be out of the way. That would make for a simple job if you weren’t also watching several other groups make the same assumption about them.
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