Movies like The Brink's Job
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The Brink's Job (1978)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... Written by Tom Zoerner
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, master criminal, gang, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, forgery, partners, buddies, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, perfect crime, robbery, artist, murder, gangsters, confined, nothing goes right, disorder, prison, thief, caper ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s
Place:
boston, usa
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Most similar movies to The Brink's Job
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, semi serious and humorous films with plots about heist, criminal heroes, dishonesty, crime gone awry, disorder, cons and scams and rivalry mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Brink's Job: Blueprint for Robbery (1961), Little Cigars (1973), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968), The Hollywood Sign (2001), Beyond the City Limits (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, gangsters, armored car robbery, master criminal, armored car, escape, law enforcement, rehabilitation, unlikely criminals, investigation, gang, crime gone awry ...
Time:
50s
Place:
boston
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
gangsters, on the run, disorder, dishonesty, gang, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, love and romance, rivalry, love affair ...
Time:
70s
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84%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, heist, kidnapping, train robbery, exploitation, mafia, disorder, gang, goofy hero, criminal's revenge, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hollywood, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, elderly, dishonesty, gangsters, criminal heroes, disorder, heist, cons and scams, filmmaking ...
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, betrayal, unlikely criminals, femme fatale, cons and scams, crime gone awry, partners, casino, vampire, friends, police corruption, supernatural ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, cynical, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, lovers on the run, minimal dialogue, bank, hostage, disorder, law enforcement, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, on the run, drug dealing, criminal heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany, hamburg germany, copenhagen, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, humorous, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, on the run, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, partners, criminal heroes, law enforcement, chase, nothing goes right, betrayal, master criminal ...
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70%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, safecracker, suspense, acrobat, prison, master criminal, disorder, friends, on the run, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hamburg germany, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, safecracker, suspense, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gang, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
graduation, bank robbery, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, friendship, financial problem, unlikely criminals, partners, buddies, youth, cons and scams, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, heist, mafia, organized crime, master criminal, cosa nostra, betrayal, criminal heroes, partners, crime gone awry, dishonesty, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, stylized, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, criminal, gangsters, bank robbery, professor, chase, gang, safecracker, storage unit, diamond theft, burglary, diamonds ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil, las vegas, new york, rio de janeiro, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, prison, bank robbery, prison escape, female journalist, safecracker, journalism, nothing goes right, dishonesty, partners, criminal heroes, master criminal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of small time criminals in 1975 attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.
Style:
exciting
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
heist, mafia, criminal heroes, robbery, murder, fight, planning, partners, buddies, con artists, twists and turns, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style:
neo noir, cynical, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
heist, gangsters, bank robbery, criminal, betrayal, bartender, ice hockey, mafia, gang, city, paranoia, organized crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. ...
Style:
realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
gangsters, master criminal, fighting crime, heist, missing person, kidnapping, criminal's revenge, uninhibited rivalry, folk hero, obsessive quest, rivalry, crime gone awry ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
6 gun wielding people are trapped in a NY loft with $4 million in stolen diamonds.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, rivalry, heist, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, betrayal, disorder, suspense, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, diamond ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal, car chase, chase, call girl, crime boss, vice squad, partners, prostitute, dishonesty, reluctant partners, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, humour, judiciary, robbery, gang, unlikely criminals, chase, dishonesty, criminal heroes, disorder, showbiz ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
mafia, unlikely criminals, accidental killing, mob boss, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangsters, mistaken identity, female protagonist, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
heist, gang, cons and scams, disorder, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, goofy hero, gangsters, diamond theft, bookies, diamond ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
con artists, heist, heiress, airport, robbery, warden, manipulation, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, confined, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, denver colorado, boston ...
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, storage unit, farce, criminal heroes, betrayal, rivalry, law enforcement, crime gone awry, dishonesty, disorder, girlfriend, microchip ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 ...
Style:
parody, not serious, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, jewel theft, car chase, mistaken identity, frame up, cons and scams, on the run, buddies, partners, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 70s
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, captivating, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, criminal heroes, master criminal, dishonesty, gang, disorder, fall in love, money, partners, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
bank robbery, clubbing, cons and scams, nightclub, disorder, rivalry, nothing goes right, partners, buddies, vengeance, heist, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A famous skier (Jean-Claude Killy), his mistress (Danièle Gaubert) and a ski instructor (Cliff Potts) rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
heist, insurance investigator, caper, ski resort, skiing, resort, conspiracy, mountain, forgery, master criminal, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right ...
Time:
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Place:
alps, italy
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41%
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Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cuminski is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
forgery, art theft, heist, cons and scams, stolen painting, criminal heroes, law enforcement, once in a lifetime opportunity, nothing goes right, partners, heist gone wrong, caper ...
Time:
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Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, serious, realistic, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, criminal heroes, gangsters, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, last wish, fight scenes, buddies, drugs, manipulation ...
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41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, buddy comedy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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