Movies like The Heist 1961

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The Heist (1961)
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The Heist (1961)
Original name: Stöten
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Plot: heist, escape, caper, robbery, love, prison escape, fight, cat, alcoholic, car chase, ambulance, hotel, on the run, police officer killed, ferry, swindle, illegal gambling, racetrack
Place: eastern europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about heist, robbery, caper, gangster, bank robbery, escape and criminal mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Heist: Robbery (1967), Thiruda Thiruda (1993), Payroll (1961), Young Dillinger (1965), The Padre (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Robbery (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.
Style: action thriller, noir, independent film, british noir
Plot: robbery, car chase, railway, train, caper, heist, train robbery, criminal, underworld, chase, true crime, ambulance ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: england, london, new york
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95%
Thiruda Thiruda (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Portly CBI Inspector Laxminarayan is assigned to track down 1000 Crore Rupees worth of stolen currency from the Government Security Press in Nasik. His assignment will lead him to Ashok Tejani, and then to two burglars in Tamil Nadu, Shankar and ...
Style: detective, poliziottesco
Plot: heist, criminality, shooting, violence, village, chase, robbery, crime boss, train, on the run, police, stolen money ...
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61%
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Payroll (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured ...
Style: noir, offbeat, independent film, neo noir, poliziottesco ...
Plot: heist, caper, kitchen sink realism, armored car robbery, criminal, armored truck, female nudity, nudity, deception, factory, robbery, ambush ...
Time: year 1961
Place: northern england
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61%
Young Dillinger (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The 1930s outlaw (Nick Adams) teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd (Robert Conrad), Baby Face Nelson (John Ashley) and Homer Van Meter.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: crime spree, heist, informant, prison escape, prison warden, robbery, prison, betrayal, gangster, federal bureau of investigation, moll, pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Padre (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: girl, embezzler, escapades, criminal, heist, robbery, hidden, adventuress, cover up, thief, teamwork, caper ...
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53%
Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
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, rough, suspenseful
Plot: heist, armored car robbery, master criminal, armored car, voice over narration, prison sentence, caper, jail, parole, gangster, escape, rehabilitation ...
Time: year 1961, 1950s, 50s
Place: boston
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49%
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Hard Choices (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, drug dealing, love and romance, law enforcement, fall in love, youth, chases and races, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, tennessee
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47%
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Hazard (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage rebellion, street gang, heist, escape, coming of age, shootout, car theft, sunset, cat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, new york, usa, asia
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47%
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Wisdom (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
Style: political, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank, robbery, chase, brat pack, bank robbery, bank robber, destiny, gang, lovers on the run, cannon, love, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
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46%
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Drive (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h ...
Style: exciting, captivating
Plot: chase, caper, burglar, thief, robbery, heist gone wrong, bandit, money, stolen money, heist, car chase, bank robbery ...
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46%
The Alpha Caper (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
Plot: heist, bank robber, bank, car, ex convict, hijacking, armored car, caper, probation officer, robbery, armored car robbery, bank robbery
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46%
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Bloodbrothers (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Plot: released from prison, starting over, ex convict, one last job, art theft, cocaine, heist, library, brother brother relationship, criminal, prison
Place: eastern europe
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44%
Second Breath (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, noir, crime drama, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: robbery, criminal, caper, fugitive, jazz, post war, dream, escape, manipulation, organized crime, mafia, planning ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france, marseille
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43%
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In the Shadows (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: "In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: heist, surveillance, career criminal, chase, caper, released from prison, weapons, mistrust, car, parking lot
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's ...
Style: neo noir, noir, crime drama, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, mafia, organized crime, sicilian, gangster, robbery, female nudity, prison escape, unfaithful wife, revenge, mobster ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: rome italy, france, venice, italy, paris france ...
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42%
If... Dog... Rabbit (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live a normal life and gets work at a gas station. But soon his brother pays a visit.
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, gas station, parole officer, profanity, escape, disorder, family relations, prison, store, heist, family life, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
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41%
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Traitor's Gate (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Plot: heist, prison escape, deception, doppelganger, jewel theft, strip club, jewel thief, criminal gang, tower of london
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40%
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Cairo (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Egypt, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Style: noir, british noir
Plot: heist, exotic locale, jewel theft, thief, treasure, airport, belly dancer, nightclub owner, jewel thief, gem, heist gone wrong, museum ...
Time: year 1963
Place: egypt, africa, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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One Way Out (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: gangster, revenge, murder, released from prison, ex convict, heist gone wrong, one last job, heist, caper, garage
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38%
In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former marine and cop Jeff Erickson starts a new life after meeting his dream girl, Jill, running a bookshop, until they decide to become the modern Bonnie and Clyde. Learning on the job the hard way, Jeff becomes famous through media-coverage, ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: bank robber, ex cop, partner, heist, romancing a criminal, couples, on the run, couple relations, criminal heroes, true crime, burglar, marriage ...
Place: chicago, usa
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37%
Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
Style: independent film
Plot: lolita, robbery, bank, money, naivete, con artists, town, criminal, cowboy, theft, bank robbery, heist ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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37%
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Death Hunt (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by one.
Style: detective, poliziottesco
Plot: buried alive, death of child, violence, rape, city, nudity, female pubic hair, persecution, male female relationship, showdown, kidnapping, port ...
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Robbery in Athens (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: heist, car chase, car, night, girlfriend, police, blood, money, shot by the police, street, gun
Place: athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Last Tunnel (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: betrayal, gang, retiring, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, friends, robbery, one last job, released from prison, heist, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Postcard Bandit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, on the run, chase, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, gangster, investigation, danger, escapades, massage, bank robbery ...
Place: australia
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33%
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The Big Heist (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, dark ...
Plot: robbery, mafia, organized crime, gangster, heist, criminal gang, problem, bandit, burglar, one last chance, gang, outlaw gang ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Citizen Gangster (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: heist, true crime, gang, police brutality, family relations, criminal heroes, murder, war veteran, struggling actor, man in a wheelchair, bank, robbery ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
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Cuore cattivo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.
Plot: disability, girl, hostage, police, ransom, violence, brutality, escape, television, mother daughter relationship, robbery, neighbor ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Finding Steve McQueen (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, tense, suspense
Plot: heist, police arrest, fbi, investigator, escapades, investigation, uncover truth, love, stolen money, president, couples, chase ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: usa, california, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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