Thief movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant thief movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, realistic, exciting, entertaining and serious films and TV shows about / with thief, heist, robbery, twists and turns, violence, chase, criminal, revenge, dialogue and storytelling plots mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as thief: Now You See Me (2013), The Town (2010), White Collar (2009), Get the Gringo (2012), Headhunters (2011), Street Thief (2006), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Money Heist (2017), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), No Country for Old Men (2007).
Best films
New films
| Trap House (2025) | 5.4 | |
| Carjackers (2025) | 5.0 | |
| The Mortimers (2025) | 4.9 | |
| Maharaja (2024) | 8.3 | |
| Sugar Mill (2025) | 5.9 |
List of thief movies
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style:
surprise ending, clever, entertaining, twist ending, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, teamwork, fbi, outsmarting, scheme, perfect crime, twists and turns, con artists, stage magic, bank robbery, cons and scams, magician ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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444K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, rough, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, robbery, gunfight, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, thief, gang, organized crime, criminal gang, love affair, masked robber ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
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152K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Neal Caffrey, a con man, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left serving a four-year sentence, he escapes to look for Kate, his girlfriend. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, light, serious, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
fbi, investigation, law enforcement, art thief, mastermind, unlikely partners, friendship, fbi agent, criminal, expert, talented, cons and scams ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Style:
brutal, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, outsmarting, prisoner, thief, prison gang, prison escape, resourceful, lone hero, prison life, mafia, vengeance, gangster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa, tijuana mexico, san diego california
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111K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style:
clever, captivating, dark comedy, breathtaking, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, pre-teens
Plot:
twists and turns, art theft, art thief, surveillance, chase, mercenary, male nudity, infidelity, reputation, male star appears nude, thief, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2011, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, europe, seattle
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kaspar Carr is a professional burglar who lives and works in Chicago. Carr loves his job and is good at it, and two documentary filmmakers are granted access to his private world when he agrees to let them make a film about him.
Style:
tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
thief, found footage, planning, safecracker, escapades, danger, rivalry, politics, kickass, cop, double agent, petty criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, south america
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to ...
Style:
clever, witty, exciting, entertaining, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, outsmarting, deception, perfect crime, twists and turns, scheme, con artists, robbery ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, iran, usa, atlantic city new jersey, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
597K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, perfect crime, hostage situation, plot twist, bank robbery, planning, master criminal, thief, career criminal, hostage, professor, robbery ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain, madrid, europe, thailand, new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
Style:
romantic, witty, detective, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
caper, museum, art theft, art thief, stolen painting, heist, cat and mouse, famous painting, art, love story, businessman, painting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, shooting, serial killer, peril, desert, human nature, brutality, death, sheriff, cruelty, bounty hunter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, america, austin texas ...
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
Style:
exciting, realistic, anime, thrilling, detective ...
Plot:
hacker, team, thief, outsmarting, society, escapades, surveillance, partners in crime, unconventional method, investigator, gadget, insurance investigator ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist, thief, parents and children, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, escapades, friends, criminal, couples, family relations, rivalry, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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328K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, trapped, kidnapping, blind man, murder, breaking and entering, twists and turns, survival, blindness, psychopath, violence, paranoia ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, california, detroit
Is relevant?
792K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, tense, bleak, clever ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
robbery, heist, gunfight, bank robbery, police, cop, police detective, master criminal, thief, bank, chase, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Plot:
pickpocket, terrorism, cia, cia agent, rogue agent, terrorist, strong female character, secret service, french police, intelligence agency, conspiracy, investigation ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track him down.
Style:
hood, funny, humorous, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
christmas, thief, marijuana, weed, african american, security guard, robbery, pimp, urban, shopping mall, hip hop, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
california, los angeles
Is relevant?
129K
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Malaysia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Style:
sexy, suspense, clever, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, burglar, art thief, robbery, perfect crime, art theft, thief, caper, older man younger woman relationship, career criminal, blackmail, surveillance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, y2k
Place:
usa, malaysia, manhattan new york city, london, scotland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, breathtaking, touching ...
Plot:
parole officer, mute or deaf, thief, disappearance, deaf woman, loneliness, bartender, deafness, ex convict, relationships, opposites attract, workplace ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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422K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style:
clever, detective, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, bank, bank robbery, hostage, twists and turns, perfect crime, master criminal, plot twist, deception, police detective, caper ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Is relevant?
17K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The sailors who were duped by woman sellers, want to steal their capitals to retaliate from them. There are four men and one woman in a ruined boat. Four lazy and dissatisfaction sailors. The woman represent lust, delectation and appalling potential ...
Style:
art house, islamic, independent film, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot:
ship, thief, destructive relationship, virgin, prostitute, kidnapping, ghost ship, hashish, sailor, metaphor, lonely, theft ...
Time:
90s
Place:
balkan, istanbul turkey, turkey
Is relevant?
143K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Style:
clever, suspenseful, tense, intense, tricky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, betrayal, safecracker, caper, bank robbery, thief, heist, bank robber, race against time, group of criminals, cons and scams, jewel thief ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
quebec, north america, montreal, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, clever, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, twists and turns, robbery, caper, police, happy ending, perfect crime, mind game, conspiracy, investigation, nypd, negotiator ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
404
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The action of the series takes place from 1938 to 1948 years, and covers key events of the era.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
thief, love triangle, gang of thieves, gang, impersonating, deception, organized crime, money, robbery, frame up, betrayal, escapades ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union
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11K
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest ...
Style:
cult horror, independent film, scary, detective, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, monster, anti hero, giant bird, giant monster, insanity, blood, masked man, eaten alive, thief, police investigation, skyscraper ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Is relevant?
135K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, saga, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
heist, robbery, mafia, assassin, betrayal, revenge, kidnapping, hitman, romancing a criminal, car chase, fight scenes, gangster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, miami, chicago, new orleans ...
Is relevant?
77K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. Templar ...
Style:
romantic, action packed, breathtaking, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
love, conspiracy, on the run, thief, one last job, espionage, master thief, orphan, disguise, career criminal, coup d'etat, knights templar ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
russia, scotland yard, moscow russia, europe, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
Style:
satanic, exciting, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bandit, bank robbery, safecracking, thief, bank robber, fbi agent, breaking and entering, fbi, danger, robbery, police, chase ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
boston
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Though Bobby Stevens appears to be a regular family man with a nine-to-five job, he's actually an expert thief who is seeking a few last big jobs so he can finally leave the business for a comfortable, lawful lifestyle with his wife, Hope, and ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
thief, criminal, double life, hidden identity, manhunt, outlaw, one last job, criminal heroes, master criminal, law enforcement, fbi, partners in crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Directed by Özcan Deniz.
Style:
captivating, humorous, emotional, light, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love story, thief, marriage, romantic relationship, forbidden love, love, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, male female relationship, love triangle, bonding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a job goes sideways, four thieves bounded by honour meet back at the place it all began, the local boozer. Drink, drugs, jokes, reminiscing about old times and even politics, you would think this was a standard night in any South London ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, tense, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
thief, heist, gang of thieves, true crime, masked robber, burglar, armed robbery, bandit, criminal, criminal gang, gang, character study ...
Time:
21st century
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