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, exciting, suspense, realistic, serious and entertaining films and TV shows about / with thief, heist, criminal, robbery, theft, police, organized crime, chase, violence and caper plots mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as thief: The Town (2010), Now You See Me (2013), No Country for Old Men (2007), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Oliver Twist (2007), Man on a Ledge (2012), The Italian Job (1969), Army of Thieves (2021), White Collar (2009), The Road (2009).

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 7.5
 413K
The Town (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, gunfight, thief, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, gang, organized crime, gangster, love affair, perfect crime ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
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 7.2
 703K
Now You See Me (2013)
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, suspense, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, twists and turns, fbi, scheme, perfect crime, outsmarting, bank robbery, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, mind game, thief ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
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, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring ...
Style: clever, entertaining, exciting, suspense, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: heist, casino, thief, revenge, robbery, perfect crime, caper, mentor, conspiracy, vengeance, con artists, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, usa, north america, mexico
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 7.3
 3K
Oliver Twist (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver ...
Style: costume drama, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: orphan, child's point of view, thief, victorian england, child abuse, street kid, friendship, social decay, injustice, danger, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, london
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 6.6
 158K
Man on a Ledge (2012)
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, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: heist, robbery, twists and turns, thief, caper, swat team, mind game, conspiracy, investigation, nypd, perfect crime, betrayal ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Italian Job (1969)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over ...
Style: cliffhanger, exciting, humorous, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, caper, robbery, mafia, heist, thief, chase, gold, police, prison, perfect crime, car ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: italy, england, turin italy, bolivia, london ...
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Army of Thieves (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A prequel to Zack Snyder's upcoming Army of the Dead that is said to be 'international'.
Style: suspense, romantic, disturbing, captivating, funny ...
Plot: thief, zombie, safecracking, bank teller, safecracker, zombie outbreak, organized crime, heist, interpol, bank robbery, weapons, red herring ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: europe, munich germany, berlin germany, prague, germany ...
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 8.2
 140K
White Collar (2009)
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: exciting, captivating, light, serious, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: investigation, fbi, law enforcement, art thief, mastermind, criminal, con artists, unlikely partners, friendship, talented, cons and scams, expert ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 6.0
 57K
Honest Thief (2020)
Genre: Action, 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: exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: thief, bandit, bank robbery, safecracking, love, danger, fbi, breaking and entering, murder, chase, police, bank robber ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: boston
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 7.1
 298K
Don't Breathe (2016)
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, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, kidnapping, trapped, blind man, murder, psychopath, thief, twists and turns, breaking and entering, survival, trap, violence ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, california, detroit
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 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
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: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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 7.9
 54K
Leverage (2008)
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, detective, teen ...
Plot: team, thief, hacker, outsmarting, society, escapades, mastermind, unconventional method, investigator, partners in crime, teamwork, surveillance ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.7
 614K
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
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, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, perfect crime, outsmarting, con artists, twists and turns, deception, scheme, organized crime ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, atlantic city, usa, los angeles ...
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 8.2
 527K
Money Heist (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 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, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heist, perfect crime, plot twist, thief, bank robbery, hostage situation, money, professor, planning, master criminal, hostage, career criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, thailand
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 6.2
 129K
Parker (2013)
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: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, ohio, new orleans ...
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
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, sexy, suspense, detective ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, stolen painting, art theft, museum, psychiatrist, twists and turns, painting, thief, caper, art collector, art, famous painting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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 7.2
 85K
Papillon (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Henri "Papillon" Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. After planning and executing a series of treacherous ...
Style: suspense, factual, psychological, art house, homoerotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, prison escape, island prison, friendship, life sentence, escape, thief, solitary, survival, wrongful conviction, human spirit, jungle ...
Time: year 2017, year 1931, 1930s, year 1969, year 1970 ...
Place: south america, colombia, france, venezuela, paris france
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 6.3
 315K
Red Notice (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.
Style: funny, exciting, tense, anamorphic, action comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: heist, thief, interpol, mission, ruse, criminal, wanted, buddy cop, art thief, money, agent, chase ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: argentina, valencia spain, england, russia, spain ...
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 6.3
 51K
Bastille Day (2016)
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: suspense, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: pickpocket, terrorism, cia, thief, rogue agent, bomb, strong female character, espionage, brutality, investigation, conspiracy, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2016
Place: france, paris france
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 6.5
 412K
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Style: entertaining, clever, stylized, exciting, intellectual ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, robbery, con artists, perfect crime, thief, caper, master thief, planning, con men, art thief, money, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, rome italy, europe, iran, paris france ...
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Carmen Sandiego (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Carmen Sandiego returns in this series that follows her new international capers as well as past escapades that led to her becoming a super thief.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, anime, controversial ...
Audience: kids
Plot: thief, interpol, female criminal, female protagonist, orphan, criminal as protagonist, master thief, travel, heist, spy, rescue, danger ...
Time: 90s
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Adventures of Arsene Lupin (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: As the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, exciting, period drama
Plot: thief, treasure hunt, mysterious character, hotshot hero, master criminal, danger, haunted by the past, superhero, sherlock holmes, lupin iii, fantomas, organized crime ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s, 1880s ...
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 8.3
 1.1M
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, non-linear, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, robbery, gangster, gang, undercover cop, psychopath, dark hero, perfect crime, organized crime, violent, caper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: los angeles, usa, california, bolivia
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 7.8
 2K
Smith (2006)
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: suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, realistic
Plot: thief, criminal, manhunt, double life, hidden identity, outlaw, criminal heroes, master criminal, one last job, law enforcement, chase, fbi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh
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 7.0
 387K
The Italian Job (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, ...
Style: suspense, clever, exciting, action packed, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: heist, caper, robbery, car chase, vengeance, mentor, bank robbery, chase, perfect crime, gold, revenge, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, philadelphia, los angeles, california ...
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 8.0
 40K
Sneaky Pete (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world ...
Style: captivating, ironic, melancholic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: investigation, gambling, dishonesty, family problems, danger, escapades, family relations, con man, thief, greed, adaptation, twists and turns ...
Time: future
Place: usa
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Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few "boost happy" pals to accomplish a seemingly ...
Style: exciting, intense, entertaining, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car thief, car theft, caper, master criminal, danger, racing, theft ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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