Attempted robbery movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant attempted robbery movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, feel good and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with attempted robbery, burglar, robbery, heist, heist gone wrong, criminal, thief, escapades, theft and gun plots mostly in Comedy, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as attempted robbery: A History of Violence (2005), Don't Breathe (2016), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Horsemen (2009), Monster Party (2018), Jailbreak (2002), Support the Girls (2018), Wrath of Man (2021), Bait (2012), The Ladykillers (2004).
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List of attempted robbery movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style:
disturbing, tense, neo noir, sexy, harsh ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
twists and turns, self defense, revenge, violent, small town, organized crime, sex scene, redemption, gangster, sex, murder, attempted robbery ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, philadelphia, columbus ohio, usa, pennsylvania ...
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, funny, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
high school, coming of age, abortion, friendship, teenager, stoner, shopping mall, teacher, sex scene, teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, usa
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25K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, detective, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, twists and turns, death, police, police investigation, torture, psychopath, police detective, blood, photograph, orphan ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three teenage thieves infiltrate a mansion dinner party, unaware that it is secretly being hosted by a serial killer cult for the social elite.
Style:
horror comedy, brutal, suspenseful, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, survival, captivity, group of friends, attempted robbery, youth, party, deathtrap, spirit, isolation, apocalypse, monster ...
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172
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days before his release, he's forced by two dangerous inmates to take part in their jailbreak. On ...
Style:
suspenseful, satirical, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
escape, prison escape, attempted robbery, prison, prisoner, single mother, satire, jail, escape plan, attempted escape, confined, prison break ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely--but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction…Double ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, mumblecore, light, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
waitress, sexploitation, girl power, job interview, fund raising, family business, female friendship, attempted robbery, husband wife relationship, friendship, flirting, professor ...
Time:
year 2007, 2010s
Place:
texas, nashville tennessee
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235K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate ...
Style:
suspense, humorous, perverse, exciting, mind blowing ...
Plot:
revenge, lone hero, crime boss, working undercover, heist, fighting crime, robbery, fight, ex soldier, father son relationship, afghanistan veteran, gangster ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, north america, usa
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21K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia, Singapore, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
shark attack, killer shark, flood, tsunami, supermarket, shark, killer animal, great white shark, eaten alive, water, animal attack, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Style:
entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Plot:
heist, dark humor, robbery, african american, painting, crime gone awry, cons and scams, eccentricity, greed, american football, culture clash, murder ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s ...
Style:
emotional, serious, exciting, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, heroes, double life, good versus evil, protector, vigilante, spider man, save the day, fighting crime, death of girlfriend, costumed hero ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Get ready for a hilarious fun-filled adventure as 10 year old Caden and his best friend, Charlie, a golden retriever, set out on a wild escapade around town thwarting the evil plans of the bumbling town bullies who are out to break into Caden's ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, save the day, escapades, parents and children, small town, family relations, youth, attempted robbery, boy and dog, home alone, nothing goes right, burglar ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
morphine, robbery, buddies, nothing goes right, friends, disorder, heist gone wrong, greed, attempted robbery, gang, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, dark, slasher ...
Plot:
abduction, trapped in a building, heist gone wrong, violence, captivity, danger, survival, isolation, chase, burglary, home invasion, bad guys win ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An incompetent gang of criminals attempting the biggest robbery of their lives, which was the sixth highest-grossing Turkish film of 2005.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
escapades, heist gone wrong, crime gone awry, attempted robbery, gang member, stealing money, thief, robbery, criminal, outlaw gang, bank robbery, burglary ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Desperate for money to save his sick daughter's life, a father decides to rob a bank.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling
Plot:
bank robbery, heist, attempted robbery, heist gone wrong, burglar, social problems, problem, theft, hostage situation, stolen money, escapades, robbery ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows a dog who is a master escape artist, who must team up with his puppy pals to prevent their block from being robbed.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, attempted robbery, animal human communication, robbery, save the day, human animal relationship, pets, heist gone wrong, pet dog, human dog relationship, satire, animal ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Film follows two friends attempting to rob a petrol station, but are so useless that they end up working there all night.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
heist gone wrong, satire, robbery, low self esteem, convenience store robbery, attempted robbery, criminal, irony, heist, escapades, workplace, burglar ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Style:
light, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, satirical ...
Plot:
businessman, embezzler, gambling, diamond, triad, heist gone wrong, fraud, escapades, robbery, mafia, japanese mafia, heist ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief are together again, this time with help from a new tech genius and corporate fixer, to take on a new kind of villain. From the man who created an opioid crisis from the comfort of his boardroom to ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, entertaining, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
genius, crime solving, redemption, robbery, criminal, con trick, deception, tough law enforcer, unlikely criminals, fight for justice, crime and punishment, attempted robbery ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A getaway driver is attracted to a female neighbor whose husband owes money to a local gangster. As a result he is drawn deeper into a dangerous underworld.
Style:
rough, suspense, thought provoking, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
chases and races, escapades, thief, murder, robbery, bank robber, burglar, armed robbery, danger, reckless driving, attempted robbery, bank robbery ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist
Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dancing, dance contest, diamond, partner, competition, heist, unlikely partners, dancehall girl, caper, dancer, attempted robbery, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
dubai, middle east, india
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.
Style:
light, entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense ...
Plot:
bank robbery, bank, bank robber, reluctant partners, money, robbery, attempted robbery, deception, money problems, burglar, dishonesty, fighting the system ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ...
Style:
tense, suspense, perverse, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, violence, female assassin, female protagonist, conspiracy, tough girl, woman with a gun, female killer, hand to hand combat, one woman army, robbery, bank ...
Place:
cape town south africa, washington d.c.
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575
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Egypt
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
comedy about Dido who plans with his friends to rob the rich scientist (Bayoumi Fouad), who discovers the matter and transforms them by one of his experiments into tom thumbs, which makes them encounter many exciting adventures.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
transformation, satire, shrinking, professor, friend, heist gone wrong, little creatures, body transformation, escapades, adventure hero, attempted robbery, little people ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
After a robbery goes wrong, Frank and Vince break into a home when two kids mistake them for their babysitters. Hoping to make them fall asleep so they can make their getaway, Frank reads stories from a magic book that he stole during the robbery, ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, christmas special, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, theft, thief, holiday, christmas season, heist gone wrong, problem, xmas, robbery, winter, criminal ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
bank robbery, heist gone wrong, satire, problem, banker, bank robber, escapades, bank, bank clerk, loss of job, stealing money, teamwork ...
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376
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Alejandro Toledo comes out of his retirement from crime to help a community reclaim land stolen from them by a beautiful but ruthless businesswoman and her clan.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, action comedy ...
Plot:
satire, thief, theft, escapades, burglar, robbery, criminal, gang leader, teamwork, bandit, attempted robbery, robin hood ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Style:
captivating, tense, neo noir, action thriller, anamorphic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cons and scams, criminal, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners in crime, con artists, uncover truth, teamwork, gang, burglar, crime solving ...
Time:
year 1954, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
detroit
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, dark ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, teenage boy, robbery, brothers, sick mother, money, heist gone wrong, burglar, secret, family relations, hidden truth, encounter ...
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