01 A team plants an idea inside a target's subconscious across nested layers of shared dreaming.
55 Best Heist Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · March 23, 2026
The heist movie runs on a simple promise, watch smart, capable people plan something with too many moving parts, and the best entries here all understand that the planning is more fun to watch than the execution.
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02 A master thief and the detective obsessed with catching him respect each other more than either admits.
03 A diamond heist gone wrong leaves a group of criminals suspecting each other of betrayal.
04 A survivor of a deadly heist recounts the elaborate story of a criminal mastermind nobody's actually seen.
05 A nearly wordless, 30-minute heist sequence set the template for the entire genre.
06 A crew of specialists pulls off a jewelry heist, then watches every one of them unravel afterward.
07 A desperate, disorganized bank robbery turns into a media circus hostage standoff.
08 A meticulously planned racetrack robbery unravels through the weakest links in the crew.
09 Two grifters run an elaborate long con on the mobster who killed their friend.
10 Three criminals with nothing in common are drawn together for one meticulously planned heist.
11 An art heist accomplice uses hypnotherapy to recover a memory the whole crew needs.
12 Four college students plan a real, badly bungled heist of rare books.
13 A botched bank robbery sends a small-time criminal through one increasingly desperate night.
14 A getaway driver with a personal soundtrack tries to walk away from one last job.
15 Two brothers rob a string of banks to save their family's land from foreclosure.
16 A retired safecracker is pressured back into one last job by a terrifyingly persistent old associate.
17 A crew of con artists plans an elaborate simultaneous heist of three Las Vegas casinos.
18 The original heist crew reunites in Europe to repay a debt to their first target.
19 An all-female crew plans an elaborate jewel heist at the Met Gala.
20 The crew reunites for revenge against a casino owner who betrayed one of their own.
21 A newly paroled bank robber and his wife go on the run after a heist splits their crew apart.
22 Four broke friends owe a crime boss money they don't have, and everything spirals from there.
23 A stolen diamond passes through the hands of boxers, gangsters, and one very unlucky dog.
24 A team of ex-operatives is hired to steal a mysterious briefcase, with betrayals at every turn.
25 A bored billionaire steals a museum painting purely for the thrill of it, then falls for the investigator chasing him.
26 An aging thief agrees to one final job alongside a reckless young partner.
27 MIT students use card-counting skills to win big in Vegas until the casino catches on.
28 A struggling writer takes a casino job that pulls him into planning an actual robbery.
29 An escaped convict and the federal marshal chasing him fall for each other mid-pursuit.
30 A prison-released thief plans an elaborate gold heist timed around Turin's traffic system.
31 A crew reunites to steal back the gold their own partner stole from them.
32 A heist gone wrong pits four mismatched con artists against each other.
33 Two Depression-era outlaws rob their way across the Midwest and into folk-hero infamy.
34 A hostage negotiator suspects the bank robbery he's handling isn't really about money.
35 A career bank robber falls for a hostage from his crew's last job.
36 A team of illusionists pulls off elaborate heists disguised as stage magic.
37 Two brothers plan an elaborate robbery of a NASCAR speedway's vault.
38 John Dillinger's bank-robbing spree makes him a folk hero the FBI is determined to end.
39 Four widows finish the heist their husbands died attempting.
40 A mother and daughter hide from home invaders inside their own reinforced safe room.
41 A crew hired for a routine safe-deposit robbery stumbles into government secrets worth killing over.
42 A Victorian gentleman thief plans an elaborate real-life robbery of a moving train.
43 Three friends plan a series of small-time heists with far more enthusiasm than actual skill.
44 A cat burglar inherits a shrinking suit and gets recruited for one very small heist.
45 An FBI agent goes undercover among surfers who moonlight as masked bank robbers.
46 An elite bank robbery crew and the detectives tracking them are more alike than either wants to admit.
47 A crew of dirty cops and criminals plans to kill one of their own to pull off an impossible heist.
48 A retired car thief has one night to steal fifty specific cars to save his brother.
49 A crew of street racers pulls off an elaborate heist against a Rio drug lord.
50 Star-obsessed teenagers rob celebrity homes for clothes, cash, and social media clout.
51 Four friends pushed to their breaking point by poverty and injustice decide to rob banks together.
52 A team of security experts is blackmailed into stealing a mysterious device capable of breaking any code.
53 A crew of small-time Boston crooks pulls off what was then the largest cash robbery in American history.
54 A crew of thieves repeatedly attempts to steal the same cursed diamond after each plan goes wrong.
55 Five oddball criminals planning a robbery pose as classical musicians renting rooms from an elderly widow.
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