the bank job- jason stathom fun with Dick and jane - jim carrey & Tea Leoni

chaos-jason statham, Wesley Snipes Ocean's Eleven-clooney, damon, Garcia Raising Arizona-Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter The Italion Job-2 Public Enemies Heat-Val Kilmer, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Jackie Brown inside MAn The Score-Howard Shore Sword Fish-John Travolta/Hugh Jackman Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon Reservoir Dogs Bonnie and Clyo-Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway Vabank (1981) Heat (1995) The Bank Job (2008) The League of Gentlemen (1960) Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) The Lookout (2007) The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) Perfect Friday (1970) The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979) The Dark Knight & Heat... Oceans 11

Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Twelve Ocean's Thirteen Heat National Treasure Gone in 60 Seconds The Real McCoy Reservoir Dogs The Usual Suspects Entrapment-Catherine Zeta Jones The Heist Ronin The Score The Bank Job The Lookout A Simple Plan Dead Presidents Point Break Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis is in that one, among others) The Sting. (starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford) The Catherine Zeta Jones movie you are referring to I think is the Entrapment wi th Sean Connery as the male lead. You can also try Ocean's 11, 12 &13. The Heist

movie is also highly recommended with Gene Hackman in the lead role. Ronin is a lso very entertaining with matching impressive plans as you have said and it sta rs Robert De Niro. I like movies with this kind of story. swordfish - john travolta, hugh jackman, and hale berrey the score - robert deniro national treasure 1 but if you want realistic action, 24 is the best. 24 - jack bauer... is the most realistic, complicated, heroic, violent, high tec h, romantic, and inspiring tv series. check out my site bamboofans.blogspot.com 1-lock stock and 2 smoking barrels 2-the bank job 3-reservoir dogs 4-chaos 5-snatch

*************************** Best Heist Crime Caper Robbery Movies Apr 07 '06 The Bottom Line Those taut, exciting sometimes funny caper movies. Here's the be st of 'em. Here s a lucky 13 list of best Caper/Heist films I ve seen. I ve not included The Big Con kind of movie such as The Sting, House of Games, Spa nish Prisoner etc. or movies that are more character study than caper movies lik e Out of Sight, Dog Day Afternoon etc. I ve also not included movies where it is m ore about the after-math of a caper or movies that are much more character study than caper/heist film eliminating: Reservoir Dogs, Usual Suspects, Fargo, Goodf ellas, Out of Sight and Dog Day Afternoon, Bonnie and Clyde, Heat. You also won t find hit man or spy movies here so no Le Samourai either (but do se e it as soon as you can.) A few films that I admire don t quite qualify as caper/h eist films though you can almost argue them onto the list The Stunt Man for insta nce. Feel free to substitute several of your favorite stylish films if you prefer the m over the last four I ve listed here but the rest of them I believe represent the b est of the genre. 13.The Pink Panther -- 1962 -- Directed by Blake Edwards Yes, Peter Sellers, Inspector Clousseau but remember this first movie was very muc h a somewhat sophisticated caper comedy. Is Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) The Phantom or his nephew the jet setting playboy George (Christopher Plummer) planni ng to steal the Pink Panther diamond? Fun movie my second favorite in the series beh ind the following year s A Shot in The Dark. Sellers is NOT the star of the film. 12. GRAND SLAM -- 1967 Directed by Giuliano Montaldo

G. S. is probably the best caper/heist movie with a recognizable cast that you h aven t heard of. It s an updated remake of Rififi. A team of experts, Playboy-money man, a safecracker, an expert in electronics and a military/weapons expert plan a jewel heist during Rio s Carnivale. Entertaining caper flick that should be bett er known And it has a good Ennio Morricone score, International locations, and a n incredible cast that includes Edward G. Robinson, Janet Leigh, Klaus Kinski, a nd folks you ve seen in 60 s European and Bond movies. (Far better than the over-rat ed original version of The Italian Job for instance.) 11. The Thomas Crown Affair -- 1968 directed by Norman Jewison

It s all style over substance in this slickly made caper/ cat and mouse flick that drips with late 60s era coolness (including that Windmills of Your Mind song !! !) .Rich mastermind thief playboy Steve McQueen tries to stay ahead of the sexy insurance investigator Faye Dunaway who wants to prove he s the ringleader behind some robberies. That chess game is a highlight---still. Cars, fashions, jet set lifestyle, ultra chic sophistication, mini-dresses, cool McQueen shades and more . There s some real chemistry between the leads and the overly showy editing style (by future director Hal Ashby) adds to the fun of the film (provided you aren t a nnoyed by style over substance). The re-make wasn t half-bad but stick with the orig inal. 10. Brinks Job -- 1978 -- Directed by William Friedkin Here s a very suspenseful entertaining crime film with a great cast centering on t he actual Brinks Robbery that happened in Boston in the 1940s. The great cast fe atures Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Alan Garfield, Paul Servino and Ge na Rowlands playing memorable characters. It s perhaps a bit too light and comedic , but thoroughly enjoyable. Should be better known and remembered. 9. The Great Train Robbery --1979 Directed by Michael Crichton This is very detailed heist movie based on a true story as imagined by best-sell ing novelist turned director Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park). Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland (and Lesley Ann Down) plan to steal gold des tined to pay British troops in 1855 out of the safe of a moving train. The perio d detail is impressive, the leads are perfectly cast and the fun details leads t o an extremely suspenseful climax. 8. The Hot Rock -- 1972 Directed by Peter Yates Based on a Donald Westlake novel this comedy of errors caper film has several co lorful performances from George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Moses Gunn and th e one and only Zero Mostel. Robert Redford also does a great job. Suspenseful, f unny and very clever film. Not to be missed. It s about how a crew of crooks heist s a large diamond and then loses it and has to re-rob it from a POLICE STATION!! !! Lots of complications and wild scenes. 7. Charley Varrick -- 1973 Directed by Don Seigel Walter Matthau is a professional thief who robs small banks with small payrolls and tries to stay under the radar. Then he robs a small-time bank and finds hims elf with a huge cache of cash because the bank is secretly being used to launder l arge amounts of Mafia money. Well before long the mob not only wants their money back but also wants to make sure an example is made so that no one else ever th inks of ripping off the mafia. It s a straight dramatic role for Matthau I this of f-beat caper/thriller movie. Joe Don Baker, John Vernon and Andrew Robinson (who played the Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry) make a great supporting cast in this exciting, well paced little gem.

6. The KILLING --1956 Directed by Stanley Kubrick Sterling Hayden leads a meticulously planned robbery of a horse track. It s told f rom the point of view of several people who got involved in the heist out of par ticular needs rather than having criminal experience. Some memorable stand-out s equences. Perhaps not quite as great as some claim but why quibble. 5. The Lavender Hill Mob -- 1951 Directed by Charles Crichton Alec Guinness in one of his career defining roles stars as a milquetoast employe e who has been in charge or transporting gold bars to banks by armored truck for over 20 years. He decides it s time for him to get rich and he masterminds a sche me with his friend Stanley Holloway. There are complications and a couple of twi sts before it s all over. Very entertaining film produced by Britain s Ealing Studio s that was known for producing some of the best and wittiest British comedies of all time. 4. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three --1974 Directed by Joseph Sargent Four armed men take a subway train hostage demanding a million bucks or they sta rt killing passengers. I guess technically it is not a caper/heist film, but I m g oing to call it one anyway. The tension is taut throughout this thriller full of bad 70s fashion, thick New York accents and great performances by Walter Mattha u and Robert Shaw and folks like Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, and Martin Bals am etc. The film shows a major city with lots of problems led by inept politicia ns trying to deal with criminals and a hostage situation. It s a gem. 3. Asphalt Jungle --1950 Directed by John Huston The quintessential American Heist movie that all others are forever judged again st. It s been copied, re-made in whole and in part so many times that it s somewhat predictable and of course dated but not completely. It still works very well as an exciting, entertaining film. Memorable performances by Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaf fe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore and a before she was famous Marilyn Monroe. It remains one of the best. 2. Bob La Flambeur --1955 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville A near-masterpiece that creates one of the best American styled noir films and i s considered a pre-cursor of the French New Wave film (Goddard, Truffaut etc), s et in locations throughout Paris. Bob is an aging old-fashioned gangster-gambler who meticulously plans to rob a casino. His code of ethics and loyalty are stro ngly tested. It s an off-beat heist film that no one should miss. It was re-made i n 2003 into the very well done. The Good Thief with Nick Nolte. See this one fir st. 1. Rififi --1956 directed by Jules Dassin The true masterpiece of the crime-heist film is this incredible gem that feature s the unforgettable, nearly silent 29 minute robbery sequence (no dialogue or mu sic) that is one of the very finest sequences ever put on film. Jules Dassin lef t America due to being blacklisted by HUAC at the end of the 1940s. He made memo rable noirs like Naked City, and Brute Force in the U.S. and Night and the City in England. He set the caper movie masterpiece in the city of lights (Paris). He found a French Bogart in Jean Servais who plays the aging criminal that plans t o pull off one last very daring heist. That s all I m going to say about it so see it and discover everything it has to offer for yourself. Yep, I was inspired to create my own list after reading this one:

http://www.epinions.com/content_4667711620 I thought it was a good start, but having seen more movies, as I wrote my commen t on his review I realized I needed to do my own list. Do visit his list and load up on all the suggestions for some great movie viewin g. *********************************** 10 Most Clever Bank Robberies in Movies by Christopher Campbell Before seeing Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Michael Mann s new crime film Publi c Enemies, we decided to check out an earlier portrayal of the infamous bank rob ber, Lawrence Tierney in Dillinger. The 1945 picture is a bit disappointing in t erms of bank jobs, which are mostly shown in quick succession during a montage. There is one interesting robbery, but technically it s an armored truck heist (als o, having been shot by Fritz Lang for an earlier film, the scene doesn t quite fit the rest of the movie). From what we hear, the robberies in Public Enemies aren t that much more memorable, even if they do resemble an MGM musical, which is a s hame considering how clever the real Dillinger was. We definitely prefer a clever criminal and a clever plan when it comes to bank r obber movies. Otherwise it s just yet another taut thriller or slapstick comedy in volving a tunnel dig from the bakery/bathhouse/chicken restaurant/luggage store/ etc. next door. So we ve come up with ten favorite bank jobs that involve original ity and a successful getaway (a plan isn t that clever if it doesn t work). There ha ve been hundreds of bank robberies throughout film history so if we ve forgotten s omething really clever, inform/remind us of the movie in the comments. We ve purpo sefully excluded armed vehicle, stagecoach and train robberies, though, so stick specifically to internal bank jobs. 10. Clive Owen Hides in the Wall, in Inside Man (2006) In Spike Lee s complex heist drama, Clive Owen plays one of the smartest, most pre cise bank robbers ever seen at the movies, and though his scheme is figured out in the end, it s already too late for him to get caught. To begin, he and his team enter a New York City bank disguised as painters and refer to each other only a s variations of the name Steve. Simple enough, but then as time goes on there are some mysterious activities going on with the moving of hostages and some sort of carpentry occurring inside a stockroom. Ultimately, the employment of fake kill s and fake walls is ingenious, though the overall idea of camouflaging robbers a s hostages had been done before (see #1). 9. The Money is Floating Out of the Bank, in The Invisible Man (1933) Is an idea clever if it s not technically possible? Well, there are apparently sci entists working on achieving invisibility, with relative success, so in the futu re H.G Wells concept of an invisible man may not be so unfeasible for real life c riminals. Of course, by then it won t be such an original idea to rob a bank using the power of invisibility. It s the second most likely thing for a man of such ab ility to do (the first is to go into the women s locker room). For Claude Rains char acter in James Whale s adaptation of the Wells novel, the concept was still pretty original and obviously quite brilliant. And his idea to have the money just flo at outside and into the streets, for the townspeople to take, is very generous. 8. Modern Robin Hoods Don t Actually Steal Anything, in Wisdom (1987)

If Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore were merely modern day Robin Hoods in this film (which Estevez also wrote and directed with help from Robert Wise), they wouldn t have qualified for the list, but because they didn t actually steal any money fro m the banks they robbed, their holdups are quite interesting. During the 1980s, when American farming was in crisis, it was more beneficial to decrease farmers d ebt than increase their cash in hand. Does burning mortgage records still count as stealing? Yes, in a way that s cleverer than simply looting money. 7. Small Army, Big Take, in Kelly s Heroes (1970) In this larger-scale precursor to Three Kings, a group of American soldiers led by Clint Eastwood venture into enemy territory during WWII to steal a huge cache of gold bars located in a bank vault. It s certainly unlike most heist films in t hat it s also a war movie, and both the robbers and the bank guards are armed with tanks. 6. Army-Trained Crew, in The League of Gentlemen (1960) Of course, Kelly s Heroes wasn t the first film to feature a group of soldiers-turne d-bank robbers, but it s still quite different from The League of Gentlemen, which isn t set during wartime. Instead the film involves former army personnel who are deemed corrupt in some way or another who are brought together to lend their sp ecific military expertise towards a foolproof bank heist plot. We consider the p lan foolproof despite the group s ultimate downfall, and still count the job as a relative success (compared to most foiled heists in other movies) due to the ver y rare and circumstantial reason that they were caught. 5. Elliott Gould Takes Advantage of His Situation, in The Silent Partner (1978) Pulling a job from the inside isn t always a good idea, but Elliott Gould shows us that it can work if the inside man isn t connected to the outside men in any way. He plays a teller who learns that his bank will be robbed, so he puts aside a w hole bunch of money for himself knowing that it will just be lumped in with the real robber s take, as far as the bank and the police are concerned. Unfortunately , the real robber (Christopher Plummer) catches on to Gould s sneaky cut-in and th reatens his life. The Silent Partner is apparently a remake of a 1969 Danish fil m with the English title Think of a Number, so that film should get some credit for this clever plot. 4. Lola Keeps it in the Family, in Run Lola Run (1998) When she is desperate to get her hands on 100,000 Deutche Mark to pay a ransom, Lola s (Franka Potente) options are depicted in three different scenarios. In the second of these segments, she decides to rob the bank where her father works. It s a bold plan, but in a way it s pretty clever because nobody would expect a banker s daughter to be a bank robber. Of course, in the long run (no pun intended) such a crime wouldn t really work, because she s so easily identifiable, but in the shor t run it s perfect, and hilarious, how the cops outside the bank don t believe a you ng woman with bright red hair is the one robbing the bank. 3. Thomas Jane Investigates His Own Crime, in Stander (2003) This film gets special props for being a true story, because it s not often enough that real-life criminals are more clever than movie criminals. Thomas Jane play s a South African police Captain (named Stander), who starts robbing banks when he grows tired of his normal life. In the movie he often looks ridiculous, weari ng disguises that seem straight out of the Beastie Boys Sabotage video. But his hei sts work out due to how unbelievable they are. Because he s a cop, nobody suspects Stander for a long time, even when he s recognized by a teller while leading an i

nvestigation of a robbery that he himself committed (this same irony occurred in the search for the informant Deep Throat, too). 2. The Joker Kills His Crew, in The Dark Knight (2008) The opening sequence of The Dark Knight works so well on its own that it functio ned almost as a pre-feature short when released as a promotional tool attached t o prints of I Am Legend. Really it s one of the greatest bank heist scenes of all time, partly because it s so clever. The concept of a gang leader killing off his team one by one in order to acquire 100% of the haul may not be the freshest, ye t it s written and executed (no pun intended) so perfectly that the plan seems ori ginal. The cleverest thing about this heist, though, has to be the Joker s use of a school bus as a getaway vehicle so that he may blend in with a convoy of buses leaving a school. 1. Jean-Paul Belmondo Clowns Around, in Hold-Up (1985) We ve actually never seen this French Canadian comedy, but it was remade as one of our favorite Bill Murray films, Quick Change (both films are based on a novel), which we always thought had the most clever bank robbery in cinema before disco vering this earlier film. So we ll go by what we would have written for the Americ an version and apply it to the source: The employ of costumes in bank robberies was nothing new when Jean-Paul Belmondo and Guy Marchand wore disguises in this underrated comedy (which also stars Kim Cattrall, apparently in the Geena Davis spot), but the way the duo pulled off t heir costume changes was more clever than any other heist we ve seen on the big sc reen, before or since. Belmondo enters a Montreal bank as a clown and seeming so lo robber. Then, after letting his accomplice Marchand go free as a hostage, he ch anges into normal clothes and pretends to be a hostage, as well. In Quick Change , the way the re-disguised bank robbers get lost in the frenzy outside the bank is a little unlikely, but otherwise the plan seems smart and easy enough that on ce we re sure nobody remembers either Hold-Up or its more well-known remake, we ma y actually try to pull it off ourselves. Spout posted to Lists on July 1, 2009 ********************************** Permalink Comments (0)