Top 5 Heist Movies Where You Root for the Crew
Crime doesn't pay, except for 110 minutes when the plan is clever, the team is charming and the getaway is perfect.
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Ocean's Eleven — Steven Soderbergh
The coolest movie ever made about people in nice suits, and the Bellagio fountain ending is the best victory lap in the genre.
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Rififi — Jules Dassin
A wordless half-hour break-in that's still tenser than most modern thrillers, and it was made in 1955.
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Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
Ocean's Eleven with a NASCAR track and a bleach-and-gummy-bear bomb, and Daniel Craig is having the time of his life.
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Inside Man — Spike Lee
A heist movie that's smarter than its detective and its audience, and it plays fair the whole way through.
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The Italian Job (1969) — Peter Collinson
Three Minis racing down Turin's stairs, then a literal cliffhanger ending that people are still arguing about.