Heist film

What links here Related changes Page information
Created by Hoci Mini
Last edited August 25, 2021

Template:For Template:Use mdy dates The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime film, consisting of films that tell a caper story. These films feature plots in which a team of skillful criminals carry out a clever and daring theft.[1]

Early films in the genre tended to have the heist ultimately fail, as a result of the strictures imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code; since the abandonment of the Production Code, most caper films feature successful heists.[1]

One of the early defining heist films was The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which Film Genre 2000 wrote "almost single-handedly popularised the genre for mainstream cinema". It featured robbers whose personal failings ultimately led to the failure of their robbery. Similar films using this formula were Armored Car Robbery (1950), The Killing (1956), and The Getaway (1972). By the 1990s, heist films "experiment and play with these conventions" and focused more on character relationships than the crime itself.[2]

List of notable heist films

Template:Category see also

Film Year Ref.
11 Harrowhouse 1974 [3]
80 Million 2011 [4]
Armored Car Robbery 1950 [2]
Army of the Dead 2021 [5]
Template:Sortname 1950 [6]
Baby Driver 2017 [7]
Bande à part 1964 [6]
Template:Sortname 2008 [7]
Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 [8]
Blue Collar 1978 [9]
Bob le flambeur 1956 [9]
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 [10]
Bottle Rocket 1996 [7]
Template:Sortname 1970 [6]
Dead Presidents 1995 [11]
Den of Thieves 2018 [12]
Template:Sortname 1966 [9]
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 [6]
Entrapment 1999 [13]
Fast Five 2011 [7]
Template:Sortname 1988 [7]
Flawless 2007 [3]
Template:Sortname 1972 [9]
Going in Style 2017 [14]
Grand Slam 1967 [9]
Heat 1995 [7]
Template:Sortname 2017 [7]
Heist 2001 [15]
Hell or High Water 2016 [16]
Hell's Angels '69 1969 [17]
Template:Sortname 1972 [3]
How to Steal a Million 1966 [9]
Hudson Hawk 1991 [18]
Inception 2010 [6]
Inside Man 2006 [7]
Template:Sortname 1969 [7]
Template:Sortname 2003 [7]
Jackie Brown 1997 [10]
Template:Sortname 1956 [7]
King of Thieves 2018 [19]
Template:Sortname 1951 [9]
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 [7]
Logan Lucky 2017 [7]
Mankatha 2011 [20] written and directed by Venkat Prabhu.[21]
Now You See Me 2013 [14]
Now You See Me 2 2016
Ocean's 8 2018 [9]
Ocean's 11 1960 [8]
Ocean's Eleven 2001 [6]
Ocean's Twelve 2004 [9]
Ocean's Thirteen 2007 [22]
Out of Sight 1998 [10]
Point Break 1991 [7]
Quick Change 1990 [10]
Reservoir Dogs 1992 [6]
Rififi 1955 [6]
Ronin 1998 [10]
Template:Sortname 2001 [23]
Set It Off 1996 [7]
Sexy Beast 2000 [6]
Snatch 2000 [7]
Sneakers 1992 [24]
Template:Sortname 1968 [25]
Template:Sortname 1973 [7]
Thief 1981 [6]
Template:Sortname 1968 [7]
Template:Sortname 1999 [7]
Three Kings 1999 [10]
Topkapi 1964 [8]
Template:Sortname 2010 [7]
Template:Sortname 1995 [7]
Vinci 2004 [4]
Widows 2018 [6]
Wrath of Man 2021 [26]
The Misfits 2021 [27]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The BFI Companion to Crime{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. A & C Black(1997). ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. SUNY Press(2000). ISBN 978-0-7914-4513-6
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named hunter
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named haltof
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named truitt
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named morris
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named dockterman
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named axmaker
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named indiewire
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named leitch
  11. ↑ Ant-Man's Most Overlooked Cameo: Ant-Man Himself, Burlingame, Russ. Comicbook.com(July 17, 2015). Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  12. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gleiberman
  13. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named maslin
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named robey
  15. ↑ Here's one we saw earlier. the Guardian(2001-11-25). Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  16. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named klimek
  17. ↑ https://www.allmovie.com/movie/hells-angels-69-v22080
  18. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named attenborough
  19. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named tobias
  20. ↑ Mankatha – Strictly No Rules. BBFC. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
  21. ↑ Ajith & Venkat Prabhu joins for Mangatha!. Sify. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  22. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named travers
  23. ↑ The Score movie review & film summary, Ebert, Roger(2001-07-13). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  24. ↑ SLEEK `SNEAKERS` FITS HEIST GENRE LIKE AN OLD SHOE. Chicago Tribune(September 9, 1992). Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  25. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ebert
  26. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Wrath of Man
  27. ↑ The Misfits movie review & film summary (2021) | Roger Ebert, Tallerico, Brian. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 2021-08-21.

Further reading

Template:Crime fiction Template:Film genres Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Heist_film&oldid=139052"
Discover more