Heist film

The heist film or caper film is a subgenre of crime film.[1] One of the early defining heist films was The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which Film Genre 2000 wrote "almost single-handedly popularized 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 films

Film	Year	Ref.
11 Harrowhouse	1974	[3]
80 Million	2011	[4]
Armored Car Robbery	1950	[2]
The Asphalt Jungle	1950	[5]
Baby Driver	2017	[6]
Bande à part	1964	[5]
The Bank Job	2008	[6]
Big Deal on Madonna Street	1958	[7]
Blue Collar	1978	[8]
Bob le flambeur	1956	[8]
Bonnie and Clyde	1967	[9]
Bottle Rocket	1996	[6]
Le Cercle Rouge	1970	[5]
Le deuxième souffle	1966	[8]
Dog Day Afternoon	1975	[5]
Fast Five	2011	[6]
A Fish Called Wanda	1988	[6]
Flawless	2007	[3]
The Getaway	1972	[8]
Going in Style	2017	[10]
Grand Slam	1967	[8]
Heat	1995	[6]
The Hatton Garden Job	2017	[6]
Hell or High Water	2016	[11]
The Hot Rock	1972	[3]
How to Steal a Million	1966	[8]
Inception	2010	[5]
Inside Man	2006	[6]
The Italian Job	1969	[6]
The Italian Job	2003	[6]
Jackie Brown	1997	[9]
The Killing	1956	[6]
King of Thieves	2018	[12]
The Lavender Hill Mob	1951	[8]
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	1998	[6]
Logan Lucky	2017	[6]
Now You See Me	2013	[10]
Ocean's 8	2018	[8]
Ocean's 11	1960	[7]
Ocean's Eleven	2001	[5]
Ocean's Twelve	2004	[8]
Ocean's Thirteen	2007	[13]
Out of Sight	1998	[9]
Point Break	1991	[6]
Quick Change	1990	[9]
Reservoir Dogs	1992	[5]
Rififi	1955	[5]
Ronin	1996	[9]
Set It Off	1996	[6]
Sexy Beast	2000	[5]
Snatch	2000	[6]
The Split	1968	[14]
The Sting	1973	[6]
Thief	1981	[5]
The Thomas Crown Affair	1968	[6]
The Thomas Crown Affair	1999	[6]
Three Kings	1999	[9]
Topkapi	1964	[7]
The Town	2010	[6]
Vinci	2004	[4]
The Usual Suspects	1995	[6]
Widows	2018	[5]

References

1. Hardy, Phil, ed. (1997). "The Caper Film". The BFI Companion to Crime. A & C Black. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-0-304-33215-1.
2. Wilson, Ron (2000). "The Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor". In Dixon, Wheeler W. (ed.). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. SUNY Press. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-7914-4513-6.
3. Hunter, Rob (September 6, 2018). "The Best Diamond Heist Movies You've Never Seen". /Film. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
4. Haltof, Marek (2015). Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 127, 148, 253. ISBN 978-1-4422-4472-6.
5. Morris, Brogan (September 14, 2018). "10 great heist films". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
6. Dockterman, Eliana (August 18, 2017). "The 25 Best Heist Movies". Time. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
7. Axmaker, Sean (April 9, 2020). "Art of the steal: Here are some great heist/caper films to stream". Seattle Times. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
8. Staff, Playlist (September 10, 2010). "25 All-Time Favorite Heist Movies". IndieWire. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
9. Leitch, Will; Gierson, Tim (June 7, 2018). "The 25 Best Heist Movies of All Time". Vulture. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
10. Robey, Tim (March 23, 2017). "The timeless appeal of the heist movie". The Telegraph. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
11. Klimek, Chris (August 11, 2016). "'Hell Or High Water' Is A Smart, Substantive Heist Film". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
12. Tobias, Scott (January 24, 2019). "'King Of Thieves': Bank Heist Film Deposits A Great Cast But Withdraws The Style". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
13. Travers, Peter (June 8, 2007). "Ocean's Thirteen". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
14. Ebert, Roger (October 17, 1968). "The Split, Roger Ebert review". rogerebert.com. Retrieved April 3, 2020.

Further reading

• Lee, Daryl (2014). The Heist Film: Stealing with Style. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-85058-2.
• Sloniowski, Jeannette; Leach, Jim (eds.). The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4224-4.