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1) The robber
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (Revanche).
2) Kidnapped
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety. The man must try to cope with the bad situation he is in as well as trying to get help for a sick child that he is caring for.
4) Madness
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy (Joe Dallesandro: Andy Warhol's superstar) makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot. But before he can retrieve his stash a vehicle pull up with the womanizing Sergio who has travelled up to his weekend retreat with his trusting wife Liliana and her flirty sister Paola. Joe pretends to torment...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
8) Shoplifters
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
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Description
"On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that is is love-not blood-that defines a family."--Container.
9) Point break
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
A young FBI agent chases a gang of bank robbers who's surfer leader will do anything for a thrill - and expects his followers to do the same.
12) Robot & Frank
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
13) Monster party
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three thieves attempt the perfect heist at a fancy dinner party. But when they find out that the attendees are a support group of recovering serial killers, this simple cash grab becomes an all-out battle for survival.
14) El angel
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Buenos Aires, 1971. Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling, to be a thief, manifested itself. When he meets Ramon at his new school, Carlitos is immediately drawn to him and starts showing off to get his attention. Together they will embark on a journey of discovery, love and crime.
15) Viva Riva!
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Riva is a small-time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful nightclub denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.
16) The Brink's job
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A high-spirited comedy caper which explores the lives of the men who pulled one of the most famous heists in history: the 1950 robbery of Brinks, Inc., which netted $2.7 million.
17) Point blank
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A thief is double-crossed by a crime group called 'The Organization' after pulling a heist. Their mistake was not killing him; now he is out for revenge and the $93,000 that The Organization owes him.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ivan is a suave, young thief whose specialty is stealing high-end art from the L.A. elite. Business is good, but Ivan wants out. Elyse is an aspiring actress with a closet full of skeletons and a mountain of debt. Soon these two clever grifters decide to team up for one last, big daring heist.
19) HIgh Sierra
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
Series
Criterion collection volume 170
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
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