Films about collectors

Films about collectors
List of the best films about collectors according to the audience: Wrong Turn at Tahoe, Bad Taste, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sahara, Citizen Kane, The Usual Suspects, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Serving Sara, A Breed Apart.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryNew Zealand
Duration01:31

A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryHong Kong, China
Duration01:58

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, USA, France
Duration02:04

Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:46

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:39

Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler (Perry) is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore (Hurley) with divorce papers.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:06

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryRussia
Duration01:45

Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:46

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:18

The Marx Brothers try and put on a play before their landlord finds out that they have run out of money. To confuse the landlord they pretend that the play's author has contracted some terrible disease and can't be moved. Originally a Broadway stage play by John Murray and Allen Boretz, adapted for the screen by Morrie Ryskind.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:05

Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:29

When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, France, Italy, Germany
Duration02:04

Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryPoland
Duration01:49

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCanada
Duration01:53

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, Poland
Duration01:47

    A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:42

    The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
    Duration01:40

      An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Ashens goes on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tat known only as the GameChild.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, military
      CountryItaly, United Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, music
      CountryFrance

      A bourgeois office drone whose raison d’état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:37

      Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
      CountrySoviet Union, Italy
      Duration01:44

      In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryArgentina
      Duration01:54

      Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens")

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryNew Zealand

      Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.

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