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Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | action, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:42 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Australia |
Duration | 02:24 |
A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, family |
Country | USA |
Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Argentina |
Duration | 02:24 |
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Germany |
Duration | 02:14 |
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | action, comedy |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 02:30 |
An influential banker is doing everything possible not to share the property with his illegitimate sons. But when he is deprived of all the money, it turns out that only they can help Matthew ... To regain his fortune, the billionaire will be forced to rob his own bank in Monte Carlo. And for this, he will have to perform an even more difficult task: regain the trust of children who grew up without a father ...
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | USA |
Lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker Sheila. When the gas station is held up at gunpoint by Billy, a desperate man in need of quick cash, Melinda finds an opportunity to make a connection with the robber, regardless of who gets hurt.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:02 |
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
Mark | imdb: 4.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 02:09 |
After a botched heist, Eddie a murderous crime boss, hunts down the seductive thief Karen who failed him. In order to win back Eddie’s trust, Karen recruits her ex-lover and premier thief Jack to steal a cargo of rare precious gems. But when the job goes down, allegiances are betrayed and lines are crossed as Jack, Karen, and Eddie face off in a fateful showdown.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, crime, biography |
Country | Argentina, USA |
In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 01:45 |
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, fantasy, comedy, adventure |
Country | USA, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 02:43 |
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | Lithuania, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:39 |
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:18 |
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
A con-artist (Peter Ustinov) gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom |
A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom |
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver. Complicating matters are that Bennie is being stalked by gangsters who want him to pay back a debt, the employees are more interested in cooking than in criminality, nobody can communicate with the Yugoslavian, the adoptive and biological son don't get along, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong - leaving a path of damaged buildings, people and - especially - vehicles behind.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 01:46 |
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:39 |
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.