Posts Tagged ‘heist’

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Wild Bunch, The (1969)

Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Holden, William | Borgnine, Ernest | Ryan, Robert | O'Brien, Edmond | Oates, Warren | Sánchez, Jaime | Johnson, Ben | Fernández, Emilio | Martin, Strother | Jones, L. Q. | Dekker, Albert | Hopkins, Bo | Taylor, Dub | Harper, Paul | Russek, Jorge
Directors: Peckinpah, Sam
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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.

Kill Me Later (2001)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Blair, Selma | Beesley, Max | Compton, O'Neal | Munro, Lochlyn | Moffett, D.W. | Fehr, Brendan | Heaton, Tom | Adams, David | Zahara, Alex | Tracy, Keegan Connor | Hyatt, Pam | Fair, Stacy | Maillard, Marcel | Gordey, Keith
Directors: Lustig, Dana
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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she’s taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he’s in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they’re each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.

Deception (2008)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackman, Hugh | McGregor, Ewan | Williams, Michelle | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | Q, Maggie | Henstridge, Natasha | Cohen, Lynn | Burstein, Danny | Goodwin, Malcolm | Rampling, Charlotte | Girardeau, Frank | Camp, Bill | Altman, Bruce | Ginsburg, Andrew | Roth Haberle, Stephanie
Directors: Langenegger, Marcel
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An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

Family Business (1989)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Hoffman, Dustin | Broderick, Matthew | McCutcheon, Bill | Ludwig, Salem | Everhart, Rex | Tolkan, James | Carlin, Thomas A. | DiBenedetto, Tony | Pierce, Wendell | Carruthers, James | O'Connell, Jack | Capodice, John | Guzmán, Luis | McNamara, Dermot A.
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Jessie is an ageing career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito’s son and Jessie’s grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he’s shocked, but not necessarily disinterested….

Heist (2001)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Rockwell, Sam | Hackman, Gene | DeVito, Danny | Lindo, Delroy | Acker, Ricky | Pidgeon, Rebecca
Directors: Mamet, David
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Daylight Robbery (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Brown, Max | Bell, Geoff | Blackwood, Vas | Boulter, Robert | Gil, Antonio | Gregory, Leo | Harris, Johnny | Meredith, Rhys | Paul Nicholls | Parkes, Shaun | Salinger, Justin | Williamson, Shaun
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Alex (Geoff Bell, The Business) masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky (Vas Blackwood, Lock Stock) Matty (Leo Gregory, Stoned) Terry (Johnny Harris, London to Brighton) Chubby (Paul Nicholls, The Trench) Norman (Justin Salinger, Hitler) and Jay (Robert Boulter, The Long Firm) make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. They have twenty hostages inside and the Police have laid siege to The Bank. There are two and a half hours before their plane leaves, and seventy million pounds in hard cash to steal. A daunting task, even for the most seasoned Blagger!

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Slater, Christian | Quaid, Randy | Asner, Edward | Goorjian, Michael A. | Florek, Dann | Harris, Ricky | Rolston, Mark | Murnik, Peter | Duvall, Wayne | Dysart, Richard | Baker, Ray | Patterson, Jay | Monks, Michael | Bryce, Mackenzie
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

Sexy Beast (2000)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Spain | UK
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Kingsley, Ben | McShane, Ian | Fox, James | Kendall, Cavan | Monje, Álvaro | Atiko, Robert | Fabrega, Enrique Alemán | Barray, Gérard | Cano Ramos, José Maria | Munoz, Santiago Frias | Hernández, José | Lucas, Andy | Ramos, José Lirola | López Carrillo, José
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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that’s exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy?

8MM 2 (2005)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schaech, Johnathon | Heuring, Lori | Davison, Bruce | Benz, Julie | Pelka, Valentine | Görög, Zita | Cavanah, Robert | Scarlis, Alex | Illyés, Barna | How, Jane | Flynn, F.J. | Fettes, Andrew | Kovács, Ferenc | Schramek, Géza | Mendel, George
Directors: J.S. Cardone
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David Huxley is an American politician living in Hungary whom gets blackmailed by an unknown party after being videotaped having sex with his fiancée Tish and a local supermodel. Desperate to find the extortionists, David goes into the sordid Red Light district of Eastern Europe, only to end up kidnapped, leaving Tish to try to come up with a $5 million ransom on her own.