[b.miller]

I love heist movies. I've always been a fan of (excluding those already mentioned):


The Great Train Robbery: Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland heisting a steam engine train in victorian London

The Sting: Paul Newman and Robert Redford conning Robert Shaw out of mad duckets. maybe this is more a con movie than a heist movie... i dunno, it walks the line

Dead Presidents: iconic white-face-painted dudes heisting an armored truck.

Odds Against Tomorrow: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, and Ed Begley (not Jr.) heist a small-town bank but Ryan's racism mucks things up.

a sentimental favorite: Disorganized Crime: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Gwynne, Ruben Blades, et al. heist a small-town bank while Corbin Bernsen runs through the wilderness from cops Ed O'Neill and that other dude.

Reservoir dogs, even though the heist is offscreen.

And in a similar vein: Kansas City Confidential, where the heist takes place right at the beginning and the movie is about a guy who was wrongly accused for it hunting down the dudes who did it. It's even more interesting though because all the bad guys meet up in mexico for their payout but only the mastermind knows who they all are (since they wore masks for the whole time during the actual heist), so you get a lot of play and tension with all these tough types (Lee Van CLeef and Jack Elam included) as they slink around this placesuspicious of everybody. Well worth hunting down.

oh and the remake of Ocean's Eleven as well. pretty slick heisting action there.