Posts Tagged ‘heist’

Sneakers (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jo Marr | Gary Hershberger | Robert Redford | Sidney Poitier | David Strathairn | Dan Aykroyd | River Phoenix | Bodhi Elfman | Denise Dowse | Hanyee | Timothy Busfield | Eddie Jones | Time Winters | Mary McDonnell | Jun Asai
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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A group of security analysts are offered a job by the CIA and when they are reluctant, pressure is brought to bear by the threat to disclose the identity of their leader, a 60s radical with outstanding warrants. A chip exists that will allow any computer to be cracked, and organized crime will soon control it, though sudden changes in their police records suggest that it is already operational.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damian Chapa | Jesse Borrego | Benjamin Bratt | Enrique Castillo | Victor Rivers | Delroy Lindo | Tom Towles | Carlos Carrasco | Teddy Wilson | Raymond Cruz | Valente Rodriguez | Lanny Flaherty | Billy Bob Thornton | Geoffrey Rivas | Karmin Murcelo
Directors: Taylor Hackford
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Riders (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | UK
Actors: Stephen Dorff | Natasha Henstridge | Bruce Payne | Steven Berkoff | Clé Bennett | Karen Cliche | Steven McCarthy | Alain Goulem | Andreas Apergis | Tom McCamus | Andy Bradshaw | David Gow | Jamie Orchard | Stephen Spreekmeester | Mariusz Sibiga
Directors: Gérard Pirès
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An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Frémont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Minéo | Jean Chatel | Stéphane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

The Lookout (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Jeff Daniels | Matthew Goode | Isla Fisher | Carla Gugino | Bruce McGill | Alberta Watson | Alex Borstein | Sergio Di Zio | David Huband | Laura Vandervoort | Greg Dunham | Morgan Kelly | Aaron Berg | Tinsel Korey
Directors: Scott Frank
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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man’s parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.

Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: George Clooney | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Al Pacino | Ellen Barkin | Bernie Mac | Casey Affleck | Scott Caan | Elliott Gould | Shaobo Qin | Don Cheadle | Eddie Jemison | Andy Garcia | Scott L. Schwartz | Carl Reiner
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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The last time we saw Danny Ocean’s crew, they were paying back ruthless casino mogul Terry Benedict after stealing millions from him. However, it’s been a while since they’ve come back together, which is all about to change. When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff builds a hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal personally by the loathsome Banks. Banks’ attitude even goes so far as to finding the amusement in Tishkoff’s misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won’t stand for Banks and what he’s done to a friend. Uniting with their old enemy Benedict, who himself has a vendetta against Banks, the crew is out to pull off a major plan. One that will unfold on the night Banks’ newest hot spot opens up, when the crew is out to bankrupt one of the city’s most despised businessmen. But they’re not in this for the money, but for the revenge.

The Opportunists (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Peter MacDonald | Anne Pitoniak | Kate Burton | Jim Mayzik | Vera Farmiga | Donal Logue | Cyndi Lauper | Paul D'Amato | Wally Dunn | Olek Krupa | Chuck Cooper | John Ortiz | José Zúñiga | Brandon Vega
Directors: Myles Connell
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Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she’s saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.

Quick Change (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Dale Grand | Bob Elliott | Geena Davis | Randy Quaid | Kimberleigh Aarn | Ron Ryan | Brian McConnachie | Jack Gilpin | Jordan Cael | Rhe DeVille | Marya D. Dornya | Barbara Flynn | Elizabeth A. Griffin | Connie Ivie
Directors: Howard Franklin
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When a man dressed as a clown enters a bank and trys to rob it, no one takes him seriously at start. But as this New Yorker pulls this daring robbery with the help of his friends, it looks like leaving the bank with all the stolen money is the easy part! All they have to do now is make it out of the city and to the airport. They have plenty of time, but its not that easy as they seem to get out of one problem only to fall into another. Will they make before the cops catch up with them?

Under Siege (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Damian Chapa | Troy Evans | David McKnight | Lee Hinton | Patrick O'Neal | Gary Busey | Glenn Morshower | Leo Alexander | John Rottger | Brad Rea | Michael Welden | Bernie Casey | Rickey Pierre | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Andrew Davis
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The battleship Missouri is about to be decomissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam’s personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship’s XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain’s birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared to land on the ship by Commander Krill, which he was not informed of. When questioned Krill tells the Captain that it’s a surprise for his birthday, the Captain then allows it. Later after another one of their scuffles, Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer. During the party, the rock band reveals themselves to be mercenaries, led by William Stranix, a CIA operative, who is in league with Krill to unload all of the ship’s nuclear warheads. They lock up all of the crew and make preparations to remove the warheads. And Krill remembers Ryback, Stranix sends two of his men to take care of Ryback, only thing is that Ryback took care of them. Upon discovering their bodies, Stranix deduces that Ryback is more than a cook. He then sends Krill to check on him, and Krill discovers that Ryback’s a NAVY SEAL, who got busted down to a cook after an incident in Panama. And Ryback continues to create trouble for them, so Stranix tries to hunt him down. Along the way, Ryback meets Jordan, a former playmate, who was supposed to entertain at the party but was also forgotten.

Goodfellas (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Ray Liotta | Joe Pesci | Lorraine Bracco | Paul Sorvino | Chuck Low | Frank DiLeo | Frank Sivero | Tony Darrow | Mike Starr | Frank Vincent | Frank Adonis | Catherine Scorsese | Gina Mastrogiacomo | Suzanne Shepherd
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.