Best movies like Midas Run
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Plot Summary:
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like Midas Run (1969):
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Buster (1988)
Plot Summary:
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, eighties
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Joyride (1977)
Plot Summary:
Scott, John and Suzie quit their boring jobs and depart L.A. for Alaska to pursue their dream of their own salmon fishing business. They soon find that life in Alaska is more difficult than expected as they are forced to abandon their plans and make desperate choices just to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
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Love Among Thieves (1987)
Plot Summary:
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by Mike Chambers. Caroline first believes that Mike is one of the kidnappers, until a mysterious man in a trench-coat tries to kill her, and Mike comes to the rescue. They are then both captured by a band of Mexican bandits, who also may or may not be part of the scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
Plot Summary:
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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A Fine Pair (1968)
Plot Summary:
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective involved in a caper in Austria.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: retro, detective
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Lost Man (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: political, neo noir, black cinema
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Plot Summary:
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, light, clever, enigmatic
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Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
Plot Summary:
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Any Number Can Win (1963)
Plot Summary:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Thief (1971)
Plot Summary:
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Opportunists (1999)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, independent film, suspense, humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, road movie, noir, thought provoking
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Plot Summary:
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Loophole (1981)
Plot Summary:
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Topkapi (1964)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Brain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: fast paced, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Grand Slam (1967)
Plot Summary:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, eurospy
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Robbery (1967)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: noir, action thriller, independent film, british noir, cult film
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Bandits (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good, romantic, dark comedy, surprise ending, clever, parody
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Plot Summary:
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, clever, humorous, cynical, funny, epic, cult classic, atmospheric
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Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, buddy comedy
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Bank Roll (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked away over the years, The BBT hatches a plan to help out this older brother escape the repercussions of his fate by complicating his own with the assistance of five close friends -- ERIK, DEREK, JAMIE, K.C. and KYLE. The gang have only four days to create a 'red herring' that will throw off the officials and clear The BBT's brother's name by actually robbing a small bank. If all goes to plan, this is enough 'reasonable doubt' in the brother's case to clear his name. The BBT figures to exactly recreate his brother's crime and arm himself with only a few folders of photographs which contain the bank tellers' friends, families, pets, places of residence and ... Written by Doug Maguire.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Casanova (2005)
Plot Summary:
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, light, costume drama, factual, cute, historical drama, feel good, psychological, emotional
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Seven Golden Men (1965)
Plot Summary:
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco, eurospy
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The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: witty, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, visually stunning, clever, stylized, suspense, inspirational, offbeat
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Out of Sight (1998)
Plot Summary:
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law. Variety hails Out of Sight as "a sly, sexy, vastly entertaining film.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, romantic, entertaining, light, talky, stylized, erotic, offbeat, feel good
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Henry's Crime (2010)
Plot Summary:
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, cynical, romantic, cult classic, comedy drama, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Plot Summary:
Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, romantic, detective, visual, exciting, sexy, suspenseful, witty, stylized, crime drama
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Focus (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy, clever, tricky, intense, humorous, semi serious