The 18 Best Heist Movies on Hulu (July 2026)

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Catch Me If You Can (2002)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 96% 2h 21m

Directed by Steven Spielberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIdentity theft as the ultimate heist—Abagnale's skill lies in social engineering and psychological manipulation, not breaking and entering.

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

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La Chimera (2023)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 95% Letterboxd 4.1 2h 11m

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLa Chimera excels through its unglamorous ensemble dynamic—archaeology as moral heist, looting as casual livelihood.

Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

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National Treasure (2004)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 47% 2h 11m

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

✦ MovieMuse AI takeElaborate puzzle-box structure mirrors the heist's layered riddle-solving; historical clue-gathering replaces traditional vault-cracking preparation.

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.

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The Duke (2021)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 97% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 36m

Directed by Roger Michell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Duke mines the real-heist absurdity: a pensioner's impulse theft exposes institutional vulnerability with darkly comic precision.

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

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The Order (2024)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 56m

Directed by Justin Kurzel

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Order subverts heist formula by making ideology the true target, not treasure—crime as political statement.

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets poster

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 35% 2h 4m

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSequel doubles down on historical documentation-gathering as heist currency; obscure diary pages become the score's intellectual architecture.

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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Uncharted (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 41% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 56m

Directed by Ruben Fleischer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrake and Sully fumble the genre's central tenet—the plan—stumbling through treasure-hunting as action spectacle rather than methodical heist orchestration.

A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.

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Hustlers (2019)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 50m

Directed by Lorene Scafaria

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe reversal structure: victims become perpetrators through systematic knowledge of their prey's routines.

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

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Coup! (2024)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 81% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 38m

Directed by Joseph Schuman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesperate couple's LA jewel theft unfolds as improvisation against mounting pressure—the con exploits opportunism over meticulous planning.

A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.

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The Quiet Ones (2024)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 42% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 50m

Directed by Frederik Louis Hviid

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Quiet Ones builds tension through meticulous planning sequences and the protagonist's physical vulnerability as unexpected asset.

In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators.

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The Channel (2023)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 67% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 41m

Directed by William Kaufman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Channel's strength lies in the improvised desperation—when the plan collapses, survival becomes the only heist that matters.

After their bank heist goes wrong, a desperate criminal, his out-of-control brother, and their motley crew of ex-marines must escape New Orleans, United States.

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Mo' Money (1992)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 16% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 37m

Directed by Peter MacDonald

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMo' Money weaponizes workplace infiltration comedy; the con operates within institutional systems rather than against them.

Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

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Lying and Stealing (2019)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 58% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 40m

Directed by Matt Aselton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLying and Stealing pairs art-theft elegance with con-woman manipulation, romance as the scheme's fatal variable.

Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.

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Gold (2022)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 65% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 37m

Directed by Anthony Hayes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesert-bound scarcity trap: two drifters' discovery becomes their curse, transforming the heist into a psychological standoff over impossible fortune.

In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate.

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The Locksmith (2023)

IMDb 4.9 🍅 33% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 31m

Directed by Nicolas Harvard

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Locksmith frames redemption through lockpicking—each job is atonement, tools as metaphor for character reconstruction.

A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.

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Cash Out (2024)

IMDb 4.8 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 30m

Directed by Randall Emmett

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCash Out's twist—the inside woman—recalibrates the entire heist through betrayal as the film's true architecture.

Criminal mastermind Mason is about to execute the score of a lifetime when his lover and key member of his crew, Decker, takes the team down and reveals she’s an undercover Interpol agent. Heartbroken, Mason escapes and retires from the life of crime until his younger brother Shawn is out of his league taking on a big bank heist all on his own. Mason has no choice left but to come to the rescue, while Interpol brings Decker in hoping to unnerve him. Before the SWAT teams storm the bank, Mason must use every tool in his arsenal to not only escape with the prize, but also the love of his life.

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Jackdaw (2024)

1h 37m

Directed by Jamie Childs

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJackdaw transforms the ocean pickup into existential gamble; isolation amplifies moral stakes beyond monetary gain.

A former motocross champion and army veteran, now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea. A resulting double cross and his brother’s disappearance set him and his old bike on a violent nocturnal odyssey through England’s northern rust belt.

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High Rollers (2025)

IMDb 3.9 🍅 20% Letterboxd 1.8 1h 41m