The 30 Best Heist Movies on MagentaTV+ (July 2026)

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The Usual Suspects (1995)

IMDb 8.5 🍅 87% 1h 46m

Directed by Bryan Singer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe unreliable narrator twist transforms interrogation into heist itself—the con happening in real-time across the audience's perception.

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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Heat (1995)

IMDb 8.3 🍅 84% Letterboxd 4.3 2h 50m

Directed by Michael Mann

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe downtown LA shootout sequences redefine heist action as balletic operational precision, not just spectacle.

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

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Snatch (2000)

IMDb 8.2 🍅 74% 1h 43m

Directed by Guy Ritchie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSnatch's nested-plot structure mirrors the diamond's journey through multiple criminal factions, making confusion itself the heist mechanism.

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 93% 1h 27m

Directed by Wes Anderson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWes Anderson's stop-motion precision mirrors the meticulous planning of classic heists, each frame a perfectly orchestrated caper.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

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The Olsen Gang Sees Red (1976)

IMDb 7.7 Letterboxd 3.7 1h 40m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEgon's meticulous planning crumbles against deception itself—the genre's ultimate irony.

Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.

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Victoria (2015)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 82% Letterboxd 3.9 2h 18m

Directed by Sebastian Schipper

✦ MovieMuse AI takeReal-time single-shot cinematography eliminates editing's safety net; spontaneous robbery becomes technical exercise in sustained tension.

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 97% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 53m

Directed by Don Siegel

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeticulous prison-break engineering elevated by Siegel's documentary restraint; every tool and tunnel becomes tactile, earned espionage.

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

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Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.7 1h 50m

Directed by Peter Thorwarth

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDesperation and incompetence collide in a heist stripped of glamour or control.

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

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Fast Five (2011)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 77% 2h 11m

Directed by Justin Lin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe vault heist scales to absurd grandeur; choreography and logistics poetry elevate a straightforward score into operatic spectacle.

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

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The Con Artists (1976)

IMDb 7.3 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 45m

Directed by Sergio Corbucci

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMistaken-identity prison break hijacks the revenge heist's trajectory, embracing chaos as a legitimate operational variable.

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.

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The Olsen Gang on the Track (1975)

IMDb 7.3 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 40m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe crew's paradise exposes heisting's hollow victory: success without satisfaction.

Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan.

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American Hustle (2013)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 92% 2h 18m

Directed by David O. Russell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe con-within-the-con structure weaponizes charm and deception as tradecraft; pure confidence game masquerading as heist.

A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 14m

Directed by John Francis Daley

✦ MovieMuse AI takeD&D heist riffs on genre conventions through fantasy, proving the heist structure transcends setting when stakes matter.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971)

IMDb 7.2 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 36m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEgon's post-prison schemes weaponize historical secrets into audacious criminal architecture.

The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.

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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974)

IMDb 7.1 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 36m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEven paradise demands one final score—the heist becomes existential necessity.

The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.

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The Italian Job (2003)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 72% 1h 50m

Directed by F. Gary Gray

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Mini Cooper chase sequences elevate vehicular logistics into heist choreography; the escape becomes as intricate as the score.

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

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Logan Lucky (2017)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 59m

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

✦ MovieMuse AI takeA family heist rooted in blue-collar desperation and NASCAR logistics—specificity transforms NASCAR 600 into ingenious operational advantage.

Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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American Animals (2018)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 57m

Directed by Bart Layton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFictional dramatization intercut with real interviews destabilizes genre expectations; the heist documents itself metatheatrically.

Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok (1973)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 40m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGang members reject Egon's brilliance, exposing friction within criminal partnerships themselves.

When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.

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The Olsen Gang Goes to War (1978)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 47m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takePolitical documents become the ultimate heist target, crime infiltrating governance directly.

Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future.

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Fantomas (1964)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 44m

Directed by André Hunebelle

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFantomas weaponizes disguise and misdirection as pure heist craft—masks become the entire operation's architecture.

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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The Fast and the Furious (2001)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 55% 1h 46m

Directed by Rob Cohen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFast-and-furious street racing becomes the heist vehicle—car theft elevated through adrenaline, trust between criminals, and high-octane execution.

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

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Widows (2018)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 9m

Directed by Steve McQueen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWidows inherit not just criminal debt but operational knowledge; female vengeance operates through precise heist methodology.

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

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The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 34m

Directed by David Lowery

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTucker's age defies heist-film archetypes; his gentlemanly bank robberies reframe repetition as artistry rather than desperation.

The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 44% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 43m

Directed by Woody Allen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHypnotic suggestion as heist methodology—a MacGuffin isn't an object but a psychological state.

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

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Small Time Crooks (2000)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 34m

Directed by Woody Allen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAccidental success subverts heist-film logic; the cover operation eclipses the crime itself.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

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Flawless (2007)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 48m

Directed by Michael Radford

✦ MovieMuse AI takeClass divisions weaponized inside a single institution—the workplace becomes the perfect heist location.

A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

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The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)

IMDb 6.7 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 39m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFour-million-pound audacity executed through meticulous anonymity—the perfect invisible crime.

After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.

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Puss in Boots (2011)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 30m

Directed by Chris Miller

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimated prequel mines the heist genre's obsession with outlaw origin stories and mismatched-partner chemistry.

Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.

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The Olsen Gang (1968)

IMDb 6.6 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 20m

Directed by Erik Balling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEgon establishes the prototype: calculated charm masking ruthless criminal ambition.

The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang.

Best Heist Movies on MagentaTV+

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Heat (1995)

Snatch (2000)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

The Olsen Gang Sees Red (1976)

Victoria (2015)

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Bang, Boom, Bang (1999)

Fast Five (2011)

The Con Artists (1976)

The Olsen Gang on the Track (1975)

American Hustle (2013)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971)

The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974)

The Italian Job (2003)

Logan Lucky (2017)

American Animals (2018)

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok (1973)

The Olsen Gang Goes to War (1978)

Fantomas (1964)

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

Widows (2018)

The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Flawless (2007)

The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)

Puss in Boots (2011)

The Olsen Gang (1968)

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