The 15 Best Heist Movies on WOW (July 2026)

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The Raid 2 (2014)

IMDb 7.9 🍅 82% Letterboxd 4.0 2h 30m

Directed by Gareth Evans

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Raid 2 masterfully deploys the infiltration gambit, using Rama's embedded position to dismantle criminal hierarchy from within—pure procedural espionage.

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

2

Baby Driver (2017)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 92% 1h 53m

Directed by Edgar Wright

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaby's driving transcends getaway driver cliché—his kinetic genius becomes the heist's invisible engine, a skill that IS the theft.

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

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Den of Thieves (2018)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 42% Letterboxd 3.3 2h 20m

Directed by Christian Gudegast

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMatching wits between sheriff's unit and crew creates heist as symmetric chess match, neither side clearly heroic.

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

4

Taxi (1998)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 26m

Directed by Gérard Pirès

✦ MovieMuse AI takeParisian taxi-chase heist collides street racing with grand-theft-auto logistics, weaponizing vehicular expertise as heist methodology.

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

5

The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 44m

Directed by Pierre Perifel

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRedemption-arc heist subverts genre expectations by forcing reluctant heroes into cons that test their reformed commitments.

The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.

6

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 56m

Directed by Michael Cimino

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThunderbolt resurrects the retired-crew trope with anarchic chemistry, proving a partner's irreverence matters more than perfect planning.

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

7

Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.2 1h 57m

Directed by Bora Dağtekin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeZeki's classroom disguise exemplifies the con's psychological layer: hiding in plain sight within an institution where discovery means everything collapses.

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

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2 Guns (2013)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 64% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 49m

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDual-agent deception layered with mob manipulation—trust dissolves in every scene, making paranoia the operational framework.

A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.

9

Bandit (2022)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 74% Letterboxd 3.0 2h 6m

Directed by Allan Ungar

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInspired by true crime, the film transforms serial bank robbery into character study exploring charisma as heist's greatest tool.

After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the true story of The Flying Bandit.

10

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.

11

Into the Blue (2005)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 50m

Directed by John Stockwell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlue anchors underwater heisting in genuine geographical mystery, where ocean pressure becomes the antagonist.

When they take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing Jared and Sam expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, as a ruthless gang of criminals gets word of what they have uncovered.

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The Hustle (2019)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 13% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 34m

Directed by Chris Addison

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTwo-woman con hinges on the grift's eternal appeal: exploiting mark psychology through rival schemes that weaponize charm and social engineering.

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Castle Falls (2021)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 88% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 30m

Directed by Dolph Lundgren

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDemolition as obstacle creates urgency: the building's destruction becomes the ticking clock, forcing simultaneous heists against infrastructure.

Rival gangs seek out millions of dollars hidden inside a luxury condominium that's scheduled to be demolished, but first they have to deal with the demolition prep crewman who found the loot first.

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Poker Face (2022)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 9% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 34m

Directed by Russell Crowe

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHigh-stakes poker game reveals itself as elaborate revenge architecture—gambling becomes the vehicle for a meticulously constructed con.

A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.

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Backtrace (2018)

IMDb 3.8 🍅 9% Letterboxd 1.8 1h 27m

Directed by Brian A. Miller

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMemory-extraction premise inverts the heist formula: instead of planning a crime forward, the thief must excavate his own past to reconstruct the score.

The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.

Best Heist Movies on WOW