Heist film

Often considered synonymous with a caper film, heist films involve the theft of an item--money or other monetarily/sentimentally valuable object--from a heavily fortified or otherwise extraordinarily secured location. The plot often also includes an individual villain or villainous organization who oppose the protagonists.

The first heist films appeared as far back as the silent era with 1915's MGM feature Alias Jimmy Valentine and rose sharply in popularity in the 1940s. The popularity of this concept tapered off a bit in the following decades, but its fortunes rose once again with the cult success of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs in 1992, which also turned out to be one of the most bloody examples. Financially, the modern remake of Ocean's 11 has emerged as the most lucrative caper film of all time.

The archetypical heist film plot occurs in three acts: preparation, including gathering allies, collecting tools and casing locations; the heist itself; and finally the reveal on how the heist actually occurred. Whether the perpetrators of the heist actually stay together and remain allies in the aftermath--or even stay alive--is handled different in every case.

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	2006	The Pink Panther
	2005	Layer Cake
	2004	Ocean's Twelve
	2004	National Treasure
	2004	The Big Swindle
	2004	The Ladykillers
	2003	Matchstick Men
	2003	The Man Who Copied
	2003	The Italian Job
	2003	Cradle 2 the Grave
	2003	The Good Thief
	2003	Le Cercle Rouge
	2002	Catch Me If You Can
	2002	Road to Perdition
	2002	Stark Raving Mad
	2001	Ocean's Eleven
	2001	Heist
	2001	The Score
	2001	Swordfish
	2001	3000 Miles to Graceland

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