Got the week off just want to download eat popcorn and binge.
A couple random ones:
Sneakers is the OG hacker film. If you haven’t seen it, it’s an absolute must. It’s a computer-driven heist film from the 90’s and even though the tech aged, the movie holds up beautifully.
Believe it or not, I’m gonna recommend Solo: A Star Wars Story. It is, at its heart, a sci-fi heist flick.
solo was great, shame its release was sandwiched between like 3 of the biggest movies ever and they canned the star wars story movies because of its poor sales
Yeah, it has its flaws, but I think if you just give it a chance and don’t obsess over the Star Warsness of it, it’s just a fun movie.
I can think of one, and you’ve probably seen it. Papillon from 1973 with McQueen and Hoffman in leading roles.
You might enjoy some of Woo Min-ho’s films. ‘Drug King’ (2018) is a biopic about a Korean drug lord in the '70s, while ‘Inside Men’ (2016) is a political thriller focusing on corruption in modern Korean society (criminal organisations influencing politicans and the judicial system). I’d also recommend Na Hong-jin’s ‘The Yellow Sea’ (2010), which is about a Yanbian taxi driver who falls into the criminal underworld after racking up huge debts via his gambling addiction.
Beware I have seen alot.
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Heat
If you’re looking for something a little different in the gangster genre, the anime series Baccano! might be worth a try.
One I liked a lot is Layer Cake with Daniel Craig
How about some classic Danish heist movies? Olsen-banden ser rødt is one of the better in the series.
The Wachowskis’ Bound, The Kitchen, and Flawless
Not movies (sorry!) but there’s a podcast called darknet diaries that has a lot of good cyber crimes, penetration testing, and even a few bank heists. Some are a little more techy but they do i decent job explaining things
Episode 72 is a bank heist. Episode 6 is a bank job.
Episode 102 is one on printing counterfeit money that is pretty good
Thought id share since i enjoy these when I’m not able to sit at a screen. Enjoy your time off!
Episode 102 is fantastic. I couldn’t believe half of what I heard in it. Wild.
Public Enemy Number One (1953)
It’s a gangster comedy, so possibly perfect for you, but perhaps not what you are looking for right now.
Bad Boys , not the Will Smith one but the earlier unrelated movie with Sean Penn. Really good action and some really wild fight scenes involving full cans of soda
I found it super interesting watching the original Ladykillers and the Coen Brothers remake back to back.
Original (with Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers):
Remake (with Tom Hanks and J.K. Simmons):
Watch the original!
‘Snatch’ and ‘Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ are two of my favourite gangster/heist movies, both by Guy Ritchie. ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ is a surprisingly good and quite violent prison movie starring Vince Vaughn. A far less violent prison movie I quite like is 'The Green Mile". “Gangs of New York” is definitely worth a watch if you’ve not seen it. There are also of course the classic heists like ‘Italian Job’ and ‘Ocean’s [number]’. ‘Catch me If You Can’ isn’t a heist movie per se but it involves a lot of stealing and subterfuge.
I know there are so many more I can’t currently think of but hopefully these few suggestions help to occupy your week off, enjoy!
If and I maybe reaching, Lock, Stock is the first in a trilogy, and Snatch is 2nd what is the third to tie everything together?
