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1) Bandit
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After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force.
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Based on audaciously true events. In 1959 Bucharest, five high-ranking Jewish members of the Communist party staged a bank heist that baffled the repressive regime and left the public in an uproar. Their motives were never known. Having been captured, arrested, and sentenced to death, the unusual gang of so-called criminals is given one last punishment before facing the execution squad: reenact the heist for the benefit of a Communist propaganda film....
3) The town
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Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Special features include the extended cut.
4) Marauders
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When an untraceable group of elite bank robbers execute the perfect heist making off with millions in cash and leaving a dead bank manager in their wake, the FBI agents investigating the robbery/homicide begin to uncover signs of corruption involving the bank's owner and his high power clients.
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Nick is a small town pizza delivery guy whose mundane life collides with the big plans of two wanna-be criminal masterminds. The volatile duo kidnaps Nick and forces him to rob a bank. With mere hours to pull off the impossible task, Nick enlists the help of his ex-best friend, Chet. As the clock ticks, the two must deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers, and their own tumultuous relationship.
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Bullitt: San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt is assigned to protect a mobster about to testify against his brother's crime organization. When his friend is shot and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the witness was hidden, Bullitt clandestinely moves the mobster while he tries to find out who is after the witness, and why it seems so easy for "them" to find him.
Papillon: Thrilling adventure of Henri Charriaere's...
8) Taxi
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Belle is New York's fastest cabbie, but what she really wants is to be a race car driver. When a cop who has had his license taken away needs help chasing down a gang of Brazilian bank robbers, Belle is more than happy to drive for him.
9) Set it off
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Four poor black women try to get some payback from the social system which has abused them by a staging a series of bank robberies.
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Pride of Jesse Hallam: A recently widowed coal miner is forced to confront his illiteracy when he and his children move from their Kentucky farm to Cincinnati so that his daughter can have spinal surgery.
Five minutes to live: The plans of two bank robbers go awry when they realize that the vice president of the targeted bank may not care if their hostage--his wife--lives or dies.
11) Bonnie and Clyde
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A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
12) Honest thief
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Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
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Reservoir dogs: After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Pulp fiction: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tables of violence and redemption.
Jackie Brown: A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.
14) Inside man
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NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
