Other great heist movies?


So I watched Rififi last night for the second time in a long while. Still an awesome film noir.
I was trying to think of some other heist movies I've seen, or haven't seen and should probably hit up on Netflix.

The Bank Job - Saw this a few years ago. Pretty cool and I like Jason Statham.
Sexy Beast - I need to watch this again. Probably not as much a heist film as a battle of wills between Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley. Kingsley is amazing in this one.
Oceans Eleven (The Rat Pack) - Gets off to a slow start, but once it gets going it's a lot of fun. The ending is great. I saw the remake when it came out and for some reason it just didn't grab me.
The Pink Panther - As big a fan of the sequals as I used to be I've only seen bits and pieces of the first one.

I know there are others I'm forgetting. Fill me in please.

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The Asphalt Jungle
The Armored Car Robbery
The Killing
Kansas City Confidential
Plunder Road

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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), greatest heist movie of all, imho

Criss Cross (1949), also terrific

Both precede Rififi by 5-6 years, the so-called 'grand daddy of heist films'. Yes Rififi is great, but it was not the first great heist movie

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LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970) - From Jean-Pierre Melville, the film has a lot of similarities with RIFIFI including an completely silent heist scene.

This is my murder-swagger, I wear the skin-trophy of my prey.

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Someone already mentioned Le Cercle Rouge.

Some more:
Gambit (the original with Herbert Lom, Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine)
The Italian Job (here too I would recommend the original with Michael Caine)
The League of Gentlemen (with Jack Hawkins and Richard Attenborough)
The Ladykillers (with Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom)
How To Steal A Million (with Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn]
Maybe also Topkapi which was also made by Jules Dassin.

Some also call The Taking of Pelham One Two Three a heist movie, I would recommend the original with Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam.

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asphalt jungle is only dramatic with hardly any robbery scene of note!
others have nothing on this actually. I will check rouge but lack of dialogues in his cinema is just out dated( his mood set up and all that is great). Riffi is pure hollywood in paris and that adds massive charm to it. and there is lot of american style talk except when heist happens where you are needed to keep 'shut'!

I am still no fan of melville as there are too many drawbacks to like him outright!

talk is big part of any cinema. the french also talk a lot in real life, ditto like americans and everywhere else. when you tries to disguise that in a movie it just do not cut it!

that is why you see in modern films you cant talk you wont get the role!

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Guess you could say. "The. Sting." could. be considered a. Heist. movie...."The. Killing" with Sterling Hayden from. 1956 was a great one too!!

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I want to second or third The Killing. Excellent, and also groundbreaking and influential.

"Loves turned to lust and bloods turned to dust in my heart"

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The Thomas Crown Affair - Both versions.
The First Great Train Robbery.
The Anderson Tapes - I mention only because it's on TV at the moment.
Absolute Power - I have a soft spot for it.
Kelly's Heroes.

You can even make the case for Goldfinger.

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My top 5 in no order are:
Heat
The Killing
Rififi
Dog Day Afternoon
The Asphalt Jungle

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Dollars (a/k/a "$") starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn, directed by Richard Brooks . Great film which has been completely forgotten for some reason .

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