Gangin with some friends tonight and we're all thinking of thriller and heist movies. It's my turn to pick the film of the night, problem is I don't watch movies all that often and I don't want to accidentally pick something shitty.
Suggestions please!
American Animals is a about a real life art heist and would be perhaps too wacky if it wasn't true. It's a good time though.
Sexy Beast is a great British gangster film about a guy roped into a heist by his boss despite wanting to just retire.
Widows is fantastically directed by Steve McQueen and focuses on three widows who's husband's botched job leaves them in debt to criminals and decide to try and do a heist of their own.
Dog Day Afternoon is a stone cold classic bank job movie and a pressure cooker of tension.
The Bank Job is a 70s British retro piece with Jason Statham with an interesting item at the centre of the plot best not revealed.
The Taking of Pelham 123 is one of my all time favourites, partly because the script is so tight. Go for the 70s one though instead of the remake which is just ok.
Three Kings I haven't seen in a while but was made between the Iraq wars and is about three soldiers trying to get out of the country with Saddam's gold. I remember it being somewhat satirical and thematically feels like a comment on the lengths and amount of terrible shit the US is willing to do to loot other countries. They basically remade it but tacticool and more hoo-rah as Three Frontiers.
A Place Beyond The Pines got largely overshadowed by Drive (which I also like) due to some surface similarities like Ryan Gosling playing a motorcycle stunt rider and getting sucked into heist. It deserved better though and is really a sort of multi-generational drama about masculinity and poverty disguised as a crime film.