Best Heist Movies
Compiled 2026-10-30. All 88 films. The page was published 2021-12-03. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is No. 1.

Compiled 2026-10-30. The main table copies the heist list published on 2021-12-03 and modified on 2022-08-11, 88 films in all. No. 1 is Joseph Sargent’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). No. 88 is Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (2013). The publish date, the modified date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 88 films
All 88 rows follow the page. Years and directors are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | 1974 |
| 2 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | 1951 |
| 3 | The Ladykillers | Alexander Mackendrick | 1955 |
| 4 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 1973 |
| 5 | The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| 6 | Bob the Gambler | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1955 |
| 7 | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | 2016 |
| 8 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton, John Cleese | 1988 |
| 9 | Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 1975 |
| 10 | The Red Circle | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1970 |
| 11 | The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 12 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie | 2015 |
| 13 | Three Kings | David O. Russell | 1999 |
| 14 | The Sting | George Roy Hill | 1973 |
| 15 | To Catch a Thief | Alfred Hitchcock | 1955 |
| 16 | Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 |
| 17 | Thief | Michael Mann | 1981 |
| 18 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2011 |
| 19 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | Brad Bird | 2011 |
| 20 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | 1998 |
| 21 | Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | 2017 |
| 22 | Logan Lucky | Steven Soderbergh | 2017 |
| 23 | The Town | Ben Affleck | 2010 |
| 24 | No Sudden Move | Steven Soderbergh | 2021 |
| 25 | Nine Queens | Fabián Bielinsky | 2001 |
| 26 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 1992 |
| 27 | Rififi | Jules Dassin | 1955 |
| 28 | A Fistful of Dynamite | Sergio Leone | 1971 |
| 29 | Widows | Steve McQueen | 2018 |
| 30 | Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen | 1969 |
| 31 | Kajillionaire | Miranda July | 2020 |
| 32 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 |
| 33 | Topkapi | Jules Dassin | 1964 |
| 34 | The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | 1998 |
| 35 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | 1969 |
| 36 | The Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | 1963 |
| 37 | American Animals | Bart Layton | 2018 |
| 38 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 1995 |
| 39 | Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 |
| 40 | Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 |
| 41 | The Lookout | Scott Frank | 2007 |
| 42 | Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | 2000 |
| 43 | Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 1997 |
| 44 | Heat | Michael Mann | 1995 |
| 45 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino | 1974 |
| 46 | Inside Man | Spike Lee | 2006 |
| 47 | The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | 1972 |
| 48 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1996 |
| 49 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Gareth Edwards | 2016 |
| 50 | Ant-Man | Peyton Reed | 2015 |
| 51 | Ocean's Eleven | Steven Soderbergh | 2001 |
| 52 | The Italian Job | Peter Collinson | 1969 |
| 53 | The Bank Job | Roger Donaldson | 2008 |
| 54 | Sneakers | Phil Alden Robinson | 1992 |
| 55 | Kelly's Heroes | Brian G. Hutton | 1970 |
| 56 | Fast Five | Justin Lin | 2011 |
| 57 | The Good Thief | Neil Jordan | 2002 |
| 58 | Dragged Across Concrete | S. Craig Zahler | 2018 |
| 59 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 1998 |
| 60 | Snatch | Guy Ritchie | 2000 |
| 61 | The Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | 1978 |
| 62 | The Italian Job | F. Gary Gray | 2003 |
| 63 | The Score | Frank Oz | 2001 |
| 64 | The Driver | Walter Hill | 1978 |
| 65 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 1968 |
| 66 | Mission: Impossible III | J.J. Abrams | 2006 |
| 67 | Triple Frontier | J.C. Chandor | 2019 |
| 68 | The Thomas Crown Affair | John McTiernan | 1999 |
| 69 | Set It Off | F. Gary Gray | 1996 |
| 70 | Ocean's 8 | Gary Ross | 2018 |
| 71 | Ocean's Thirteen | Steven Soderbergh | 2007 |
| 72 | Ronin | John Frankenheimer | 1998 |
| 73 | Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 1991 |
| 74 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Guy Ritchie | 2015 |
| 75 | Public Enemies | Michael Mann | 2009 |
| 76 | Tower Heist | Brett Ratner | 2011 |
| 77 | The Fate of the Furious | F. Gary Gray | 2017 |
| 78 | Army Of The Dead | Zack Snyder | 2021 |
| 79 | Wrath of Man | Guy Ritchie | 2021 |
| 80 | Heist | David Mamet | 2001 |
| 81 | The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | 2019 |
| 82 | Small Time Crooks | Woody Allen | 2000 |
| 83 | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | 1996 |
| 84 | 2 Guns | Baltasar Kormákur | 2013 |
| 85 | Danger: Diabolik | Mario Bava | 1968 |
| 86 | Bandits | Barry Levinson | 2001 |
| 87 | The Newton Boys | Richard Linklater | 1998 |
| 88 | The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | 2013 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-30. The list was published 2021-12-03 and modified 2022-08-11. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. Alex Vo is the byline. The page title is 88 Best Heist Movies of All Time. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 88, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.
This was read from the live page on 2026-10-30, and all 88 titles are there. Director names are the Directed By lines. The page keeps heist movies with at least 20 reviews, sorted by its ranking formula, which factors release date and review volume.
Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels where available. Chinese labels are simplified. Crime titles stay on a separate list and are not merged here.
1 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.
Action titles: best action movies. Crime: best crime movies.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 Best Heist Movies of All Time (guide) | Published 2021-12-03, modified 2022-08-11, read 2026-10-30 | Heist movies with at least 20 reviews, ranked by formula. No. 1 is The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974, Joseph Sargent. No. 88 is The Bling Ring, 2013, Sofia Coppola | Primary |
The picture
Rows S through C hold 18 films each; D holds 16. The pool is all 88 films.
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