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These 14 High-Stakes Heist Movies on Netflix Are a Truly Wild Ride
by
amanda prahl
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A really good heist movie can have your heart pounding and your mind racing, and our favorite heist movies on Netflix have all the best ingredients: morally murky characters, complicated motivations, twisted loyalties, mysterious treasures and targets, and plenty of stylish action sequences, of course. Whether you’re rooting for the thieves to get away with it or for the authorities to catch them, these thrilling flicks will take you around the world to gleaming locations – packed with tense plots and high stakes – while you’re staying home. Keep reading for our picks for the best heist movies on Netflix right now!
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The Art of the Steal
It’s the classic heist movie trope: one last job. A former art thief reluctantly agrees to help his brother one last time. As he pulls together their old team to steal a priceless book, he has no idea that his brother has some additional plans he hasn’t told him about.
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Den of Thieves
Two elite teams come into dangerous conflict with each other over a planned heist of Los Angeles’s Federal Reserve Bank. The would-be thieves are a group of elite former military men now living outside the law, while their law enforcement foes are headed by a tough but hard-drinking leader.
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Drive
A cipher known only as “Driver” lives a double life: one above board as a Hollywood stunt driver for the biggest action movies, the other in secret as a real-life getaway driver for criminals of the underworld. When one job goes badly wrong, he has to find a way to protect his neighbors and their young son.
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The Hurricane Heist
As a hurricane approaches a small Alabama town, the residents have more to worry about than just the storm. A team of 30 elite mercenaries have set their sites on the town’s treasury facility, and the storm is the perfect opportunity.
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Inception
A team of mercenaries specialize in psychological heists, walking in the minds of their targets to steal ideas. When they’re asked to plant an idea instead, their leader’s own deeply damaged psyche threatens the whole team’s ability to complete the heist and return to reality before they’re stuck in a timeless dreamscape for eternity.
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Public Enemies
John Dillinger is one of the most infamous robbers in America during the Great Depression. As he completes heist after heist, he winds up in the crosshairs of the FBI, becoming “Public Enemy Number One” as one of the bureau’s best agents pursues him to bring him to justice – dead or alive.
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Son of a Gun
When a teenager gets sent to prison for a minor crime, he struggles with prison life until a notorious criminal and fellow inmate takes him under his protection. But there’s a price: when he gets out, the teenager must stage a prison break to get his former protector out at any cost.
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Triple Frontier
A group of former Special Forces operatives reconvene in rural South America to use their old skills for a more personal heist. When things go horribly wrong, they’re forced to work even more closely to find a way just to get out alive.
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The Trust
In this heist thriller, there aren’t really any “good guys.” A ring of corrupt cops learns about a vault full of drug money connected to a convenience store. Instead of going through the proper channels, they decide to rob the vault and take the money for themselves.
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The Vault
A pair of sisters plot a bank heist in order to save their brother. When they come across the bank manager, they think they have the upper hand, until he sends them down to the basement vault where something horrifying and evil lurks.
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Coin Heist
To try to save their high school from shutting down, a group of teenagers team up and put together a plan to break into the US Mint and create a fake “limited-edition” coin to sell to collectors.