my favourite comfort genre. Some of these are actual heist films, some of them feeeeel like heist films if you know what I mean?
Soderbergh is the heist king with:
Oceans 11 (and 12 and 13 and 8)
Logan lucky
Kimi
Magic Mike like technically isn’t a heist film but people pulling together to make a plan against the odds and directed by Soderbergh just feels one.
I also think Sorkin films always feel heisty even when they aren’t. People talking fast and making plans is what makes a heist great, but Molly’s game is the closest to an actual heist film And it’s one of my favs.
the film that first got me into Heist films was Entrapment, and then The Great Escape (although is an escape film a heist film…probably not?)
Other greats, some take “heist” more or less literally than others! -
American Hustle
Hustlers
The Big Short
Fantastic Mr Fox
