Got the week off just want to download eat popcorn and binge.
A couple random ones:
Sneakers is the OG hacker film. If you haven’t seen it, it’s an absolute must. It’s a computer-driven heist film from the 90’s and even though the tech aged, the movie holds up beautifully.
Believe it or not, I’m gonna recommend Solo: A Star Wars Story. It is, at its heart, a sci-fi heist flick.
solo was great, shame its release was sandwiched between like 3 of the biggest movies ever and they canned the star wars story movies because of its poor sales
Yeah, it has its flaws, but I think if you just give it a chance and don’t obsess over the Star Warsness of it, it’s just a fun movie.
You might enjoy some of Woo Min-ho’s films. ‘Drug King’ (2018) is a biopic about a Korean drug lord in the '70s, while ‘Inside Men’ (2016) is a political thriller focusing on corruption in modern Korean society (criminal organisations influencing politicans and the judicial system). I’d also recommend Na Hong-jin’s ‘The Yellow Sea’ (2010), which is about a Yanbian taxi driver who falls into the criminal underworld after racking up huge debts via his gambling addiction.
Beware I have seen alot.
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
Heat
If you’re looking for something a little different in the gangster genre, the anime series Baccano! might be worth a try.
Public Enemy Number One (1953)
It’s a gangster comedy, so possibly perfect for you, but perhaps not what you are looking for right now.
One I liked a lot is Layer Cake with Daniel Craig
I found it super interesting watching the original Ladykillers and the Coen Brothers remake back to back.
Original (with Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers):
Remake (with Tom Hanks and J.K. Simmons):
Watch the original!
‘Snatch’ and ‘Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’ are two of my favourite gangster/heist movies, both by Guy Ritchie. ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ is a surprisingly good and quite violent prison movie starring Vince Vaughn. A far less violent prison movie I quite like is 'The Green Mile". “Gangs of New York” is definitely worth a watch if you’ve not seen it. There are also of course the classic heists like ‘Italian Job’ and ‘Ocean’s [number]’. ‘Catch me If You Can’ isn’t a heist movie per se but it involves a lot of stealing and subterfuge.
I know there are so many more I can’t currently think of but hopefully these few suggestions help to occupy your week off, enjoy!
If and I maybe reaching, Lock, Stock is the first in a trilogy, and Snatch is 2nd what is the third to tie everything together?
i was always partial to Attica
“Grand Slam” (1967)
“House of Money” - funny nobody mentioned this one. But only the first heist, the first two seasons. The later ones are not up to par.
Bad Boys , not the Will Smith one but the earlier unrelated movie with Sean Penn. Really good action and some really wild fight scenes involving full cans of soda
Oldie but a goodie, Le Trou is a french film about a prison break, holds up great
A bit outside your prefs, but James Bond parodies Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) with James Coburn
