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December 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)

Dec13 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Detective, Drama, Heist, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Revenge, Thriller Tagged Albania, bank robbery, Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, detective, disguise, hostage situation, Jodie Foster, Nazis, negotiator, pizza, police, secret identity, Spike Lee, unreliable narrator, World War Two

August 18, 2014: Viola Bacia Tutti – a.k.a. Viola Kisses Everybody (1998)

Aug18 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Comedy, Crime, Heist, Road Trip, Romance, Slapstick Tagged Asia Argento, bank robber, camper, Comedy, Dario Argento, DMCA, DRM, heist, love quadrangle, love triangle, nineties, not in English, nudist colony, region encoding, road trip, RV, theft

August 12th, 2014: Out of Sight (1998)

Aug12 by Max Roland Ekstrom

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Heist, Movie of the Day Tagged diamond heist, George Clooney, J-Lo, Steven Soderbergh

July 26, 2014: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Jul26 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Crime, Gangster, Heist, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Stoner Tagged antiques, bumbling criminals, eavesdropping, enforcer, factions, gambling debts, guns, Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, knives, marijuana, mistaken identity, nineties, poker, psychopaths, rifles, sex shop kingpin

May 22nd, 2014: Sleuth (1972)

May22 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Crime, Drama, Heist, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Thriller Tagged battle of wits, Best Actor Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Britain, class issues, clowns, co-production, country estate, double cross, double nominee, gimmick, hairdresser, it's not over, jilted lover, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, mystery writer, Palomar Pictures, prejudice, thief, twist, writer

May 6th, 2014: Fantastic Mr. Fox

May6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Heist, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation Tagged 20th Century Fox, Adrien Brody, anthropomorphic animals, badger, Best Animated Film Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, chicken thief, farm, farmers, father, father-son relationship, fox, George Clooney, heist, Jason Schwartzman, Karen Duffy, Mario Batali, Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, mother, mother-son relationship, Noah Bambauch, Owen Wilson, Roald Dahl, Roman Coppola, ski mask, supermarket, talking animals, thief, weasel, Wes Anderson, Wilem Defoe

February 13, 2014: How to Steal a Million (1966)

Feb13 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Crime, Detective, Heist, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged art, Audrey Hepburn, Benvenuto Cellini, caper, Eli Wallach, forgery, George Bradshaw, heist, Hugh Griffith, John Williams, Moustache, Paris, Peter O'Toole, romance, Sixties, Venus, William Wyler

February 11th, 2014: The Wrong Trousers

Feb11 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family, Heist, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Short, Slapstick, Stop Motion Animation Tagged Aardman Animations, BBC Bristol, BBC Lionheart Television, Best Short Film Animated, chicken, dogs, inventors, Nick Park, penguin, robbery, Wallace and Gromit

January 4th, 2014: Castle of Cagliostro

Jan4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Based on the Manga, Comedy, Family, Heist, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged counterfeiters, double cross, Hayao Miyazaki, Interpol, Japan, Kingdom of Madupia, Lupin III, noble, sniper, thief, twist

December 29, 2013: The Saint (1997)

Dec29 by bellabone

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a TV Show, Chase, Con, Crime, Espionage, Heist, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance Tagged alias, assumed identity, Boston, Christian Science, Elizabeth Shue, fusion, Leslie Charteris, Mark Twain, Moscow, nineties, oligarchs, Phillip Noyce, Roger Moore, Russian gangsters, saints, Science!, Simon Templar, Val Kilmer

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