Danny Ocean will always be considered the coolest Mastermind, and nobody will ever film anything as suspenseful as Rififi’s 32 minute heist sequence without a stitch of dialogue or music, but here are seven overlooked and forgotten heist movies that deserve another watch.
That doesn’t mean the classics don’t deserve their distinction. Working my way through the years, I discovered movies I’d never heard of that were equal, if not better, than the movies that adorned everybody’s best heist movie list. To fully submerge myself in the genre, I started back when heist films were fully steeped in black and white noir. Her knowledge stems from having watched and documented over 150 heist movies, which meant I got to watch and document over 150 heist movies (though to be honest, Millie is much more discipled than I am as I stopped taking notes after movie #102).
“It’s important to know your genre if you’re going to make an impact on it,” says Millie Blomquist, the protagonist of my debut novel, Breaking In, a story in which Millie leads a group of film students to pull off a real life heist by utilizing what she learned from the movies.
