Any movies like this?


I love this movie!! Does anybody have recommendations for this genre, preferably from the 1960s... (I've seen all the recent Hollywood ones)

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A very closely related film is 'Gambit,' with Michael Caine and Shirley Maclaine. In the same genre, very entertaining, great performances and a great heist. It isn't on DVD yet, but if you can get ahold of the video or catch it on TCM, it really is worth it. Also the original 'The Italian Job,' also with Caine. 'Charade'-more of a Hitchcockian thriller, but similar, with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.

Yours is a capricious nature. Do you always blow hot and cold like this?

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The original version of The Thomas Crown Affair with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen. And I second Charade!

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Yes, Thomas Crown Affair and Charade are good choices. Maybe Arabesque too (Sophia Loren and Peck) or in a different way, Topkapi (stylish master plan kind of heist film to rob jewels in, I think, Istanbul).

This movie reminded me in some ways of movies from the 1930s with Claudette Colbert or Carole Lombard. Try The Princess Comes Across or It Happened One Night or Nothing Sacred.

OH WAIT! The one MOST like this is Trouble in Paradise - you'll LOVE it.

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You might enjoy "Hot Millions" (1968)
• Peter Ustinov
• Maggie Smith
• Karl Malden
• Bob Newhart
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and a cameo by
• Cesar Romero
that steals the show with only two brief scenes.
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"Dog Day Afternoon".Really good movie starring young Al Pacino.

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I, too, vote for 'Charade", "Gambit" and "Topkapi" especially.

Rough Cut (1980)
starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down and David Niven
IMDb synopsis:
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

The Hot Rock (1972)
starring Robert Redford, George Segal and Ron Leibman
IMDb synopsis:
Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.

Lassiter (1984)
starring Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton
Lassiter is a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s. One day, he is arrested and told that, if he wishes to avoid prison, he must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy in London and steal millions in gems.

There's another that slips my mind.

This one isn't in the same style, but it's a must-see heist film: "Rififi" (1955).

EDIT: I remembered!
11 Harrowhouse (1974)
starring Charles Grodin, James Mason, Candice Bergen
A small-time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large, first-class diamond. When the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.


*** The trouble with reality is there is no background music. ***

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I too suggest Gambit and The Hot Rock and also add The Thief Who Came To Dinner, a 1973 film starring Ryan O'Neal & Jacqueline Bisset.

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If you're open to older movies, you'd find many like its tone - romantic, funny, adventurous - but more often solving a crime - than committing one!

His Girl Friday (Cary Grant - Rosalind Russell)

Remember the Night (Barbara Stanwyck - Fred MacMurray)

True Confessions (Carole Lombard - Fred MacMurray)

Libeled Lady (William Powell - Jean Harlow - Spencer Tracy - Myrna Loy)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Gary Cooper- Barbara Stanwyck)

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Robert Montgomery - Joan Crawford - William Powell)

The Lady Vanishes (Michael Redgrave - Margaret Lockwood)

It's a Wonderful World (Claudette Colbert - James Stewart)

It Happened One Night (Clark Gable - Claudette Colbert)

The Thin Man and its five sequels are very much in this tone (Myrna Loy and William Powell)

The Star of Midnight (william Powell-Ginger Rogers)

Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck - Gary Coooper)

Or for a more recent one - Ever seen Manhattan Murder Mystery - with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton?

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