Some bank robberies are brilliant, even spectacular. Especially in cinema and television, where fiction allows for the greatest extravagances and most beautiful coups. Here are five productions where the crimes were carefully crafted.
On equal terms
(go Den of thieves)
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A shocking confrontation. A war in which nothing is left to chance. Elite police officers are ready to face the music against criminals armed to the teeth. The ultimate goal: to rob or prevent the looting of the Central Bank of the United States. At the top of the poster is Gerard Butler’s name. There is a lot of action and excitement in this film. If you value life, it is better to take good care of yourself and be alert at all times. May the best win.
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Mom shoots her
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In the early 2000s, Céline Bonnier agreed to lend her facial features to the notorious criminal for a fictionalized Quebec feature film. No one plays the famous thief in this documentary. We watch and listen as her son Gilles talks about the journey of this woman who left her mark in Quebec and Canada. A woman he barely knew because she was killed shortly after he was born. It’s time for him to replay the movie of his life, starting with a childhood that rhymes with the underworld.
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Tension
(go heat)
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Prepare for a total immersion in the underworld that rhymes with the meeting of two sacred monsters of American cinema: Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Robbing an armored van is all well and good if the plan works, but when the operation goes awry and blood starts to flow, it’s a different story. On one side there are the police, on the other the criminals. There will be a confrontation for almost three hours. Men will engage in a fight in which everyone could lose their skin.
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The last tunnel
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We didn’t expect to see the late Michel Côté and Jean Lapointe at the cinema. However, they put on their overalls with conviction and are ready to get dirty and sweat profusely to dig a tunnel into the sewers. They only have one idea in mind: to gain access to a bank’s vault and get their hands on a treasure of… $200 million! But there is a difference between everything we have long imagined and the harsh reality. Even intensity, boldness and resilience do not overcome everything.
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Baby, the driver
(go Baby driver)
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Just because you avoid setting foot in a bank during a robbery doesn’t mean you avoid all the trouble. This is what Baby (Ansel Elgort), the star of this fiction, discovers, which puts him behind the wheel of the crooks who rule the law in Atlanta, in the United States. He may be competent and working with professionals, but the fact is that everything can change in an instant. Unfortunately, this happens at the very moment when he wants to get back on track and try his luck in love.
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