If you don’t mind subtitles, try City on Fire directed by Ringo Lam (the greatest HK action director IMHO with John Woo coming in a close second) and starring Chow Yun Fat. This is the movie Resevoir Dogs was based on.
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Has Tarentino ever admitted this. It’s pretty obvious.
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Warning: very violent.
That is what I remembered it as too, but IMDB doesn’t even mention that title so I used the one they use to avoid confusion.
I second City on fire , and also the warning that it is very violent.
The Good Thief , IMO, is overrated.
Thanks all for the recommendations. We have already seen:
Raising Arizona (loved it)
Heat (hated it)
Resevoir Dogs (liked it)
The Usual Suspects (great film)
Matchstick Men (not so great film)
Snatch (good, but my wife tried to talk like Brad Pitt for two weeks after!)
Out of Sight (good)
Jackie Browne (very good)
3 Kings (pretty good)
Ronin (very good)
the others have been added to my Netflix queue!
I almost forgot a recent one I saw. The Lady Killers with Tom Hanks.
It’s a bunch of misfits and their plan to rob a riverboat casino. It has a very iroinc ending.
It mentions it as “US title.” Odd that it would give the nonUS title precedence, since it’s a US film. Maybe they go by where it opens first; many films open in Europe first, I believe.
–and it’s a remake of a far more brilliant film, The Lavender Hill Mob.
For something different Two Hands Bryan Brown, Heath Ledger, Rose Byrne in a typically Aussie tale of an errand boy for the mob who loses a large sum of his employer’s cash and tries to stage a bank heist to replace it. Quirky and full of black humour.
And Nine Queens which I guess is full of Argentinian humour. It’s the only Argentine movie I have seen and it is a terrific convoluted tale of a group of con artists pulling off a score. Wonderful twists in the plotting and many charismatic performers.
Don’t forget the comedies. (By the way, I second “A Fish Called Wanda”)
I’m surprised no one hqas mentioned The Pink Panther movies. Technically not a heist movie, but it’s about finding the crook who performed the heist. Fun movie though.
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While I love both movies, Charade really isn’t a heist movie when it comes right down to it. The actual heist took place 25 years before the film begins and you never see it. At best they talk about it a couple of times.
I didn’t see anyone mention The Pink Panther.
Another I didn’t see mentioned (but it probably was) was the delightful romp that starred Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole called How to Steal a Million.
Yet another one - good, but a bit uneven was The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.
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