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51. The Thief of Paris (1967)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 2,238
52. Vinci (2004)
108 min | Crime, Comedy
After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous... See full summary »
Director: Juliusz Machulski | Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Józef Paleczka, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Gralek
Votes: 3,913
53. Doors Open (2012 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker swap priceless art with forgeries and make off with the goods.
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Stephen Fry, Kenneth Collard, Lenora Crichlow
Votes: 580
54. Incorrigible (1975)
100 min | Comedy
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Charles Gérard
Votes: 1,821
55. Crack-Up (1946)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins
Votes: 1,629
56. The Black Square (2021)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
Two art thieves have stolen the famous "Black Square" of Russian painter Kasimir Malevich. They plan to meet their clients on a cruise ship to hand over the looted art. However, things are not going quite as planned..
Director: Peter Meister | Stars: Bernhard Schütz, Jacob Matschenz, Sandra Hüller, Christopher Schärf
Votes: 422
57. Painted Lady (1997 TV Movie)
204 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
From the Irish countryside to London to New York City and back again, Maggie Sheridan (Dame Helen Mirren) reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Helen Mirren, Iain Glen, Franco Nero, Michael Maloney
Votes: 566
58. The Fake (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton
Votes: 494
59. Art Heist (2004)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a painting owned by one of her clients is stolen from a Barcelona museum, a New York-based artexpert is sent there to help investigate. After more paintings are stolen, she learns that... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Goeres | Stars: Ellen Pompeo, William Baldwin, Abel Folk, Simón Andreu
Votes: 871
60. Back in the U.S.S.R. (1992)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Gorbatchov's perestroika, Archer Sloan, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he ... See full summary »
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski, Andrew Divoff
Votes: 489 | Gross: $0.50M
61. The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988 TV Movie)
200 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
During WWII penniless American painter Philip Weber decides to collaborate with the Nazi leaders and help them steal priceless French artwork to keep his room in the chic Ritz Hotel and indulge in the pleasures of Nazi-occupied Paris.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Perry King, Leslie Caron, Cherie Lunghi, David McCallum
Votes: 155
62. Paula Peril: Mystery of the Crystal Falcon (2009)
PG | 19 min | Short, Action, Mystery
When a high society auction is interrupted by the brazen theft of the mysterious Crystal Falcon, investigative reporter Paula 'Peril' Perillo and photographer Jimmy Smith team up to get the... See full summary »
Director: Savvy Lorestani | Stars: Valerie Perez, Marla Malcolm, Benjamin Lamm, David Thomas O'Donnell
Votes: 21
63. Jarrett (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Thriller
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker, Laraine Stephens
Votes: 67
64. The Light Touch (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar
Votes: 503
65. Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008)
Not Rated | 88 min | Thriller
Financial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
Director: Óskar Jónasson | Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Votes: 2,467
66. Kind Lady (1951)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a ... See full summary »
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 1,124
67. Raiders of the Lost Art (2014– )
Documentary, Crime, History
The history of various thefts of art and efforts to recover them.
Stars: Calandra Caldecott, Charles Darwent, Martin Bailey, Jonathan Kydd
Votes: 192
68. On a Darkling Plain: Behind 'The Burnt Orange Heresy' (2019 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, William Horberg, Mick Jagger
69. Starry Night (1999)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy
A magic potion returns artist Vincent Van Gogh back to life and lands him in the center of the Rose Bowl Parade in this oddball comedy. Of course, no one believes who he is and he is ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Davids | Stars: Abbott Alexander, Lisa Waltz, Lou Wagner, Sally Kirkland
Votes: 386
70. Framed (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
When the National Gallery in London is flooded, the Director, Quentin Lester, decides to transfer the entire collection to the Welsh caves where the collection was stored during World War ... See full summary »
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Trevor Eve, Eve Myles, Robert Pugh, Samuel Morgan-Davies
Votes: 358
71. Private's Progress (1956)
102 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones
Votes: 904
72. The Happy Thieves (1961)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison, Joseph Wiseman, Alida Valli
Votes: 610
73. Miscellaneous Brigade in the Mountains and at the Sea (1971)
100 min | Comedy, Action, Crime
Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.
Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Ion Fintesteanu, Puiu Calinescu
Votes: 2,035
74. Abstraction (2013)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An intense action crime drama revolving around the heist of a half a million dollar painting.
Director: Prince Bagdasarian | Stars: Hunter Ives, Korrina Rico, Ken Davitian, Eric Roberts
Votes: 503
75. Allmen (2016– )
TV-PG | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dandified Allmen needs money and sells some valuable Gallé glass pieces to a dealer. After the dealer gets killed and someone also wants to kill him, Allmen and his butler try to find out what is going on.
Stars: Heino Ferch, Samuel Finzi, Andrea Osvárt, Isabella Parkinson
Votes: 227
76. Air Patrol (1962)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix, John Holland
Votes: 172
77. Trance (2001 TV Movie)
100 min | Mystery, Thriller
Tony (John Light) works in an auction house, where he is surrounded by many valuable works of art. Enlisting the help of London gangster Brendan (Neil Pearson) and his associates, Tony ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Sam Callis, Christopher Cazenove, Phil Davis, Susannah Harker
Votes: 157
78. Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Four friends steal a valuable statuette for a dangerous black market art dealer, lose it, and are forced to play a deadly bluffing game to save their lives.
Director: Paul Rachman | Stars: Olivia Williams, Balthazar Getty, Arly Jover, Jason Cairns
Votes: 1,452
79. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
89 min | Drama
A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.
Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Willi Forst, Trude von Molo, Gustaf Gründgens, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 81
80. Red Silk (1999 Video)
86 min | Comedy, Crime
When a couple of over-the-hill and down-on-their-luck female private eyes stumble from an art smuggling caper into a kidnap and murder plot, they try to turn a profit instead of solving the crime.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Christie Levin, Paul Lapidus, Anna Stern
Votes: 166
81. Scuola di ladri (1986)
96 min | Comedy
The incredible funny story of 3 strangers with the same last name that are drawn together by one criminal mastermind.
Director: Neri Parenti | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 1,393
82. Bloodbrothers (2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama
30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Director: Daniel Fridell | Stars: Liam Leon, Sofia Helin, Mats Helin, Reine Brynolfsson
Votes: 418
83. Wrong Again (1929)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Laurel and Hardy work at horse stables where a stallion named Blue Boy is kept. When they hear Gainsborough's famous painting, The Blue Boy, has been stolen, the duo rush to collect the offered reward.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 1,001
84. Where is Gilgamesh? (2024)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a Museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he face his own inner demons.
Director: Karzan Kardozi | Stars: Barzan Yunis, Goran Dlshad, Ragash Kizhan, Yasin Omar
Votes: 7
85. Shades of Fear (1994)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Desire turns deadly as an intricate web of lies and betrayal unfolds on a voyage aboard a luxurious ocean liner. The journey begins when a naive young woman finds romance in the arms of a dashing stranger who could be a dangerous criminal.
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Jonathan Pryce, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 371
86. Art Crimes (2022–2023)
Documentary
A Thriller Documentary Series 6 x 90 min / 6 x 52 min. ART CRIMES - The most incredible art robberies told by their protagonists. How did two Van Gogh disappear in Amsterdam to resurface in... See full summary »
Stars: Octave Durham, Vincenza Marra, Henk Bijslein, Bob Schagen
Votes: 16
87. Nadzieja (2007)
101 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Young Franciszek witnesses a church painting theft and films it. He is not going to reveal the perpetrator to the police, however, but to blackmail him.
Director: Stanislaw Mucha | Stars: Rafal Fudalej, Kamilla Baar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Votes: 336
88. Art of the Heist (2007– )
Documentary
They turned crime into an art form. Meet the crooks who plundered artistic treasures, sending shock waves through the art scene and setting off frantic dragnets across the globe.
Stars: Dion Graham, Robert K. Wittman
Votes: 46
89. I, Martin Short, Goes Home (2012 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Martin Short returns to his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario to appear at a benefit show for his childhood hero, puppeteer Mason McGillivray, and uses the occasion to reminisce about his pre-stardom life in the city.
Director: Ian MacDonald | Stars: Martin Short, Robin Duke, Fred Willard, Andrea Martin
Votes: 66
90. Canvas (1992)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
In order to save his brother from being killed by a group of murderous art thieves, a New York City artist agrees to help in an art heist.
Director: Alain Zaloum | Stars: Gary Busey, John Rhys-Davies, Vittorio Rossi, Nick Cavaiola
Votes: 157
91. The Mona Lisa Mystery (2006 TV Movie)
187 min | Adventure
Are there two versions of The Mona Lisa? Is the Mona Lisa the world knows so well the original version? Or had Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic portrait?
Director: Fabrizio Costa | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Violante Placido, Frédéric Pierrot, Cécile Cassel
Votes: 34
92. The Remnant (2019)
17 min | Short, Horror
A team of con artists posing as paranormal investigators steal from the home of an affluent elderly woman, only to find themselves unleashing a dormant malevolent spirit.
Director: Navin Ramaswaran | Stars: Peter Keleghan, Kaniehtiio Horn, Grace Lynn Kung, Michael James Regan
Votes: 56
93. Tre engle og fem løver (1982)
68 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Uncle Georg takes Bertram and Winni to the Glyptoteket, where their father has become a custodian. Bertram has taken his latest painting 'Bertram and the Five Lions' with him, but during a ... See full summary »
Director: Sven Methling | Stars: Michael Nezer, Jesper Lund, Tobias Fog, Henriette Holm
Votes: 192
94. The Last Days of World War II (1995 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, History, War
The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
Stars: Bill Ratner, Konstantin Akinsha, Kenneth Alford, Tom Allen
Votes: 87
95. El robo más grande jamás contado (2002)
105 min | Comedy
Four criminals plan to steal Picasso's Guernica painting.
Director: Daniel Monzón | Stars: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Manuel Manquiña, Javier Aller
Votes: 495
96. Tarapaty 2 (2020)
83 min | Comedy, Family
When Claude Monet's "Beach in Pourville" disappears from the National Museum in Poznan, and Julka's aunt is falsely accused of theft, Julka and her friend Olek must find the painting.
Director: Marta Karwowska | Stars: Pola Król, Jakub Janota-Bzowski, Mia Goti, Joanna Szczepkowska
Votes: 92
97. Radio tekee murron (1951)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Hannes Häyrinen, Ritva Arvelo, Kullervo Kalske, Kunto Karapää
Votes: 348
98. Canvas the Night (2013)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Two LAPD homicide detectives face the case of their careers chasing a legendary, allegedly cursed painting responsible for a century of mysterious deaths.
Director: Andrew Enriquez | Stars: Eric Howell Sharp, Jason Reed, Duffy Hudson, Nora Sharp
Votes: 20
99. Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery (2013 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Crime
Derren has bet a renowned art collector that he can steal a painting from under his nose - and attempts to use OAP's to pull it off.
Director: Jon Richards | Stars: Derren Brown, Julian Klinger
Votes: 507
100. CRACKED
Action, Thriller | Announced
A brilliant thief is released from prison for one reason only - to execute a nearly impossible, once-in-a lifetime art heist.