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1950s heist films

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The Asphalt Jungle

1950 film by John Huston

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958 film by Mario Monicelli

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951 film by Charles Crichton

The Ladykillers

1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony "le Stéphanois", Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois", Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais". The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or m

The Facts of Murder

1959 Italian film

Bob le flambeur

1956 film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

Odds Against Tomorrow

1959 film by Robert Wise

Kansas City Confidential

1952 film directed by Phil Karlson

1951 film by Pietro Germi

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

1957 film by Jacques Becker

1958 film by Delmer Daves

Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti

1959 film by Nanni Loy

5 Against the House

1955 American heist film

Armored Car Robbery

1950 film by Richard Fleischer

I Died a Thousand Times

1955 film by Stuart Heisler

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

1959 film by Charles Guggenheim

Six Bridges to Cross

1955 American crime caper film directed by Joseph Pevney

Du rififi chez les femmes

1959 film by Alex Joffé

Violent Saturday

1955 film by Richard Fleischer

1950 film by Andrew L. Stone

1954 animated short film directed by Friz Freleng

1959 film by Gene Fowler Jr.

Drive a Crooked Road

1954 film by Richard Quine

1951 film by Max Nosseck