La Grande Embrouille

6.5

Loophole

March 1954 •English

Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.

6.4

The Bank Dick

November 1940 •English

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

6.8

The Thomas Crown Affair

June 1968 •English

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

7.0

Beware Spooks!

October 1939 •English

A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.

6.5

Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds

February 1968 •German

Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist.

4.0

Money

March 1989 •German

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. She comes up with a plan to rob her bank. When the branch manager and neighbor Lothar Fuchs, whom Carmen has always envied for his beauty and wealth, recognizes her, she takes him hostage. In their hideout in the Allgäu, the banker falls in love with the housewife, just as Werner and Fuchs' mistress Gabriele grow closer. The quartet form an alliance and defraud the bank together. Having come into money so suddenly, the Müllers don't feel comfortable either and secretly distribute their fortune around the neighborhood.

5.5

Scorched

May 2003 •English

Three mischievous employees of a bank in a small deserted town all make plans to rob it at the same time, however none of them knows about the others.

5.4

The Last Tunnel

March 2004 •French

A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.

4.5

Go Chase Yourself

April 1938 •English

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

6.0

Bandidas

January 2006 •English

Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.

5.3

No Good Deed

June 2002 •English

While doing a friend a favour and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. The screenplay by Christopher Cannan and Steve Barancik is based on the short story "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.

5.6

The Real McCoy

September 1993 •English

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex-husband she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

0.0

Der Hammermörder

January 1990 •German

This TV-Movie is based on real events that took place in southern Germany in the mid 80's. A policeman tries to build a house for his family while he experiences financial troubles; everything goes tragically wrong from then on.

6.8

Kill, Panther, Kill!

March 1968 •German

Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.

6.4

You're Dead...

October 1999 •English

A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.

6.3

Chaos

January 2005 •English

In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation with the rookie Shane Dekker as his partner. The thieves, lead by Lorenz, apparently do not steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team disclose that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.

0.0

Operation Tatar

October 2010 •Mongolian

A bank employee, Taivnaa, is fired for pointing out the bank's wrongdoing. Since he can't afford medical expenses for his beloved daughter who has a serious disease, he decides to conduct "Operation Tatar" to steal the bank's black money with his three buddies: ex-boxer/ex-policeman Tulgaa; half-Russian, self-proclaimed expert driver Kolya; and geeky genius hacker Gyalbaa. At the risk of their lives, they embark on Operation Tatar!

5.5

Tennessee Nights

October 1991 •English

When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a bank robbery and murder. Pursued by the killers, he's running from the police and a young hitchhiker appears to be his only friend.

2.7

It Could Be Worse

February 1983 •French

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.

4.0

A Bullet for Pretty Boy

July 1970 •English

A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.

La Grande Embrouille

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Cast

Jean Lefebvre

Philippe Mareuil

Guy Lecluyse

Jean-Marie Bigard

Nelly Vignon

Bernard Larmande

Jean-François Klein

Maria Vincent

Claude Debord

Charlotte Kady

Pierre Belot

Franck Accart

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