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* Children's sitcom ''Series/TheLegendOfDickAndDom'' has an episode called "The Heist"; the heroes have to rob a bank to get back the MacGuffin that the corrupt manager has stolen. Features cunning disguises, a decoy robbery [[spoiler: and tunnel digging]]. And CreepyTwins, just for fun.
* The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "The First Chang Dynasty" has the study group plot an elaborate heist ''Film/OceansEleven''-style to rescue the Dean [[spoiler: after Chang replaced him with a doppelgänger and took over the school]].
* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' episode "Chaos" homages caper films.

* The 1980's British TV series, ''Series/{{Widows}}'' is about a group of thieves who get killed pulling a caper, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their widows]] resolve to pull it off themselves.
* Spanish series ''Series/LaCasaDePapel'' revolves around a meticulously planned heist on the Spanish Royal Mint.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' has a heist episode usually once a season, generally on Halloween (but subject to change), with the squad planning to "steal" (i.e., retrieve, since they're cops and a real heist is obviously a crime) certain precious items owned by any one of their number, previously agreed-upon. It's technically all a game, but one that becomes increasingly elaborate with each year, and after the first season, it becomes the Nine-Nine's annual tradition.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Given that the eponymous Seven are mostly a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits group of ex-cons]] that Blake rescued from a penal colony this trope comes up in several episodes, ranging from stealing a Federation decoder in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E6SeekLocateDestroy Seek-Locate-Destroy]]" to [[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E10Gold robbing a gold shipment]] in the final season -- by which time their idealistic leader has [[PutOnABus long since gone]] and the Seven are little better than SpacePirates acting under the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized guise of revolutionaries]].
* ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'': In "Forgive Us Our Debits," Keith, Danny, and Laurie get "revenge" on a computer that almost cheated them out of thousands of dollars by breaking into the computer room and sending Shirley a check for $50,000.
* ''Series/{{Lupin|2021}}'': the protagonist, who styles himself after ''Literature/ArseneLupin'', pulls off a heist to steal a necklace that belonged to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette in the first episode. The thugs he hired to help him pull it off betray him amidst the heist, but he anticipated that and gets out of it alone with the collar just as he planned.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "Caesar", Cleo's planned big score is to knockover a rival gang's stash of drugs and cash.

* Music/TheDecemberists' "The Perfect Crime" tracks are about the planning and execution of "the perfect crime." "The Perfect Crime No. 2," off ''The Crane Wife'', is specifically about a heist that somehow also involves kidnapping a mogul's daughter.
* Music/BarenakedLadies' "Bank Job" is the heist leader dressing down a member of his crew after a (hilariously) failed caper.

* Some of the subplots of ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' enter into this trope; Garrett sometimes goes through elaborate plans over multiple game levels to enter secure locations.
* Pulling off capers is the primary focus of Fragile Alliance, the multiplayer mode of the ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch'' games.
* Parodied in one ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' mission where an elaborate plan is thought up for a heist, but the plan is scrapped in favor of just [[CuttingTheKnot walking through the front door and shooting everyone]]. Also doubles as a ShoutOut[=/=]TakeThat to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' below, as the initial plan, as described, is similar to CJ's plan, before Gat and the Boss scrap the idea for just shooting everybody.

* The premise of the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series is a gang of thieves planning heists against master criminals, with each target requiring preparation, planning, and sometimes [[IndyPloy improvisation]].
* The ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC Dead Money, where the player (who's been strapped with an ExplosiveLeash) is forced to help the insane Father Elijah loot the Sierra Madre casino with the help of three other [=NPCs=], one of which has been trying to rob said casino for two centuries.

* The ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' expansion "Mark of the Assassin" plays out very similarly to Kasumi's mission. You join up with a LoveableRogue, infiltrate a high-class party, find your way past the guards to your host's vault...[[SubvertedTrope and then]] it turns out [[spoiler: Tallis is actually a Qunari agent. After that, it [[GenreShift shifts gears]] to a kind of medieval fantasy spy drama.]]

* The ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' summer event mission "Casino Heist" is based on the tropes of The Caper, with the players taking the parts of the CaperCrew.
* ''VideoGame/MonacoWhatsYoursIsMine'' is essentially this trope as the HighConcept for an entire game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Piratez}}'': The "Mansion of Anguish". Your team is to "conduct reconnaissance" (an excuse to wear maid's outfits) in a seemingly [[http://i.imgur.com/CJ7y4SL.png never-ending mansion]].
* The Big Dig quest in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has you and a few others tunnel from Goodneighbor to the Diamond City vault in order to rob Mayor [=McDonough=] blind [[spoiler:although the end of the quest reveals that you're not stealing from ''that'' Mayor [=McDonough=], but instead his brother, Hancock, the mayor of Goodneighbor]].
* Kasumi Goto's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' is framed as a heist, with her and Shepard infiltrating a party hosted by one Donovan Hock to recover a [[ApocalypticLog graybox]] belonging to her former partner, Keiji Okuda, which is stored in his heavily secure vault. Once you complete enough tasks to break in, the pair are caught, leading into a typical shoot-out segment to escape the scene.

* The ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' StoryArc [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091012 "Displacement"]] has the MainCharacters trying to pull one of these at a MadScientist's auction. Then it turns out the MadScientist is actually throwing a NastyParty, and HilarityEnsues.
* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', Roan's rescue. Since he was [[MadeASlave a slave]], technically a robbery as well.

* ''Literature/PayMeBug'' involves the captain of a smuggling ship being blackmailed into stealing something from [[TheEmpire The Empire of the Radiant Throne's]] most secure facility. Good thing [[MilesGloriosus he's done this before]], right?
* ''Roleplay/YouHaveBecomeYourAvatar'': King Kix, trapped in the body of [[WesternAnimation/The7D Hildy Gloom]], decides to stage a heist on the Seven Dwarves' Mine and get the Rock of Sages, so they can rule over magic. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Unfortunately, the Dwarves stole the Rock from under their eyes]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E3OneCrewOverTheCrewcoosMorty One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty]]" take this trope to its logical extent: the duo attend a convention dedicated to heists and, after pulling one over on a renowned heist artist, Rick's Heistotron AI goes rogue and begins assimilating the universe into a crew for his next caper, which turns out to be [[SerialEscalation stealing entire planets]]. [[spoiler:The end of the episode reveals the whole thing was Rick's convoluted plot to get Morty to lose faith in his pitch for a heist movie to Creator/{{Netflix}} so he won't give up going on adventures with Rick.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gives us the season 9 episode "Sparkle's Seven"[[note]]Some sources "Twilight's Seven"[[/note]] that sees Twilight Sparkle attempting to thwart the new security on Canterlot Castle put in by her big brother.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has the episode "Louie's 11", which sees the crew trying to sneak into a high-class party and includes Donald meeting [[spoiler:Daisy Duck]][[note]]Her first appearance in a ''[=DuckTales=]'' cartoon[[/note]] for the first time.
* ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS'': In "H*e*i*s*t", Glenn meets home old friends who now make money by robbing casinos. He gets roped into helping them rob a riverboat casino while everyone onboard is distracted by an eating contest.

* ''Literature/{{Parker}}''. Each book is divided into four sections of roughly equal length, subdivided into shorter chapters. The first and second sections are written in a limited third-person perspective focused entirely on Parker as he plans and undertakes a robbery or heist with colleagues. The second section ends on a cliffhanger, as Parker is betrayed -- often injured and left for dead. Section three shifts to the perspective of Parker's opponents, usually in flashback as they plan and execute their double-cross. Section four returns to Parker's perspective as he survives the plot against him and sets out for revenge.
* [[Literature/GentlemanBastard Locke Lamora]] being a thief, capers play a large role in the first two novels, particularly the second.
* ''Literature/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' by Michael Crichton.

* The ''VladTaltos'' novels often have at least elements of this. ''Jhereg'' and ''Yendi'' are straight examples.

* The ''Literature/NickVelvet'' stories by Creator/EdwardDHoch.
* Flawless is the story of the RealLife Antwerp diamond heist, where thieves stole an estimated $100-$400 million worth of diamonds in 2003.
* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. While in the movie, Goldfinger was going to irradiate the gold, in [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} the book]] he was actually planning to steal it.
* The first book of ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' is patterned after a heist, where our motley crew of thieves decides the best way to fight the EvilOverlord is to rob his treasury and bribe away all of his armies.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'': The dwarven party Bilbo joins is a fantastic version of this, with the idea being to take the riches of the Lonely Mountain. They explicitly enlist Bilbo as a "burglar."
%%* ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Star Wars: Scoundrels]]''
* In ''Literature/SkinGame'', fifteenth book in Literature/TheDresdenFiles, Harry is on a crew trying to steal [[spoiler: the Holy Grail from the vault of Hades (yes, that Hades).]]
* ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'' centers around a plot to poach over 200 pheasants in a single night, in order to ruin an evil industrialist's grand hunt.
* PlayedWith in ''Literature/RiverOfTeeth''. The story involves [[TheLeader Houndstooth]] assembling a CaperCrew of the usual suspects and the target is a corrupt businessman running several [[TheCasino casino boats]], however, the goal is not to rob him but to remove thousands of feral hippos from the lake where the aforementioned corrupt businessman is feeding cheating customers to them. Preferably without him noticing until it's too late. The ''operation'', as Houndstooth insists on calling it, is also sanctioned by the federal government. This stops none of the crew members from calling the entire thing a ''caper'' and treating it as such, much to Houndstooth's annoyance.
* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' - Taking place in the world of ''Literature/TheGrishaTrilogy'' six teenage criminals try to break into and out of the most secure prison in the world.
* ''Literature/StarWarsScoundrels'': Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian lead a crew to break into a local criminal bigwig's BigFancyHouse and steal the contents of his vault, including 163 million credits. Later, it turns out Villachor isn't just the head honcho of planet Wukkar, but also a lieutenant in [[TheSyndicate Black Sun]], and his vault is currently hosting the files Black Sun uses to blackmail officials across the Empire. The files become both an additional target and a way of gaining access to Villachor.

* ''The Knights of Prosperity,'' originally titled ''Let's Rob Mick Jagger.''

* In the ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' episode "Motherlode", a criminal attempts to steal 3 trillion dollars in gold from the Taelon mothership.

* The short-lived series ''Thieves''.
* The FX character drama ''Thief'' revolves around this trope, as does the NBC actioner, ''Heist''.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The "Liars, Guns and Money" trilogy from the end of the second season. Stark [[TheBusCameBack returns]] with a plan to rob a "Shadow Depository", effectively a bank for criminals, to secure funds to save D'Argo's son Jothee from slavery.
* Every single episode of ''Series/TheATeam''.
* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'' usually revolves around TheCon, but...
** The season 2 finale, "Eye of the Beholder", is a classic caper plot in which the team steals one of the Crown Jewels. [[spoiler:Until the end, when it turns out that the entire point of the caper was to con a bunch of people into buying fakes...]]
** In an episode in season 5, ''New Recruits'', Hustle pulls a similar "caper" again. [[spoiler:This time, they're conning their mark, who had been advertising a completely foolproof security system, into thinking they'd stolen a painting. Really, they just hid it behind a false wall.]]

* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': Cleo's planned big score is to knockover a rival gang's stash of drugs and cash.

* ''Film/ANightingaleSanginBerkeleySquare'': Pinky is [[JustGotOutOfJail released from prison]] and has decided to go straight from now on, but takes a job as a maintenance man at a large bank, which gives him a lot of undue attention from "Ivan the Terrible", the local hoodlum. By using Pinky, Ivan hopes to rob the bank, and Pinky starts to like the idea of going back to his old ways.

* In ''Film/StTrinians2007'', the St. Trinian's girls must get into the final of ''School Challenge'', a TV quiz show held in the National Gallery in London, as a cover for stealing Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring".

* ''Film/HappyNewYear'', about a MasterOfDisguise (Peter Falk) and his BumblingSidekick (Charles Durning) planning to rob a Palm Beach jewelry store.
%% * ''Film/HighSierra''
* ''Film/TheThieves'' is a Korean take on the genre, with a crew using a mix of Korean and Hong Kong members. It also has a truly epic GambitPileup.
* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/TheBourneIdentity''. Jason plans an elaborate caper to get Marie in and out of a luxury hotel so he can get hold of some documents he needs regarding a pseudonym he apparently used before he lost his memory, but Marie changes her mind midway and just asks the clerk for a photocopy.
* ''Film/FastFive'': Dom and Brian assmeble a CaperCrew equipped with charchters from the franchise's pervious installements for OneLastJob - robbing Rio's biggest drug lord. The crew pulls two more capers in the next two ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' films.
* Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/KirkDouglas team up to steal a half million in gold from ''Film/TheWarWagon'', an armored stagecoach.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The climax of ''Film/RogueOne'' features the titular team stealing the plans for the Death Star to discover its weakpoint. [[spoiler:Being a ForegoneConclusion, the mission is accomplished, but the entire team ends up dying in the process]].
** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' features two heists of coaxium (a highly valuable source of fuel) in which Han Solo takes part. The first one is a TrainJob that ends up ruined because of a gang of SpacePirates. The second one involves stealing unrefined coaxium in the mines of Kessel.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/AntMan1'', a genius millionaire gives master cat burglar [[TheHero Scott]] a superhero outfit that lets him shrink down to the size of an ant, all to steal exactly the same technology from an unscrupulous businessman [[CutLexLuthorACheck who plans to sell it]] to some very shady types. About half the plan is "use the suit" which justifies otherwise unrealistic tropes like AirVentPassageway, and the other half is the regular standard heist techniques that Scott and his fellow criminals do anyway.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', of all movies, is an example, with a super-heroic twist. [[LateArrivalSpoiler Following up on]] the last ''Avengers'' movie, the heroes are trying to [[DismantledMacGuffin re-assemble]] the ArtifactOfDoom that [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar killed their friends]] with the hopes of reversing the damage. [[spoiler:After learning that the {{Macguffin}}s have all been destroyed, they decide to use TimeTravel to go back to where the Infinity Stones had been across time and space in [[Film/TheAvengers2012 other]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Marvel]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy movies]], bring them back to the present, and save the universe.]] There's a planning phase as they gather everything they know about the Infinity Stones and where they would be, then they split off into smaller groups, each targeting a specific Stone. And of course, not everything quite works out as planned.
* ''Film/CityOfIndustry'': The heist of a jewelry store by a four-man operation occurs early on and proceeds without a hitch. The actual fall-out results from the newest member of the group later betraying his associates so he doesn't have to share the loot with them. He kills two of them but the third guy gets away, and since one of the other two was the surviving party's [[YouKilledMyFather younger brother]] he spends the rest of the movie [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge gunning after his treacherous ex-partner]].
* ''Film/BadGenius'' has a foursome of Thai high school students execute an elaborate plan to steal and profit off the answers to an international standardized test.
* In ''Film/DenOfThieves'', Merriman and his crew are planning a heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles: the 'bank for banks'.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/DeadPresidents''. Despite a well-planned heist, the ex-Vietnam veterans are ill-suited to committing a robbery and the whole plan goes to pieces.
* ''Film/Triple9'' opens with the crew knocking over a bank to steal a safety deposit box. A large chunk of the latter part of the film is devoted to them planning and then executing a heist on a Homeland Security safe building.
* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'': Four college students plan to steal millions of dollars worth of rare books from a university library that are guarded by only a single librarian. It's a {{dramatization}} of a real crime.
* ''Film/KingOfThieves'' is a dramatization if the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary: the "largest burglary in English legal history."
* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', Dobermann and his gang are planning to [[BankRobbery rob multiple banks]] on the same day.
* ''Film/TheConIsOn'': To pay off their debts, Harry and Peter plant to steal a $5 million ring given to Peter's ex-wife Jackie by her new husband.
* In ''Film/MoneyMovers'', Eric, Brian and Ed are formulating a plan for knocking over the counting house of the largest armoured car firm in the city, on the day of the week when it holds the most cash. Local mobster Jack Henderson finds out about the scheme, and muscles his way on board.
* ''Film/{{Swelter}}'' has a casino robbery as their backstory, seen briefly in flashbacks. It went wrong, and the film follows four of the conspirators 10 years later as they attempt to track down their fifth man and the $10 dollars they stole.
* ''Film/{{Bandits}}'': The Sleepover Bandits' final heist is on a much larger scale than their previous robberies, and ingenious and multi-layered in nature.
* ''Film/AnyNumberCanWin'': This French film is about the elaborate plan of criminals to rob a casino in Cannes.
* In ''Film/{{Graduation}}'', four best friends plot to rob a bank during their high school graduation ceremony in order to help out one of the teen's sick relatives.
* In ''Film/AssaultOnAQueen'', a group of morally dubious treasure turn SubmarinePirates when they salvage a sunken U-boat and plan to use it to robe the ''RMS Queen Mary'' med-ocean.
* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': After he helps Lynch break out of prison, JR becomes part of Sam's plan to pull off a heist at the gold refinery in Kalgoorlie.
* ''Film/TheSilentPartner'', which is about two thieves engaging in a battle of wits over who gets to pull of the heist.

* * ''Film/TheDayTheyRobbedTheBankOfEngland'': In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.

%% * ''Film/DayOfTheWolves''
* ''Film/TheFriendsOfEddieCoyle'' begins with a bank robbery that takes up about 20 minutes of its runtime, even though this is only one of several plot lines in the film. The bank robbers perpetrate a number of similar crimes while the title character mulls over whether to [[TheInformant inform on them]] to get himself a lighter prison sentence.
* ''Film/TheTown'': The film centers on a working-class Boston Irish crew of bank robbers who execute several daring heists throughout the film.
%% * ''Mad Money''
%% * ''Film/TheMaidenHeist''
%% * ''ANightingaleSanginBerkeleySquare''
%% * ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'', what happens when a suburban couple are forced into a life of crime by circumstances.
* ''Film/RobotAndFrank'', a scifi dramedy secretly including several caper tropes
%% * ''CarryOnMatron''
* ''Film/BottleRocket'' is something of a caper parody, with a group of idle rich kids planning a series of ill-advised capers.
* ''Film/TradingPlaces'': The caper is a scheme to swap out a crop report on oranges and use the advance information to make a fortune on frozen concentrated orange juice futures while tricking the main characters' enemies to do the opposite. While the theft is illegal, the insider futures trading itself was perfectly legal at the time, but was eventually outlawed.
%% * ''Film/ThunderboltAndLightfoot''
* ''{{Film/Bound 1996}}'': Two lesbians steal several million in cash and try to pin it on the mobster boyfriend of one of them.
* The comedy ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Money Hot Money]]'', where a group of cleaning staff for the Bank Of England steal some of the old money that's about to be incinerated, by stuffing it in their underwear.
* ''Film/TheScore'' features an interesting take on safecracking, even if the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' showed it wouldn't work.

* ''I soliti ignoti'' (US title ''Film/BigDealOnMadonnaStreet''), a 1958 Italian comedy. Americanized as ''Crackers'' (1984) and ''Welcome to Collinwood'' (2002).
* ''Film/TheHotRock'': Dortmunder, the world's unluckiest crook, discovers just how many time he can steal the same gem.
%% * ''Henry's Crime''
%% * ''Gambit''
* ''Going in Style'': The [[Film/GoingInStyle1979 1979 version]] has three senior citizens plan and execute a bank robbery, largely to put some excitement back into their dull, post-retirement lives. The [[Film/GoingInStyle2017 2017 remake]] follows the same basic story, but the three lead characters resort to bank robbery after their pensions are dismantled when the company they worked for for 30 years is bought out.
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'', the main character's career is doing this with ideas. The plot of the movie is an inversion: They must leave an idea instead.
* ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'', which started a heist-film revival after two decades of relative silence on the caper front.
%% * ''The Great Riviera Bank Robbery'' (also known as ''Sewers of Gold'')
%% * ''Film/TheBrinksJob''
%% * ''Loophole''
* ''Film/TowerHeist'': A group formerly employed at a Manhattan high rise plan to break into the owner's penthouse suite and rob millions from a hidden safe, in order to compensate themselves and all the other employees who lost their pensions and savings to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive said owner's]] Ponzi scheme.
%% * ''The Master's Touch''
* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', though it's more a farce
* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/SmallTimeCrooks'' starts out as one of these, then shifts gears when [[spoiler:the cookie business set up as cover for their activities becomes an [[FakeRealTurn unexpected success]]]].

* The Creator/StanleyKubrick film ''Film/TheKilling''. Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery. However, despite the thoroughness of the planning, things start to unravel for [[SpannerInTheWorks reasons that could not have been planned for]].

* ''Film/HowToStealAMillion''- A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and enlists the help of a man she believes to be a professional art thief.
* ''Film/ThePerfectScore'' - A group of teens steal the answers to the SAT, as failing would jeopardize their respective futures.
* The Danish film-series ''Olsen-banden'' and its Swedish and Norwegian counterparts consists of nothing but this.
%% * The latest ''Film/StTrinians'' movie (and the older ones, too).

* ''Film/SexyBeast'', though the main character spends most of his energies trying to avoid participation in the caper.
* The first part of ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' has a team of former spies of various nations planning the elaborate take-down of a four-car caravan to steal a mysterious case for an Irish militant group.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' does an interesting version by completely skipping the caper itself, making it a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]].
** The video game of the film, on the other hand, is all about the heist.
* ''Film/KillingZoe'' is what happens when The Caper is attempted [[AddledAddict while on heroin]]. Things don't end well.
* ''Film/TheLadykillers'' (both versions) have a crew of lowlifes trying to tunnel into a vault through an old woman's basement while posing as a musical group having rehearsals.
%% * ''Film/TheLavenderHillMob''
%% * ''Foolproof''
* ''TheDayTheyRobbedTheBankOfEngland''
* ''Film/KellysHeroes'' and ''Film/ThreeKings'' both feature soldiers going on a caper during war time.
%% * ''Who's Minding the Mint?''
%% * ''How To Beat The High Cost Of Living''
* ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' is about, as you might expect, a train robbery.

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%% * The point of virtually all ''Franchise/LupinIII'' stories.
* In an early episode of ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS'', Chirico and company hijack a [[{{Unobtainium}} jijirium]] shipment.

* ''Comicbook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' revolves around one complicated caper, which gets increasingly convoluted as everyone involved tries to screw everyone else involved over.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/451065/the-amulet-job The Amulet Job]] is a parody and somewhat-deconstruction of this genre: The Alicorn Amulet has been stolen by a shady casino-owner to sell on the black market, and Starlight has to steal it back; the only co-conspirators she can find are Ponyville's residents, who are law-abiding citizens who only know how to crime from reading crime stories.

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* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' -- Mixed with action and [=horror=]/{{zombie|stories}} genre.
* ''Film/{{Rififi}}'', ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', and ''Film/{{Topkapi}}'' -- all were direct inspiration for ''Series/MissionImpossible''. ''Film/{{Rififi}}'' is the TropeCodifier.
* ''Ocean's Eleven'' (the [[Film/{{Oceans 11}} original]], the [[Film/OceansEleven remake]] and the remake's sequels) thrived on this trope, with con artist Danny Ocean assembling a BadassCrew to commit audacious robberies without any violence. There's a prominent use of OnceMoreWithClarity for the remake and its sequels.
* ''Film/LoganLucky'' is basically the DeepSouth and blue collar version of ''Ocean's Eleven'', with a NASCAR circuit as target instead of banks/casinos/museums.
* The Stanley Kubrick film ''Film/TheKilling''. Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery. However, despite the thoroughness of the planning, things start to unravel for reasons that could not have been planned fro.
* ''Film/OddsAgainstTomorrow'' -- Can easily be seen as a deconstruction in the vein of ''The Asphalt Jungle'', as the three-man heist operation falls apart due to internal strife between the racist Earl Slater and the AngryBlackMan Johnny Ingram, and the leader, Burke, being unable to keep their differences in check.
* ''Film/TheAndersonTapes'', featuring an immediately post-Bond Creator/SeanConnery and one of Creator/ChristopherWalken's first roles. The title refers to the fact that the story was told though surveillance tapes.

* ''Film/BankShot''. Crooks plot literally steal a bank, i.e. to steal the entire building.

%% * ''Film/ThePinkPanther1963''

%% * ''Takers''
* ''The Thomas Crown Affair'' - both [[Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1999 the new one]] and the [[Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1968 original one]].
%% * ''Film/{{Armored}}''

* ''Film/TheAndersonTapes'', featuring an immediately post-Bond Sean Connery and one of Christopher Walken's first roles. The title refers to the fact that the story was told though surveillance tapes.

* In the Series/EarthFinalConflict'' episode "Motherlode", a criminal attempts to steal 3 trillion dollars in gold from the Taelon mothership.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' takes this premise and runs with it - not only are there several heists in the game, each one has a variety of missions associated with it to prepare for said heist. For example, when the team plans to rob a jewelry store, they send in a guy to case the joint and take pictures of the various security systems. Once they have the pictures, the player has to make a decision on whether to go in "loud and dumb" with guns blazing, or recruit a hacker and steal some knockout gas, an exterminator's van, and dress up as exterminators so that people won't question their gas masks. You also need to hire a crew to help you with the support stuff - the more competent they are, the bigger take they demand, but the less likely they are to fail and drop their loot. And finally, after all that, comes the heist itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' has the episode "Louie's 11" which sees the crew trying to sneak in to a high class party. Includes Donald meeting [[spoiler:Daisy Duck]][[note]]Her first appearance in a Ducktales cartoon[[/note]] for the first time.

* The Big Dig quest in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has you and a few others tunnel from Goodneighbor to the Diamond City vault in order to rob Mayor McDonough blind [[spoiler:although the end of the quest reveals that you're not stealing from ''that'' Mayor McDonough, but instead his brother, Hancock, the mayor of Goodneighbor]].