17 of the best heist movies on streaming

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Who doesn’t love a good heist movie? Whether it’s a bank robbery, a jewelry heist, a long con, or some combination of the three, the heist thriller is a crowd pleaser for good reason.

The Polygon staff has pulled together some of our very favorite heist movies available to watch now on streaming platforms like Netflix and HBO Max. We’ve left out some of the more obvious examples (all the Ocean’s movies are on HBO Max if you’re looking for that marathon), in favor of some of our other favorite entries across multiple decades and nations. So make a plan, grab your squad, and pull off a viewing night with one of these great heist movies:

Any movie where a team of misfits, lead by Dave Bautista, has to rob a Las Vegas vault is automatically great. Army of the Dead adds zombies to the equation. The movie takes place in a near future in which a deadly virus creates zombies, but the outbreak ends up contained inside Las Vegas, which becomes infected territory. This is among the biggest and loudest heist movies on this list, blending the zombie-killing of later Resident Evil movies with all the tension of safe cracking. The real key to this movie’s greatness and fun, though, is Bautista, who is without question the most interesting and sensitive of the giant-man action stars. He counterbalances the bombastic premise with genuine heart and is endlessly watchable as a zombie-killing, one-man army. —Austen Goslin

The Army of the Deadis available to stream on Netflix.

A crime movie classic, The Asphalt Jungle follows a petty criminal named Dix Handley who’s hired onto a crew to complete a $500,000 jewel heist that quickly goes wrong. The Asphalt Jungle is arguably the first heist film, at least in the way we think of it today. While