Another six episodes of the BBC's super slick con series, yes credibility is occasionally stretched and characters are often little more than clichés find out more...

Another six episodes of the BBC's super slick con series, yes credibility is occasionally stretched and characters are often little more than clichés find out more...

Another six episodes of the BBC's super slick con series, yes credibility is occasionally find out more...

Another six episodes of the BBC's super slick con series, yes credibility is occasionally find out more...

John is a happy man with simple expectations, but when his niece gets into Harvard a rash promise made years ago comes back to bite him where it hurts, he's short on the readies... so it's poorly conceived amateur crime spree time. 'Stealing Harvard 'is a foolish film about two foolish men attempting to do some foolish things. So, foolish then... but not a bad low brow laugh. find out more...

The classic heist movie, adapted from WR Burnett's novel. A tense, satisfyingly objective study of a gang of hardened villains who fall apart after attempting an ambitious robbery. Sounds familiar? Much imitated but never equalled, this is one of the late John Huston's finest accomplishments. find out more...

Bob Montagnet is a man whose seen better days. Once a thief of high regard and now a gambler who seems to have lost his edge, (though his addiction to heroin can't help), life seems to be taking a slow but irreversable slide into oblivion. Bob however is provided with an unlikely chance of personal redemption, the ultimate art heist and the love of a bad woman. The Good Thief is a super smooth European based thriller, and though the plot ultimately fails to surprise, the quality of the acting an find out more...

Johnny Clay has the perfect plan, to steal 2 million from a racetrack in a scheme which is as close to perfection as a robbery can be. There is just one thing Johnny hasn't reckoned on, Sherry Peatty, one mother of a femme fatale with no discernable moral compunction and a determination to make the money hers that is so strong....Johnny and his band of hardened criminals may not survive. The Killing is an early Stanley Kubrick film (in the days when a studio could still tell him what they wanted find out more...

Cagney's original gangster performance, he plays Powers, a big time mobster on the up and up. The film's impact derives from its acknowledgement of crime as partly due to poor social conditions, rather than the product of evil individuals. Cagney's role installed him as the definitive gangster hero. find out more...

A very dated but still entertaining slice of 60s kitsch. McQueen is the incredibly debonaire playboy millionaire, led to commit robbery through boredom, countered by Dunaway, the implausibly glamorous fraud investigator. Much period posing and split-screen shenanigans, with fun results. find out more...