They’re like a pop art version of Gomez and Morticia. Their devotion to each other and genuine eroticism makes them endlessly charming as they pull off surprisingly elaborate and well-plotted heists. Diabolik (John Phillip Law) and Eva Kant (Marisa Mell) love doing two things: ripping off the rich, and making love, preferably on their giant rotating bed, covered in recently stolen money. ![]() Chicken Runĭanger: Diabolik comes from an era where “comic book movie” meant something weird, horny, and European. It is also available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu. Jenna StoeberĬharade is available to stream on Prime Video, The Criterion Channel, and Mubi, for free to watch with ads on Vudu, Tubi, and Pluto TV, or for free with a library card on Kanopy and Hoopla. It’s His Girl Friday by way of Hitchcock. Their chemistry is immediate and undeniable it’s key in carrying off the film’s snappy dialogue and mixture of flirtatious comedy, captivating mystery, and genuine thriller. Grant’s initial discomfort with their age gap - 25 years, a still not uncommon chasm in Hollywood - resulted in rewrites to the script to make clear that Reggie was pursuing him it remains one of the few movies in which the gap is acknowledged and dealt with believably, rather than taken for granted. In the span of a single scene, Hepburn might move from pragmatic to seductive to fearful with believable ease. Hepburn and Grant, two famously talented and charming stars, are at their most charming and talented in Charade. As more people are pulled into the orbit of the money, it becomes less clear who, if anyone, Reggie can trust. To make matters worse, the remaining money is missing, and a lot of terrible people think Reggie knows where it is. When he is suddenly murdered, she realizes she didn’t really know anything about him - or, for that matter, the new man in her life, Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). The heist at the center of Charade was successful years prior to the movie, and without realizing it, Reggie (Audrey Hepburn) has been living off the profits from her husband’s crime. Image: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Pete Volkīig Deal on Madonna Street is available to stream on Criterion Channel, or for free with ads on Freevee. With a terrific jazz score and many hilarious gags, Big Deal on Madonna Street is a delight. None of them are particularly good at this heist stuff, and nothing goes according to plan, culminating in an uproarious finale. ![]() Then there’s Ferribotte (Tibero Murgia), a controlling older brother overprotective of his beautiful sister (Claudia Cardinale), and Capannelle (Carlo Pisacane), an elderly pickpocket. Tiberio (Mastroianni), a photographer, pawned his camera equipment to care for his adorable baby while the mother is in prison. Peppe (Vittorio Gassman), a boxer, has a cleaner criminal record than his boxing one. ![]() Mario, a woodworker, grew up in an orphanage and can’t find a steady job but wants a better life for the three women who raised him. ![]() This is not your typical flashy, experienced caper crew. A group of somewhat incompetent working class thieves attempt to rob a pawn shop in Rome, using a increasingly complicated scheme that involves boring through a wall to get to a jewelry safe. This hilarious Italian heist comedy helped supercharge the career of the legendary actor Marcello Mastroianni ( La Dolce Vita, 8½) and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1959 Oscars. The Asphalt Jungle is available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu. Every bit of the movie’s heist and its aftermath remain just as exciting and tense as any other movie on the list. Even after more than 70 years, it’s rare for a movie to trust its audience to keep up this much. Names of crime bosses are constantly thrown out and criminal terms are said left and right without a second for the audience to catch their breath. While the building-the-crew scenes and tense moments during the crime are all recognizable as modern heist-movie hallmarks, one thing that stands out is just how dense this movie is.ĭirector John Huston, who also wrote the script with Ben Maddow, manages to create a complete criminal underworld in this unnamed town in just under two hours. The Asphalt Jungle is arguably the first heist film, at least in the way we think of it today. 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.
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