10 heist movies to watch if you loved Money Heist

Money Heist, the Spanish thriller, turns a ragtag crew into folk heroes and a break-in into a tale of loyalty, betrayal, and social commentary. Its tight plotting—every flash-forward, city code name, and red jumpsuit—keeps viewers glued to the screen, convinced the Professor’s perfect timing could shatter at any moment.

Under the masks, Money Heist examines team dynamics, ticking deadlines, and the sobering truth that even flawless blueprints buckle under raw emotion. From the first breach to the final escape, the gang’s fate hinges on raw emotion—a suspenseful, charismatic ride viewers find addictive and relatable.

Long before Money Heist, filmmakers were cracking safes on screen, refining vaults, getaway cars, and last-second double-crosses from Paris noir to Las Vegas neon. These ten films continue that tradition with intricate schemes, volatile crews, and heart-stopping moments where plans either click or collapse.

10 must-watch heist movies for fans of Money Heist

1) Inside Man

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Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) strides into a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and launches a hostage standoff that immediately feels off-kilter. Outside, Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) juggles negotiations while fixer Madeleine White (Jodie Foster) shields the bank's powerful founder.

Director Spike Lee parcels out the truth through interrogations, revealing a raid not for cash but for the poisonous secret in one safe-deposit box: its owner’s Nazi past. In Inside Man, Lee infuses the caper with social commentary, turning the bank lobby into a stage for racial tension and corporate guilt.

Russell’s crew avoids killing hostages; their real weapon is knowledge wielded against entrenched power, echoing Money Heist’s Robin-Hood ethos. Terence Blanchard’s sly jazz, granular New-York detail, and witty performances sustain the puzzle long past the closing credits.

Where to watch: Netflix

2) Ocean’s Eleven

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Las Vegas, three casinos, one night, and zero margin for error—Danny Ocean’s plan arrives fully formed and impossible to resist. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, and nine hand-picked specialists engineer a planned power outage, con a security chief, and stage a vault breach timed to a major fight-night distraction.

Director Steven Soderbergh shoots the prep like a music video: whip-pans, freeze-frames, and David Holmes' grooves turn blueprints into pop spectacle. Behind the gloss sits the ensemble electricity familiar to Money Heist. Every specialist—demolition expert, acrobat, pickpocket—turns criminal skill into pure showmanship.

Under the couture suits resides an underdog heart: thieves targeting a smug casino mogul who assumes the house always wins. When the vault cracks open, Soderbergh proves that unshakable confidence can be as explosive as plastique in Ocean’s Eleven.

Where to watch: HBO Max

3) The Italian Job

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A snarling traffic jam, a shipment of bullion, and a fleet of red-white-blue Minis careening through Turin announce The Italian Job’s playful tone. Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) recruits demolition men and getaway drivers to hijack the gold by manipulating Turin’s traffic-control system.

Caine’s immortal quips—“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”—cemented the plan as pop-culture folklore. Part of the charm is tactile authenticity—no CGI, only ingenious stunts and traffic-light choreography that mirrors Money Heist’s nuts-and-bolts planning.

The bright Minis, jaunty Quincy Jones score, and locker-room banter build a scrappy unity against pompous officials. By the cliff-hanger final frame, miniature cars have delivered oversized thrills, proving that audacity and teamwork can turn even gridlock into the ultimate getaway.

Where to watch: Paramount+

4) Heat

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Director Michael Mann’s Heat stages a relentless chess match between master thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and obsessive detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Both men live by harsh personal creeds and meet over coffee to admit the job has swallowed their private lives.

The centerpiece is a downtown L.A. bank robbery executed with military precision: timed rifle bursts ricochet off glass towers, sirens drown in gunfire, and the city gridlocks in seconds, demonstrating how quickly order implodes.

Heat resonates with Money Heist because strategy exacts an emotional toll. McCauley’s vow to walk away in thirty seconds collides with new love, while Hanna’s marriage buckles under perpetual adrenaline. The clash of mastery and longing makes a heist both breathtaking in action and heartbreaking in loss.

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

5) The Town

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Set in Boston’s Charlestown—urban lore’s bank-robbery capital—The Town opens with skull-masked thieves herding employees into a vault with brutal efficiency. After hot-headed Jem (Jeremy Renner) briefly kidnaps manager Claire—and takes her driver’s license—leader Doug (Ben Affleck) befriends her to mask the crime.

The bond clouds the gang’s Fenway Park score while FBI agent Adam Frawley tightens the net. Ben Affleck directs with blue-collar authenticity: terse Southie accents, cramped triple-deckers, and the sense that crime is a family heirloom.

Mirroring Money Heist, sympathy flows toward people trapped by inherited circumstances in The Town. Alley chases and a thunderous Fenway firefight thrill, yet the pulse remains Doug weighing brotherhood against a future that finally feels possible.

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

6) Reservoir Dogs

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A botched diamond job strands six code-named criminals in a deserted warehouse, blood pooling and paranoia blooming. Director Tarantino splices flashbacks of casual breakfast chatter—tipping etiquette, Madonna lyrics—into present-tense accusations that one of them is a cop.

The heist itself stays off-screen; viewers assemble the crime from ricocheting stories, bruised egos, and splashes of surreal humor. Minimal sets and rapid-fire dialogue prove tension can rest on psychology rather than lockpick diagrams, much like Money Heist’s Bank of Spain standoffs.

Mr. White’s instinct to shield the bleeding Mr. Orange shows how loyalty sprouts in criminal soil, even as it courts betrayal. Suits, skinny ties, and an oldies soundtrack cement this lean blueprint for modern capers.

Where to watch: Peacock

7) Baby Driver

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Baby, a getaway prodigy with earbuds welded in, syncs every downshift and drift to playlists that drown out tinnitus. Director Edgar Wright edits stick-ups, parking-garage escapes, and chases so gunshots punch on the snare and tire squeals bend with guitar licks, making each escape feel choreographed yet spontaneous.

The result is an action musical whose rhythm is literally written in rubber and gunpowder. Like Money Heist, Baby Driver film defines identity through style: crooks pick songs instead of city codenames, but timing rules everything.

Baby’s dream of running away with waitress Debora is exploited by boss Doc, who demands one last gig. As double-crosses pile up and engines roar, the story shows that even flawless timing can’t drown out a thumping conscience.

Where to watch: Netflix

8) Logan Lucky

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Laid-off construction worker Jimmy Logan plots to rob Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coca-Cola 600, exploiting the track’s cash-handling system while 100,000 fans howl above. He springs bleach-blond explosives guru Joe Bang from prison and recruits his one-armed bartender brother.

Together, they tap a jumble of locals whose drawls are thicker than their rap sheets. Child beauty pageants and county-fair gossip provide unlikely cover. Director Soderbergh returns to heists but swaps Vegas silk for NASCAR beer coolers, earning the wink-and-grin nickname ‘Ocean’s 7-Eleven.’

The humor hides pointed notes on blue-collar ingenuity and corporate neglect in Logan Lucky, echoing Money Heist’s populist streak. Prison lockdowns, improvised explosives, and a missing prosthetic hand are solved with folksy pragmatism, proving brilliance sometimes wears cargo shorts and a trucker hat.

Where to watch: Netflix

9) Rififi

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Director Jules Dassin’s French noir devotes nearly thirty silent minutes to four burglars drilling, prying, and padding through a Paris jeweler under the cover of night. Every bead of sweat and cigarette ember feels monumental, turning routine safe-cracking into ballet.

When the alarm finally shrieks, viewers realize they’ve been holding their breath. The break-in’s elegance makes the fallout brutal. Tony le Stéphanois watches a double-cross drag loved ones toward tragedy, demonstrating how one error shatters clockwork precision—a lesson Money Heist reinforces.

Crafted under 1950s censorship, the film’s restraint heightens suspense, proving colossal tension can bloom from a screwdriver and a stopwatch.

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video

10) American Animals

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Director Bart Layton stitches dramatization and interviews to chronicle four Kentucky students who plot to steal Audubon’s priceless Birds of America and other rare volumes. Fueled by heist-film marathons, they storyboard movie-style plans and don ill-fitting disguises.

Soon they learn reality is messier than montage, and fear smells like old carpet and pepper spray. The fractured timelines and clashing recollections suggest no story, onscreen or off, is fully reliable—a question Money Heist teases with its own flashbacks.

Cutting between youthful bravado and rueful hindsight, Layton dismantles the genre’s glamor, reminding us that real victims and lasting consequences rarely make the posters. It’s a heist film about believing in heist films, until belief collapses.

Conclusion

From Vegas neon to Paris fog, these ten films supply the intricate plans, volatile crews, and razor-edge suspense that turned Money Heist into appointment TV. Each title shows a different way a perfect scheme can sparkle or implode—through jittery jazz, roaring V-8s, or dead-quiet drill bits.

Queue them up and get ready for that tense, satisfying moment when the vault finally clicks.