It’s hard to deny — this week’s audacious Louvre heist has captured the public imagination like few other crimes in recent memory .
But instead of planning a caper for yourself, a good heist movie is probably the best way to feel that vicarious thrill.
In that spirit, we’ve put together some of the best titles in the genre and where you can watch them — focusing on Louvre-adjacent heists of things, instead of simply money. (That is, with a few fudged honourable mentions.)
Contemporary capers
From left, scenes from The Mastermind, The Gold and Crime 101. (Mubi/The Associated Press, Paramount+, Amazon MGM)
Extremely loosely based on the Worcester Art Museum heist in Massachusetts in 1972, the Josh O’Connor art theft film The Mastermind documents the exploits of a disaffected man who attempts to leisurely take off with four Arthur Dove paintings. Unlike other entries on this list, don’t expect fireworks from this slow-paced thinkpiece. In Canadian theatres Oct 31.
Picking up where its first season left off, the newest season of British series The Gold focuses on the outcome of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat gold robbery in London. Where most heist stories focus on the robbers, this series focuses more on the police chasing after them.
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