5 Best Heist Movies of All Time

3. Rififi

No list of heist movies would be complete without Rififi. Jules Dassin is critiqued by many for paving the path for the modern heist film with Rififi. After he was blacklisted in Hollywood, American director Jules Dassin went to France and only took on the French film. Adapted from a crime novel by Auguste Le Breton, Rififi follows a group of four men who execute a perfect crime until one guy does a small mistake that bears grave results. This 1955 award-winning classic French film features one of the most famous scenes in movie history: There’s a half an hour heist scene that takes place without dialogue or music. Asolute gripping silence!