When it comes to the best heist movies on Netflix, it's no surprise that the streaming service has quite a few to choose from The heist movie genre has produced many hits because heist movies are so much fun to watch
With Steven Soderbergh's “Logan Lucky” making Netflix's top 10 list this week (more on that later), we felt it was the perfect time to compile a list of the best heist movies Netflix has to offer To do so, we assembled a team that included a racetrack heist, a former getaway driver trying to save his girlfriend, a Vietnam vet looking for gold, a group of former Delta Force soldiers robbing a drug lord, and one of Netflix's most-watched movies If any group can take up your time and attention, it's this one
Here are the five best Netflix heist movies to watch right now
Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is a construction worker for a company working on the Charlotte Motor Speedway underground tunnel However, when his boss discovers that Jimmy injured his leg playing football in high school, Jimmy is fired for insurance
In revenge and to recoup his lost income, Jimmy hires his brother Clyde (Adam Driver) to hit the speedway using a pneumatic tube system to move money in the underground tunnels To do so, he must assemble a team including his sister Mary (Riley Keough), safecracker Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), and Joe's brothers Sam (Brian Gleason) and Fish (Jack Quaid) They must steal the money on the weekend when the racetrack is at its busiest, and they must first break Joe out of jail
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Miles (Ansel Elgort), known as “Baby” to his fellow criminals, is one of the best getaway drivers in the city of Atlanta He meets Deborah (Lily James), a waitress at a local diner, and when a robbery goes wrong, he suddenly abandons his life of crime to focus on his life with her, delivering pizzas
Unfortunately, escaping the criminal world is never easy, as Baby finds out when the crime boss “Doc” (Kevin Spacey), for whom he worked, threatens Baby during a date with Deborah And now Baby must help Doc pull off a post office heist with the precarious team of Bonnie and Clyde, “Darling” (Eiza González) and “Buddy” (Jon Hamm), plus Doc's murderous henchman, “Butts” (Jamie Foxx) Baby Driver” may be one of the more serious heist movies, but rest assured, it never lets off the gas
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During the Vietnam War, US 1st Infantry Division soldiers Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clark Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr), and squad leader Norman (Chadwick Boseman) steal a case of gold bullion from a CIA plane crash They succeed in burying the gold, but are unable to recover it before a Viet Cong counterattack kills Norman and an air strike puts the gold out of reach
Decades later, the same soldiers return to Vietnam and team up with French businessman DeRoche to finally recover the lost gold Part heist movie, part Vietnam War drama, “Da 5 Blood” is an excellent film, thanks to its stellar cast and Spike Lee's direction, and is definitely one of Netflix's top five heist movies
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When it comes to a stellar cast, nothing beats the cast of Triple Frontier Sure, heist movies tend to feature competent ensemble casts because they need competent ensemble casts, but beyond the former Delta Force operatives of Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal is hard to beat
In Triple Frontier, Santiago “Pope” Garcia (Isaacs) works with local Colombian police to take on drug cartels He forms this special unit after hearing from an informant (Adria Arjona) that Colombian drug lord Gabriel Martín Lorea has $75 million It is (relatively) easy for Pope to convince his warriors to steal the money and enter Colombia Getting out of Colombia alive is the hard part
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Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) is the world's second most wanted art thief But with the help of FBI profiler John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) and Interpol, he steals one of Cleopatra's lost jewel eggs in Rome But before Booth can be put behind bars, Booth's rival “Bishop” (Gal Gadot) steals the egg, frames Hartley, and both Booth and Hartley are sent to a Russian prison Now the unlikely duo must escape from prison, retrieve the eggs from Bishop, and clear their names
“Red Notice” is certainly not lacking in star power or style Nor does it lack twists and turns Critics have criticized the film, but audiences overwhelmingly loved it, giving it a 92% “Popcornmeter” rating on Rotten Tomatoes If you are looking for a heist movie that is more easily described as a fun movie than a great movie, this is the movie for you
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