The Wonderful Crook

Feb 19, 1975

1h 52m

★ 5.6

Overview

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Artco Films

Citel Films

Action Films

MJ Productions

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Cast

Pierre Vaucher

Gérard Depardieu

Nelly Wagner

Marlène Jobert

Marthe Vaucher

Dominique Labourier

Georges Vaucher, Pierre's father

Jacques Debary

Julien

Philippe Léotard

Michel Pilorgé

Roland Amstutz

François, foreman

Michel Robin

Henri, drunkard

Paul Crauchet

Maurice Aufair

Guillaume, Pierre's son

Guillaume Depardieu

Adrien Nicati

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

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6.0

The Robbery

Jan 1, 2012

A robbery going terrible wrong ...

7.4

Inside Man

Mar 17, 2006

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

4.8

Fall Time

May 13, 1995

Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.

6.5

Stand Off

Aug 13, 2012

A group of elite female bank robbers are thrown into a Mexican stand off when they discover that someone on their team might be a snitch for the cops...

5.9

Too Fat Too Furious

Feb 3, 2005

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.

8.0

A Step Out of Line

Feb 26, 1971

Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.

6.5

Box 507

Aug 23, 2002

Modesto, an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked and dragged by unknown men, and finds out in a safety-deposit box that the fire was plotted. From that day on, he sets on a personal crusade for justice.

6.7

First Love

Jun 10, 2006

In the chaotic days of the 1960s, Misuzu, a lonely high school girl from a troubled family, finds sanctuary with her nihilistic brother, Ryo, and his friends. They pass their days hanging around a shadowy jazz cafe bar, indulging themselves in a life of sex, drugs and alcohol.

5.9

Could We Maybe

Feb 16, 1976

Kim, an ordinary 15-year-old given mostly to himself, is living with an unmarried mother in a small apartment. One day, he falls hostage in a bank robbery along with an unfamiliar girl falls, but after making friends with the leader of the robbers, Kim and his new friend run away from them. Settling for a while in an empty house, teenagers fall in love.

6.2

Comic 8

Jan 29, 2014

Eight young people from various reasons and motives coincidentally rob a bank at the same time. They had to work together to find answers to the puzzles, and find the best solution for all.

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10.0

Jimmy Valentine

May 24, 1989

A professional safe cracker finds love in while in search of riches.

6.8

The Fugitives

Dec 17, 1986

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.

6.5

Pushover

Jul 14, 1954

A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

5.6

Bloody Mama

Mar 24, 1970

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

6.7

Three Fugitives

Jan 27, 1989

On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.

6.5

Thieves Like Us

Feb 11, 1974

Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.

6.2

Hannie Caulder

Nov 8, 1971

After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.