Though it seems like there’s a proven formula to heist movies that works every time, such as featuring a crew of smart-talking criminals and several twists and turns throughout the movie, they are so hard to get right. Many crime movies with heists often end up disappointing, but it makes it that much sweeter when a great one comes around.
Whether they’re movies focused on mysterious getaway drivers, feature irresistible ensemble casts that are drenched in charm and banter, or approach the heists in such a unique way, these movies deserve sequels before any others.
10 Baby Driver (2017)
Though it’s a heist movie by nature, Baby Driver focuses more on the getaway, and it follows Baby, the greatest getaway driver cinema has ever scene. The action scenes are expertly shot, as they’re edited to match classic rock songs, and it’s more like an audio-visual experience more than anything.
Writer-director Edgar Wright has confirmed that a screenplay for a sequel has, in fact, been written, but if it will ever get made or not is another situation entirely. The first movie was a passion project for the director, as he had been developing it for 20 years. Being that invested in the IP, it could be likely that the sequel will be produced, even though Wright has never directed a sequel to any of his other movies.
9 Logan Lucky (2017)
10 years after the release of Ocean’s Thirteen, Soderbergh must have had an itch that needed scratching, as he returned to heist movies, and in top form too. Logan Lucky is much more overtly comedic and original than the Ocean’s movies, as the group of criminals in this movie set out to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
And for anyone who loved Daniel Craig’s southern drawl in Knives Out, it first appeared in Logan Lucky better than ever. Though the movie probably won’t ever get a sequel as it underperformed at the box office, it’s one of the most overlooked heist movies in recent years, and the wacky characters deserve a follow-up.
8 Tower Heist (2011)
Tower Heist is one of the most underrated movies of the past decade. It has an all-star cast as it follows a group of hospitality workers in an apartment complex, who get revenge on a man that defrauded them.
They raid his penthouse apartment looking for the millions of dollars that are hidden in there, and given how foolish the group of outcasts can be, it leads to some sticky situations. It isn’t the most well-thought-out heist movie in the world, but it’s still full of surprises, and the chemistry between all of the characters is unreal. It would be great if these characters were revisited, but given how it underperformed at the box office, it’s unlikely that will ever happen.
7 Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
Brad Pitt has hilariously said that there will never be an Ocean’s 14, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen. Ocean’s Eleven was one of the rare times when the remake was better than the original, Ocean’s Twelve took the series overseas, and Ocean’s Thirteen saw the gang back in the casinos. The trilogy is so much fun, but it isn’t exactly going to be ruined if a fourth movie isn’t up to scratch.
It has been 14 years since the third movie, and it would be fascinating to see how the whole gang has aged. And more than anything, to see what they have done in that time, as their personal lives, interests, and what they did with their millions was so integral to what made the characters interesting in the first place. But even if fans never get a fourth movie, there was at least a spin-off, Ocean’s 8, which saw an all-female crew of robbers.
6 Heat (1995)
In what is one of the best cat-and-mouse thrillers, Heat is the pinnacle of heist movies. Though Neil died at the end of the movie, there has not been a heist movie as hair-raising or realistic as this since. The follow-up movie could be a spiritual sequel, or even follow Lieutenant Vincent hunting down a new crime syndicate.
The shootout on the street after the bank heist goes tragically wrong is one of the most heart-pounding scenes in history, and a return to this type of filming would be more than welcome. And given how director Michael Mann hasn’t exactly had a hit in a while, what better than to return to the IP that made him a household name in the crime genre?
5 Inside Man (2006)
It’s hard to believe that Inside Man is turning 15 years old this year, but the Spike Lee movie about a group of bank robbers still remains unbeaten in its creativity and mystery in the genre. Though most fans don’t know there actually has been a sequel to Inside Man, which was released direct-to-DVD in 2019, it featured an entirely different cast, different producers, and Lee had nothing to do with it.
A real sequel to Inside Man is now needed more than ever, as it would be a palette cleanser after the disappointing Inside Man: Most Wanted. And the first movie set up a seedy underbelly of corrupt government officials and elite power brokers that hasn’t been seen since. However, Denzel Washington has only ever done one sequel in his entire career, The Equalizer 2, so the odds of Inside Man 2 happening are slim to none.
4 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Infamously being a heist movie that doesn’t actually show the heist, Reservoir Dogs has one of the greatest line-ups of characters, but it also has a few loose ends that need to be tied up too.
There actually was a planned sequel, which would have seen Mr. Blonde on a road trip with Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega, but that never came to light. Though there are a lot of fan theories revolving around what happened to the diamonds after the end of the movie, surely none of them are as satisfying as what Quentin Tarantino could conjure up.
3 Drive (2011)
As Drive had one of the most deceiving movie trailers of all time, as it led people to believe that it was going to be action-packed, full of violence, and loads of robberies, that wasn’t exactly what audiences got.
However, the high-budget art movie is still one of the best heist movies of the 2010s thanks simply to the first few minutes, as the main character, known only as Driver, is hired as a getaway driver. He expertly evades the police in a way Baby (of Baby Driver) would be jealous of, but it’s such a tease as viewers get so little of it in the rest of the movie. Given how there’s a sequel to the novel, there is somewhat of a possibility that Drive could get a sequel.
2 The Italian Job (2003)
Even though the American remake isn’t quite as good as the British original, the 2003 version of The Italian Job truly deserves a sequel. The original movie might have ended on a literal cliffhanger, and one of the best cliffhangers in movie history, but it’s best left at that.
The remake does what all great heist movies do, which is setting up a great crew of smart-talking criminals with great chemistry who all bring something unique to the table. And given that Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, and Jason Statham are all now way bigger than they ever were back then, a sequel could make for a fun star-studded reunion.
1 Ocean’s 8 (2018)
Returning to the Ocean’s world in the form of a spin-off, Ocean’s 8, one of the few female-led heist movies, was massively derivative of its predecessors. The movie had the exact same story beats as Ocean’s Eleven, and the cinematography and editing were heavily borrowed from Steven Soderbergh. Nevertheless, there is just as much to love about the movie.
The foundation of a new series is here, all of the characters are fun, the dialogue is punchy, and it actually replicates the excitement of the Ocean’s movies really well. Though the story was overly simplified, Ocean’s 8 showed a lot of potential, and a sequel to the movie might be the only way audiences will ever see any of the Ocean’s characters ever again.
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