The carefully planned robbery is one of noir’s defining narrative forms. However meticulous the preparation, greed, betrayal, or chance usually intervenes, turning the perfect crime into catastrophe.

Kansas City Confidential, Armored Car Robbery, Payroll, Strongroom

Criss Cross (1949)

Gun Crazy (1950)

14 Films With Armored Car Heists

Highway 301 (1950)

Private Hell 36 (1954)

The Silent Partner (1978)

Crime Wave (1953)

High Sierra (1941)

Drive (2011)