Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations.
Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans..
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 2021 American documentary miniseries about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston..
History's Biggest Art Heist
Thieves stole 13 masterpieces worth $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
The case remains unsolved..
Considered by many to be the biggest art heist in history, the Gardner robbery remains unsolved to this day.
Occurring in Boston on St Patrick's Day, two burglars – believed to be amateur criminals – duped a security guard by posing as police officers, and gained entrance to the museum..
Known as the most significant art theft in history, the 1990 art heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still haunts historians.
Now some 30 years later, the mystery remains of the whereabouts and location of the 13 missing masterpieces..
Art Heist is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Bryan Goeres and starring William Baldwin, Ellen Pompeo, and Abel Folk..
Movie Info
INSIDE tells the story of Nemo, an art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned.
Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive..
A high-end art thief becomes trapped inside a luxury, high-tech penthouse in New York's Times Square after his heist doesn't go as planned.
Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive..
Art Heist is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Bryan Goeres and starring William Baldwin, Ellen Pompeo, and Abel Folk..
History.
While elements of the heist film can be seen in movies as early as The Great Train Robbery (1903), the genre didn't become fully fledged until the late 1940s and the early 1950s..
Considered by many to be the biggest art heist in history, the Gardner robbery remains unsolved to this day.
Occurring in Boston on St Patrick's Day, two burglars – believed to be amateur criminals – duped a security guard by posing as police officers, and gained entrance to the museum..
Besides the fact that ambitious thefts and wild plot twists lend themselves to quality entertainment, the appeal of the cinematic theft stems from four reasons: one, skillful action that is cathartic to watch; two, there is a neatness in their structure that gives the audience what they expect; three, allowing .
Because of the portability of works such as paintings, as well as their concentration in museums or private collections, there have been persistent examples of major thefts of art.
Because of the widespread media coverage that such heists often generate, the public is likely to be aware of thefts of this scale..
T he heist film has evolved over the decades
taking on many forms and styles. From sleek and chic to rough and gritty
Filmmakers have taken the heist movie in every direction. The best of which have perfected the criminal ensemble
The intricate heist executions
Or have taken the heist narrative into completely unique and innovative directions.
While many modern thrillers and horror films utilizes sound design to immerse the audience into the suspense of a scene
Rififi was one of the first to implement it in such an intense way. It’s ingenuity in its use of sound as a device to create suspense as well as its well-structured screenplay made it Cinefix’s number one best heist movie.
It’s ingenuity in its use of sound as a device to create suspense as well as its well-structured screenplay made it Cinefix’s number one best heist movie. Rififi builds on each act of its story
Slowly planting seeds that grow into the iconic and masterfully suspenseful heist scene. 1. The Killing (1956)
1. The Killing (1956) Before they were genre cliches and tropes to avoid
Many of the heist film elements were mere ideas in the wild imagination of a 27-year-old Stanley Kubrick. To understand the ingenuity of Kubrick’s The Killing
You must first recognize the plethora of movies it has influenced.
Either way, we put together a list of the 78 best-reviewed heist movies of all time for you to look over, each with at least 20 reviews and sorted by ranking formula, which factors how long ago a movie was released and how many critics reviews it got overall.
White Collar (2009–2014) A white-collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white-collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter, and conman. 7. Topkapi (1964) A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger. 8. The Art of the Steal (2013)
This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist (2021) March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call, and the thieves tied the guards up and looted the museum.
This is a list of television films produced for the cable networks Hallmark Channel (HC) and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (HMM).Such films are currently called Hallmark Channel Original Movies and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
