Best Capers by Rank
29
1
1967
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
271
2
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
317
3
1955
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
338
4
1951
Charles Crichton
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
353
5
1995
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
539
6
1956
Jean-Pierre Melville
Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy, Howard Vernon, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir / Detective
France
French
625
7
1999
David O. Russell
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
War / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Caper
USA
English
707
8
1995
Michael Mann
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
814
9
1955
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Family
UK
English
869
10
1988
Charles Crichton, John Cleese
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA / UK
English
934
11
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1194
12
1964
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1250
13
1963
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1311
14
1998
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1527
15
2016
David Mackenzie
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Dale Dickey
Crime / Drama / Caper / Action
USA
English
1538
16
1958
Mario Monicelli
Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
Comedy / Crime / Caper
Italy
Italian
1591
17
1970
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Post-Noir / Detective
France / Italy
French
1595
18
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1607
19
2000
Jonathan Glazer
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller / Caper
UK / Spain
English
1628
20
1959
Basil Dearden
Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Caper
UK
English
1665
21
1969
Peter Collinson
Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Action / Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
1769
22
1935
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1796
23
1968
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Caper
USA
English
1834
24
2001
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts
Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
1897
25
1979
Martin Brest
George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan, Pamela Payton-Wright
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1902
26
2010
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Slaine
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2000
27
1972
Peter Yates
Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel, Moses Gunn
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2037
28
1954
Jacques Becker
Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
France / Italy
French
2109
29
2009
Wes Anderson
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Caper
USA / UK
English
2171
30
1936
Frank Borzage
Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2171
30
1959
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Film-Noir
USA
English
2172
31
2000
Fabián Bielinsky
Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Caper / Thriller
Argentina
Spanish
2221
32
2003
Ridley Scott
Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2227
33
1971
Richard Brooks
Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady
Crime / Comedy / Drama / Caper/ Thriller
USA
English
2227
33
1926
Lewis Seiler
Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Action / Western / Detective / Crime / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2231
34
1960
Henry Hathaway
Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2235
35
1998
Mike Hodges
Clive Owen, Nick Reding, Nicholas Ball, Alexander Morton
Crime / Drama / Caper
France / UK / Germany / Ireland
English
2404
36
2018
Steve McQueen
Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Jon Bernthal, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Coburn Goss
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Caper
UK / USA
English
2430
37
2007
Scott Frank
Kalyn Bomback, Sergio Di Zio, Carla Gugino, Greg Dunham, Isla Fisher, Jeff Daniels
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2482
38
1975
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Caper / Family
UK
English
2511
39
1973
Alan Myerson
Mel Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton, Peter Boyle
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2511
39
1967
Burt Kennedy
John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Keenan Wynn
Action / Western / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2528
40
1966
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2553
41
1949
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Drama
USA
English
2556
42
1963
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance
Crime / Drama / Caper / Thriller
France / Italy
French
2599
43
1966
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster / Caper / Post-Noir
France
French
2605
44
1932
William Dieterle
William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2605
44
1942
Lloyd Bacon
Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
2605
44
1967
Howard Morris
Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Bob Denver
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2624
45
1998
Guy Ritchie
Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Caper
UK
English
2662
46
1966
Ronald Neame
Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Thriller
USA
English
2667
47
1981
Michael Mann
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Caper
USA
English
2676
48
1996
Bob Rafelson
Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis, Michael Caine
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA / UK
English
2676
48
2003
John Crowley
Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Johnny Thompson, Emma Bolger, Deirdre Molloy
Crime / Drama / Comedy / Detective / Caper
Ireland / UK
English
2689
49
1971
Sidney Lumet
Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken, Ralph Meeker
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
2689
49
1977
Ted Kotcheff
George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Richard Gautier, Allan Miller, Hank Garcia
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2689
49
1972
Sam Peckinpah
Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2689
49
1970
Brian G. Hutton
Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland
War / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Caper
Yugoslavia / USA
English
2689
49
1967
Louis Malle
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2689
49
2001
Frank Oz, Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA / Germany
English
2689
49
1980
Jay Sandrich
Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould
Comedy / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2689
49
1969
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2689
49
1965
Robert Stevenson
Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand
Family / Comedy / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
2689
49
1974
Michael Cimino
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, Catherine Bach
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2691
50
1940
Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts
Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2695
51
2006
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
2740
52
1931
Géza von Bolváry
Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Crime / Caper
Germany
German
2763
53
2001
David Mamet
Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Caper
Canada / USA
English
2766
54
2004
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2775
55
1967
Frank Tashlin
Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edward Mulhare, Lilia Skala
Comedy / Thriller / Mystery / Action / Spy / Caper
USA
English
2775
55
1987
Ringo Lam
Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung, Kong Lau
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective / Caper
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2788
56
1996
Sergio Cabrera
Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Imanol Arias, Pastora Vega
Thriller / Crime / Caper
Colombia / Italy / Spain
Spanish
2792
57
1999
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Lalita Panyopas, Black Pomtong, Tasanawalai Ongarittichai
Thriller / Action / Comedy / Caper
Thailand
Thai
2794
58
2023
John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Caper
USA / Canada / UK / Iceland / Ireland / Australia
English
2801
59
2002
Neil Jordan
Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui
Crime / Drama / Caper / Thriller
France / UK / Ireland / Canada
English
2801
59
2006
Aki Kaurismäki
Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Heiskanen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Ilkka Koivula
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Caper
Finland / Germany / France
Finnish
2801
59
1996
John McNaughton
Ashley Judd, Luke Perry, Bruce A. Young, Jim True-Frost, Edmund Wyson
Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2801
59
1991
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland
Crime / Comedy / Drama / Caper
UK / USA
English
2807
60
1938
Anatole Litvak
Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
2004
Gregory Jacobs
John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Zitto Kazann
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
1954
Richard Quine
Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
2807
60
2003
F. Gary Gray
Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA / France / UK
English
2807
60
2003
Peter Howitt
Rowan Atkinson, Tasha de Vasconcelos, Ben Miller, Greg Wise, Douglas McFerran
Action / Comedy / Adventure / Family / Spy / Caper
UK
English
2807
60
1930
Frank Borzage
Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner, Lee Tracy, Walter Abel
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
2008
Callie Khouri
Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
2004
Jon Turteltaub
Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
1990
Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
Bill Murray, Dale Grand, Bob Elliott, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2807
60
1942
John Francis Larkin
George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Caper / Detective
USA
English
2807
60
2008
Guy Ritchie
Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy
Action / Crime / Caper / Comedy
USA
English
2807
60
1998
John Hamburg
Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Michael Schmidt
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
2816
61
2017
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi
Crime / Drama / Caper / Thriller
USA
English
2816
61
2017
Steven Soderbergh
Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2816
61
2009
Tony Scott
Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA / UK
English
2817
62
1993
Renny Harlin
Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Crime / Caper
Italy / France / USA
English
2817
62
2002
Zhang Ke Jia
Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Qing Feng Zhou, Hong Wei Wang, Ru Bai, Xi An Liu
Drama / Gangster / Caper
South Korea / France / Japan / China
Cantonese
2852
63
2012
Andrew Dominik
Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Comedy
USA
English
2858
64
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2860
65
2000
Guy Ritchie
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Alan Ford, Vinnie Jones, Ewen Bremner
Crime / Comedy / Caper / Gangster
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1966
Vittorio De Sica
Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff
Comedy / Crime / Caper
Italy / USA / UK
English
NR
-
1968
Bryan Forbes
Michael Caine, Vladek Sheybal, Emilio Rodríguez, David Buck, Carmen Dene
Crime / Drama / Caper
UK
English
NR
-
1959
Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas, Molly McCarthy
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
1979
Michael Crichton
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris
Drama / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Caper / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
2007
Jon Turteltaub
Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
2013
Louis Leterrier
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Isla Fisher
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
France / USA
English
NR
-
2016
Jon M. Chu
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
1960
Lewis Milestone
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2007
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Elliott Gould
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
2004
Steven Soderbergh
Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Ed Kross, Julia Roberts
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA / Australia
English
NR
-
2006
Shawn Levy
Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Caper / Detective / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1960
Robert Day
Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Maurice Denham
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
