Keeping our rankings as streamlined as possible according to these two categories helps to compare them what’s the point of ranking excellent comedies and excellent tragedies next to one another if you’re straining to find shared ground to complete your comparative assessment? This is why this effort has always been a two-part undertaking. For example The Hustler is not on here, nor is Fabián Bielinsky’s Nine Queens, perfect examples of “Con” movies that are neither Heist nor Caper.

In a caper, items may be stolen, but they don’t have to be there can be swindling and cons and money-laundering and other forms of theft. This is important, so I’ll repeat it: for a film to be a heist movie, items have to be literally stolen. While characters in Capers also frequently pursue large sums of shadily-acquired money or other items of value, these films are not necessarily about the acts of committing robberies, as Heist films always are. The Caper sub-genre features films which are (overall) lighter and wittier than the standard Heist movie. Looking at each category of films (Heist versus Caper) specifically allows for more thoughtful ranking experience, between them. Why are there two lists? Because the Caper is a sub-genre of the Heist film with its own specific rules and mood. It is the other half you’ve been waiting for! These two lists were written at the same time, so this is not some sort of amendment to the first list. We wrote at the start of the Heists list, “ We will be releasing an accompanying list of the Best Capers shortly after this one, so if you don’t see a film with a great heist in it, keep your shirts on, because it’s probably on the other list” and this is that list. Here it is-the other half of our endeavor to evaluate movies about large-scale theft! This is the accompanying list to our recently released ranking of the 50 most iconic Heist movies.

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