Films like How to Rob a Bank.

How to Rob a Bank (2024) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured documentary / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bitconned (2024) poster
1. Bitconned2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Forever Rich (2021) poster
2. Forever Rich2021

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021) poster
3. Untold: Malice at the Palace2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) poster
4. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

To Steal from a Thief (2016) poster
5. To Steal from a Thief2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Program (2015) poster
6. The Program2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) poster
7. Brexit: The Uncivil War2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Federal Bank Heist (2011) poster
8. Federal Bank Heist2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

VIPs (2011) poster
9. VIPs2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021) poster
10. Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Raees (2017) poster
11. Raees2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heist 88 (2023) poster
12. Heist 882023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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