ONCE A THIEF - (1991) A heist comedy that pays homage to Hitchcock and gives its star, Chow Yun Fat, his most Cary Grant-ish role.

More "Dimension acquires heist comedy "The Black Marks

Most reviews favourably compared the film to Ealing Studios' heist comedies of the 1950s and 60s, although noted aspects of vulgarity.

It's the rationale that Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) use for their crimes in the shaggy-dog romantic heist comedy "Bandits."

This shaggy-dog romantic heist comedy feels like a modern Classics Illustrated version of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Bonnie and Clyde."

A heist comedy, bizarrely overdirected at times, in which Mr. Newman comes through with a thoughtful, lean performance.

"The Perfect Score," which opens nationwide today, is a thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.

In 2012, Cleese was cast in Hunting Elephants, an upcoming heist comedy by Israeli filmmaker Reshef Levi.

In 1998 he founded his company Atlantic Streamline, which was to produce - among others-the heist comedy You Are Dead with John Hurt und Rhys Ifans.

Stamp next future projects include a heist comedy The Black Marks (2013), with Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon and Jay Baruchel.