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I’m a sucker for slow and meticulous planning and organization in film and games despite being messy and disorganized in real life. Like 80% of the appeal of Stalker and Tarkov to me is having to deal with the bullshit inventory system, some of the early Rainbow Six games seem interesting because you plan much of the siege beforehand, and XCOM where you have to improvise when the plan inevitably fails.

Some related shows that I’m fond of in no order:

  1. Early seasons of Breaking Bad
  2. Season 1 of Prison Break
  3. Money Heist (Spanish version)
  4. Better Call Saul (the scams and loopholes)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Inside Man is my favourite modern Spike Lee movie and is all about the carefully unfolding detail of a bank job.

It's not as good, but there's a Russell Crowe movie about a professor planning to break his wife out of prison after she's convicted of a murder, called The Next Three Days.

Heat is great and while it's not all setup for a particular job it's definitely about a criminal crew's meticulous professionalism and all the ways that can still get fucked up in the moment.

Memento possibly? Because you're working backwards it's a little different, but you're discovering the details of the plan in reverse.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope might be an interesting one. It's almost a stage play about two students who discuss and plan a hypothetical murder with their professor, with a bit of a twist reveal.

I haven't watched it in a lot of years, but I remember Day Of The Jackal being one of the better assassination movies and spending more focus than usual on the details of the plan.

Mr Brooks is a flawed but good serial killer movie where Kevin Costner plays a philanthropist businessman struggling with an addiction to murder and is extremely exacting and well planned even when several unforseen new dynamics complicate things.

Like Memento, this might be exactly what you're looking for because you experience it with a protagonist who doesn't see the planning until it's revealed towards the end, but David Fischer's The Game has an elaborate clockwork to it and is an underrated Fincher movie.

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead was one of the last Philip Seymour Hoffman roles and is all about a pair of criminal brothers finding ways to fuck up their own plan.

Lord of War too maybe. Nicolas Cage plays an arms dealer trying to put together deals, stay out of the crosshairs of his clients, and avoid Interpol. It's got a lot of detail about the illegal arms trade and a number of improvisation scenes where things go really wrong. It's an underrated popcorn flick with some actual good critical analysis of the arms industry (as it was based on a critical book).

Plane came out a year or two ago and was a very enjoyable B movie about a passenger jet that crash lands on a dangerous island of a 'rebel militia'. It's a straight forward story of a pilot, some survivors, and eventually a few military contractors trying to execute a plan to get the plane flying again and get off the island.

Similarly, the original (1965) Flight of the Phoenix. It's got a ridiculously good ensemble cast and the whole movie is about a small group trying to survive and rebuild their plane that's crashed in the Sahara before they run out of water. Basically the original and best, more grounded version of The Martian.

American Animals is a movie in an interesting style about some college students who devised a precise and specific heist to steal valuable books from a university library. It's a true story, with a lot of focus on the planning, and the film is intercut with interviews with the real students which gives it an interesting tone.

For complete B-movie schlock the first Escape Plan features Sylvester Stallone as a guy who tests prison security by going in undercover and trying to break out. Naturally something goes wrong and he has to do it for real, so it's very focused on the planning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Day Of The Jackal

i watched it kind of recently and it definitely fits the bill. and the assassination target is Charles de Gaulle waow-based

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Early Guy Richie because the plots are incredibly layered and a plan that never works out is always a big part of the story.

The best are Lock Stock, and Snatch. Your favourite will be whichever of the two you watch first

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

all of the oceans 11 movies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

BBC Hustle!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hudson Hawk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I love heist movies, so thanks for posting this thread. getting lots of good recommendations here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Logan Lucky?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's been a while but I think the tv shows Leverage, and to a lesser extent, Burn Notice, had quite a bit of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not a movie but if you like games with this vibe, Hitman World of Assassination's Freelancer mode. It's a roguelike mode where instead of just going after a set target with certain set ways of taking em out, you get random NPC targets with a random patrol, so it's half planning for how you might want to take them out, and half improvising when you realize there's no easy options or you wander into the wrong place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

A Man Escaped

Le Trou (although I just learned about the horrible life of the screenwriter, so maybe not)

The Sting

Rififi is more about the unraveling (in an allegory about informants and the Hollywood blacklist), but the central heist is methodical, silent, and tense as hell - must have been an influence on those Mike-does-his-job scenes from Better Call Saul

I recently watched Gambit, which is unnecessarily Orientalist (why did they make Shirley Maclaine a Eurasian dancer from Hong Kong?), but it does have the best of both worlds, heist-wise:

spoilerThe first twenty minutes are Michael Caine's fantasy of how the perfect heist will go, including the absolute silence and compliance of Shirley Maclaine's character. The rest of the movie is how it actually plays out, and Maclaine's character proves she's actually a person and not a tool Caine can use.