It’s the weekend, and that means you should book in another Gizmodo movie night. This week, it’s all about crime — high stakes, ridiculous odds and absurd plans.
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We’ve re-jigged our existing Netflix Movie Night series, and brought in Australia’s other popular subscription video on demand services — Presto and Stan — to give you a broader selection of movies and TV shows to enjoy. On all three services, you can watch from your tablet or smartphone, on your PC or laptop, through your Smart TV, or through a media streaming dongle like the Google Chromecast, although specifics can vary.
Presto costs $10 to $15 a month depending which package you choose. Stan is a flat $10 per month, and Netflix can cost from $9 to $15 per month.
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Presto
Firewall
Presto: Computer security expert Jack Stanfield is forced to rob the bank he’s protecting to pay a $100 million ransom for his family. The kidnappers make him steal but he’ll make them pay.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Presto: True story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day when two optimistic losers, the frantic master-mind Sonny, and his slow-witted buddy Sal, attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank.
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Heist
Presto: When a crew of highly skilled jewel thieves is not paid the money they are owed for a job, they are forced to make one last, big heist for the man who cheated them.
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Bottle Rocket
Presto: They’re more interested in killing time than killing people, but these criminal wannabes get in over their heads when a real gangster hijacks their dreams.
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The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3
Presto: A New York City subway dispatcher’s ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train buy a criminal mastermind.
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Stan
Swordfish
Stan: John Travolta stars in this action thriller as a charismatic and dangerous CIA operative disillusioned with American bureaucracy, who coerces computer hacker Hugh Jackman, just released from prison, to steal $9 billion from a DEA slush fund.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
Stan: Steve McQueen is a bored Boston millionaire businessman who is tired of being part of the “Establishment.” He arranges a bank robbery which nets millions, then pays off his eight assistants and banks $3 million for himself in Switzerland.
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Ocean’s Eleven
Stan: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: stealing more than $150 million from three casinos.
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The Town
Stan: Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck writes, directs and stars in this crime drama/romance. Affleck’s film follows a career criminal (Affleck) who finds himself romantically involved with the manager of a bank (Rebecca Hall) he held up.
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Man on a Ledge
Stan: An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department hostage negotiator tries to talk him down.
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Netflix
Inside Man
Netflix: A detective matches wits with a thief who’s always one step ahead of the cops, and when a loose-cannon negotiator arrives, things spin out of control.
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The Bank Job
Netflix: A thief gets in ove rhis head when he breaks into a bank vault full of cash, gems… and secrets on everyone from the London mob to the royal family.
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The Italian Job
Netflix: A clever thief masterminds a major heist amid the waterways of Venice, Italy — but a betrayal by one fo his own spells disaster
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American Gangster
Netflix: Denzel Washington stars as a true-life Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and Russel Crowe plays the outcast NYPD cop charged with bringing him down.
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Ronin
Netflix: A squad of mercenaries led by a former CIA operative is assembled to recover a mysterious briefcase sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob.
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