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- Follow the adventures of a young girl born into a band of robbers in a medieval Scandinavian fortress. As Ronja grows up, she learns that the surrounding forest can be a magical and sometimes dangerous place filled with strange creatures.
- Ronja, the only child of robber chief Mattis must learn to survive the dangers of her local wilderness. In secret she also befriends Birk, the son of a rivaling robber Borka.
- A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
- The story follows Ronja, a young girl whose father is the chief of a tribe of bandits. They live in a huge castle in the forest with the bandits. In this story Ronja encounters mystical creatures as she explores and experiences life in the forest. Somewhere along the lines she makes friends with another young child much like herself. The title is based on the fantasy story Ronia the Robber's Daughter, written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
- A rootless young man in Ceausescu's Romania crosses the Hungarian border looking for a better future. With his back against the wall in the post-socialist turmoil, he becomes the most successful bank robber in Hungarian history.
- Born on a stormy night Ronja begins her life as the heir to the leader of a gang of thieves deep in the Swedish woods. There is a lot of things to beware of in the forest not least other gangs. But as it turns out they are not all bad.
- When the robber Hotzenplotz steals a grandmother's coffee grinder, Kasperl and his friend Seppel set out to get it back from him.
- Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down and bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and half million pounds worth of gold bullion from an airfield in the South of England.
- A story based on Johann Rettenberger, an Austrian marathon runner and a bank robber.
- Through revealing interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina's most famous bank robbery detail how, and why, they carried out the spectacular 2006 operation.
- Countryside thieves are won over by a young orphan girl.
- A marathon runner robs banks.
- The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con artists, take up with a ragtag circus, help a freed slave buy his sister's freedom, and then see a dastardly villain get his.
- Children's story about an always-unlucky Highwayman of of the southern-German forests in the late-19th century, featuring witty grammification by the author in, of course, German language.
- Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
- Ilya Muromets has to rescue his trusty horse Burushka and Kiev treasury from the greedy hands of famous bandit, Solovey-Razboynik.
- Rancher Jim Drummond is framed for murder by crooked railroad agent J. R. Rankin, who will stop at nothing to gain valuable properties in the path of the future railroad.
- The facts: journalist Zenia Arden is missing, her abandoned car is found with three pints of her blood splattered inside, and one of her fingers severed from her body is found close to the car. From these facts, the authorities believe there is no way she could have survived what looks to be a brutal slaying. Henry Kelly, her police-officer secret boyfriend, believes he will be implicated as the murderer and goes to his old friend John Grismer, an ex-police officer now insurance investigator, to help him uncover what happened to Zenia. John finds that Zenia's three supposedly closest friends--magazine editor Roz Andrews, university history professor Tony Fremont, and yoga instructor Charis White--are all less than sad at Zenia's death and are open about their lack of remorse when John questions them. Apparently, Zenia came unexpectedly and independently into each of their lives, made it great for a while before she did something intentionally to ruin their friendship. As John uncovers some of the information regarding Zenia's relationship with these three women, he finds that the bonds of friendship go deep.
- Lasse and Maja have had their detective agency shut down by the police chief when a customer ask for help to prove her father is innocent of the train robbery he was convicted of. Lasse and Maja now see their great chance to show off.
- "Cops Foil Million Pound heist on Asda" was the headline on a bleak Monday in January 2006, but we bring you the real story, from both sides. Ricky Watts, is now a retired career criminal and the former boss of the Walthamstow based Organised Crime group. Ricky and his partner in crime Sean Docherty, masterminded and executed what was at the the time the largest unarmed cash robbery in UK history, but the £862,000 the OCG had got their hands on, was to be short lived as Detective Superintendent Jason Hendy from London's metropolitan police robbery unit better known as the Flying Squad was put in charge of a two year undercover operation that would bring down Ricky Watts and his gang. Watts, and Hendy also now in retirement, have gone on to have a underlying respect for each other, as they share the strange paradox that the biggest job of both of their careers is one of the same. Then born out of that respect we asked the question "would they meet on camera?' - they agreed.
- Peter has been out in the woods and played robbers. It was a long time since Grandma asked him to come in and now it's dark.
- Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) makes his way to Buffalo with Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), who supplies him with money needed for forged papers. Dennis, Peggy and a crooked bartender in a Buffalo hotel pull a robbery in which Dennis is almost caught, but he escapes to find his accomplices have deserted him. Later, confronting them, he is badly beaten and is taken to a hospital where he meets nurse Martha Rollins (Marjorie Reynolds), who falls in love with him. They go to New Rochelle where he is wounded attempting another robbery. Martha performs the necessary surgery, believing that he will give up his life of crime. When she finds him in New York with another girl, Martha gives the police his picture and hideout location, but he escapes the police trap. He flees to Los Angeles where he meets wealthy divorcee Mrs. Arthur Vinson (Jacqueline De Wit), whose confidence he wins in order to systematically rob her society friends' jewels.
- Ambrose the kitten renames himself Butch and runs away from home with plans to become a robber. His first intended victim, though, is a real robber: Dirty Bill, a dog. Dirty Bill asks Ambrose/Butch if he's pulled off any big jobs, and he tells of the stagecoach robbery we saw him enacting with dolls and toys at the beginning of the movie, without, of course, mentioning that it was all playacting. Bill asks him about the loot, and Butch brings out a bag of cookies. Bill won't accept that answer, and comes after Ambrose, scaring him right into the bath he earlier avoided.
- The Robber Bridegroom tells the tale of an impoverished miller who seeks a better life for his only daughter.
- A whimsical spectacle of a little boy's adventures with a gang of bandits who are terrorizing a small southern European town.
- This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in 19th century England. He never asked anyone for money. Instead he prayed, and his children never missed a meal.
- Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers' adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the duo.
- There are three robbers, each with their own unique weapon. One, a blunder bust, one, a pepper blower, and the third one, a big, red axe. They steal treasure, and one day, they start adopting young children and using their money to give these children a home.
- Small explosive monkeys stand guard over the order of the city.
- Growing to enormous size and living upwards of 100 years, the robber crab faces unique challenges on Christmas Island.
- Three trans women plan a robbery, they disguise themselves as men to create a false trail, practicing speaking and behaving in a masculine manner. Despite sharing life as a team, they struggle to imitate male behaviors.
- A lost wallet that finds one evening an honest accountant becomes the occasion to reveal a wide abuse.
- Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about police officers and the criminal element.
- Locked in an apartment. The police are on their way. What's a robber to do?
- A virtual reality crime simulator turns into an actual crime when one of the players is robbed.
- Charles, the favorite son of Count Moor is in love with Amelia, his father's niece and ward. Charles's brother Francis, a sly, jealous man, hates him. As a consequence of a drunken brawl, Charles is expelled from the University at Leipsic. He then writes an appealing letter, to his father and retires to Weingart in Bohemia to await the count's forgiveness. Francis intercepts his brother's letter and replaces it with another of his own composition to which he forges Charles's signature. The Count makes Francis his sole heir. To the penitent Charles in Bohemia, the news of his father's decision comes. Careless of consequences, he readily assents to the plan of his companions to form a band of robbers with himself as captain. Francis, with the aid of Herman, an enemy of his brother's, make the old Count believe that Charles has been killed in battle, and he falls apparently lifeless at the terrible news. But, as he is being interred, Francis discovers that his father is not dead. However, he does not falter. He forces his horrified father into the vault and furnishes him with barely enough food to keep him alive. Meanwhile, Charles visits his father's castle in disguise, and discovers the full extent of his brother's treachery. Summoning his band, he storms the castle, liberates his father, and shuts Francis up in the dungeon. Amelia, who has fought against the daily importunities of the wicked brother, now fully realizing Charles' true character, flies to him. He stretches out his arms to her, but the bandits interpose their swords between the lovers. Charles has consecrated his life to them and cannot have Amelia. The desperate girl prays them to kill her as life is no longer of any value. Charles gives himself up to the authorities, arranging in his last moments of freedom that the reward for his capture shall he paid to a worthy peasant.
- Robbers daughter follows Jackie Ferm 24 years old, when she tries to rebuild her relation to her father when he comes out of prison, Lars Ferm-Svartenbrandt, Swedens most dangerous robber.
- A Banker, refusing to return his bonus after a company bailout, is executed and thrown over the Bull Statue on Wall Street. By his brother.
- A man trapped in a life of bank robbing has to choose between his path of destruction and the love of his life.
- Vallis lives in his 76 Chrysler. Nancy is a single mom and desperate. The two cruise the shadowy streets of Newfoundland's biggest city bringing us their darkly comic observations, while plotting the best way to take down the 24 hour Bingo Extravaganza.
- Three moments of a man's life, running parallel with each other. Three mornings, three goodbyes.
- Esteban is a young boy lost between two worlds...where is he? What is this voice from afar reminding him of his last memory? between these worlds he will find the one who is always near him... "The Dream Robber" explores the imaginary world of the other side, through fantasy and poetry.
- A story in Nusantara during 16th Century, three centuries after the collapse of the great empire of the Sriwijaya kingdom.
- Tom, the young captain of robbers, and his sweetheart, Clara, are living in a small cottage in the wood. She is his good spirit. When his wild companions are coming for him, she always tries to dissuade him from joining them in their lawless doings, and she never lets him go till he has promised her neither to kill any human being nor any animal. One member of the band, the spiteful Jim, is in love with Clara and bores her with his tiresome declarations of love, in fact one day be sneaks away from his comrades, who are just going out plundering, and returns to Tom's cottage in order to make love to Clara, but as she again refuses his brutal caresses energetically, he leaves her, threatening both her and Tom's lives. His threat soon becomes serious, as he walks straight to the nearest prefect of police, to whom he betrays all his companions and offers to guide the soldiers, who are sent in pursuit of the robbers. In a hollow way in the wood the soldiers hide themselves while Jim steals away, and when the robbers unsuspectingly come strolling uphill, they plunge straight into the lion's mouth. It now comes to a close fight between the soldiers and the robbers, during which two of the latter are killed by the soldiers bullets while Tom, after a desperate combat, is fettered and carried away along with two of his companions. Clara, who in a mortal fright has followed the wicked Jim, unfortunately is too late to warn her friend, but she now catches sight of the fleeing Jim. She lies down behind a tree root in wait for him, and by the time he is quite near to her, she jumps forward and stops him with her revolver. When the rascal realizes that he is lost, he tries once more to kiss her, who by her faithfulness towards her friend, has turned himself into a miserable traitor, but he again fails, for Clara is a good marksman, and her bullet kills him. Clara now has avenged herself and Tom, who however is lying in the jail upon a bundle of straw with his hands tied behind his back, while the soldiers are keeping watch in the adjoining room. Yet this hindrance is of no consequence to Clara, who has but the one purpose of releasing her friend. With a basket full of bottles containing narcotics she is admitted into the guard room. The soldiers get drunk, Clara steals the keys and sets her lover free. They both succeed in escaping through the guard room but in the street they are discovered by an officer and a soldier, and although Clara attacks the enemy with the courage and wildness of a tigress, she at last must save herself by taking to her heels. At dusk Tom, in close custody, is carried out into a carriage with his bands still tied behind his back, in order to be taken to the prison in town, but he does not get as far as that. Clara lying on the highroad behind a heap of stones in wait for the carriage, and when same approaches, she springs forward, mounts the carriage steps, seizes the soldier by the throat, till he has lost consciousness, then she throws him into the carriage and releases Tom, with whom she flees into the wood. At a lake she washes the wounds of the half-unconscious Tom who by her help drags himself along to a farm, where Clara threatens the farmer into giving her two horses and after a wild ride, during which Tom is hardly able to keep himself in the saddle, the two fugitives reach their cottage. Shaking with excitement and exhaustion they enter their home, where Tom sinks into a chair, while Clara kneeling before her wounded friend tries to console and encourage him. The pretty picture of a faithful wife's devoted love is, however, abruptly disturbed by a strong noise outside the house. The poor lovers full of despair start to their feet, and at the same moment the shutters are burst open by the soldiers' guns. Once more Clara makes an attempt to save her friend, and the fist soldier who enters the room is killed by her bullet, yet the superiority is too overwhelming and a few bullets make an end of the faithful lovers' struggle. Even at the moment of death the brave Clara uses her last strength to drag herself on toward the dead body of her friend and press a kiss on his pale lips. -- The Moving Picture World, April 4, 1908
- When his loot is mysteriously stolen, a small-time thief on the run hides out in a small village, posing as the local schoolteacher.