Best "break in" Movies of All Time

Poindexter "Fool" Williams, his brother Leroy, and their family face eviction from their rented home in South Central Los Angeles. Their landlords are a greedy, uncaring couple who live in a mansion that's as huge as it is eerie. Leroy has a plan to burglarize the mansion, but what the boys find inside is not what they expected.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen, Bill Cobbs, Brandon Quintin Adams, ...

Felon(2008)

| 1h 43min | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.6/5 (with 369 votes)

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

Directed by Ric Roman Waugh - With Stephen Dorff, Harold Perrineau, Marisol Nichols, Anne Archer, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer, ...

Home Invasion(2016)

1h 28min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, TV Movie

2.8/5 (with 65 votes)

Terror arrives at the one place we all feel safest... When a wealthy woman, Chloe, and her stepson, Jacob, are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with Mike, a security systems specialist. But as the intruders become increasingly hostile and the connection wavers, will she trust him to be her eyes and navigate her to safety?

Directed by David Tennant - With Natasha Henstridge, Jason Patric, Scott Adkins, William Dickinson, Kyra Zagorsky, Garry Chalk, ...

I Came By(2022)

1h 50min | Thriller

3.2/5 (with 255 votes)

A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

Directed by Babak Anvari

Support the Girls(2018)

1h 31min | Drama, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 68 votes)

Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction... Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?

Directed by Andrew Bujalski

3 Musketeers(2011)

1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.

Directed by Cole S. McKay - With Heather Hemmens, Alan Rachins, Xin Sarith Wuku, David Chokachi, Keith Allen, Michele Boyd, ...

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca(1989)

1h 41min | Comedy, Crime

2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

Directed by Mikael Ekman - With Gösta Ekman, Ulf Brunnberg, Björn Gustafson, Birgitta Andersson, Per Grundén, Kent Andersson, ...

Deadfall(1968)

2h | Drama, Action, Crime

2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

Directed by Bryan Forbes - With Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck, Leonard Rossiter, ...

His Favorite Pastime(1914)

12min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 20 votes)

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

Directed by George Nichols - With Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Peggy Pearce, Bert Hunn, George Jeske, ...

Man's Castle(1933)

1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Dickie Moore, ...

Haggard(2003)

1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

After Ryan breaks up Glauren for cheating on him, she is rumored to have been hooking up with heavy metal Hellboy. Ryan enlists the help of his friends Valo and Falcone to find out the truth.

Directed by Bam Margera - With Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Bam Margera, Rake Yohn, Chris Raab, Tony Hawk, ...

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Among the Missing(1934)

1h 5min | Crime, Drama

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

Directed by Albert S. Rogell

The Shot(1969)

1h 39min | Thriller, Crime

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ronny and Bertil break into a armory depot. During a test firing of the stolen goods Ronny accidentally kills Bertil. The Police begins a chase of Ronny, who is now on the run with his girlfriend Len.

Directed by Claes Fellbom - With Cia Löwgren

Free to a Bad Home(2023)

1h 20min | Horror

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this terrifying horror anthology, the lives of three strangers - a widow, a thief, and an addict - are changed by cursed objects and those that spread them.

The Fair Weather Felon(2015)

21min | Crime, Drama

A young thief breaks into a house and gets caught in the act by a young attractive girl. He falls in love with the girl but the girl betrays him.

Trespass(2017)

17min | Thriller, Horror

Clarissa must relive a traumatic experience when her house is once again broken into by a masked trespasser.

Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?(1964)

59min | Mystery, Crime

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...

The Break(1974)

1h | TV Movie, Horror, Mystery, Drama

Two strangers break into a man's house and subject him to a series of terrifying - and humiliating - mind games.

Showing Some Speed(1916)

12min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Musty, messenger boy, is assigned to deliver a cook stove to a certain address. In spite of the fact that there is no one home and the house locked up, Musty takes the stove in through the window.

Movies: Best "break in" Movies

Don't Breathe(2016)

The People Under the Stairs(1991)