Best "shoplifting" Movies of All Time

32 movies found (page 1/2):

Shoplifters(2018)

3.9/5 (with 866 votes)

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda - With Lily Franky, Sakura Andō, Mayu Matsuoka, Sosuke Ikematsu, Naoto Ogata, Yoko Moriguchi, ...

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Kids(1995)

NC-17

| 1h 31min | Drama, Crime

3.4/5 (with 471 votes)

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Directed by Larry Clark - With Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Jon Abrahams, Harmony Korine, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, ...

Murmur of the Heart(1971)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 72 votes)

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Benoît Ferreux, Gila von Weitershausen, ...

Water Lilies(2007)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 163 votes)

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

Directed by Céline Sciamma - With Adèle Haenel, Céline Sciamma, Louise Blachère, Pauline Acquart

Paris Is Burning(1991)

| 1h 11min | Documentary

4.0/5 (with 208 votes)

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Directed by Jennie Livingston

The Doom Generation(1995)

NC-17

| 1h 20min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Directed by Gregg Araki - With Rose McGowan, James Duval, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams, Parker Posey, Amanda Bearse, ...

Street Trash(1987)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Horror

3.1/5 (with 129 votes)

A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.

Directed by J. Michael Muro - With R. L. Ryan, James Lorinz, Patrick James Ryan, Tony Darrow, Pat Ryan

The Big Store(1973)

1h 26min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, Gérard Rinaldi, Jean-Guy Fechner, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, ...

Kings(2017)

| 1h 32min | Romance / Love, Drama, Crime

2.9/5 (with 67 votes)

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven - With Daniel Craig, Halle Berry, Lamar Johnson, Richie Stephens, Rick Ravanello, Kevin T. Carroll, ...

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Whirlpool(1950)

| 1h 38min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Constance Collier, ...

Samson and Delilah(2009)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.

Directed by Warwick Thornton - With Rowan McNamara, Scott Thornton

Brilliantlove(2010)

1h 37min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Manchester is a struggling photographer with charm to spare who falls for Noon, a sweet but spunky woman who works as a taxidermist. Noon is also drawn to Manchester, and together they enjoy a wildly enthusiastic sexual relationship that reflects their innocent but deeply passionate love for one another.

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Ruby in Paradise(1993)

1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new surroundings. Before long, she's juggling the affections of Mildred's Lothario son, Ricky, and the good-natured Mike. As she wavers between Ricky and Mike, Ruby also tries to come to terms with her past.

Directed by Victor Nuñez - With Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Dorothy Lyman

Intolerance(2021)

1h 47min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those he believes are responsible.

Directed by Keisuke Yoshida - With Arata Furuta, Tori Matsuzaka, Tomoko Tabata, Kisetsu Fujiwara, Shuri, Aoi Ito, ...

Justine(2022)

1h 21min | Drama

Justine is a young woman with a fierce intelligence but an equally strong appetite for self-destruction. She finds herself suffocated within a world that makes little sense and where alcohol is the only escape from her view of a hopeless future. When she meets Rachel, the possibility of happiness, love and a future starts to emerge. But her pain goes deep and as the demons within her begin to surface, she wonders if she can allow herself to hope.

Klepto(2003)

| 1h 21min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Emily Brown is a kleptomaniac with a penchant for watches. She shoplifts and has an apartment full of things she doesn't need. Nick Ruiz is a department store loss prevention specialist who dislikes his job. He needs some fast cash to start his own private security business. One day Emily enters a department store and her compulsion to steal sets her in motion. Nick catches her on tape and instead of arresting her, he becomes intrigued and pursues her. After the two have become involved, Nick forces Emily to use her unique talent to bail him out of a bad situation. The outcome results in a climactic turn of events where justice plays its hand.

Directed by Thomas Trail - With Meredith Bishop, Jsu Garcia, Leigh Taylor-Young, Henry Czerny

My Friend Henry(2004)

1h 33min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

Directed by Auli Mantila

Kleptomami(2017)

10min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.

Once a Thief(1950)

1h 28min | Crime, Drama

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.

Directed by W. Lee Wilder - With Cesar Romero

Joy(2010)

1h 15min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.

Directed by Mijke de Jong - With Coosje Smid, Fred Goessens, Verica Nedeska

Spokes & Robbers(2022)

20min | Adventure, Drama, Crime

Runaway sisters Isabel and Violet drift, grift and shoplift in the hopes of skipping town. But an ironic twist of fate on the eve of their great escape sees them stranded in the marshes, where they reckon with their relationship, futures and places in the world.

Life of Crime 2(1998)

1h 59min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.

I Was a Shoplifter(1950)

| 1h 14min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Mona Freeman, Scott Brady, Charles Drake, Andrea King, Tony Curtis, Charles McGraw, ...

Split(1974)

54min | Drama, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative space alien, going by the name "Split," has taken up telepathic residence in his mind, and is leading him to question the norms of planet Earth. Only one teacher is willing to entertain the possibility that Mark just might be telling the truth.

Softness of Bodies(2018)

1h 14min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant for stealing things.

...So I Took It!(1975)

11min | Crime

Anti-shoplifting film co-produced by Sid Davis and Motorola.

One Year in a Life of Crime(1989)

55min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only(1983)

1h 18min | Drama, TV Movie

3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

Concrete(2013)

55min | Drama

Vienna in the late 90s. VHS footage reveals the video-diary of Markus and Ana, a young unemployed couple. Boredom and the need for an adrenaline fix pushes them into a spiral of theft, alcohol and drugs.

The Big Sleaze(2010)

1h 45min | Comedy, Action

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!

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