Heist Movies
X-Ray Vision
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Jason and Rosie are joined by producer Ian to dive into one of their favorite film genres: the heist movie. Together, they break down the essential elements that define a great heist film, share some of their all-time favorites from the genre, and wrap up with recommendations for a few lesser-known gems worth checking out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Warning. |
| 0:05.2 | Today's episode will contain spoilers for some of our favorite heist movies, |
| 0:09.5 | which is a genre that Rosie and I hold close to our hearts. |
| 0:14.5 | So be warned. |
| 0:34.2 | Music Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion. |
| 0:35.4 | And I'm Rosie Knight. |
| 0:41.5 | And welcome back to X-ray Vision in the podcast where we dive deep at your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture coming over my heart. |
| 0:54.9 | We're bringing three episodes week. Plus News on the other. Plus News. In today's episode, we are super excited to be joined by Super Producer Ian to discuss what makes a great heist movie and then we will pitch some of our favorites. |
| 1:03.3 | So Ian, great to have you here, ready to heist up some great heist recommendations. How are you doing? |
| 1:08.9 | I'm great. Thanks for having me. As Jason mentioned, you know, like heist movies, that's one of my favorite genres in film too. There's always so many great elements, twists and turns. So I think there are some of my |
| 1:14.5 | favorite kinds of movies, too, for sure. What was it that started your heist movie journey? |
| 1:20.6 | Do you remember? And what puts you on this path where right now you're just like on a |
| 1:25.2 | heist movie vibe? I think it was Oceans 11. I think those |
| 1:30.6 | oceans films I think started started my love for the movies. And then after that, I just like |
| 1:36.0 | started seeking out more and more. And so I think I've watched almost all of the major like |
| 1:40.4 | prominent ones, but I'm excited to hear what some of your guys' favorites are. But yeah yeah, I would say the Oceans movies definitely, like, kickstarted that love for me, because those movies are just so well done. That's so fun. There's exactly. There's so much fun. Okay. Let's talk about the elements, because I think a heist movie contains some very specific elements. Those elements, there's a lot of crossover with other genres. for instance, I think a heist movie contains some very specific elements. |
| 2:01.3 | Those elements, there's a lot of crossover with other genres. |
| 2:04.3 | For instance, I think the spy thriller, most spy thrillers, not most, many spy thrillers, |
| 2:11.3 | are actually heist elements. |
| 2:13.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
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