There are quite a few films based on actual events, and if you like such movies. The Bank Job is worth watching. Inspired by an extraordinary true event — an unsolved robbery — which took place more than 35 years ago in London, this highly-charged thriller, directed by Roger Donaldson, stars Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. It was released on February 28th but the DVD release is set for July 15th.

After failing at selling cars, Terry (Jason Statham) is called by a friend, Martine (Saffron Burrows), for a job. Of course, it’s not an ordinary job, but rather the robbery of a bank situated in Baker Street, London. They buy a shop not too far from the bank and start to dig a tunnel through which they will gain entrance to the bank. According to Wikipedia they didn’t manage to stay hidden for a long time.

A local amateur radio operator receives the transmission, and manages to listen in on the conversation. When he realises that he’s listening to a bank robbery in progress, he calls the police, who arrive and listen in as well. The police try to determine the location of the robbers by parking an ambulance outside all the banks within a 10-mile radius of the amateur radio operator’s location, to see if the lookout reports it to the villains, but luckily the lookout drops the walkie-talkie just as the ambulance parks outside Lloyds Bank. The robbers remain undetected, even after the owner of the bank is called by the police to check for a break-in.

We’ve seen a lot of bank-robbery movies, but The Bank Job sounds interesting.