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The Thieves

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A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface. From TMDB

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  • Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2025

    [The Strike of the Thieves (Alfred Abel, 1921), from a cache of movie posters reclaimed from a German salt mine.] mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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  • kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    #JunJiHyun was a scene stealer in #ChoiDonghoon 's 2012 heist film #TheThieves from Korea and China about a group of white caller criminals whom team up to steal a diamond worth US$30 million, which is locked in a special room at a casino in Macau. The film was a domestic and international success.

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  • The Neo-Isomorphism Podcast @neoisomorphism.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    The Neo-Isomorphism Podcast: EPISODE 022 is now live. We discuss: The Thieves Guild questline from TESV: Skyrim (2011). We're killing any momentum we had as a movie review. Hell yeah. youtu.be/3qsLCrKtC8E open.spotify.com/episode/1scCuVVkpP1OcpotfkwtjQ?si=A4DsXisgSN2BhwxnX0Bp3Q

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  • ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    Pluralize a movie: The Cooks, the Thieves, Their Wives, and Their Lovers

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  • Nice Joe Greene @alexfrompgh.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    Pluralize a movie: The Cooks, The Thieves, Their Wives, and Their Lovers

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  • A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    I think Charles L Harness "the Paradox Men" would make a great limited scifi series or movie. America descended into maniacal fascist empire by competitive drives; regime resisted by the 'Thieves guild.' Mysterious wrecked spaceship seems to come from their future. Or Jack Womack's "Ambient"

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  • miketyl.bsky.social @miketyl.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    Of course and I’d suggest that a lot of self-consciously and “political” realism is as “guilty” of this as Hollywood. I was thinking of a film about Naples’s King of the Thieves (starring Ernest Borgnine bizarrely) that was relentlessly documentary-like in its set up.

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  • I Watched a Movie @iwatchedamovie.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    The Thieves (2012): Everything a heist movie should be: smart, sleek, sexy, and chock full of double-crosses. At least four different languages are spoken. Some incredible action sequnces. I honestly had a hard time following the plot at times! From the director of the sublime Alienoid.

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  • theflutteringhorde @theflutteringhorde.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    Listening to @killjamesbond.bsky.social Ocean's 13 episode, and if they want a heist movie with some unprovoked violence, they should do South Korean heist movie, The Thieves (2012). The movie's a mess but there's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about with it.

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  • Reno @RanganTMDB reviews · Dec 4, 2016

    Two gangs for one big heist. It looks not bad, but too long. From the director of 'Woochi' and 'Assassination', though it came between them and I'm seeing it now since I liked them both. An international cast film, I mean some well known Korean and Hong Kong actors in this multi-starrer. The story of two thief gangs joins hands to steal a diamond necklace in a casino in Macau. It's a team work, everyone is assigned to do their part, but due to some old incidents, they lose trust on one another.…

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