Caper
by Skavation | created - 5 months ago | updated - 5 months ago | PublicThe caper story is a subgenre of crime fiction. The typical caper story involves one or more crimes (especially thefts, swindles, or occasionally kidnappings) perpetrated by the main characters in full view of the reader. The actions of police or detectives attempting to prevent or solve the crimes may also be chronicled, but are not the main focus of the story.
The caper story is distinguished from the straight crime story by elements of humor, adventure, or unusual cleverness or audacity. The main characters often have comical idiosyncrasies and the law enforcement individuals are characterized by ineptitude or inadequacies. The criminals comically plan a crime with details unnecessary for the nature of the crime and humour is created when their personalities clash and their quirks are exposed.
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1. Leverage (2008–2012)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen.
Stars: Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf
Votes: 54,202
2. Farzi (2023– )
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An artist who gets pulled into the murky high stakes of a con job and a fiery task force officer on the mission to rid the country of his menaces in a fast-paced, edgy one-of-a-kind thriller.
Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi
Votes: 45,434
3. Hustle (2004–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A motley group of London con artists pulls off a series of daring and intricate stings.
Stars: Robert Glenister, Robert Vaughn, Rob Jarvis, Adrian Lester
Votes: 23,549
4. Leverage: Redemption (2021– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief are back, this time with help from a new tech genius and corporate fixer, to take on a new kind of villain. When someone needs help, they provide...Leverage.
Stars: Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf, Aleyse Shannon
Votes: 20,220
5. Guns & Gulaabs (2023– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
In a sleepy town, a mechanic struggles to emerge from his dead gangster father's shadow in a mission to win over the love of his life. An honest officer ends up being a chaos agent; whilst a reluctant cartel heir has an identity crisis.
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan, Adarsh Gourav, T.J. Bhanu
Votes: 16,852
6. Vratice se rode (2007–2008)
TV-MA | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A story of two friends and petty thieves trying to make a living, but failing in every possible way.
Stars: Nikola Djuricko, Dragan Bjelogrlic, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Ljubomir Bandovic
Votes: 8,807
7. Sprung (2022– )
35 min | Comedy
Having been previously incarcerated, Jack moves in with his former cellmate, Rooster, and is determined to turn his life around, just at the start of a global pandemic.
Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Shakira Barrera, Phillip Garcia, Clare Gillies
Votes: 6,051
8. My Villa (2013)
Comedy
Hedayat and Arsalan are two down and out ex-cons with a conscious who have fallen on hard times. When they hear that Meshkat, an old billionaire without any heirs, is in a coma and likely ... See full summary »
Stars: Mehran Modiri, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Siamak Ansari, Borzou Arjmand
Votes: 3,308
9. The Curse (2022– )
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Comedy crime caper set in London in the early 1980s, following a gang of hopeless small time crooks who through their own stupidity and poor judgement find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest gold heists in history.
Stars: Ambreen Razia, Allan Mustafa, Tom Davis, Emer Kenny
Votes: 2,225
10. Naji Attallah's Squad (2012)
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Naji Atallah, a former egyptian diplomat in the egyptian embassy in israel, seeks revenge against israelis as he plans to rob a bank in telaviv with a squad of youths he recruited.
Stars: Adel Emam, Ahmed Eltohamy, Mohamed Emam, Bassem Qahar
Votes: 1,856
11. The Knights of Prosperity (2007– )
30 min | Comedy, Crime
A group of blue-collar guys scheme to rob a celebrity in New York City.
Stars: Donal Logue, Sofía Vergara, Lenny Venito, Maz Jobrani
Votes: 1,404
12. Hitmen (2020–2021)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime
Fran and Jamie are best friends and business partners - they just happen to kill people for a living. Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, the misfit duo are definitely not your typical killers for hire.
Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Katherine Parkinson, Asim Chaudhry
Votes: 1,240
13. The Unusual Suspects (2021)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Follows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.
Stars: Miranda Otto, Aina Dumlao, Lena Cruz, Michelle Vergara Moore
Votes: 1,227
14. Choona (2023– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When an unlikely group of misfits discovers a common enemy in the same ruthless yet superstitious politician, they plot a heist to exact revenge.
Stars: Jimmy Shergill, Aashim Gulati, Namit Das, Chandan Roy
Votes: 1,677
15. Leopard Skin (2022– )
28 min | Crime, Thriller
A criminal gang fleeing a botched jewelry heist is forced to hide out in a beach side estate where two women live in seclusion. Their world turns into a tension filled hothouse of secrets, betrayal and desire.
Stars: Carla Gugino, Ana de la Reguera, Gaite Jansen, Amelia Eve
Votes: 1,241
16. C'est comme ça que je t'aime (2020– )
43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In a quiet suburb of Quebec City in 1974, two couples in crisis realize that their relationships are falling apart. Infidelity and betrayal are exposed and a sequence of unexpected events will transform both couples into murderers.
Stars: Marilyn Castonguay, François Létourneau, Patrice Robitaille, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman
Votes: 1,156
17. The Confidence Man JP (2018)
45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dako (Masami Nagasawa) is a con woman who takes money from wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide) and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) to carry their plans using fantastic teamwork.
Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Michael Keida
Votes: 956
18. The Green Glove Gang (2022– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Crime
After a failed robbery, a gang of 3 noble thieves: Zuza, Kinga and Alicja hides in a quiet nursing home. While the police are on their heels, the gang continues their activities at the center, giving its elderly residents a second youth.
Stars: Magdalena Kuta, Malgorzata Potocka, Anna Romantowska, Beata Bandurska
Votes: 970
19. Tuff Money (2020)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two municipal workers, depressed in a bar, spontaneously joke about being able to rob a bank van, in order to sound big. Trouble starts when their plan is taken at face value by a mobster, who threatens them to actually do the heist.
Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Cristian Bota, Gavril Patru, Medeea Marinescu
Votes: 922
20. Dead End (2022)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A group of strangers who accidentally drive off in a car with two million zlotys, coming from a bank heist.
Stars: Juliusz Chrzastowski, Lukasz Garlicki, Anna Ilczuk, Jasmina Polak
Votes: 884
21. Les Norton (2019)
55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Queensland outback man flees his past, gets lured into Sydney's seedy underbelly and entangled in crime.
Stars: Alexander Bertrand, Kate Box, Hunter Page-Lochard, Pallavi Sharda
Votes: 655
22. The Simple Heist (2017–2019)
265 min | Comedy, Crime
Jenny and Cecilia are two women in their 60s who live a regular middle class life in Kalmar. But when both realize that the future is anything but light for them, they decide to do something drastic, robbing a bank office in Stockholm.
Stars: Lotta Tejle, Sissela Kyle, Tomas von Brömssen, Ralph Carlsson
Votes: 504
23. Six Empty Seats (2020–2021)
48 min | Drama, Thriller
Six colleagues from a small real-estate firm accidentally miss their mutual flight thus miraculously avoiding the plane crash. The eluded disaster triggers the insight that none of them had... See full summary »
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Mikhail Efremov, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Nikita Efremov
Votes: 281
24. Budgie (1971–1972)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
Chirpy Cockney petty crook Ronald "Budgie" Bird is the main character in this British television series.
Stars: Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson, Lynn Dalby, June Lewis
Votes: 272
25. My Fellow Citizens (2019– )
35 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Yang Jung Kook is a veteran conman, but he has never been arrested. One day, his girlfriend suddenly runs off with the money they were going to use for their marriage. Yang Jung Kook is ... See full summary »
Stars: Choi Siwon, Kim Min-jung, Lee Yoo-young, Lim Se-joo
Votes: 266
26. The Invisibles (2008– )
60 min | Comedy, Crime
After 15 years of living it up in the Costa Del Crime, ex-criminals Mo and Sid soon discover that everyday life is a far cry from the white-knuckle ride of a spot of breaking and entering.
Stars: Anthony Head, Warren Clarke, Jenny Agutter, Dean Lennox Kelly
Votes: 253
27. Robo mundial (2022– )
30 min | Comedy
After investing all his savings to travel with his son to the World Cup, Lucho is shocked when the Argentine team gets disqualified from the games. He and a flashy group of losers, decide to devise a plan to steal the World Cup trophy.
Stars: Joaquín Furriel, Benjamín Amadeo, Carla Quevedo, Javier Gómez
Votes: 263
28. Los ladrones van a la oficina (1993–1997)
26 min | Comedy
Snack Bar "La Oficina" (The Office), managed by psychological mute Smith and his wife Pruden, is the meeting point for the local con-men (the "los ladrones" of the title). They get together... See full summary »
Stars: Anabel Alonso, Manuel Alexandre, Mabel Lozano, Guillermo Montesinos
Votes: 240
29. Raffles (1975–1977)
60 min | Comedy, Crime
Most people know A.J. Raffles only as a gentleman of leisure and a top-rated cricketer, but he is also "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel thief. Alternately aided and hindered by his ... See full summary »
Stars: Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli, Victor Brooks, Victor Carin
Votes: 208
30. Motel Valkirias (2023– )
49 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Set in a cross-border motel between Galicia and Portugal, follows three women with financial and personal problems who get in serious danger after joining forces to get their hands on some valuable merchandise from a guest in the motel.
Stars: María Mera, Maria João Bastos, Marina Mota, Chechu Salgado
Votes: 148
31. Turtle's Progress (1979–1980)
60 min | Comedy
The series was was a mix of drama & comedy and dealt with a petty criminal named Turtle and his minder, "Razor" Eddie, who by accident come into possession of the proceeds of a major bank ... See full summary »
Stars: John F. Landry, Michael Attwell, Ruby Head, Tony London
Votes: 61
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