CURATED CRAFT INDEX
Heist craft lives in plans under pressure: clocks, objects, crews, routes, covers, silence, mistrust, and partial information. These cards gather jobs and cons where procedure creates character rather than merely decorating plot mechanics.
Mission: Impossible (1996)
CIA vault break-in / temperature, sound, pressure, and hanging body control
The CIA vault makes stillness active by turning temperature, sound, sweat, rope, and human balance into the job's true antagonist.
Drive (2011)
Opening getaway / five-minute rule, radio map, and visibility discipline
The opening getaway defines the driver through limits, proving that a professional code can be more suspenseful than constant acceleration.
Jackie Brown (1997)
Mall money exchange / repeated point-of-view switchbacks
The mall exchange uses repeated point of view to make the same procedure reveal different loyalties, fears, and acts of authorship.
The Town (2010)
Bank robbery aftermath / witness relationship and Fenway heist pressure
The jobs are inseparable from Charlestown loyalty, so each robbery tests whether professional escape can outrun neighborhood identity.
Ronin (1998)
Freelancer briefing / case pursuit through tradecraft and car chases
The object stays opaque because mistrust is the engine: tradecraft, routes, briefings, and chases all measure who can operate with partial truth.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Card-game loss / overlapping crews, debt clock, and botched thefts
Debt turns criminal incompetence into a clock, letting overlapping plans collide until ownership and consequence keep changing hands.