Casa du papet This bank robbery will impress you even before the adjustment for inflation. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Together they want to infiltrate the Royal Mint of Spain to print banknotes themselves. An unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain. He had also spent much of the preceding decade orchestrating many other bank heists around the nation, and had never been caught. [3][4], To achieve his purpose will be aided by another three convicts: Zorba (Manuel Manquiña) a failed artist, Jacobo Yuste (Jimmy Barnatán) a hacker known as "Windows", and Pinito (Javier Aller), a dwarf burglar able to hide in a suitcase despite his claustrophobia. Spain: Language: Spanish: The Biggest Robbery Never Told (Spanish: El robo más grande jamás contado) is a 2002 Spanish comedy film directed by Daniel Monzón and written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría. The team worked for weeks to slowly dig a tunnel underneath the bank, a tunnel into which they diverted electricity and even air conditioning, thus keeping themselves comfortable as they dug. The mastermind of the weekend break-in and theft was a man named George Leslie, who had apparently spent years planning this perfect crime. The goal is to leave the building with a total of 2.4 billion euros in the bag. Most of the suspects involved in the massive crime were never apprehended, and most of the cash remains missing. The group sent much of the money to poor communities in Puerto Rico in a latter day Robin Hood move. The 1997 failed attempt at a robbery of a North Hollywood, CA Bank of America has the dubious distinction of being the most violent bank robbery in American history. [1], In 2003 the film was nominated for a Goya Award for the Best Special Effects. Here's the real story of Chandigarh's biggest-ever "heist" of Rs 14 crore at Forever Diamonds in Sector 17. They need eleven days of access to the money-printing machines. Being long dead, Leslie was not apprehended for the crime he had perpetrated. He and a pair of accomplices walked into the San Miguel Valley Bank of Telluride, Colorado, and simply aimed a gun at the teller and demanded access to the bank’s cash. A FUGITIVE allegedly responsible for the largest robbery ever carried out in Gibraltar has been hauled back to the rock more than three years after his escape to Spain. That sum would equal around $65,000,000 today, and was the largest bank robbery in United States history at the time. Police in Spain have smashed a robbery gang led by a contortionist who carried out more than 20 raids by squeezing through the smallest of holes in bars and shops. In 1976, Lebanon had descended into civil strife, and the capital, Beirut, was being torn apart by fighting. He was questioned, gave a full confession, returned the money, and was pardoned. Technically this was not a robbery of a bank, but rather of the facility where vast sums of money that are deposited in banks are held to, y’know, prevent the money from being stolen. Reimagining the anthology from visionary Steven Spielberg, "Amazing Stories," executive produced by Spielberg, will transport the audience to worlds of wonder through the lens of today's most imaginative filmmakers, directors, and writers. No one ever accused Saddam Hussein of being a great guy. Votes: 271,522 (Video 2018). One day, The Saint decides to plan the robbery of one of the most representative works of modern art: Pablo Picasso's Guernica from the Reina Sofía Museum. Together they want to infiltrate the Royal Mint of Spain to print banknotes themselves. Just keep in mind these are some of the biggest bank robberies in history; your own criminal enterprise is probably not going to make you an illicit multimillionaire in one go. On June 24th, 1889, Butch Cassidy committed the first of what would be a long string of bank robberies. They made off with cash, gold, jewels, and other valuables that all together were worth an estimated $50,000,000. As if kidnapping and threatening the family of a bank employee was not enough, the robbers behind this audacious 1992 robbery also strapped explosives to the body of the guard they took hostage. Sigh. This was pre-Euro, you’ll recall). In late February of 2006, a group of armed robbers posing as policemen abducted the manager of the Securitas Depot along with his wife and young son. The FBI only recovered about $80,000. This 2004 robbery of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK is remarkable for being 100% unsolved despite the complexity of the plot and the value of the haul. Yep, this guy stole nearly 300 million pounds. And it ultimately resulted in no cash being lost and no serious prison time served despite the fact that the authorities knew all the details of the crime. And there were 300 bonds in the briefcase. The robbers posed as a landscape and maintenance crew serving a building near to the Banco Central in Fortaleza, Brazil. They need eleven days of access to the money-printing machines. [3][4][5], La consagración de un director en la sombra, El robo más grande jamás contado - Psinopsis, THE BIGGEST ROBBERY NEVER TOLD by Daniel Monzón, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Biggest_Robbery_Never_Told&oldid=972187269, Films with screenplays by Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Articles with Spanish-language sources (es), Articles containing Spanish-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 August 2020, at 17:35.