Sentences with phrase «jewel thief»

Frank is a retired jewel thief who trains Robot to help him get plot a multi million - dollar heist.

The buddy comedy stars Frank Langella as a retired jewel thief who seeks to resume his criminal ways with the help of a companion robot, voiced by Peter Sarsgaard.

Unfortunately, Tana does not inform the authorities that she's taken it upon herself to track down a pair of jewel thieves, and as a result she is suspected of being a crook herself.

First up is «Robot & Frank,» a sweet indie in which he plays the son of former jewel thief Frank Langella, who bonds with a robot companion.

At the request of his cop uncle (pleasant Sun Yeuh) and against the wishes of his fiancé (unpleasant Carrie Ng), Chow agrees to implicate a group of known jewel thieves by arming them with illegal weapons.

He cited a recent «utterly nonsensical» case about a serial jewel thief in London who was captured on CCTV while robbing a shop.

Synopsis: Having already stolen two from the set of three priceless Napoleon Diamonds, expert jewel thief Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) decides to retire on a...

According to Variety, the currently untitled movie, which is being compared to Catch Me If You Can and The Thomas Crown Affair, is coming soon with Tessa Thompson playing Doris Payne, the infamous jewel thief whose crimes spanned across 50 years years.

Set in the near future, the film stars Frank Langella as an aging jewel thief whose memory is fading.

This Alfred Hitchcock classic includes two of his favorites, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, in a thriller involving jewel thieves and the French Riviera.

But like a skilled jewel thief, the bacterium can outwit PTI by using its effector proteins.

Like jewel thieves pulling off a heist, bacteria have a variety of tricks to avoid detection when plundering a plant cell — and researchers continue to learn more details about their highly evolved tactics.

Just be sure to don an incredible piece of statement jewelry so you look a little less like a burglar (and perhaps more like an experienced jewel thief...).

Among his best - remembered roles were Inspector Cressney, who trailed jewel thief Clark Gable in They Met in Bombay (1941), and Inspector Graham in The Brighton Strangler (1945).

The training goes well until Roper's closest friend and former partner is killed by crazed but crafty jewel thief Michael Korda (Michael Wincott).

The story of a professional jewel thief (James Caan) trying to make good, it introduced audiences to Mann's stylish, atmospheric approach to filmmaking and earned a number of strong reviews.Mann next returned to television, acting as executive producer of the popular TV cop series Miami Vice (1984 - 90).

Along the way they get in a number of sticky situations (sticky, it should be noted, in every possible sense of the word) involving, among others, a gang of female jewel thieves who look like they've jumped straight from the pages of Maxim magazine, a wonderful orangutan named Suzanne, and a bumbling wildlife marshal who's after the ape.

A retired jewel thief gets a new lease on life when he is introduced to a surprising new companion

A typical example occurs while Finnegan and an inept jewel thief played by GoldenEye bombshell Famke Janssen are frantically warding off the rampaging creatures in a corridor.

Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson has lined up her next film role, and it's sounding pretty classy: Variety reports that Thompson has agreed to star in a film about well - known jewel thief Doris Payne, who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry over her multi-decade career, using nothing but quick...

Haggard, worn jewel thief Jean Servais is in threadbare suits and down to his last francs but still dapper and elegant when he hatches the «perfect» plan to rob a jewel shop.

The whole «this could be any street corner in London» angle goes out the window, when Michelle Ryan's mysterious jewel thief character starts shooting up the place.

Set in 1940, Woody's insurance investigator and Hunt's dame come together when both are hypnotized into becoming jewel thieves.

The Last Panthers opens with an intense jewel heist, as Milan (Goran Bogdan), one of the famous Panther jewel thieves, tries for one last score with a team he doesn't quite trust.

The Pink Panther 2 (PG for suggestive humor, action and mild epithets) Steve Martin reprises the title role as the bumbling Jacques Clouseau for a comic crime caper which has the hapless inspector traversing the globe in search of the international jewel thief who has purloined the priceless Pink Panther diamond.

You know the story... the top jewel thief does things his own way, and he's almost retired, he just needs to do one more haul, a big haul, then he's done for good!

When we first meet Pappi, he's a debonair jewel thief having a fabulous time in the underworld — with Eve Hewson on his arm and in his bedroom.

Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo, Los Angeles plainclothes police officers probing a scheme that involves the temporary resurrection of dead jewel thieves, find themselves interviewing the proprietor of a Chinatown food store.

In the exquisitely offbeat crime caper «Laugh Killer Laugh,» William Forsythe plays Frank Stone, a ruthless jewel thief known for offing his accomplices.

Set in Cold Spring, New York in the near future, this independent dramedy centers on Frank Weld (Frank Langella), an old retired jewel thief losing his mind.

The six - part series is inspired by the actions of the notorious Balkans jewel thieves, The Pink Panthers.

In the film, Frank Langella plays Frank, a retired jewel thief suffering from the early stages of dementia whose son (played by James Marsden) buys him a robot caretaker / butler (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to take care of him.

Director: Blake Edwards Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Colin Gordon, John Le Mesurier Plot: An esteemed jewel thief (Niven) is hunting a precious gem, called the Pink Panther.

This stand - alone thriller combines high - octane suspense with comic capering, as two married couples — one a PI team, the other a hit couple for hire — spar with one another until they both find themselves in the crosshairs of a gang of Russian jewel thieves.

Everyone's a critic, these holy misfires say, but have you ever penned a novel about an amnesiac jewel thief who falls for a house elf with a secret?

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Yesterday, just hours before Tessa walked the red carpet of the Annihilation premiere, Variety broke the news that she's going to play infamous jewel thief, Doris Payne.

Directed by Jake Schreier, Robot & Frank centers around a retired jewel thief (Frank Langella) and the bond he develops to his caretaker robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard).

City on Fire stars Chow Yun - Fat (A Better Tomorrow, Dream Lovers) as an undercover cop sent out to infiltrate a gang of jewel thieves.

california, 294 pages, $ 29.95 Our cultural consensus about lower - class single dads is bleak: They are on a road to perdition without the picturesque, thrilling detours that mobsters, jewel thieves, and rock....

As I mixed the dry ingredients and the wet, shuffling around the kitchen looking for just the right utensil, she hobnobbed with the wealthy and got a confession from the jewel thief murderer.

Natalia Knight aka Nocturna, was a jewel thief who briefly adopted Jason Todd and discovered... Batman then made his way to Jezebel Plaza to interrogate Penguin's arms dealer, Ricky Loose Lips Leblanc and observed him and the Penguin's Henchmen

Natalia Knight aka Nocturna, was a jewel thief who briefly adopted Jason Todd and discovered...

Morgan Freeman (Now You See Me 2, Ben - Hur) plays Ripley, a jewel thief who takes brash young thief Gabriel (Antonio Banderas — Haywire, Machete Kills) under his wing to help him steal a couple of mythical Faberge eggs nestled in the high - security vault of Romanov's.

A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant.

I mean, it's about a jewel thief on the loose, with the prime suspect being a reformed cat burglar trying to move on with his life.

Martin Lawrence plays a jewel thief who impersonates a police officer and teams with an unsuspecting rookie partner (Wilson) in order to recover a diamond he once hid in the police station's...

Tall, tweedy, and usually sporting a mustache, Space played just about every kind of supporting role, from Western banker to big - city detective to jewel thief.