Affleck's second film is 2010's "The Town," where he plays bank robber Doug MacRay, who falls for bank teller Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) after his crew takes her hostage during a heist.

A Berlin retrospective salutes a handful of B-movie masters and grindhouse auteurs in all their gritty glory: "These were outsider filmmakers making outsider, maverick movies." ...

But when a special effects film technician found himself unable to work, he staged a robbery so convincing it could have come straight from a Guy Ritchie movie. Targeting the Arab National Bank in ...

Cain Vincent Dyer, a former bank robber, breaks down the realism of group bank heists, as well as armored car and ATM robberies, in "Point Break" (1991), with Keanu Reeves; "The Town" (2010 ...

who advised police in a stand-off during a bank robbery in the Swedish capital in August 1973. During the stand-off, some of the hostages appeared to side with the hostage-takers and against the ...