10. ‘Jackie Brown’ (1997)

Few plots are as reliable as a good oldfashioned heist. It delivers drama, thrills, double crossing, maybe a car chase or two.

And heist films come in all shapes and sizes. This week’s “Logan Lucky” is the latest from Steven Soderbergh, features Channing Tatum, and is set in the world of NASCAR, of all places. Maybe it will be fun. But even if it isn’t, there are plenty of great heist-flick alternatives.

From the life-and-death, diamondstealing schemes of “Reservoir Dogs” and “Rififi” to the hysterics of “A Fish

This underrated work in Tarantino’s oeuvre is a rare adaptation for the auteur, with the director putting his spin on Elmore Leonard’s novel, “Rum Punch.” It’s the most restrained and mature of Tarantino’s work, light on tangents, popculture winks and showboating stylistic flourishes. He more or less plays straight this story about a money-smuggling flight attendant (Pam Grier) double-crossing the dangerous black-market gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson) who’d just as soon see her dead. It’s easy to lose the thread in this needlessly twisty slow-burning heist, but what it lacks in thrills it makes up for in character.

9. ‘Drive’ (2011)

Maybe it’s a stretch to categorize Nicolas Winding Refn’s Day-Glo fever dream as a heist film. Then again, it’s a stretch to categorize it as anything other than awesome. Ryan Gosling plays an unnamed getaway driver for hire, quickly whisking criminal patrons to safety. But the driver finds himself in Dutch with a mob boss (brilliantly played by a brilliantly cast Albert Brooks) after a heist gone bad. The film takes a paperthin plot and a taciturn hero who doesn’t do much more than wear the hell out of a satin jacket and spins it into a mood piece of stylish excess.

8. ‘Heat’ (1995)

Michael Mann’s sprawling three-hour crime drama is a who’s who of oncegreat actors giving their dignity a victory lap, including Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer and Al Pacino (perhaps the last of his films in which he teetered on the edge