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Memorable thieves...

Lupin

Omar Sy could be the next James Bond. In this five-part French series, he plays a gentleman thief who steals a necklace from the Louvre to exact revenge for the death of his Senegalese immigrant father. The clever twists keep coming, many inspired by the protagonist’s love of French crime fiction’s Arsène Lupin. Netflix

White Collar

Speaking of dashing thieves, they don’t come more charming than Matt Bomer’s Neal Caffrey. Caffrey is a crook and con man recruited by an FBI agent to help solve high-price crimes, and his exploits hold interest through six seasons. Hulu

The Heist

Think you’ve got what it takes to pull off the big job? This British reality show puts 10 ordinary folks in the cat burglar’s seat, dangling 250,000 pounds in front of them and challenging them to execute a heist. If they manage to keep the loot hidden from detectives for two weeks, the money is theirs. Amazon Prime

Dirty Money

Not all thieves plunder banks and art museums. Documentarian Alex Gibney’s multipart series jumps from payday-lending schemes to maple syrup cartels to the boardrooms of major automakers to find common threads among scammers. The Trump Organization gets an episode, too. Netflix

Good Girls

A strong cast can take a show only so far. Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman are dynamite as suburban moms who turn to crime to help pull their families out of debt. But it takes a full season for Good Girls to find its edge. Once it does, the series becomes a smart, gutsy surprise—more Breaking Bad than Desperate Housewives. Netflix