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Heists and Gangsters

Crack the safe, dodge the Feds and keep the family business in line: how much do you know about the great heist and gangster films?

🎬 Movies medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • The Godfather (1972) was adapted from a best-selling novel by which writer?
  • In Ocean's Eleven (1960), Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack friends plan to rob five casinos in which city?
  • Goodfellas (1990) tells the true story of which mob associate, played by Ray Liotta?
  • In Reservoir Dogs (1992), the robbers hide their real names behind code names based on what?
  • The Italian Job (1969) builds its heist around a huge traffic jam in which Italian city?
  • Who directed the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven?
  • Which Goodfellas actor won the film's only Oscar?
  • Scarface (1983) is a remake of a 1932 gangster film produced by Howard Hughes.
  • Heat (1995) gives Al Pacino and Robert De Niro their first scene together. Where do their characters sit down to talk?
  • The robbery at the heart of Reservoir Dogs is never actually shown on screen.
  • Who wrote the screenplay for Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983)?
  • Select ALL of the Las Vegas casinos whose money sits in the vault the crew raids in Ocean's Eleven (2001).
  • Was Heat a remake of a TV film that Michael Mann had made himself?
  • Rififi (1955) was made in France by which American director, who had been blacklisted in Hollywood?
  • Select ALL of these actors who appear in The Godfather Part III (1990).
  • Sofia Coppola played Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III after which actress pulled out shortly before filming?
  • Order these crime films by release year, earliest first.
  • Rififi's famous safecracking sequence plays with no dialogue and no music. Roughly how many minutes long is it?
  • The real 1978 Lufthansa heist, a key event in Goodfellas, took place at which airport?
  • Nino Rota's score for The Godfather was ruled ineligible for an Oscar because he had reused music from which earlier film?