Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist (Los ladrones, 2022) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. The men who pulled off the job sit down on camera and, grinning, walk you through exactly how they emptied a Banco Río branch on the edge of Buenos Aires.

That January day in 2006 looked like a textbook standoff: armed men inside, a couple dozen hostages, negotiators and police ringing the block. The trick was that while officers worked the perimeter, the crew was already drilling open safe-deposit boxes and slipping out through a tunnel into the storm drains. They walked off with millions in cash and jewels, then vanished. What finally undid them wasn't the police but one robber's ex-wife.

Director Matías Gueilburt builds the whole thing from first-person accounts: Fernando Araujo, Luis Vitette and the rest lay out the plan themselves. The strange pleasure here is how calmly they tell it, less confession than pride in the engineering. Stream Bank Robbers (2022) online on iFILM.