8 Movies Banned For Telling You How To Commit A Crime

Jules Dassin's 1955 crime masterpiece Rififi is often held to feature the greatest heist sequence in cinema history - a half-hour set-piece shot in almost complete silence, with no music or dialogue, as the central characters carry out the robbery of a jewelry store.

Dassin shot the sequence with an uncommon attention-to-detail, enough that the film actually ended up being banned in numerous territories for how thoroughly it laid out the particulars of committing an actual robbery.

In Mexico, the interior ministry banned the film due to a series of burglaries which were said to have imitated it, while in Finland it was also banned for its depiction of safecracking, though this was ultimately lifted five years later - presumably after it had no impact on the incidence of safe robberies.