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Lady in a cage

1964
The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator, which stops a dozen feet short of the main floor due to an electrical failure on a July 4th weekend. She rings her outside alarm, eventually noticed by a drunken derelict, who breaks into the house, ignores her plight and helps himself to various items and alcohol. He leaves with his loot but returns a while later with a plump prostitute and three teenage hoodlums, who proceed to terrorize Mrs. Hilyard as they wreck her home.

Inception

2010
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date, Inception.

I confess

1953
Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.

Firewall

2006
A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.

Assassination of a high school president

2008
At a Catholic high school, the popular girl teams up with a sophomore newspaper reporter to investigate a case of stolen SAT exams. Once the duo target their suspects, a larger conspiracy is unearthed.

Slim and Miss Prim

1998
When rustlers capture the talkative Marigold Prim, her cattle, and her ranch hand, they find her incessant conversation too much to bear and change their plans.

Ronia, the robber's daughter

1985
Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she befriends the son of a rival robber chieftain.

Little Elvises

a Junior Bender mystery
2012
Junior Bender, a burglar turned private investigator for other crooks, is bullied into proving that music industry mogul, Vinnie DeGaudio, is innocent of murder.

Invisible Stanley

2004
One morning after a thunderstorm, the Lambchop family is surprised to discover that Stanley is suddenly invisible.

Cam Jansen and the ghostly mystery

1999
Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost.

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