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A heist is a robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

Heist may also refer to:

Places

• Heist, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein
• Heist-aan-Zee, West Flanders, Belgium
• Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, Belgium

People

• Al Heist (1927–2006), Major League Baseball outfielder
• George Heist (1886–1920), immunologist
• Hans-Joachim Heist (born 1949), German actor and comedian
• Monique van Heist (born 1972), Rotterdam-based Dutch fashion designer
• Heist., botanical standard author abbreviation for Lorenz Heister

Film

• Le Temps des loups, 1970 French–Italian crime drama released in English as The Heist
• The Heist, aka Dollar$, a 1971 comedy directed by Richard Brooks
• The Heist (1976 film), a Mexican crime film
• The Heist, aka The Squeeze, a 1977 thriller directed by Michael Apted
• The Heist (1989 film), a made-for-TV thriller starring Pierce Brosnan
• Heist (2001 film), directed by David Mamet
• The Heist (2001 film), directed by Kurt Voss
• The Heist (2008 film), directed by Campbell Cooley
• The Maiden Heist, a 2009 film starring Morgan Freeman, released as The Heist in the UK
• Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?, a 2011 documentary
• Heist (2015 film), directed by Scott Mann
• The Heist (2024 film), directed by Aditya Awandhe

Television

• Heist (2008 film), a British TV comedy-drama
• Heist (2006 TV series), American TV series
• Heist (2021 TV series), an American Netflix true crime documentary series
• The Heist (Derren Brown special) a 2006 reality program
• The Heist (TV series), a 2018-2020 British reality competition

Episodes

• "The Heist" (The Amazing World of Gumball)
• "The Heist" (American Dragon: Jake Long)
• "The Heist" (Chowder)
• "The Heist" (MacGyver)
• "The Heist" (The Outer Limits)
• "The Heist", 2015 episode of It's Not Crazy, It's Sports directed by Errol Morris

Games

• Heist (video game), a planned video game canceled in 2010
• Payday: The Heist, a 2011 video game focused on various robberies

Music

• ¡Heist!, a 2008 EP by The Lights Out
• The Heist (album), a hip-hop album by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• "Heist", a song by Lindsey Stirling from the album Shatter Me
• "Heist", a song by Ben Folds from the movie Over the Hedge

Other uses

• The Heist (Silva novel), 2014, in the Gabriel Allon series
• K.S.K. Heist, a professional football club from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium

See also

• Heist film, a subgenre of crime film based on planning and executing a significant robbery
• List of bank robbers and robberies