{"title":"Best Thief Movies","theme":"thief","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/thief","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":26,"listedFilms":20,"frames":1922,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"police officer","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.54,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0052,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00094,"observedInFrames":58},{"element":"sedan","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.6,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0035,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00097,"observedInFrames":39},{"element":"handgun","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00431,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00133,"observedInFrames":48},{"element":"sunglasses","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.4,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00395,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":44},{"element":"snow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.13,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00422,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00198,"observedInFrames":47},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.05,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01238,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":138},{"element":"leather jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.95,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00511,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00262,"observedInFrames":57},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00314,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":35}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8577,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.24}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.464,"ratio":1.02},{"hue":"red","share":0.162,"ratio":1.07},{"hue":"blue","share":0.159,"ratio":0.91},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.066,"ratio":0.86}],"meanSaturation":0.231,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.426,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Reservoir Dogs","year":1992,"director":"Quentin Tarantino","cinematographer":"Andrzej Sekula","exemplarScore":1.301,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/reservoir-dogs-1992"},{"rank":2,"title":"Heat","year":1995,"director":"Michael Mann","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.216,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/heat-1995"},{"rank":3,"title":"Play Dirty","year":2025,"director":"Shane Black","cinematographer":"Philippe Rousselot","exemplarScore":1.249,"framesIndexed":162,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/play-dirty-2025"},{"rank":4,"title":"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang","year":2005,"director":"Shane Black","cinematographer":"Michael Barrett","exemplarScore":1.117,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/kiss-kiss-bang-bang-2005"},{"rank":5,"title":"Thief","year":1981,"director":"Michael Mann","cinematographer":"Donald E. Thorin","exemplarScore":1.129,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/thief-1981"},{"rank":6,"title":"In the Heat of the Night","year":1967,"director":"Norman Jewison","cinematographer":"Haskell Wexler","exemplarScore":0.961,"framesIndexed":173,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/in-the-heat-of-the-night-1967"},{"rank":7,"title":"Le Cercle Rouge","year":1970,"director":"Jean-Pierre Melville","cinematographer":"Henri Decaë","exemplarScore":0.925,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/le-cercle-rouge-1970"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Mexican","year":2001,"director":"Gore Verbinski","cinematographer":"Dariusz Wolski","exemplarScore":0.815,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-mexican-2001"},{"rank":9,"title":"The Bling Ring","year":2013,"director":"Sofia Coppola","cinematographer":"Christopher Blauvelt","exemplarScore":0.669,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-bling-ring-2013"},{"rank":10,"title":"Thelma & Louise","year":1991,"director":"Ridley Scott","cinematographer":"Adrian Biddle","exemplarScore":0.492,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/thelma-louise-1991"}],"outlier":{"title":"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon","year":2000,"exemplarScore":0,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}