IMDB User Rating: 7.8/10 (5,787 votes) Synopsis: The Bank Job is a 2008 crime film based on a 1971 true-life robbery of a bank in Baker Street, London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The story was prevented from being told because of a MI6 & UK Govt D-Notice gagging order, allegedly to protect a prominent member of the British Royal Family.