A seven-minute heist in broad daylight from the most-visited museum in the world is like something straight out of a movie.

For French authorities and officials at the Louvre, the daring robbery by four suspects on Oct. 19 is all too real as they work to try recover eight pieces from France's crown jewels that they say were taken.

The cinematic nature of the heist, which authorities said involved using a truck with a basket lift, cutting tools and a pair of scooters, gave it some of the elements of a classic heist movie.

"Heist movies where you root the most for the team are when it's against a faceless institution," Paul Caiola, co-host of the movie podcast That Aged Well , tells TODAY.com. "We all know what the Louvre is, and we can romanticize this team thanks to movies and pop c

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