The Rip-Off (Italian: Controrapina), also known as The Squeeze and Diamond Thieves, is a 1978 crime action film directed by Antonio Margheriti.

It was Margheriti's third collaboration with actor Lee Van Cleef, after previously directing him in The Stranger and the Gunfighter and Take a Hard Ride.

Retired safe-cracker Chris Gretchko is coaxed out of comfortable retirement by Jeff Olafson, the impulsive son of a former accomplice, who begs him to help steal an undocumented shipment of diamonds to satiate Van Stratten, a New York City crime boss whose mistress, Jessica, has been seeing Jeff on the side.

Chris subsequently recruits his old friend, pawn shop owner Sam, who agrees to fence the diamonds afterward.

Clarisse, an eccentric neighbor in the building, discovers Chris, and agrees to help tend his injuries and lie to police who come looking for him.