Did The Killing influence Reservoir Dogs?

Yes. Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Did The Killing influence Heat?

Yes. Kubrick's procedural heist film is part of the noir lineage Mann compresses into Heat's bank-job sequence — meticulous planning, professional crew, fatalistic outcome.

The Killing (1956)

Name: The Killing
Released: 1956

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)¹

Heat (1995)²

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
"Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own."
Heat (1995)
"Kubrick's procedural heist film is part of the noir lineage Mann compresses into Heat's bank-job sequence — meticulous planning, professional crew, fatalistic outcome." source

The Killing (1956), directed by Stanley Kubrick, has been cited as an influence on 2 later works, such as Reservoir Dogs and Heat. Check out the citations below.