Top Crime Movies


The Top Crime Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Crime List". Lists are calculated daily.

101. Promising Young Woman

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emerald Fennell
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Plot: A tragic event in her past causes a young woman to seek vengeance against the men who enter her life.

102. The Boondock Saints

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Troy Duffy
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Brian Mahoney, Billy Connolly
Plot: Two brothers fight the Russian mob in their neighborhood. They begin killing evil men in the name of truth (veritas) and justice (aequitas).
They are pursued by an FBI agent who sees what he has always secretly hoped would happen with criminals and deals with the fact that there is no public outcry for the killings to stop.

103. I Saw the Devil ( Akmareul boatda )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Actors: Byung-hun Lee, Gook-hwan Jeon, Ho-jin Jeon, San-ha Oh, Yoon-seo Kim, Min-sik Choi
Plot: After his pregnant fiance is viciously murdered by a serial killer, a detective plots an elaborate and intricate revenge plot for the man responsible.

104. Thelma & Louise

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Christopher McDonald
Plot: Two women, having dead end careers, road trip to get away from it all when they encounter a rapist and do the worst deed possible.

105. Wall Street

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, John C. McGinley, Terence Stamp
Plot: Bud Fox, a young, hotheaded broker, is willing to put his values and relationships on the line when he decides to do anything to get to the top on Wall Street, with help from the successful and ruthless Gordon Gecko.

106. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Actors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Christopher Byers
Plot: When a triple murder rocks the community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three boys with ties to Satanism are charged with the crime. Seen as guilty by man before the trail began, Paradise Lost takes a look at every angle and how justice can easily be clouded.

107. Sherlock Holmes

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Plot: A new take on the old legend - Sherlock Holmes and the ever-present Watson are still on the case to unravel a nefarious plot to destroy the country, but this time he's just as keen using his fists as his mind.

108. The Defiant Ones

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid capture.

109. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( Angst essen Seele auf )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Marquard Bohm
Plot: An aging woman falls for a Berber man ten years her junior - and all those around her oppose the relationship, especially when they decide to marry. Yet even as the date draws closer, each has their own personal doubts about how to continue.

110. Frenzy

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Plot: A temperamental London man is mistaken for the Necktie Killer, a serial
rapist/murderer stalking London women. Hitchock's last great film
contains the director's trademark pitch-black humor, as well as
uncharacteristically graphic violence.

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