Top Crime Movies


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

141. Sleepers

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Ron Eldard, Joseph Perrino
Plot: A group of friends growing up in Hell's Kitchen commit a petty crime seriously injuring someone when they are sent to Juvenile detention which happens to mistreat young boys and they are forced to deal with it the rest of their lives.

142. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John McNaughton
Actors: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, David Katz
Plot: FIlm based on real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas and his relationship with Otis and his sister.

143. Anatomy of a Fall ( Anatomie d'une chute )

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Justine Triet
Actors: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth
Plot: When an author's husband turns up dead and the investigation prove inconclusive between an accident and murder, she calls upon an old friend - the only lawyer she knows - to help prepare for the impending trial.

144. Shottas

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cess Silvera
Actors: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean, Lennox Lewis
Plot: Shottas tells the true story of two young men, Wayne and and Bigs, who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston.

145. Fresh

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Boaz Yakin
Actors: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, José Zúñiga, Ron Brice
Plot: Fresh, a 12-year-old dealer from Brooklyn, maneuvers local drug pushers against one another after a friend is shot.

146. Way of the Dragon, The ( Meng long guo jiang )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Lee
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall
Plot: Bruce Lee's character is sent to protect a man and his restaurant in Rome. As he shows his skill to the rest of the team, the mafia try to kill him. With little success, they bring in the ultimate fighter, Chuck Norris!

147. Victoria

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Actors: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André Hennicke
Plot: A young Spanish immigrant living in Berlin encounters a group of friends on a night out and becomes embroiled in a bank heist.

148. The Man Who Wasn't There

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Badalucco, Frances McDormand, Jon Polito, James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson
Plot: This barber is man no one notices, laconic, chain-smoking and completely stuck in the rut that is his life. That is until he hatches a plan to blackmail his wife and her supposed lover, her boss Big Dave, in order to fun a new dry cleaning business. Too bad his plan immediately falls apart.

149. 25th Hour

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Brian Cox, Philip Seymour Hoffman , Anna Paquin, Rosario Dawson
Plot: A good hearted convicted drug dealer looks back on his life and the choices he made while still knowing he must face 7 years in jail or run away for ever.

150. In Cold Blood

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart
Plot: Two poverty stricken men set a plan to murder a rich Kansas family to take their money and escape to Mexico as the law catches up with them. Based on a true story.

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