Top Crime Movies


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

71. Sicario

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
Plot: Sicario translates to hitman in Mexico. When an idealistic FBI agent is
paired up with a consultant with a checkered past, she will have to learn
the hard way that combating the new war on drugs sometimes means getting
your hands dirty.

72. Gone Baby Gone

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Michelle Monaghan, Amy Madigan, Robert Wahlberg, Ed Harris
Plot: A young girl is kidnapped in the Boston area which stretches two detectives professional and home lives to the brink. Based on a novel.

73. The Irishman

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Anna Paquin, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jesse Plemons, Stephen Graham, Harvey Keitel
Plot: Frank Sheeran, a former mobster, recounts the tale of his relationship with Russell Buffalino and James Hoffa.

74. Menace II Society

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Actors: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Johnson, Glenn Plummer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Plot: Caine Lawson is a young man in an urban nightmare. Following his graduation, he tries to free himself from the violence and drugs in Watts, CA.

75. My Fair Lady

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper, Theodore Bikel, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Plot: A poor flower girl is taken in by a English language master to be taught how to sing and speak properly on based on a bet between himself and his friend putting the poor flower girl in the middle.

76. Breathless ( À Bout de souffle )

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard
Plot: Traditional cinematic form is cast aside to brilliant effect in his inaugural entry of the French New Wave, an homage to the gangster and crime films of 1930s/40s Hollywood.

77. Jackie Brown

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Chris Tucker
Plot: An arms dealer, a flight attendant, a bale bondsman, and a couple of cops are all after drugs, guns, love, betrayal, and honesty.

78. Road to Perdition

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Liam Aiken, Tyler Hoechlin, Jude Law, Daniel Craig
Plot: As a professional hit man's son witnesses his futhers operation as they murder someone, the hit man must betray his boss to save his son.

79. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant
Plot: A fading, serious TV star Rick Dalton along with his stunt double Cliff Booth, who look to break into the film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood. But the summer of '69 also faces the counter-culture revolution along with the rise of the Manson Family.

80. Blood Simple

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Deborah Neumann
Plot: A wealthy bar owner in Texas suspect his wife of cheating on him. He hire an unscrupulous private investigator to confirm and kill his wife and lover. The hired man has his own plans and soon a simple murder-for-hire takes a complex turn.

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