Top Crime Movies


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

131. Diabolique ( diaboliques, Les )

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault
Plot: After a wife and a man's mistress Kill her husband, the body mysteriously disappears as the two women appear cursed.

132. Capote

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bennett Miller
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, Craig Archibald
Plot: The Biography of a writer who closely follows the murders of a Kansas family and their reasons for the crime. Capote develops a relationship with one of the killers while traveling back and forth from his home and the jail.

133. Mona Lisa

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane

134. To Catch a Thief

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Plot: Light and breezy Hitchcock trifle about a retired jewel thief lured out of retirement by a copycat criminal. Romance ensues with a beautiful American heiress against the luscious backdrop of the French Riviera.

135. Laura

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Otto Preminger
Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
Plot: Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the case of Laura - a girl who entranced every man she came across. A striking portrait, along with suspects testimony, paints the perfect picture and he finds himself falling under her spell leading to a startling revelation.

136. The Asphalt Jungle

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe
Plot: A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

137. Short Film About Killing, A ( Krótki film o zabijaniu )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Krzysztof Globisz, Miroslaw Baka, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Jan Tesarz
Plot: As simple as it is dark and uncompromising on its view of capitol punishment - a senseless, violent murder leads to a cold, calculating execution (both deaths shows in excruciating detail) while the idealistic, young defense lawyer deals with his part in this state-sponsored execution.

138. The Gentlemen

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
Plot: An American expat has set up a lucrative marijuana empire in London. But as all good things must come to an end, he looks to get out of the business - which sets in motion a series of plots and schemes as his underlings look to gain control before he can sell it off.

139. Infernal Affairs ( Mou gaan dou )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wai-keung Lau
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Plot: A mole is suspected to be the cause of a group of police officers not being able to catch a crime lord.

140. Seven Psychopaths

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell
Plot: A down-on-his luck screenwriter gets some great inspiration when he finds himself in the cross-hairs of the criminal underworld after a couple of his friends kidnap the Shih Tzu of a gangster.

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