Top Crime Movies


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

191. Thief

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Tuesday Weld, James Caan, James Belushi, Dennis Farina
Plot: A safe cracker is trying to begin a normal life when the mob comes calling for one last job as he scrambles to protect the ones he loves.

192. Batman: Under the Red Hood

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brandon Vietti
Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, John Di Maggio, Neil Patrick Harris
Plot: Gotham City's organized crime is under attack, but not from Batman, from a man called the Red Hood, whom Batman finds familiar.

193. Chicago

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Marshall
Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ren?e Zellweger, John C. Reilly, Richard Gere
Plot: A pair of killing women try to weasel (and sing) their way out of Death Row in 1920's Chicago.

194. The Drop

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Actors: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, John Ortiz
Plot: A dive bar acts as a front for the local mob, funneling money nightly. But even as one man begins to questions his role, his uncle is robbed, setting off a string of events - including caring for an injured pit bull pup - that will ultimately dictate his future.

195. Drunken Angel ( Yoidore tenshi )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Plot: The film focuses on an unlikely relationship of an alcoholic doctor (Takashi Shimura) treats a hood named Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune).

196. With Blood on my Hands: Pusher 2

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Leif Sylvester, Kurt Nielsen, Karsten Schrøder
Plot: After doing time in prison for his involvement with the Copenhagen underworld, habitual screwup Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) tries to win the approval of his gangster father (Leif Sylvester). But convincing dad that he's ready for the big time isn't as easy as Tonny envisioned, especially when he finds out he might be a father himself.

197. The Letter

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort
Plot: Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) lies about what happened to her lover.

198. Lord of War

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke
Plot: See the rise and fall of Ukrainian arms dealer Yuri Orlov (Cage). Yuri wants money and success and justifies his lifestyle of selling weapons to mobsters and dictators in order to live with himself.

199. Night and the City

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Plot: Harry Fabian is a London hustler whose plans never seem to work out as planned. Spying a world-famous Greco-Roman wrestler as his son's restaurant, he comes up with his most audacious plan yet. He does his best to con everyone around him, but in the end, really only winds up conning himself as his dreams crumble around him.

200. Helter Skelter

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Gries
Actors: Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns
Plot: Story of the crimes, capture and trial of the notorious Charles Manson and his "family".

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