Top Crime Movies


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

31. Once Upon a Time in America

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Plot: Noodles, a Jewish gangster, returns to his stomping grounds where he tries to forget the past and the tragic events that occurred.

32. The Sting

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning
Plot: A man seeks revenge on his murdered partner while he joins forces with a con man to pull off the ultimate sting.

33. Mystic River

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: As childhood friends drift apart, they are reunited when one of their daughters is killed and one of them could be a suspect based on his past.

34. Nightcrawler

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dan Gilroy
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo, Ann Cusack
Plot: A down and out young man, desperate for work, stumbles upon the seedy underworld of L.A.'s crime journalism. The break-neck pace is all about being the first on the scene - murder, accidents, fires, mayhem - and selling the gratuitous footage to the local news stations. But the better he gets, the more likely he is going to become the next story...

35. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, J. Farrell McDonald, Margaret Livingston
Plot: A farmer falls in love with a city girl who tries to convince him to murder his wife and make it look like a suicide.

36. The Killing

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Coleen Gray, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: A group of men try to knock off a horse track in an elaborate plan to make them all rich when something goes wrong.

37. The Fugitive

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Plot: A doctor is accused of murdering his wife and escapes to find the one-armed man responsible for the crime while dodging the U.S. Marshals in pursuit.

38. The French Connection

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Hickman
Plot: During a drug smuggle with a French Connection, the NYC narcotics police division engulf themselves further with breaking up the smuggling process.

39. Prisoners

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Paul Dano
Plot: When his daughter and her best friend go missing, a Boston man tracks down the person he believes is responsible and kidnaps him in return.

40. Boyz n the Hood

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Singleton
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut
Plot: In South Central Los Angeles three friends grow up in an inner-city neighborhood characterized by drugs, violence and crime. Escape, adapt, survive - there are no easy choices and every action has its consequence.

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