Top Crime Movies


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

81. Traffic

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Topher Grace, Don Cheadle
Plot: A pair of semi interlocking stories represent American drug trafficking and the prevention of with a young daughter using, a corrupt cop policing and a judge who has no idea really what is going on in the real world.

82. 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
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.

83. They Shall Not Grow Old

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Plot: A ground-breaking documentary that takes original footage from WWI, that has been colorized along with adding sound, allowing us to hear voices from the previously voiceless and giving audiences an unprecedented look of the trials, triumph and brutality of this war, and the people who experienced it first hand.

84. Blue Velvet

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Brad Dourif
Plot: After finding a severed ear in a field, a young man unsatisfied with the police's work delves into a dark and sordid world.

85. A Time to Kill

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey
Plot: In the town of Clanton, Mississippi a young black girl is raped and beaten by two white men. The father, deciding to take justice in his own hands, kills the men in court. With racial tensions about to break on both sides, a young lawyer takes on the case but it may cost him his practice or even his life.

86. A History of Violence

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Maria Bello
Plot: Set in a small town, a calm family has it's husband deemed a hero by stopping a violent act. This brings on old thoughts and feelings from a long time ago which brings trouble to the table.

87. Midnight Express

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Randy Quaid
Plot: Billy Hayes is a young American who is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. Although he is just a young man who made a dumb mistake, the Turkish government decides to make an example of him. He's given 30+ years in prison. The conditions are unbelievable. His lawyer and the American government are unable to help him.

88. End of Watch

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Ayer
Actors: Michael Peña, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Martinez
Plot: Rookie cops Taylor and Zavala patrol some of the roughest streets in L.A. - using a variety of hand-held footage - from gang member's and police dash cams - the audience is given an intimate connection to the gritty drama.

89. Hate ( haine, La )

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Actors: Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui, Hubert Koundé, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Plot: Follows the lives of three men in 24-hour span in the French suburban "ghetto": Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer - a night of riots leaves Vinz's friend, Abdel in the hospital following a beating by police officers. Vinz finds a gun and vows to kill a cop if Abdel dies from his injuries.

90. John Wick: Chapter 4

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: John Wick has one, final chance at earning true freedom: take down The High Table. He has a chance but before he can act, a new enemy with powerful allies across the globe plots to take him out and even old friends become enemies in the fight.

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