Top Crime Movies


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

121. avventura, L' ( Adventure, The )

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Plot: A group of upper middle class Italians takes a boating trip, stopping on an isolated island. One of their party goes missing, and her best friend and lover stay behind to look for her. Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.

122. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco
Plot: Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood looking at a long sentence for repeat offenses. In order to avoid jail time he decides to turn on his "friends" providing information to the feds. But he is still supplying guns to his bank-robbing buddies - and he may not be the only one turning snitch.

123. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( Angst essen Seele auf )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Plot: An aging woman falls for a Berber man ten years her junior - and all those around her oppose the relationship, especially when they decide to marry. Yet even as the date draws closer, each has their own personal doubts about how to continue.

124. Killer, The ( Dip huet seung hung )

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kenneth Tsang
Plot: A humane assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun-fat) from the Triad tries to perform his last job to aid a club singer's fate of becoming blind. Police detective Li Ying (Danny Lee) hopes to bring a criminal to justice in any possible way.

125. My Cousin Vinny

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Actors: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Bruce McGill
Plot: Two friends from New York travel south in Alabama and find themselves on trial for murder. Without money to hire an attorney, they turn to a family lawyer, who has no trial experience, a big mouth and a loud fiancée in tow.

126. Dead Man Walking

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Robbins
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry
Plot: A man is sentenced to death for murder. And, while on death row, he is counseled by a nun.

127. Key Largo

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore
Plot: A hurricane is coming into the Florida Keys. Which is where a former soldier is looking for his dead friend's family.

128. Red Circle, The ( cercle rouge, Le )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Plot: An aristocratic just-paroled thief, an escaped murderer and an alcoholic ex-police sharpshooter form an unlikely trio bent on pulling off a daring jewel heist. Standing in their way is a vengeful mob boss, a persistent police superintendent. In this world, no on is innocent.

129. Dead Man's Shoes

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shane Meadows
Actors: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley

130. Fast Five

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Justin Lin
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster
Plot: Ex cop Brian O'Conner and ex-con Dominic Toretto along with Mia Toretto have managed to keep one step ahead of their pursuers, finally ending up Rio de Janeiro where they are faced with only one choice: confront the man who wants them dead and end things once and for all. They gather an elite team of racers, but they will have to elude a hard-nosed Agent Hobbs to pull off their daring plan.

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