Top Crime Movies


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

421. Cure

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Douguchi, Yukijiro Hotaru
Plot: A series of gruesome murders sweeps Tokyo - each murderer is found near the victim with no recollection of having killed anyone. A young, strange man is the only tentative link to the crimes and he starts having an effect on the people around him.

422. The Enforcer

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Fargo
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, John Mitchum, DeVeren Bookwalter
Plot: Harry and his new distaff partner, Inspector Kate Moore, must track down a group of tree-hugging terrorists who've kidnapped the city's mayor and are demanding a $2 million ransom. Harry and Kate discover that the mayor is being held on Alcatraz Island and it's only a matter of time before the showdown begins.

423. Street Fighter, The ( Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Yutaka Nakajima, Tony Cetera, Masafumi Suzuki, Masashi Ishibashi
Plot: Terry a tough mercenary and karate master is hired by the Mafia and Yakuza to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, he survives the attempt on his life and sells his service to protect the daughter instead.

424. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter
Plot: Driven mad by Inspector Clouseau's incompetence, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus commandeers a doomsday device and threatens global destruction. His only demand? Clouseau's death. But Clouseau's dumb luck serves him so well that the 26 assassins hired to kill him can't manage to get the job done.

425. Charley Varrick

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Jacqueline Scott
Plot: An unlucky crop-dusting pilot robs a bank, only to find that the bank is used by the Mafia to launder money.

426. The Lavender Hill Mob

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Crichton
Actors: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding, Edie Martin
Plot: Droll bank clerk has this perfect scheme for robbing a gold bullion truck. The performance of Alec Guinness is worth the time spent watching the movie.

427. Felon

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Actors: Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller, Val Kilmer, Anne Archer

428. They Live By Night

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Will Wright, Helen Craig, Jay C. Flippen
Plot: A prison break sees three men escaped - and even though Bowie Bowers wants nothing more than to retreat or prove his innocence - especially with a new love interest in Kitty - his other escapees convince him to participate in a series of heists and the police, thinking him the ringleader, go after him harder than ever.

429. Nine Queens ( Nueve reinas )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Actors: Gastón Pauls, Ricardo Darín, Graciela Tenenbaum, Pochi Ducasse, Jorge Noya, Oscar Nuñez

430. Run All Night

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris, Vincent D'Onofrio, Boyd Holbrook, Common
Plot: A prolific and aging hitman, Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has fallen on hard times. With the sins of his past catching up, he finds out his estranged son has been targeted by his former mob boss and must now choose between the crime family he grew up with or the family he left behind.

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