Movies: Best "crime" Movies

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary.Chinatown would be an example of a film that is a drama (film type) crime film (super-genre) that is also a noir (pathway) mystery (macro-genre). ()

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The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon(2023)

2h 14min | Action, Crime

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying.

Shot Caller(2017)

| 2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 910 votes)

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Directed by Ric Roman Waugh - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Emory Cohen, Jeffrey Donovan, ...

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The Kill Room(2023)

| 1h 38min | Crime, Thriller, Action

3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.

Directed by Nicol Paone - With Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Larry Pine, Dree Hemingway, ...

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet(2021)

1h 50min | Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

At the opening ceremony of the WSG (World Sports Games) Tokyo Games, a sports festival held once every four years, it is announced that the world's first vacuum superconducting maglev with a maximum speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour will open. While attracting attention from around the world, top executives of large companies are kidnapped from the party venue where WSG tournament sponsors gather. Conan moves toward a solution and eventually finds a connection with the WSG abduction case that occurred 15 years ago in Boston, USA.

Directed by Chika Nagaoka - With Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Shūichi Ikeda, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Noriko Hidaka, ...

Collision(2022)

1h 39min | Thriller, Crime, Drama

3.0/5 (with 61 votes)

Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.

Bad City(2022)

1h 58min | Action, Crime

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.

Directed by Kensuke Sonomura - With Hitoshi Ozawa, Mitsu Dan

Survive the Game(2021)

| 1h 37min | Action, Thriller, Crime

2.8/5 (with 72 votes)

When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric, and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives - along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.

Directed by James Cullen Bressack

Carbone(2017)

1h 44min | Thriller, Crime

3.4/5 (with 182 votes)

In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.

Directed by Olivier Marchal - With Benoît Magimel, Gringe, Gérard Depardieu, Michaël Youn, Laura Smet, Moussa Maaskri, ...

Columbus Circle(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 100 votes)

An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.

Directed by George Gallo - With Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Amy Smart, Jason Lee, Kevin Pollak, Beau Bridges, ...

The Case Against Adnan Syed(2019)

1h | Documentary

Explores the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast.

Directed by Amy J. Berg

A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery(2017)

1h 24min | Mystery, TV Movie, Drama, Crime

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind. Once again, Aurora finds herself drawn into a deadly investigation as she risks it all to help Martin reunite with his family.

Directed by Kevin Fair - With Candace Cameron Bure, Yannick Bisson, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig, Peter Benson, Miranda Frigon, ...

Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered(2019)

1h 24min | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime

Alex McPherson (Sweeney) returns to the small town in Pennsylvania where she spent her summers as a girl to record the next episode of her true crime podcast, about the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years prior. However, after teaming up with the local newspaper editor (Ayres), who reluctantly agrees to help her retrace the girl’s last steps, Alex not only uncovers the shocking truth behind the girl’s disappearance, but also a decades-old murder and its cover-up.

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Dixieland(2015)

1h 32min | Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.

Directed by Hank Bedford

Rebels(2019)

1h 27min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 149 votes)

Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.

Directed by Allan Mauduit - With Cécile de France, Yolande Moreau, Audrey Lamy, Simon Abkarian, Samuel Jouy, Béatrice Agenin, ...

Let's Not Get Angry(1966)

1h 40min | Crime, Comedy

3.9/5 (with 67 votes)

One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.

Directed by Georges Lautner - With Lino Ventura, Jean Lefebvre, Michel Constantin, Mireille Darc, André Pousse, Robert Dalban, ...

Neon Maniacs(1986)

| 1h 31min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 25 votes)

A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.

Directed by Joseph Mangine - With Leilani Sarelle

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City Hunter: Bay City Wars(1990)

45min | Action, Comedy, Animation, Thriller, Crime

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

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Directed by Kenji Kodama

Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried(2017)

1h 23min | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

Henry and Maggie attend the birthday party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical 18th century dual. Someone, however, has loaded the antique pistol with a real musket ball, so when son pulls the trigger, he kills his stepbrother in front of a roomful of witnesses. Henry and Maggie have to figure out who wanted the stepson dead and why.

Directed by Mark Jean - With Dylan Neal, Brooke Burns, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Marc Senior, Samantha Ferris, Ali Skovbye, ...

Taken Heart(2017)

1h 29min | Action, Crime, Thriller

2.0/5 (with 12 votes)

When her daughter is kidnapped in Belize and held hostage to be used for human organ trafficking, Kate Johnson goes on a crusade to infiltrate the cartel and rescue her.

Loophole(1981)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.

Directed by John Quested - With Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Colin Blakely, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Morley, ...

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Mortal World 2(2023)

1h 57min | Comedy, Action, Crime

Sequel to Ali Atay's Mortal World.

Les Misérables(2017)

16min | Drama, Crime

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade. With his teammates, he develops specific methods.

Directed by Ladj Ly

Morning Show Mysteries: A Murder in Mind(2019)

1h 24min | Mystery, TV Movie

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Billie Blessings is drawn into a murder investigation when Katie Sanders, a former server at Blessings-turned TV star, becomes the focus when it’s discovered the victim was blackmailing her. Billie must sift through the mounting evidence – and list of suspects – to get to the truth and clear her friend’s name.

Directed by Kevin Fair - With Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox, Sebastian Gacki, Jesse Moss, David Paetkau, Veenu Sandhu, ...

Johan Falk: Ur askan i elden(2015)

1h 38min | Action, Thriller, Crime

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Falk is blackmailed into smuggling a truckload of guns from Latvia.

Directed by Richard Holm - With Jakob Eklund

Morning Show Mysteries: Death by Design(2019)

1h 24min | Mystery

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Chef Billie Blessings' best friend Marian is hired to redecorate the TV studio. When Marian's twin sister is murdered, Billie must investigate their close friends to find the killer.

Directed by Kevin Fair - With Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox, Michelle Harrison, Keegan Connor Tracy, Gary Jones, Jesse Moss, ...

Morning Show Mysteries: Countdown to Murder(2019)

1h 24min | Mystery, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

When a beloved supermarket owner is killed in the early morning hours before opening, restauranteur and TV chef Billie Blessings (Robinson Peete) becomes involved in the investigation of what quickly appears to be the work of a clever and darkly sinister serial killer. Even as her relationship with police detective Ian Jackson (Fox) begins to take a more romantic turn, Billie cannot resist involvement in the case, despite putting herself in tremendous danger.

Directed by Kevin Fair - With Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox, Jesse Moss, David Paetkau, Tara Lynn Wilson

Series Adjourned: Saying Goodbye to Saul(2022)

Documentary

A bonus feature to Better Call Saul: Season 6.

The Choice of Hercules(2002)

2h 10min | Drama, Action, Crime

3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

Directed by Masato Harada - With Kōji Yakusho

Hidden Identity(2015)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in a way or another, will stay unscathed.

Directed by Salvo Cuccia

Morning Show Mysteries: Murder Ever After(2021)

Mystery, Crime, TV Movie

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Following a shocking find in an old friend’s basement, TV host Billie Blessings works with new-to-town detective Tyrell Hunter to unearth a dark secret that threatens to unravel the lives of the most powerful people in her city.

Directed by Andy Mikita - With Holly Robinson Peete, Colin Lawrence, Karen Robinson, Rick Fox, Keegan Connor Tracy, David Paetkau, ...