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Best Crime Movies of All Time

Every crime film with 500 or more TMDB votes, ranked by user rating.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 1,371 titlesavg ★ 6.73 avg 110 min Crime Thriller Drama Action

By decade:1940s 16 1950s 22 1960s 33 1970s 45 1980s 92 1990s 195 2000s 339 2010s 420 2020s 204

#1 Facing El Chapo (2026) · ★ 8.8 · 786 votes · 1h 31m · action, thriller, crime
Two Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.…
#2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) · ★ 8.7 · 31,423 votes · 2h 22m · drama, crime
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski…
#3 The Godfather (1972) · ★ 8.7 · 23,659 votes · 2h 55m · drama, crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp…
#4 The Godfather Part II (1974) · ★ 8.6 · 14,393 votes · 3h 22m · drama, crime
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family bu…
#5 The Dark Knight (2008) · ★ 8.5 · 36,822 votes · 2h 32m · action, thriller, drama
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations t…
#6 Pulp Fiction (1994) · ★ 8.5 · 30,904 votes · 2h 34m · comedy, thriller, drama
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in…
#7 The Green Mile (1999) · ★ 8.5 · 19,872 votes · 3h 9m · fantasy, drama, crime
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard…
#8 GoodFellas (1990) · ★ 8.5 · 14,822 votes · 2h 25m · drama, crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the gu…
#9 Se7en (1995) · ★ 8.4 · 23,805 votes · 2h 7m · thriller, crime, mystery
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tor…
#10 City of God (2002) · ★ 8.4 · 8,434 votes · 2h 9m · drama, crime
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related vio…
#11 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) · ★ 8.4 · 6,237 votes · 2h 19m · drama, crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li…
#12 High and Low (1963) · ★ 8.4 · 1,201 votes · 2h 22m · thriller, drama, crime
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.…
#13 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · ★ 8.3 · 18,541 votes · 1h 59m · thriller, drama, crime
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psych…
#14 Léon: The Professional (1994) · ★ 8.3 · 16,480 votes · 1h 51m · action, drama, crime
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling…
#15 The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) · ★ 8.3 · 2,283 votes · 0h 51m · action, drama, crime
As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.…
#16 The Shadow's Edge (2025) · ★ 8.3 · 1,497 votes · 2h 22m · action, thriller, drama
Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.…
#17 The Departed (2006) · ★ 8.2 · 16,699 votes · 2h 31m · thriller, drama, crime
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop cu…
#18 A Clockwork Orange (1971) · ★ 8.2 · 14,099 votes · 2h 17m · science-fiction, crime
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the mu…
#19 Scarface (1983) · ★ 8.2 · 13,380 votes · 2h 50m · action, drama, crime
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands…
#20 The Usual Suspects (1995) · ★ 8.2 · 11,788 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, crime
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and h…
#21 Witness for the Prosecution (1957) · ★ 8.2 · 1,759 votes · 1h 56m · drama, crime, mystery
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man…
#22 Bound by Honor (1993) · ★ 8.2 · 1,643 votes · 3h 10m · action, thriller, drama
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three ar…
#23 The Furious (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 753 votes · 1h 53m · action, thriller, crime
After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife ha…
#24 Le Trou (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 602 votes · 2h 12m · thriller, drama, crime
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan wi…
#25 Joker (2019) · ★ 8.1 · 28,423 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, crime
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.…
#26 Reservoir Dogs (1992) · ★ 8.1 · 15,865 votes · 1h 39m · thriller, crime
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. O…
#27 Taxi Driver (1976) · ★ 8.1 · 13,827 votes · 1h 54m · drama, crime
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams…
#28 Prisoners (2013) · ★ 8.1 · 13,565 votes · 2h 33m · thriller, drama, crime
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on…
#29 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) · ★ 8.1 · 11,225 votes · 1h 55m · drama, crime
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial mes…
#30 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) · ★ 8.1 · 7,418 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, crime
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang w…
#31 Memories of Murder (2003) · ★ 8.1 · 4,846 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, crime
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with confl…
#32 Some Like It Hot (1959) · ★ 8.1 · 4,005 votes · 2h 3m · comedy, romance, crime
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.…
#33 Elite Squad (2007) · ★ 8.1 · 2,822 votes · 1h 55m · action, drama, crime
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers i…
#34 M (1931) · ★ 8.1 · 2,547 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, drama, crime
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellan…
#35 The Hate U Give (2018) · ★ 8.1 · 2,256 votes · 2h 13m · drama, crime
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn…
#36 Double Indemnity (1944) · ★ 8.1 · 2,104 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, crime
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.…
#37 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011) · ★ 8.1 · 1,435 votes · 4h 14m · action, thriller, drama
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire…
#38 Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) · ★ 8.1 · 807 votes · 1h 46m · comedy, crime
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of s…
#39 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) · ★ 8.1 · 602 votes · 1h 34m · crime, documentary
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close fri…
#40 Better Days (2019) · ★ 8.1 · 587 votes · 2h 15m · thriller, romance, drama
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.…