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Best Crime Movies of the 2000s
#1 The Dark Knight (2008) · ★ 8.5 · 36,822 votes · 2h 32m · action, thriller, dramaBatman 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…
#2 City of God (2002) · ★ 8.4 · 8,434 votes · 2h 9m · drama, crimeIn 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…
#3 The Departed (2006) · ★ 8.2 · 16,699 votes · 2h 31m · thriller, drama, crimeTo 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…
#4 Memories of Murder (2003) · ★ 8.1 · 4,846 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, crimeA 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…
#5 Elite Squad (2007) · ★ 8.1 · 2,822 votes · 1h 55m · action, drama, crimeIn 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…
#6 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) · ★ 8.1 · 602 votes · 1h 34m · crime, documentaryIn 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…
#7 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) · ★ 8.0 · 19,442 votes · 1h 51m · action, crimeAn assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.…
#8 Catch Me If You Can (2002) · ★ 8.0 · 17,525 votes · 2h 21m · drama, crimeA true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI…
#9 No Country for Old Men (2007) · ★ 8.0 · 13,842 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, westernLlewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bel…
#10 Requiem for a Dream (2000) · ★ 8.0 · 11,338 votes · 1h 42m · drama, crimeThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.…
#11 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) · ★ 7.9 · 15,285 votes · 2h 16m · action, thriller, crimeThe Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former assoc…
#12 Freedom Writers (2007) · ★ 7.9 · 2,492 votes · 2h 3m · drama, crimeA young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.…
#13 Snatch (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 10,331 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, crimeUnscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.…
#14 Dancer in the Dark (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 2,083 votes · 2h 20m · drama, crimeSelma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same…
#15 Infernal Affairs (2002) · ★ 7.8 · 1,938 votes · 1h 41m · action, thriller, dramaChan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their o…
#16 The Chaser (2008) · ★ 7.8 · 1,641 votes · 2h 5m · action, thriller, crimeJoong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them dow…
#17 3-Iron (2004) · ★ 7.8 · 1,300 votes · 1h 28m · romance, drama, crimeA drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy ma…
#18 Nine Queens (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 861 votes · 1h 54m · thriller, drama, crimeTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".…
#19 Batman Begins (2005) · ★ 7.7 · 23,268 votes · 2h 20m · action, drama, crimeDriven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he i…
#20 Mystic River (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 7,693 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, crimeThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.…
#21 Dogville (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 2,791 votes · 2h 58m · thriller, drama, crimeA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a…
#22 Mother (2009) · ★ 7.7 · 1,739 votes · 2h 9m · drama, crime, mysteryA mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.…
#23 Hot Fuzz (2007) · ★ 7.6 · 8,636 votes · 2h 1m · action, comedy, crimeFormer London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big…
#24 American Gangster (2007) · ★ 7.6 · 6,228 votes · 2h 37m · drama, crimeLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from…
#25 Changeling (2008) · ★ 7.6 · 4,605 votes · 2h 22m · drama, crime, mysteryLos Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine…
#26 A Prophet (2009) · ★ 7.6 · 1,780 votes · 2h 35m · drama, crimeSentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the ot…
#27 Sin Nombre (2009) · ★ 7.6 · 806 votes · 1h 36m · action, thriller, dramaSayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged f…
#28 Lilya 4-ever (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 695 votes · 1h 49m · drama, crimeIn a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei…
#29 Ocean's Eleven (2001) · ★ 7.5 · 12,882 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, crimeLess than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal…
#30 Zodiac (2007) · ★ 7.5 · 11,884 votes · 2h 37m · thriller, drama, crimeThe story follows the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters,…
#31 Sin City (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 9,081 votes · 2h 4m · action, thriller, crimeWelcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dame…
#32 Training Day (2001) · ★ 7.5 · 6,871 votes · 2h 2m · action, drama, crimeOn his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.…
#33 In Bruges (2008) · ★ 7.5 · 5,998 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, drama, crimeRay and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the missi…
#34 Lucky Number Slevin (2006) · ★ 7.5 · 4,638 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, drama, crimeSlevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin…
#35 Kung Fu Hustle (2004) · ★ 7.5 · 3,351 votes · 1h 39m · action, comedy, fantasyIt's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortun…
#36 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 3,333 votes · 2h 32m · thriller, drama, crimeSwedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the ma…
#37 The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) · ★ 7.5 · 1,825 votes · 1h 56m · drama, crimeA tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a…
#38 This Is England (2007) · ★ 7.5 · 1,470 votes · 1h 42m · drama, crimeA story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even…
#39 Adam's Apples (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 817 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, drama, crimeA neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.…
#40 American Psycho (2000) · ★ 7.4 · 12,710 votes · 1h 42m · thriller, drama, crimeA wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies…