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Best Crime Movies of the 2010s
#1 Joker (2019) · ★ 8.1 · 28,423 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, crimeDuring 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.…
#2 Prisoners (2013) · ★ 8.1 · 13,565 votes · 2h 33m · thriller, drama, crimeAfter 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…
#3 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) · ★ 8.1 · 11,225 votes · 1h 55m · drama, crimeAfter 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…
#4 The Hate U Give (2018) · ★ 8.1 · 2,256 votes · 2h 13m · drama, crimeRaised 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…
#5 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011) · ★ 8.1 · 1,435 votes · 4h 14m · action, thriller, dramaA 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…
#6 Better Days (2019) · ★ 8.1 · 587 votes · 2h 15m · thriller, romance, dramaA 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.…
#7 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) · ★ 8.0 · 26,084 votes · 3h 0m · comedy, drama, crimeA New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belf…
#8 El Infierno (2010) · ★ 8.0 · 819 votes · 2h 28m · action, comedy, dramaAfter being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.…
#9 Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018) · ★ 8.0 · 718 votes · 1h 27m · tv-movie, drama, crimeOn the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into re…
#10 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) · ★ 7.9 · 2,107 votes · 1h 55m · action, drama, crimeAfter a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the…
#11 The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019) · ★ 7.9 · 1,580 votes · 1h 50m · action, thriller, crimeAfter barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy allian…
#12 Forgotten (2017) · ★ 7.9 · 1,408 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, crime, mysteryJin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older b…
#13 Bad Genius (2017) · ★ 7.9 · 873 votes · 2h 10m · comedy, thriller, dramaLynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.…
#14 The Dark Knight Rises (2012) · ★ 7.8 · 25,016 votes · 2h 45m · action, thriller, dramaFollowing the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Go…
#15 Knives Out (2019) · ★ 7.8 · 14,565 votes · 2h 11m · comedy, crime, mysteryWhen renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted…
#16 The Best Offer (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 3,144 votes · 2h 11m · romance, drama, crimeVirgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of…
#17 Just Mercy (2019) · ★ 7.8 · 2,557 votes · 2h 17m · drama, history, crimeThe powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sent…
#18 Shoplifters (2018) · ★ 7.8 · 2,384 votes · 2h 0m · thriller, drama, crimeIn the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young…
#19 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) · ★ 7.8 · 2,371 votes · 1h 30m · tv-movie, thriller, dramaSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.…
#20 Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) · ★ 7.8 · 1,762 votes · 1h 15m · action, science-fiction, animationOne part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.…
#21 See You Up There (2017) · ★ 7.8 · 1,384 votes · 1h 53m · drama, crime, warIn November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of…
#22 Polisse (2011) · ★ 7.8 · 1,330 votes · 2h 3m · thriller, drama, crimeParis, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure…
#23 Don't Be Bad (2015) · ★ 7.8 · 1,056 votes · 1h 42m · drama, crimeA story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio…
#24 Ernest & Celestine (2012) · ★ 7.8 · 714 votes · 1h 20m · comedy, adventure, dramaCelestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity b…
#25 Nightcrawler (2014) · ★ 7.7 · 12,122 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, crimeWhen Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding…
#26 The Man from Nowhere (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 1,568 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, crimeA reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.…
#27 Inside Job (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 1,080 votes · 1h 49m · crime, documentaryA film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing thei…
#28 The Outlaws (2017) · ★ 7.7 · 568 votes · 2h 1m · action, thriller, crimeIn Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangster…
#29 Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) · ★ 7.6 · 18,025 votes · 2h 9m · action, comedy, adventureThe story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerge…
#30 Drive (2011) · ★ 7.6 · 14,035 votes · 1h 40m · thriller, drama, crimeDriver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named…
#31 The Irishman (2019) · ★ 7.6 · 7,746 votes · 3h 29m · drama, history, crimePennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufal…
#32 The Raid 2 (2014) · ★ 7.6 · 2,699 votes · 2h 30m · action, thriller, crimeAfter fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerf…
#33 Les Misérables (2019) · ★ 7.6 · 1,630 votes · 1h 44m · thriller, drama, crimeStéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleag…
#34 The Traitor (2019) · ★ 7.6 · 1,444 votes · 2h 31m · thriller, drama, crimePalermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. Bu…
#35 Victoria (2015) · ★ 7.6 · 1,395 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, romance, crimeA young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.…
#36 Undisputed III: Redemption (2010) · ★ 7.6 · 1,067 votes · 1h 36m · action, thriller, dramaRussian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now…
#37 Andhadhun (2018) · ★ 7.6 · 656 votes · 2h 19m · comedy, thriller, crimeA series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.…
#38 BlacKkKlansman (2018) · ★ 7.5 · 8,264 votes · 2h 16m · comedy, drama, historyColorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Kl…
#39 Dogman (2018) · ★ 7.5 · 2,325 votes · 1h 43m · thriller, drama, crimeMarcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborho…
#40 The Book of Henry (2017) · ★ 7.5 · 1,379 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, drama, crimeSusan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support…