American movies about criminals

List of the best American movies about criminals, crimes and violators of the law, selected by visitors to our site: How to Be a Man, Evil Genius, Beyond, Hydra, Lego Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood, Fathers and Daughters, The Lazarus Effect, All Hallows' Eve, The Retrieval, Evidence.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA

This baffling true crime story starts with the grisly death of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck - and gets weirder from there.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA

The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

Oooh Hollywood! The glitz, the glam...the Headless Horseman?! Join your favorite K-9 sleuth, Scooby-Doo, along with Shaggy and the Mystery Inc. gang as they find themselves in a tinsel-town twist! While on a VIP tour of the legendary Brickton Studios, Scooby and friends get a first-hand experience of the rumored hauntings when classic movie monsters drop in for a creepy casting call. There's only one way to solve this thriller and save the aging studio - it's Mystery Inc's movie magic time! Grab your Scooby Snacks and hop in the director's chair for this all-new LEGO® movie!

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration02:26

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

    Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    While watching two children on Halloween night, a babysitter finds an old VHS tape in the kids' trick or treat bag. The tape features three tales of terror, all linked together by a murderous clown. As the night goes on strange things begin to occur in the house. It isn't long before the babysitter learns the horrifying truth... the maniacal clown is slowly working his way into her reality.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A woman, who gets released from prison and reunites with her sister, discovers she is in an online relationship with a man who may be "catfishing" her.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lacklustre sex life and career that's gone kaput, she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic
    CountryUSA

    Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA

    A group of criminals led by Robert's former nemesis - Balzary who hellbent on revenge, forces a retired CIA Agent and his estranged son into a high-tech bunker. Will the thick walls and defenses be powerful enough against Balzary's forces.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

      A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama, musical
      CountryUSA

      After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA

      The origin story of Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the Indian-American entrepreneur who started the stripper troupe Chippendales.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

        As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, history, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genredocumentary, sport
        CountryUSA

        Docuseries chronicling the purchase and stewardship of Wrexham AFC, one of professional football's oldest clubs, by two Hollywood actors, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA

        Phineas and Ferb travel across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and taken to a utopia in a far-off planet, free of her pesky little brothers.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrethriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA

        Brothers Jackie and Mickey along with a teen witness Clover find themselves on the run from the city’s most notorious crime boss.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        The story of a young woman's obsession with a man who is good at being charming.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genreaction
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?

        Markimdb: 6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.

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