100 best crime movies

A list of the best crime films, selected by visitors to our site: The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Sunflower, Reservoir Dogs, Bonnie and Clyde, Snatch, Above Suspicion, The Major, New World, Exiled, A Dirty Carnival
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Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:00

Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis. The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was shown on the third, fourth and fifth of January 2011. The fourth series, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream was shown on the ninth, sixteenth and twenty-third of January 2012; in a break from the previous broadcasts, which were broadcast on consecutive days, this latest tale was serialised weekly. ITV cancelled Above Suspicion on May 28, 2012.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:42

The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genreaction, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as the New Hollywood.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Spain
Duration01:30

Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying their techniques.

Genrecrime
Duration01:40

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. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, crime, biography
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:21

A 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 agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea

Former gangster Tae-sik is released from prison and heads back to his hometown to live in a small restaurant with a woman who has forgiven him for killing her own son. Attempting to leave his past behind, he takes a job in a garage and tries to keep away from the local gangs, most of whom still live in fear of his brutal reputation. When a local politician wants to knock down his mom's restaurant to build a new shopping mall, Tae-sik struggles to avoid returning to a life of violence.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryTurkey

Retired security intelligence agent Iskender Buyuk has kept his government's secrets for years but when the men he has sworn to protect suddenly desert him, Iskender finds himself in the defendant's chair with only young and inexperienced lawyer Ayse to represent his interests. Understandably angered by this turn of events, Iskender decides to strike back against his one-time employers by revealing all he knows about covert op missions.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:55

    An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark, United Kingdom
    Duration01:36

    Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountrySoviet Union

    Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:48

    Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration02:29

    Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) 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 others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA

    Pennsylvania, 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, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, India
    Duration02:00

      Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:50

      The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo, who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo’s lap.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:54

        When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
        Duration01:33

        A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryKazakhstan
        Duration01:20

        Story of a man named Sayan, that had to live through harsh 1990's and make tough decisions.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:54

        In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:20

        Byung-du is a 29-year-old career criminal, working for the middle-rank enforcer Sang-chul. Burdened with a terminally ill mother and taking care of younger siblings, Byung-du is feeling financial pressure as a substitute patriarch. When the big boss President Hwang is cornered by a corrupt prosecutor, Byung-du volunteers for a whack job and wins the big man's trust.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryHong Kong
        Duration01:50

        A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Mexico
        Duration02:03

        A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

        Markimdb: 8.9
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:34

        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 three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

          A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrethriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

          Less 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 more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:15

          An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryRussia
          Duration01:39

          On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed, it’s already too late…

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
          CountryBelgium
          Duration01:35

          The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryJapan

          A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genrecrime, detective
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration01:08

          Doctor Watson moves in with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes and they get a case to solve. A young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather after her sister dies under mysterious circumstances.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration02:10

          A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecrime
          CountrySoviet Union

          В одном из московских переулков милиция обнаружила пострадавшую женщину с травмой головы. Галина Укладова, приехавшая из Магадана, утверждает, что на неё совершил разбойное нападение таксист и отнял у неё крупную сумму денег и документы. Таксиста Воронова, который уже отбывал срок за хулиганство, удалось задержать. Укладова на очной ставке опознаёт в нём нападавшего. Всё свидетельствует о вине Воронова. Однако опытный следователь Митин чувствует, что за рутинным бытовым преступлением кроется нечто большее.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecrime
          CountrySoviet Union

          Based on the story of Boris Mozhayev “The Power of the Taiga”. In the taiga village, where everyone is in sight, almost unbelievable happens — a local store is robbed. One of the rafters of the forest is recognized as a hacker. But some “inconsistencies” haunt the young precinct Vasily Seryozhkin. And in the end, he goes on the trail of the true participants in the crime...

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