Top Crime Movies


The Top Crime Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Crime List". Lists are calculated daily.

201. Night and the City

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan
Plot: Harry Fabian is a London hustler whose plans never seem to work out as
planned. Spying a world-famous Greco-Roman wrestler as his son's
restaurant, he comes up with his most audacious plan yet. He does his best
to con everyone around him, but in the end, really only winds up conning
himself as his dreams crumble around him.

202. 10 Rillington Place

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Miss Riley
Plot: A depraved, socially maladroit man murders the young women to who he lets
the upstairs of his London flat, while one of his other boarders is
imprisoned for the crimes. Based on the true story of John Christie,
serial killer in WWII-era England.

203. Chicago

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Marshall
Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ren?e Zellweger, John C. Reilly, Richard Gere, Dominic West, Queen Latifah
Plot: A pair of killing women try to weasel (and sing) their way out of Death Row in 1920's Chicago.

204. City of Violence, The ( Jjakpae )

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Actors: Jae-mo Ahn, Kil-Kang Ahn, Seok-yong Jeong, Doo-hong Jung, Seo-hyeong Kim, Su-hyeon Kim

205. Helter Skelter

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Gries
Actors: Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, Christina Hart, Cathey Paine
Plot: Story of the crimes, capture and trial of the notorious Charles Manson and his "family".

206. The Drop

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Actors: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, John Ortiz, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Frecheville
Plot: A dive bar acts as a front for the local mob, funneling money nightly. But even as one man begins to questions his role, his uncle is robbed, setting off a string of events - including caring for an injured pit bull pup - that will ultimately dictate his future.

207. Pierrot le fou

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Plot: A disaffected Parisian and his lover travel across the French countryside, on the lam from some criminals who are after her in this breezy, brightly colored crime caper from Godard.

208. The Long Good Friday

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Mackenzie
Actors: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Bill Moody, Ruby Head, Pierce Brosnan, Roy Alon
Plot: Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places.

209. Dead Presidents

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodríguez, Rose Jackson, N'Bushe Wright
Plot: A black Vietnam War veteran returns home and struggles to adapt to life back home. He eventually turns to a life of crime when all else fails.

210. The Longest Yard

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters
Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

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