Top Crime Movies


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

471. The Panic in Needle Park

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Actors: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Raul Julia, Kiel Martin
Plot: An unconventional love story set in Needle Park, a location in New York
City. Bobby (Pacino), a young addict who accompanies an artist named
Helen (Kitty Winn), falls in love together. Helen becomes acquainted with
the habits of Bobby and his methods of earning a buck.

472. Bad Santa

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kelly, Bernie Mac, John Ritter
Plot: A conman and his small friend play Santa and his Little Helper in order to case and rob malls on Christmas Eve. Everything has been going good until an overweight 8-year old with self-esteem issues and a hot bartender with a thing for Santa complicate matters.

473. American Friend, The ( Amerikanische Freund, Der )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Plot: An art forger diagnosed with leukemia is slowly drawn into a shady world of criminal business dealings.

474. 2 Days in the Valley

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Herzfeld
Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, James Spader
Plot: Follows a group of disparate souls (many of them criminal) over the course of 49 hours in L.A. including a suicidal director, a hired gunman looking for the perfect Italian seasoning and an art dealer with kidney stones.

475. Takers

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Luessenhop
Actors: Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana, Jay Hernandez, T.I.
Plot: A dedicated group of bank robbers think they have the perfect plan to take down $20 million, but a determined detective aims to take them down.

476. Al Capone

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Wilson
Actors: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Gist
Plot: A quite accurate portrayal of the life of prohibition era criminal kingpin Al Capone - from his days as a small-time Chicago hood to his rise as Chicago's most notorious gangster - ultimately leading to his ignoble end.

477. One Day in September

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Actors: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour, Axel Springer, Gad Zahari

478. My Friend Dahmer

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Meyers
Actors: Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Miles Robbins, Alex Wolff, Cameron McKendry
Plot: Based on the acclaimed graphic novel from Derf Backderf, the film follows the high school life of a young man named Jeffrey Dahmer. Before he become known as a notorious serial killer, he was just another shy student turning to alcohol when he couldn't find anywhere to fit in.

479. Inherent Vice

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Sasha Pieterse, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson
Plot: Set in 1970s L.A., eetective Larry "Doc" Sportello - a drug-addled private
eye - sets his site on a new case - the disappearance of a former
girlfriend.

480. The Black Cat

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher, Harry Cording

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