Best Crime Movies
Heists, mobsters, con artists and the detectives chasing them - crime movies are morality plays with better outfits. This ranking runs from noir landmarks to modern true-crime-adjacent thrillers, ordered by rating and popularity. See where to stream each one and keep score of what you've watched.
Alpha Dog
2006
Absolute Power
1997
One Shot
2021
Serial Mom
1994
Double Jeopardy
1999
Narc
2002
Ocean's Twelve
2004
Thursday
1998
The Big Clock
1948
The System
2022
Targets
1968
The Killer
2023
Stillwater
2021
Big Stan
2007
Frank and Penelope
2022
Boiler Room
2000
The Organizer
1963
Get the Gringo
2012
Emily the Criminal
2022
Above the Rim
1994
I Care a Lot
2021
Benji
2018
Udta Punjab
2016
Kids Return
1996
House of Gucci
2021
Highway
2014
Year of the Dragon
1985
Badla
2019
The Petrified Forest
1936
A Haunting in Venice
2023
Life
1999
Swindle
2014
Sweet Sixteen
2002
Bad Santa
2003
The Last Seduction
1994
A Most Violent Year
2014
2 Guns
2013
Veronica Mars
2014
Square One
2019
2 Fast 2 Furious
2003
Bus 174
2002
Night in Paradise
2020
The Girl Next Door
2007
72 HOURS
2026
You Only Live Once
1937
Mona Lisa
1986