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.
Yuva
2004
South of Heaven
2021
Oscar Shaw
2026
Tiger on the Beat
1988
The Big Swindle
2004
Alias Nick Beal
1949
The Grissom Gang
1971
Tales from the Hood
1995
Chup
2022
Mater Private Eye
2010
Enter the Fat Dragon
2020
The Baker
2007
Short Eyes
1977
The Lost One
1951
Short Time
1990
Black Girl Missing
2023
This Is My Affair
1937
Let's Do It Again
1975
Urban Hymn
2015
The Perfect Weapon
2020
Kannur Squad
2023
Saw V
2008
La Balance
1982
Brother Orchid
1940
Island of Fire
1990
Ek Hasina Thi
2004
The Split
1968
The First, the Last
2016
Life Sentence
1979
Smart Money
1931
Zero Effect
1998
Castle in the Desert
1942
Out for Justice
1991
Apache Junction
2021
Appleseed
1988
A Mano Disarmata
2019
Calm with Horses
2020
Midnight Mary
1933
Man of Iron
1972
My Son
2021
The Night Stalker
2016