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.
The Young Savages
1961
The Stranger
2022
Mirzapur: The Movie
2026
Highway Pick-Up
1963
The Man with a Cloak
1951
Trick: The Movie
2002
2 Days in the Valley
1996
The Trap
1959
Bella Mafia
1997
Dick Tracy
1990
Ring of Spies
1964
Christmas Holiday
1944
Gang War in Milan
1973
Malamaal Weekly
2006
The Hatter's Ghost
1982
The Shameless
2015
The Stoneman Murders
2009
No One Would Tell
2018
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951
Dead Man's Folly
1986
10 to Midnight
1983
Knock Out
2010
The Unfair
2015
The Big White
2005
The Star Witness
1931
The Demon
1978
City War
1988
Return Engagement
1990
The Frightened City
1961
Tight Spot
1955
Idiots
2026
The Negotiator
2003
Crashout
1955
Violent Naples
1976
The Listening
2006
Castle on the Hudson
1940
Laws of Gravity
1992
Manpower
1941
The Getback
2023
Never Let Go
1960
The Informant!
2009
Seven Golden Men
1965
The Walking Dead
1936
The Fiction Makers
1968