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.
Inside Job (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
The French Connection (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
The Raid (2012)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A Perfect World (1993)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Now You See Me (2013)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Falling Down (1993)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Richard Jewell (2019)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Blow (2001)
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Gangs of New York (2002)
End of Watch (2012)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
The Equalizer (2014)
Eastern Promises (2007)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Z (1969)
The Unforgivable (2021)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
One Battle After Another (2025)
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Despicable Me (2010)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Miss Sloane (2016)
This Is England (2007)
Sleuth (1972)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Badlands (1974)
21 Grams (2003)
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
No Other Choice (2025)
The Beekeeper (2024)
Fast Five (2011)
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Batman (1989)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Girl in the Basement (2021)
25th Hour (2002)
Furious 7 (2015)
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)