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.
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937
The Light Touch
1951
My Brother's Keeper
1948
Race
2008
Raffles
1939
Outside the Law
1921
Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938
Six Bridges to Cross
1955
Colour of the Game
2017
Two Seconds
1932
A Man Named Rocca
1961
The Escape Artist
1982
Shagird
2011
Man in the Dark
1953
The Bells
1926
San Quentin
1946
Wake Up and Die
1966
Mix Me a Person
1962
The Dancer Upstairs
2002
Francesca Quinn, PI
2022
Bayside Shakedown 2
2003
Stark Raving Mad
2002
Invisible Stripes
1939
The Happening
1967
Beware, My Lovely
1952
In The Mix
2005
Special Agent
1935
Gambling House
1950
Seven Sinners
1936
Shadows Unseen
1972
Kamikaze Taxi
1995
Stray Bullets
2017
Sweeney 2
1978
Hero
2015
The Capture
1950
The River Rat
1984
Room 13
1964
Meat in Prison
1952
Vice Squad
1953
Among the Living
1941
Resurrection Man
1998
Reversible Errors
2004
Scene of the Crime
1949
Shaft in Africa
1973