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.
Starkweather
2004
This Man Can't Die
1968
Endgame
2001
Once in the Life
2000
Cafe Society
1997
American Yakuza
1993
Black Caesar
1973
The Moss
2008
The Perfect Student
2011
Out of Bounds
1986
One Down, Two to Go
1982
Brooklyn Rules
2007
Helter Skelter
2004
The Lady in Red
1979
Cops and Robbers
2017
Circus of Horrors
1960
Cedar Boys
2009
A Lovely Way to Die
1968
This Side of the Law
1950
Back in Action
1994
Mission Park
2013
Männerpension
1996
Wandering Eye
2011
Leaves of Grass
2009
The Grim Sleeper
2014
Madso's War
2010
The Scarlet Hour
1956
Traces of Red
1992
Scorchy
1976
Scene of the Crime
1986
The Barber
2002
Home of the Giants
2007
Bloodrage
1980
St. Ives
1976
Dagger Eyes
1983
La Soga
2009
Chicago Confidential
1957
Bonnie's Kids
1973
Anon
2018
Rampage
2009
Playing with Fire
1975
Married to the Mob
1988
Walking Vengeance
2008
Shaft
2000
Kill a Dragon
1967
The Girl Next Door
1999
The Bank Shot
1974
Daylight Robbery
2008