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Crime movies

A deep dive into the underworld of gangsters, detectives, and heists where the line between right and wrong blurs.

Subgenres include: Organized Crime, Heist, Con Artist Crime.

Best Laid Plans

1171. Best Laid Plans

Drama Thriller Crime
6.1

19991h 32min

United States

Director: Mike Barker

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.


Arlington Road

1172. Arlington Road

Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
7.2

19991h 57min

United States

Director: Mark Pellington

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.


True Crime

1173. True Crime

Drama Crime Thriller Mystery
6.6

19992h 7min

United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.


The Corruptor

1174. The Corruptor

Action Crime Thriller Drama
6.1

19991h 50min

United States

Director: James Foley

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.


Analyze This

1175. Analyze This

Comedy Crime
6.7

19991h 43min

United States

Director: Harold Ramis

Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.


8MM

1176. 8MM

Thriller Crime Mystery
6.6

19992h 3min

Germany, United States

Director: Joel Schumacher

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.


Payback

1177. Payback

Action Drama Crime Thriller
7.1

19991h 40min

United States

Director: Brian Helgeland

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.


The Boondock Saints

1178. The Boondock Saints

Action Thriller Crime
7.6

19991h 48min

Canada, United States

Director: Troy Duffy

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.


Killer 2

1179. Killer 2

Comedy Action Crime
6.7

19991h 53min

Poland

Director: Juliusz Machulski

Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...


Another Day in Paradise

1180. Another Day in Paradise

Thriller Crime Drama
6.5

19981h 41min

United States

Director: Larry Clark

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.