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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.

Above the Rim

1341. Above the Rim

Crime Drama Thriller
6.6

19941h 36min

United States

Director: Jeff Pollack

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.


Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1342. Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Comedy Crime
6.5

19941h 23min

United States

Director: Peter Segal

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.


The Ref

1343. The Ref

Comedy Crime Drama
6.9

19941h 37min

United States

Director: Ted Demme

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.


China Moon

1344. China Moon

Mystery Thriller Crime
6.3

19941h 39min

United States

Director: John Bailey

Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After she shoots her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but his partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.


Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

1345. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Comedy Mystery Crime
6.9

19941h 26min

United States

Director: Tom Shadyac

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!


Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

1346. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Action Animation Crime Mystery Drama
7.8

19931h 16min

United States

Director: Bruce Timm

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.


A Perfect World

1347. A Perfect World

Drama Crime Thriller
7.5

19932h 18min

United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.


Carlito's Way

1348. Carlito's Way

Crime Drama Thriller
7.9

19932h 24min

United States

Director: Brian De Palma

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.


Judgment Night

1349. Judgment Night

Action Crime Thriller
6.6

19931h 49min

United States

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.


Demolition Man

1350. Demolition Man

Crime Action Science Fiction Epic Action Dystopian Sci-Fi
6.7

19931h 55min

United States

Director: Marco Brambilla

In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.

Themes

Social control through enforcement, Nostalgia for past culture, Rehabilitation program manipulation, Immoral behavior policing, Order versus freedom tension, Underground resistance vs authority

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