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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.

Set It Off

1511. Set It Off

Crime Drama Thriller
6.9

19962h 3min

United States

Director: F. Gary Gray

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.


Sleepers

1512. Sleepers

Crime Drama Thriller Prison Crime Legal Drama
7.5

19962h 27min

United States

Director: Barry Levinson

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Themes

Trauma and resilience, Power and corruption, Silence and disclosure, Abuse and accountability, Justice vs manipulation, Institutional abuse

Available on

Amazon Video
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The Long Kiss Goodnight

1513. The Long Kiss Goodnight

Crime Action Mystery Thriller
6.8

19962h 1min

United States

Director: Renny Harlin

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.


The Chamber

1514. The Chamber

Crime Drama
6.0

19961h 53min

United States

Director: James Foley

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.


Blood and Wine

1515. Blood and Wine

Crime Thriller
6.0

19961h 41min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Bob Rafelson

A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.


Last Man Standing

1516. Last Man Standing

Crime Action Western
6.4

19961h 41min

United States

Director: Walter Hill

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.


Bound

1517. Bound

Drama Thriller Crime Erotic Thriller Organized Crime
7.3

19961h 45min

United States

Director: Lilly Wachowski

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

Themes

Loyalty under pressure, Deception through intimacy, Risk of violence in scheming, Wealth as leverage, Power dynamics in crime networks, Gendered dynamics of crime plots

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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2 Days in the Valley

1518. 2 Days in the Valley

Comedy Crime Thriller
6.5

19961h 44min

United States

Director: John Herzfeld

In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.


Pusher

1519. Pusher

Action Crime Drama
7.3

19961h 50min

Denmark

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.


Freeway

1520. Freeway

Comedy Crime Thriller Drama
6.8

19961h 42min

United States, France

Director: Matthew Bright

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.