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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.

Q & A

1691. Q & A

Action Thriller Crime
6.6

19902h 12min

United States

Director: Sidney Lumet

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.


Miami Blues

1692. Miami Blues

Action Crime Drama Thriller
6.4

19901h 37min

United States

Director: George Armitage

After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.


I Love You to Death

1693. I Love You to Death

Comedy Crime Romance
6.4

19901h 34min

United States

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time, she goes to extreme lengths to punish him.


Dick Tracy

1694. Dick Tracy

Adventure Comedy Crime
6.2

19901h 45min

United States

Director: Warren Beatty

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.


A Shock to the System

1695. A Shock to the System

Crime Comedy
6.6

19901h 31min

United States

Director: Jan Egleson

When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.


Nuns on the Run

1696. Nuns on the Run

Comedy Crime
6.0

19901h 29min

United Kingdom

Director: Jonathan Lynn

Set up by their boss to be knocked off following a final heist, soon-to-retire crooks Brian Hope and Charlie McManus get wind of their impending demise and run off with the spoils of their crime. Fleeing their boss, the drug dealers they robbed, the police, and Brian's angry girlfriend, the duo take refuge in a training convent for nuns. In disguise, they convince Sister Superior that they're nuns, a charade they're forced to maintain as their enemies arrive.


Flashback

1697. Flashback

Action Comedy Crime
6.2

19901h 48min

United States

Director: Franco Amurri

A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.


Dark Angel

1698. Dark Angel

Action Thriller Science Fiction Crime Horror
6.1

19901h 31min

United States

Director: Craig R. Baxley

Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...


Internal Affairs

1699. Internal Affairs

Crime Drama
6.5

19901h 55min

Canada, United States

Director: Mike Figgis

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.