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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.

Face/Off

1241. Face/Off

Action Crime Science Fiction One-Person Army Undercover Sting Crime
7.3

19972h 19min

United States

Director: John Woo

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Themes

Undercover disguise and deception, Dual identities via face transplant, Prison escape and pursuit, Revenge through bomb threat, Biological weapon stakes, Sibling loyalty and conflict

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Airbag

1242. Airbag

Comedy Action Crime Thriller
6.7

19972h 5min

France, Germany

Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.


Dobermann

1243. Dobermann

Action Crime
6.5

19971h 43min

France

Director: Jan Kounen

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.


Con Air

1244. Con Air

Action Thriller Crime
6.9

19971h 56min

United States

Director: Simon West

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.


The Eel

1245. The Eel

Drama Crime
7.3

19971h 57min

Japan

Director: Shōhei Imamura

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.


Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

1246. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Science Fiction Comedy Crime
7.0

19971h 29min

Germany, United States

Director: Jay Roach

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.


Breakdown

1247. Breakdown

Crime Mystery Thriller Drama Action
7.0

19971h 33min

United States

Director: Jonathan Mostow

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.


Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper

1248. Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper

Animation Crime Mystery Adventure
7.4

19971h 34min

Japan

Director: Kenji Kodama

Once brilliant teenage detective Shinichi Kudo was given a poison that reverted him to a 4-year-old. He's adopted the pseudonym Conan Edogawa so no one (save for an eccentric inventor) will know. Now he's got to solve a series of bombings before his loved ones become victims. Who is this madman and why is he doing this? Only the young genius can save the day but will even he be up to the task?


Murder at 1600

1249. Murder at 1600

Action Drama Mystery Thriller Crime
6.1

19971h 47min

United States

Director: Dwight H. Little

A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.


Night Falls on Manhattan

1250. Night Falls on Manhattan

Drama Crime Thriller
6.6

19971h 53min

United States

Director: Sidney Lumet

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.