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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.

Nick of Time

1291. Nick of Time

Thriller Crime Action
6.3

19951h 29min

United States

Director: John Badham

An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.


Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

1292. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Crime Comedy Adventure
6.4

19951h 30min

United States

Director: Steve Oedekerk

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.


Copycat

1293. Copycat

Thriller Crime Mystery
6.6

19952h 4min

United States

Director: Jon Amiel

San Francisco is shaken by a string of brutal crimes as a serial killer imitates infamous murders from the past. The police turn to a psychologist for help—someone who once survived an attack by a maniac herself.


Get Shorty

1294. Get Shorty

Comedy Thriller Crime
6.9

19951h 45min

United States

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.


The Doom Generation

1295. The Doom Generation

Comedy Crime Drama
6.1

19951h 23min

United States, France

Director: Gregg Araki

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.


Strange Days

1296. Strange Days

Crime Drama Science Fiction Thriller
7.2

19952h 25min

United States

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.


Assassins

1297. Assassins

Action Adventure Crime Thriller
6.3

19952h 12min

United States

Director: Richard Donner

Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.


Dead Presidents

1298. Dead Presidents

Action Crime Drama Thriller War
6.9

19951h 59min

United States

Director: Albert Hughes

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!


Devil in a Blue Dress

1299. Devil in a Blue Dress

Thriller Crime Mystery
6.8

19951h 42min

United States

Director: Carl Franklin

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.


Se7en

1300. Se7en

Crime Mystery Thriller Serial Killer Crime Investigation Mystery
8.6

19952h 7min

United States

Director: David Fincher

A weary detective just wants to finish his last week on the job, UNTIL a sadistic killer starts staging murders after the seven deadly sins and drags him and his hot-headed new partner into a citywide nightmare they cannot walk away from.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Obsession with sin, Moral decay in urban setting, Police burnout under pressure, Cycle of victimization, Investigative ritual pattern

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