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Crime

A crime film is a type of film focusing on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach ranges from grittily realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures (crime drama) to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains (master criminal films.) Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.
Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1996 Fargo   Joel Coen
  9 Stars 1995 The Usual Suspects   Bryan Singer
  9 Stars 1994 Pulp Fiction   Quentin Tarantino
  9 Stars 1946 The Killers   Robert Siodmak
  9 Stars 1949 White Heat   Raoul Walsh
  9 Stars 1987 The Untouchables   Brian De Palma
  9 Stars 1958 Touch of Evil   Orson Welles
  9 Stars 1932 Scarface   Howard Hawks
  9 Stars 1955 Rififi   Jules Dassin
  9 Stars 1992 Reservoir Dogs   Quentin Tarantino
  9 Stars 1931 The Public Enemy   William Wellman
  9 Stars 1967 Point Blank   John Boorman
  9 Stars 1947 Out of the Past   Jacques Tourneur
  9 Stars 1984 Once Upon a Time in America   Sergio Leone
  9 Stars 1950 Night and the City   Jules Dassin
  9 Stars 1973 Mean Streets   Martin Scorsese
  9 Stars 1930 Little Caesar   Mervyn LeRoy
  9 Stars 1989 The Killer   John Woo
  9 Stars 1967 In Cold Blood   Richard Brooks
  9 Stars 1990 GoodFellas   Martin Scorsese
  9 Stars 1974 The Godfather Part II   Francis Ford Coppola
  9 Stars 1972 The Godfather   Francis Ford Coppola
  9 Stars 1971 The French Connection   William Friedkin
  9 Stars 1982 The Executioner's Song   Lawrence Schiller
  9 Stars 1944 Double Indemnity   Billy Wilder
  9 Stars 1971 Dirty Harry   Don Siegel
  9 Stars 1967 Bonnie and Clyde   Arthur Penn
  9 Stars 1984 Blood Simple   Joel Coen
  9 Stars 1973 Badlands   Terrence Malick
  8 Stars 1998 Out of Sight   Steven Soderbergh
  8 Stars 1997 L.A. Confidential   Curtis Hanson
  8 Stars 1966 Tokyo Drifter   Seijun Suzuki
  8 Stars 1915 Les Vampires [Serial]   Louis Feuillade
    8 Stars 1927 Underworld   Josef von Sternberg
  8 Stars 1979 Vengeance Is Mine   Shohei Imamura
  8 Stars 1939 The Roaring Twenties   Raoul Walsh
  8 Stars 1985 Prizzi's Honor   John Huston
  8 Stars 1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice   Tay Garnett
  8 Stars 1956 The Killing   Stanley Kubrick
  8 Stars 1948 Key Largo   John Huston
  8 Stars 1949 Gun Crazy   Joseph H. Lewis
  8 Stars 1990 The Grifters   Stephen Frears
  8 Stars 1967 Le Samouraï   Jean-Pierre Melville
  8 Stars 1975 Dog Day Afternoon   Sidney Lumet
  8 Stars 1986 A Better Tomorrow   John Woo
  7 Stars 1992 Full Contact   Ringo Lam
  7 Stars 1999 The Limey   Steven Soderbergh
  7 Stars 1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai   Jim Jarmusch
  7 Stars 1963 Pale Flower   Masahiro Shinoda
  7 Stars 1998 The General   John Boorman
    7 Stars 1979 Mesto Vstrechi Izmenit Nelzya   Stanislav Govorukhin
  7 Stars 1997 Jackie Brown   Quentin Tarantino
  7 Stars 1997 Donnie Brasco   Mike Newell
    7 Stars 1996 Helpless   Shinji Aoyama
    7 Stars 1913 Juve Contre Fantômas   Louis Feuillade
  7 Stars 1913 Fantômas   Louis Feuillade
  7 Stars 1967 Branded to Kill   Seijun Suzuki
  7 Stars 1963 Youth of the Beast   Seijun Suzuki
  7 Stars 1996 Profundo Carmesi   Arturo Ripstein
  7 Stars 1995 Heat   Michael Mann
  7 Stars 1995 Gonin   Takashi Ishii
  7 Stars 1994 Shallow Grave   Danny Boyle
  7 Stars 1994 The Last Seduction   John Dahl
  7 Stars 1966 Le Deuxième Souffle   Jean-Pierre Melville
  7 Stars 1948 Raw Deal   Anthony Mann
    7 Stars 1930 Raffles   Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast
    7 Stars 1955 The Phenix City Story   Phil Karlson
  7 Stars 1971 Get Carter   Mike Hodges
  7 Stars 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle   Peter Yates
    7 Stars 1957 The Brothers Rico   Phil Karlson
  7 Stars 1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse   Fritz Lang
  7 Stars 1972 The Wolves   Hideo Gosha
  7 Stars 1978 Who'll Stop the Rain?   Karel Reisz
  7 Stars 1964 Topkapi   Jules Dassin
  7 Stars 1981 Thief   Michael Mann
  7 Stars 1983 Scarface   Brian De Palma
  7 Stars 1981 Ms. 45   Abel Ferrara
  7 Stars 1990 Miller's Crossing   Joel Coen
  7 Stars 1980 The Long Good Friday   John MacKenzie
  7 Stars 1991 Let Him Have It   Peter Medak
  7 Stars 1951 The Lavender Hill Mob   Charles Crichton
  7 Stars 1976 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie   John Cassavetes
  7 Stars 1979 Going in Style   Martin Brest
  7 Stars 1990 The Godfather Part III   Francis Ford Coppola
  7 Stars 1972 The Getaway   Sam Peckinpah
    7 Stars 1984 Fatal Vision   David Greene
  7 Stars 1966 The Face of Another   Hiroshi Teshigahara
  7 Stars 1922 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler   Fritz Lang
  7 Stars 1946 Detour   Edgar G. Ulmer
  7 Stars 1948 Criss Cross   Robert Siodmak
  7 Stars 1987 City on Fire   Ringo Lam
  7 Stars 1990 After Dark, My Sweet   James Foley
  6 Stars 2001 Training Day   Antoine Fuqua
  6 Stars 2001 The Score   Frank Oz
  6 Stars 1999 Bobby G. Can't Swim   John-Luke Montias
  6 Stars 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels   Guy Ritchie
    6 Stars 1997 Kiss or Kill   Bill Bennett
  6 Stars 1995 Citizen X   Chris Gerolmo
  6 Stars 1994 Little Odessa   James Gray
  6 Stars 1994 Natural Born Killers   Oliver Stone
  6 Stars 1948 Cry of the City   Robert Siodmak
  6 Stars 1960 The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse   Fritz Lang
  6 Stars 1988 Tequila Sunrise   Robert Towne
  6 Stars 1990 State of Grace   Phil Joanou
  6 Stars 1991 A Rage in Harlem   Bill Duke
  6 Stars 1968 No Way to Treat a Lady   Jack Smight
    6 Stars 1991 Laws of Gravity   Nick Gomez
  6 Stars 1990 Internal Affairs   Mike Figgis
  5 Stars 2001 Ocean's Eleven   Steven Soderbergh
  5 Stars 2001 Heist   David Mamet
    5 Stars 1999 Kumo No Hitomi   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    5 Stars 1999 Hebi no Michi   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  5 Stars 1997 Junk Food   Masashi Yamamoto
  5 Stars 1988 As Tears Go By   Wong Kar-Wai
  5 Stars 1997 Truth or Consequences, N.M.   Kiefer Sutherland
    5 Stars 1997 Two Punks   Shinji Aoyama
  5 Stars 1996 Gonin 2   Takashi Ishii
  5 Stars 1996 Young and Dangerous   Andrew Lau
  5 Stars 1996 Set It Off   F. Gary Gray
  5 Stars 1995 New Jersey Drive   Nick Gomez
  5 Stars 1991 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?   David Greene
    5 Stars 1992 Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story   Peter Levin
  5 Stars 1957 Time Without Pity   Joseph Losey
    5 Stars 1974 Uomini Duri   Duccio Tessari
    5 Stars 1957 Until They Sail   Robert Wise
  5 Stars 1992 To Catch a Killer   Eric Till
  5 Stars 1992 Sneakers   Phil Alden Robinson
  5 Stars 1963 Le Doulos   Jean-Pierre Melville
  5 Stars 1993 Kalifornia   Dominic Sena
  5 Stars 1988 A Better Tomorrow II   John Woo
    4 Stars 1999 Highway Society   Mika Kaurismäki
  4 Stars 1999 Ordinary Decent Criminal   Thaddeus O'Sullivan
  4 Stars 1973 Trick Baby   Larry Yust
  3 Stars 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds   H.B. Halicki
  3 Stars 1986 52 Pick-Up   John Frankenheimer
 
 
 
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