Genre "Crime Drama" Movies
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| 51. In Cold Blood (year: 1967) |
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murd ...
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| 52. In the Heat of the Night (year: 1967) |
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unu ...
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| 53. Infamous (year: 2006) |
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Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tel ...
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| 54. Irreversible (year: 2002) |
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Gaspar Noé's Irreversible utilizes the same storytelling technique used by Christopher Nolan in Memento and Harold Pinter in Betrayal. Consisting of a ...
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| 55. Lady from Louisiana (year: 1941) |
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures. Arriving from New England to ...
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| 56. Lady Vengeance (year: 2005) |
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A woman looks for both revenge and redemption after spending 13 years in prison in this offbeat thriller from South Korea. Lee Geum-ja (Lee Yeong-ae) ...
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| 57. Layer Cake (year: 2004) |
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A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is ...
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| 58. Made in Britain (year: 1981) |
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Director Alan Clarke's influential television drama Made in Britain marked the screen debut of actor Tim Roth. Roth plays Trevor, a skinhead with a sw ...
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| 59. Matchstick Men (year: 2003) |
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Ridley Scott directs the crime comedy Matchstick Men, based on the novel of the same name by Eric Garcia. Neurotic con man Roy (Nicolas Cage) suffers ...
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| 60. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (year: 1997) |
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Clint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt's non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, ...
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| 61. Mona Lisa (year: 1986) |
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Bob Hoskins plays George, a tough but basically goodhearted British mob flunky, recently released from prison, where he'd served a term to cover up fo ...
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| 62. Natural Born Killers (year: 1994) |
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A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its ...
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| 63. New Jack City (year: 1991) |
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The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the ...
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| 64. No Man's Land (year: 1987) |
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Benjy Taylor (D.B. Sweeney) is a rookie cop who goes undercover to nab a gang of car thieves in this routine crime drama. Taylor salivates over the li ...
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| 65. No Te Fallare (year: 2001) |
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Two lovers are brought together by chance and led into dangerous circumstances by fate in this drama. Valle (Eva Santolaria) and Quimi (Antonio Hortel ...
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| 66. Ordinary Decent Criminal (year: 1999) |
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Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, Michael ...
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| 67. Original Sin (year: 2001) |
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A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Anton ...
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| 68. Outside The Law (year: 1921) |
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| 69. Rashomon (year: 1951) |
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This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a do ...
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| 70. Road to Perdition (year: 2002) |
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The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Dav ...
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| 71. Rockaway (year: 2007) |
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Mourning morphs into revenge when a decorated war hero returns home from the battlefield to bury his wife and child after the pair are viciously kille ...
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| 72. Savage Grace (year: 2007) |
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Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barb ...
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| 73. Scarface (year: 1932) |
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| 74. Shadowboxer (year: 2005) |
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A late-career change of heart leads to a dangerous life on the run for two seasoned assassins whose complex relationship masks a dark past in director ...
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| 75. Shooting Gallery (year: 2005) |
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A billiard-savvy street kid resorts to desperate measures after finding himself caught between a pair of veteran hustlers and a corrupt vice cop in th ...
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| 76. Shottas (year: 2002) |
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Grammy-nominated reggae artist Kymani Marley and Jamaican dancehall star Spragga Benz star in director Cess Silvera's tale of two Kingston gangsters l ...
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| 77. Sleepers (year: 1996) |
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Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called ...
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| 78. Tequila Sunrise (year: 1988) |
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For his first directorial project in six years, Robert Towne selected a timeworn romantic-triangle yarn, injecting the material with subtlety and conv ...
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| 79. The Accused (year: 1948) |
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| 80. The Boys Next Door (year: 1985) |
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| 81. The Dead Girl (year: 2006) |
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Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit-award nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni Collette, James Franco, Giova ...
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| 82. The Debt Collector (year: 1999) |
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The first feature of Anthony Neilson, The Debt Collector is a dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh. The protagonist, Nick Dryden, has just been ...
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| 83. The General (year: 1998) |
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John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier ...
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| 84. The Godfather (year: 1972) |
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Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the mo ...
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| 85. The Godfather Part II (year: 1974) |
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Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his s ...
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| 86. The Godfather Part III (year: 1990) |
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After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fi ...
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| 87. The Hillside Strangler (year: 2004) |
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A real-life series of killings that held Los Angeles, CA, in the grip of fear during the late '70s provides the inspiration for this tense crime drama ...
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| 88. The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (year: 1997) |
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In this tough contemporary noir drama, Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a low-level "mechanic" working for second-rate mobster Sal (Michael Madsen ...
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| 89. The Limey (year: 1999) |
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Two actors best known for their work in the late 1960s, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, star in The Limey, a drama in which a recently released felon c ...
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| 90. The Public Enemy (year: 1931) |
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown various episodes of Tom's ...
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| 91. The Sicilian (year: 1987) |
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Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvator ...
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| 92. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (year: 1946) |
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck) ...
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| 93. The Virgin Spring (year: 1959) |
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Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukallan) begins with a scene of unspeakable brutality and ends with a ...
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| 94. Todo el poder (year: 1999) |
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Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir ...
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| 95. Tokyo Psycho (year: 1999) |
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| 96. True Crime (year: 1999) |
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Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his ...
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| 97. Tsotsi (year: 2005) |
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An amoral teenager develops an unexpected paternal side in this powerful drama from South Africa. Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) is the street name used ...
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| 98. Unfaithful (year: 2002) |
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Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an erra ...
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| 99. We Own the Night (year: 2007) |
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Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director James Gray's period drama ...
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