Best crime movies of all time filmaffinity - Page 2
In the following page, you will see a ranking of the best crime movies of all time. We have gathered the ratings of Imdb, Metacritic, Filmaffinity and crafted our own algorithm and generated the following ratings.
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21. Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver: Travis Bickle, an alienated 1970s NYC cabbie, obsesses over Betsy and a child prostitute Iris, spiraling into vigilante violence. Intense, unsettling film. Warnings: child sexual exploitation, graphic violence. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
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94
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8.2
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8.6
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22. Casino (1995)
Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) plunges into 1970s–80s Las Vegas, following mob-run casino boss Ace, enforcer Nicky and volatile Ginger as greed, violence and betrayal destroy their empire. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
8.1
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73
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8.2
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7.9
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23. Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon (1950) is a stark crime drama that shows a murder through conflicting eyewitness accounts, revealing how memory, ego and self-preservation distort truth. Sparse, haunting, philosophically unsettling. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
8.1
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98
/100
8.2
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8.7
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24. On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront is a gritty 1950s drama: ex-boxer Terry Malloy, haunted by a coworker's murder, faces corrupt union bosses and must choose between silence and moral courage. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
8.1
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91
/100
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8.4
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25. The 400 Blows (1959)
Truffaut’s The Four Hundred Blows (1959) is a French New Wave coming‑of‑age drama about 14‑year‑old Antoine’s petty crimes, parental neglect and longing for connection, culminating in a stark, open finale. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
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26. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Depression-era thriller where a fake preacher marries a widow to find $10,000 hidden by her children in a doll. Laughton’s expressionistic, noirish film is a hymn-tinged nightmare about corrupted faith and innocence. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
8.1
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97
/100
8.0
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8.6
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27. Rope (1948)
Rope (1948): Hitchcock’s claustrophobic thriller in which two young men kill a classmate, hide the body in a chest and hold a dinner — a tense, single-take study of arrogance, guilt and moral nihilism. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
8.1
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73
/100
7.9
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7.8
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28. The Big Sleep (1946)
Classic film-noir: private eye Philip Marlowe uncovers blackmail, murder and organized crime while protecting a general's daughters; tense, witty, morally ambiguous mystery with twists and hard-boiled romance. read more
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
8.1
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86
/100
7.9
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8.2
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29. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Lean, twisty crime thriller about an unreliable narrator (Verbal), five small-time crooks, and the legend Keyser Söze. Nonlinear, paranoid, and culminating in a stunning final twist that reframes the story. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
8.0
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76
/100
8.5
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8.0
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30. Joker (2019)
Joker (2019) is a dark origin story of Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill, neglected clown whose isolation and abuse drive him into violence. A disturbing, character-driven film about societal neglect and moral ambiguity. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
8.0
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59
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8.4
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7.4
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31. Diabolique (1955)
Diabolique (1955): a slow‑burn psychological thriller at a grim boys’ boarding school where two women kill the sadistic headmaster — then the body vanishes, unleashing dread, guilt and mounting paranoia. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror
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32. Mystic River (2003)
Mystic River is a bleak, slow‑burn crime drama about three childhood friends haunted by a past trauma; a daughter's murder forces loyalty, guilt and revenge into a wrenching investigation. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
8.0
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84
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7.9
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8.1
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33. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon is a tight film noir: Sam Spade, hired by Miss Wonderly, uncovers murder, double-crosses and dangerous rivals all obsessed with a priceless falcon—tense, cynical, stylish. read more
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
8.0
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97
/100
7.9
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8.5
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34. The Green Mile (1999)
The Green Mile is a slow, emotional drama set in 1930s Louisiana where death-row guard Paul Edgecomb meets John Coffey, a gentle inmate with healing powers, forcing confrontations with injustice, mercy and redemption. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
7.9
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61
/100
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7.5
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35. The Departed (2006)
The Departed is a tense crime thriller about identity and loyalty in South Boston: an undercover cop (DiCaprio) and a police mole (Damon) play a deadly cat-and-mouse game amid violence, paranoia and moral ambiguity. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
7.9
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85
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8.5
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8.3
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36. The Cove (2009)
The Cove (2009) follows Ric O'Barry and filmmakers who covertly expose Taiji’s dolphin captures and slaughter, combining espionage-style investigation, personal testimony, public-health warnings and a call to action. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Documentary
7.9
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84
/100
8.4
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8.2
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37. Snatch (2000)
Snatch is a fast-cut, darkly comic crime caper about a crooked boxing match and an 84-carat diamond, where quirky criminals collide in rapid-fire chaos, black humor, violence and stylish swagger. read more
Genres: Comedy, Crime
7.9
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55
/100
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7.2
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38. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cool Hand Luke follows irrepressible drifter Luke Jackson, jailed on a Florida prison farm, whose repeated escapes and defiance make him a folk hero. The film blends dark humor, brutal confrontations and tragic charisma. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
7.9
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92
/100
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8.4
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39. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): a bittersweet, fast‑talking Western about two charismatic outlaws whose witty heists, friendship and love collide with a changing West as they flee to Bolivia. read more
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
7.9
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66
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8.0
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7.5
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40. Carlito's Way (1993)
Carlito's Way: ex-con Carlito Brigante seeks a quiet life—open a nightclub and reunite with Gail—but loyalties, a scheming lawyer and old associates pull him back, producing a slow-burning, noirish tragedy about regret and failed redemption. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
7.9
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66
/100
7.9
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7.5
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