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1. The Batman (2022)
PG-13 | 176 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell
Votes: 786,237 | Gross: $369.35M
2. Heat (1995)
R | 170 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 718,920 | Gross: $67.44M
3. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 800,527 | Gross: $7.56M
4. The Case for Christ (2017)
PG | 112 min | Biography, Drama
An investigative journalist and self-proclaimed atheist sets out to disprove the existence of God after his wife becomes a Christian.
Director: Jon Gunn | Stars: Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Faye Dunaway, Frankie Faison
Votes: 10,295 | Gross: $14.68M
5. White Lightning (1973)
PG | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins
Votes: 5,703
6. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Votes: 22,809 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Brute Force (1947)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 11,532
8. Indestructible Man (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Charles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.
Director: Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Votes: 3,152
9. Pickup on South Street (1953)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 16,146
10. Force of Evil (1948)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Director: Abraham Polonsky | Stars: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor
Votes: 7,663
11. Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis
Votes: 772
12. N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969)
30 min | Crime, Drama
The three detectives fight every kind of criminal all over New York City. The show featured many actual New York City locations, as well as episodes based on real New York City police cases.
Stars: Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, Frank Converse, Ted Beniades
Votes: 341
13. Les Lyonnais (2011)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge ... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Marchal | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Tchéky Karyo, Daniel Duval, Lionnel Astier
Votes: 8,812
14. The Don Is Dead (1973)
Passed | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri
Votes: 1,460
15. Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 780
16. Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft
Votes: 3,731
17. High Tide (1947)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw
Votes: 641
18. Into the Blue (I) (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Harry Barnett is a failed businessman who used to run a garage until he went bankrupt. He is now living on the island of Rhodes, looking after the villa of a friend, Alan Dysart, a former ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Tom Towndrow, Vida Garman, Abigail Cruttenden
Votes: 132
19. We Steal Secrets (2013)
R | 130 min | Documentary
A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney
Votes: 8,176 | Gross: $0.16M
20. Strange Cargo (1940)
Passed | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre
Votes: 2,972
21. Finger Man (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey
Votes: 424
22. Chandler (1971)
GP | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
Director: Paul Magwood | Stars: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 630
23. La balance (1982)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Police compel a couple of criminals to become its informants.
Director: Bob Swaim | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet
Votes: 1,323
24. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Western
United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime.
Stars: John Bromfield, James Griffith, Robert Brubaker, Buck Young
Votes: 108
25. Devil's Harvest (1942)
52 min | Drama
An investigator goes after the people who are corrupting the nation's youth by spreading the weed of Satan--MARIJUANA!!!
Director: Ray Test | Stars: June Doyle, Leo Anthony, George Graham, Ben Barlow
Votes: 75
26. White Tiger (1923)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery
Votes: 252
27. Luna Park (1992)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
Andrei leads a group of nationalist skinheads. They've taken over a Luna Park depot. They indulge in violence and racketeering against Jews, homosexuals and the marginalized.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Gutin, Natalya Egorova, Nonna Mordyukova
Votes: 526
28. Special Agent (1935)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters ... See full summary »
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Jack La Rue
Votes: 1,207
29. The Stool Pigeon (2010)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Policeman Don Lee often works with informants but numerous too-close calls and failed missions cause him to see the world as one betrayal after another - then he meets Guy, and is given a new chance to change his views.
Director: Dante Lam | Stars: Nick Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Gwei Lun-Mei, Kai-Chi Liu
Votes: 2,181
30. Adiós Amigo (1975)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Western
A conman's crimes are blamed on a good-natured fast-drawing cowboy he meets and decides to use as decoy.
Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Robert Phillips
Votes: 341 | Gross: $0.64M
31. I Am the Law (1938)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
Law professor John Lindsay is asked by a civic leader to become a special prosecutor to go after the racketeers in town.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, John Beal, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 498
32. Big House Bunny (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Sing Song guard (Yosemite) Sam Shultz mistakes Bugs for a prisoner when he tunnels up inside the jail.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,449
33. Everybody Wants to Kill Me (1957)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Five French criminals pull a jewelry heist, hide the loot and create an alibi by getting themselves sent to prison for a minor infraction but there they are targeted by someone who seeks information about their hidden loot.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: François Périer, Peter van Eyck, Anouk Aimée, Darío Moreno
Votes: 154
34. Missing Evidence (1939)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama
A Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Inez Courtney, Chick Chandler
Votes: 67
35. He Was Her Man (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven
Votes: 692
36. Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Daffy agrees to hide Tom Turk from Porky, until he learns that Porky is planning to serve the turkey for dinner, then turns stool pigeon.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 351
37. Second Chance (1947)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two small-time jewel thieves team up with a larger gang to pull off a $1-million heist. However, the police always seem to be one step ahead of them, and the gang soon begins to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Kent Taylor, Louise Currie, Dennis Hoey, Larry J. Blake
Votes: 53
38. Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982)
56 min | Documentary
In a series of conversations with Michel Ciment, Elia Kazan talks about his life's work in theatre, cinema and novels, the philosophy and attitudes behind his choices and his creations.
Director: Annie Tresgot | Stars: Michel Ciment, Elia Kazan, Robert De Niro, Mike Kazan
Votes: 111
39. Half a Sinner (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Heather Angel, John 'Dusty' King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett
Votes: 415
40. Ventarrón (1949)
85 min | Drama, Crime
A murderer known as "Ventarrón" escapes from prison to get revenge.
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: David Silva, Martha Roth, Isabel del Puerto, Alberto Mariscal
Votes: 24
41. Jailbreak (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-racketeer slugs a cop and goes to prison to keep from being involved in crime again. On the day of his parole, his plans are dashed. It's up to a brash newspaper reporter to figure out what happened.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barton MacLane, June Travis, Craig Reynolds, Dick Purcell
Votes: 123
42. The Final Mission (2018)
18 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Three criminal friends on the run and evading capture try to find out who might have provided their secret information to law enforcement.
Director: Winston James | Stars: Jas Anderson, Amadeo Fusca, Victoria Guthrie, Clinton Lowe
43. The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The farm of tomorrow proves to be filled with wacky inventions and crazy cross-breeding.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Paul Frees, Tex Avery, John Brown, Daws Butler
Votes: 444
44. I Cover the Underworld (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest is about to see his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen in a long time--because his brother, a gang leader, has been serving a stretch in prison.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Sean McClory, Joanne Jordan, Ray Middleton, Jaclynne Greene
Votes: 46
45. Un hombre en la trampa (1965)
80 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Ignacio López Tarso, Kitty de Hoyos, David Reynoso, Evangelina Elizondo
Votes: 15
46. El hombre propone... (1965)
87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Juan Alfonso Chavira Jacha | Stars: Roberto Cañedo, Isabela Corona, Jorge Alzaga, Sandra Cañedo
47. The Right Way (1921)
Drama
Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up tips on how to become a master criminal. ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Edwards Davis, Helen Lindroth, Joseph Marquis, Vivienne Osborne
48. Stool Pigeon (1928)
56 min | Crime, Drama
An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality he is only stealing to give his mother a better life. His devoted girlfriend Goldie (Olive Borden) tries to help him turn his life around.
Director: Renaud Hoffman | Stars: Olive Borden, Charles Delaney, Lucy Beaumont, Louis Natheaux
49. Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Det. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix
Votes: 38
50.
Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode:
Color Him Dead
(1974)
TV-14 | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After an assassin's bullet fails to kill tycoon David Garrick, eccentric husband-and-wife detective team Arden and Suzy Buckley are hired to protect the millionaire. The pair have to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Christopher Cazenove, Peter Dyneley, Stephen Rea
Votes: 186