Crime Cinema Subgenres
From whistleblowers to robberies gone wrong, hand-picked recommendations
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Deathtrap (1982)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Rush Hour (1998)
Analyze This (1999)
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Bandits (2001)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Analyze That (2002)
The Ladykillers (2004)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
Lucky Number Sleven (2006)
The Pink Panther (2006)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
In Bruges (2008)
I Love You Philip Morris (2009)
Pain and Gain (2013)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Oceans Eight (2018)
The Gentlemen (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
Queen Pins (2021)
7 Women and a Murder (2022)
Wicked Little Letters (2023)
A Few Good Men (1992)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
A Time to Kill (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Primal Fear (1996)
The Rainmaker (1997)
North Country (2005)
Fracture (2007)
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Conspirator (2010)
Conviction (2010)
The Client (2011)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
The Judge (2014)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Denial (2016)
Marshall (2017)
Molly's Game (2017)
22 July (2018)
Dark Waters (2019)
Just Mercy (2019)
The Report (2019)
Trial of Chicago 7 (2020)
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally trailer (2021)
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Misery (1990)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Unfaithful (2002)
Mystic River (2003)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
The Town (2010)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Gone Girl (2014)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Commuter (2018)
The Mule (2018)
JFK (1991)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The Client (1994)
Nixon (1995)
Enemy of the State (1998)
The General's Daughter (1999)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Syriana (2005)
State of Play (2009)
The Ideas of March (2011)
Vice (2018)
Official Secrets (2019)
The Report (2019)
The Mauritanian (2021)
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The Godfather (Trilogy)
Scarface (1983)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
The Untouchables (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Casino (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Road to Perdition (2002)
The Ladykillers (2004)
The Departed (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Black Mass (2015)
The Infiltrator (2016)
Believer (2018)
Gotti (2018)
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
The Irishman (2019)
Capone (2020)
Night in Paradise (2021)
The Roundup (2022)
Believer 2 (2023)
The Roundup No Way Out (2023)
The Roundup: Punishment (2024)
Silkwood (1983)
JFK (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The Firm (1993)
The Insider (1999)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
North Country (2005)
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Informant! (2009)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Snowden (2016)
Dark Waters (2019)
Official Secrets (2019)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Heat (1995)
Set it Off (1996)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
The Town (2010)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Windfall (2022)
Your Lucky Day (2023)
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Chinatown (1981)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Fargo (1996)
The Pledge (2001)
Insomnia (2002)
Memories of Murder (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo (2011)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Knives Out (2019)
7 Women and a Murder (2021)