Best Crime Movies of All Time

Here are the best crime movies of All Time. These movies are just like cop movies but focus on the criminal’s storyline instead of the cop’s some of the movies are the best crime movies based on true stories. All best crime thriller movies are ranked here. A number of movies on this crime films list are old classics, plus some of the crime films deal with new themes and technology. These are the best crime movies on Netflix.

Best Crime Movies

	1. The Shawshank Redemption,1994
Description Andy Dufresne, a successful banker, is arrested for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life imprisonment at the Shawshank prison. He becomes the most unconventional prisoner. The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best crime movies of all time.
	2. The Godfather,1972
Description Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger. The God Father is the best crime movie.
	3. The Godfather: Part II,1974
Description Michael, Vito Corleone’s son, attempts to expand his family’s crime empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he is unaware of the dangers he has gotten himself into.
	4. Pulp Fiction,1994
Description The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Pulp Fiction is one of the good crime movie ever.
	5. The Dark Knight,2008
Description After Gordon, Dent and Batman begin an assault on Gotham’s organised crime, the mobs hire the Joker, a psychopathic criminal mastermind, who wants to bring all the heroes down to his level.
	6. Goodfellas,1990
Description Young Henry Hill begins the climb from petty criminal to gangster on the mean streets of New York with his friends Jimmy and Tommy. Good Fellas is the crime Movies best.
	7. City of God,2002
Description Two boys are brought up in a sadistic neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. They adopt diverse professional paths, with one of them becoming a photographer and the other boy becoming a drug dealer.
	8. The Usual Suspects,1995
Description Five criminals meet during a routine police line-up. Upon their release, they plan to pull off a dangerous heist involving precious emeralds worth three million dollars.
	9. The Silence of the Lambs,1991
Description Clarice Starling, an FBI agent, seeks help from Hannibal Lecter, a psychopathic serial killer and former psychiatrist, in order to apprehend another serial killer who has been claiming female victims. Its one of the great crime movies.
	10. Se7en,1995
Description A serial killer begins murdering people according to the seven deadly sins. Two detectives, one new to the city and the other about to retire, are tasked with apprehending the criminal.
	11. Memento,2000
Description Leonard Shelby, an insurance investigator, suffers from anterograde amnesia and uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife, which is the last thing he remembers.
	12. Leon: The Professional,1994
Description When 12-year-old Mathilda’s family is killed, her neighbour Leon, who is a professional assassin, reluctantly takes her under his wing and teaches her the secrets of his trade.
	13. American History X,1998
Description Derek, who has served three years in prison for a hate crime, tries to change the thoughts of his brother, Danny, who is following the same path
	14. Double Indemnity,1944
Description This movie features an insurance salesman, who is plotting to murder his client.
	15. Paths of Glory,1957
Description The futility and irony of the war in the trenches, is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general.
	16. M,1931
Description When a child-murderer goes untraced, other criminals join the police in the manhunt.
	17. Vertigo,1958
Description Detective Scottie who suffers from acrophobia is hired to investigate the strange activities of an old friend’s wife. She commits suicide while Scottie becomes dangerously obsessed with her.
	18. To Kill a Mockingbird,1962
Description Atticus Finch, a lawyer living in a racist town, sets out to defend a black man, who is accused of raping a white woman. Will Atticus succeed in changing the views of the townspeople?
	19. A Clockwork Orange,1971
Description Alex, a psychopathic delinquent, is imprisoned for murder and rape. In order to reduce his sentence, he volunteers for an experimental therapy conducted by the government, but it goes askew.
	20. The Departed,2006
Description An undercover agent and an espionage agent try to counter-attack each other in order to save themselves from being exposed in front of the authorities.
	21. The Bicycle Thief,1949
Description A man’s bike gets stolen just as he lands a job which requires him to travel around town sticking up posters. The man and his son go out looking for the bike.
	22. Chinatown,1974
Description Mrs Mulwray hires Detective Jake, who specializes in matrimonial cases, to spy on her husband, the builder of the city’s water system. He finds himself in a web of deceit when Mr Mulwray dies.
	23. Rashomon,1950
Description Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.
	24. Reservoir Dogs,1992
Description Six criminals are hired to rob diamonds and all of them are given fake names, so that they cannot know each other’s true identity. While attempting the heist, the men are ambushed by the police.
	25. L.A. Confidential,1997
Description Three cops with different agendas investigate a murder case with links to corruption in the police force.