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Best Crime Movies of All Time, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
1309 crime films are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Shawshank Redemption ('1994), at 9.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 8.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Snatch, 8.2 on IMDb against 55 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shawshank Redemption '1994 | Drama / Crime | 9.3 | 89% | 82 | 8.7 | Frank Darabont |
| 2 | The Godfather '1972 | Drama / Crime | 9.2 | 97% | 100 | 8.7 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 3 | The Godfather Part II '1974 | Drama / Crime | 9.0 | 96% | 90 | 8.6 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 4 | The Dark Knight '2008 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 9.1 | 94% | 85 | 8.5 | Christopher Nolan |
| 5 | Pulp Fiction '1994 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 8.8 | 92% | 95 | 8.5 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 6 | Inception '2010 | Action / Sci-Fi / Crime | 8.8 | 86% | 74 | 8.4 | Christopher Nolan |
| 7 | GoodFellas '1990 | Drama / Crime | 8.7 | 93% | 92 | 8.4 | Martin Scorsese |
| 8 | The Silence of the Lambs '1991 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.6 | 95% | 86 | 8.3 | Jonathan Demme |
| 9 | Se7en '1995 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.6 | 84% | 65 | 8.4 | David Fincher |
| 10 | The Green Mile '1999 | Fantasy / Drama / Crime | 8.6 | 78% | 61 | 8.5 | Frank Darabont |
| 11 | Léon: The Professional '1994 | Crime / Drama / Action | 8.5 | 76% | 64 | 8.3 | Luc Besson |
| 12 | The Usual Suspects '1995 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 8.5 | 87% | 76 | 8.2 | Bryan Singer |
| 13 | Witness for the Prosecution '1957 | Drama / Mystery / Crime | 8.4 | 100% | 76 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 14 | The Departed '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | 91% | 85 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 15 | City of God '2002 | Drama / Crime | 8.6 | 91% | 79 | 8.4 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 16 | M '1931 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.3 | 100% | - | 8.1 | Fritz Lang |
| 17 | Double Indemnity '1944 | Crime / Thriller | 8.3 | 97% | 95 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 18 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 19 | Scarface '1983 | Action / Crime / Drama | 8.3 | 77% | 65 | 8.2 | Brian De Palma |
| 20 | The Dark Knight Rises '2012 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 8.4 | 87% | 78 | 7.8 | Christopher Nolan |
| 21 | Taxi Driver '1976 | Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 89% | 94 | 8.1 | Martin Scorsese |
| 22 | A Clockwork Orange '1971 | Sci-Fi / Crime | 8.2 | 86% | 77 | 8.2 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 23 | Once Upon a Time in America '1984 | Drama / Crime | 8.3 | 86% | 75 | 8.4 | Sergio Leone |
| 24 | Some Like It Hot '1959 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 25 | Le Trou '1960 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | - | - | 8.2 | Jacques Becker |
| 26 | Heat '1995 | Crime / Drama / Action | 8.3 | 84% | 76 | 7.9 | Michael Mann |
| 27 | The Sting '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 83 | 8.0 | George Roy Hill |
| 28 | Joker '2019 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.3 | 68% | 59 | 8.1 | Todd Phillips |
| 29 | Reservoir Dogs '1992 | Crime / Thriller | 8.2 | 90% | 81 | 8.1 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 30 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 31 | Dial M for Murder '1954 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 90% | 75 | 8.0 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 32 | On the Waterfront '1954 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Elia Kazan |
| 33 | Chinatown '1974 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.1 | 98% | 92 | 7.9 | Roman Polanski |
| 34 | Requiem for a Dream '2000 | Crime / Drama | 8.3 | 80% | 71 | 8.0 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 35 | Batman Begins '2005 | Drama / Crime / Action | 8.2 | 85% | 70 | 7.7 | Christopher Nolan |
| 36 | The Young and the Damned '1950 | Drama / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | - | 8.1 | Luis Buñuel |
| 37 | The Wolf of Wall Street '2013 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | 79% | 75 | 8.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 38 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 '2003 | Action / Crime | 8.2 | 85% | 69 | 8.0 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 39 | Casino '1995 | Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 79% | 73 | 8.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 40 | White Heat '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 94% | 89 | 7.7 | Raoul Walsh |
| 41 | L.A. Confidential '1997 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.2 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Curtis Hanson |
| 42 | No Country for Old Men '2007 | Crime / Thriller / Western | 8.2 | 93% | 92 | 8.0 | Joel Coen |
| 43 | Snatch '2000 | Crime / Comedy | 8.2 | 74% | 55 | 7.8 | Guy Ritchie |
| 44 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari '1920 | Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Robert Wiene |
| 45 | The Big Lebowski '1998 | Comedy / Crime | 8.1 | 79% | 71 | 7.8 | Joel Coen |
| 46 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 47 | Dog Day Afternoon '1975 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 94% | 86 | 7.9 | Sidney Lumet |
| 48 | Fargo '1996 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 95% | 88 | 7.8 | Joel Coen |
| 49 | Cool Hand Luke '1967 | Drama / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | 92 | 7.7 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 50 | Rififi '1955 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 97 | 7.8 | Jules Dassin |
| 51 | Trainspotting '1996 | Drama / Crime | 8.1 | 93% | 83 | 8.0 | Danny Boyle |
| 52 | Rocco and His Brothers '1960 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Luchino Visconti |
| 53 | Catch Me If You Can '2002 | Drama / Crime | 8.1 | 96% | 75 | 8.0 | Steven Spielberg |
| 54 | The Punisher: One Last Kill '2026 | Action / Drama / Crime | - | 73% | - | 8.3 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 55 | Kind Hearts and Coronets '1949 | Comedy / Crime | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Robert Hamer |
| 56 | Anatomy of a Murder '1959 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 100% | 95 | 7.8 | Otto Preminger |
| 57 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels '1998 | Comedy / Crime | 8.1 | 75% | 67 | 8.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 58 | Z '1969 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 94% | 86 | 7.8 | Costa-Gavras |
| 59 | The Diamond Arm '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 60 | Papillon '1973 | Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 74% | 58 | 7.8 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 61 | Prisoners '2013 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.2 | 81% | 70 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 62 | Rope '1948 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 93% | 73 | 7.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 63 | Le Samouraï '1967 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.0 | 92% | 90 | 7.8 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 64 | Paper Moon '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 91% | 77 | 7.9 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 65 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston |
| 66 | Strangers on a Train '1951 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 98% | 88 | 7.7 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 67 | The Big Sleep '1946 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 86 | 7.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 68 | Arsenic and Old Lace '1944 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 86% | - | 7.6 | Frank Capra |
| 69 | The Killing '1956 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 91 | 7.6 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 70 | The Night of the Hunter '1955 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 97 | 7.9 | Charles Laughton |
| 71 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles |
| 72 | Out of the Past '1947 | Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 87% | 85 | 7.7 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 73 | Greed '1924 | Drama / Crime | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.3 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 74 | The Thin Man '1934 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 98% | 86 | 7.5 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 75 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 76 | Mildred Pierce '1945 | Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 88% | 88 | 7.6 | Michael Curtiz |
| 77 | The Blues Brothers '1980 | Musical / Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 72% | 60 | 7.7 | John Landis |
| 78 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse '1933 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 86% | - | 7.6 | Fritz Lang |
| 79 | Trouble in Paradise '1932 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.9 | 90% | - | 7.4 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 80 | The Big Heat '1953 | Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 95% | - | 7.7 | Fritz Lang |
| 81 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 82 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri '2017 | Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 90% | 88 | 8.1 | Martin McDonagh |
| 83 | Sleuth '1972 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 84 | The Roaring Twenties '1939 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 100% | 80 | 7.5 | Raoul Walsh |
| 85 | Elevator to the Gallows '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 94 | 7.6 | Louis Malle |
| 86 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 '2004 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 8.0 | 84% | 83 | 7.9 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 87 | His Girl Friday '1940 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 7.8 | 99% | 94 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 88 | Sin City '2005 | Crime / Thriller | 8.0 | 76% | 74 | 7.5 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 89 | The Asphalt Jungle '1950 | Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.5 | John Huston |
| 90 | Gaslight '1944 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 94% | 78 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 91 | Angels with Dirty Faces '1938 | Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Michael Curtiz |
| 92 | In Cold Blood '1967 | Crime / Drama | 7.9 | 75% | 89 | 7.5 | Richard Brooks |
| 93 | The Bad Sleep Well '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 94 | Monsieur Verdoux '1947 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.7 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 95 | Stray Dog '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 96 | Gentlemen of Fortune '1971 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.3 | - | - | 7.8 | Aleksandr Sery |
| 97 | True Romance '1993 | Action / Crime / Romance | 7.9 | 93% | 59 | 7.5 | Tony Scott |
| 98 | The Untouchables '1987 | Crime / Thriller | 7.8 | 83% | 79 | 7.8 | Brian De Palma |
| 99 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 100 | Carlito's Way '1993 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 84% | 66 | 7.8 | Brian De Palma |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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