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Best Crime Movies of the 2000s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
138 crime films from the 2000s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Dark Knight (2008), at 9.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Elite Squad, 8.0 on IMDb against 33 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dark Knight '2008 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 9.1 | 94% | 85 | 8.5 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | The Departed '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | 91% | 85 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 3 | City of God '2002 | Drama / Crime | 8.6 | 91% | 79 | 8.4 | Fernando Meirelles |
| 4 | Batman Begins '2005 | Drama / Crime / Action | 8.2 | 85% | 70 | 7.7 | Christopher Nolan |
| 5 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 '2003 | Action / Crime | 8.2 | 85% | 69 | 8.0 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 6 | No Country for Old Men '2007 | Crime / Thriller / Western | 8.2 | 93% | 92 | 7.9 | Joel Coen |
| 7 | Snatch '2000 | Crime / Comedy | 8.2 | 74% | 55 | 7.8 | Guy Ritchie |
| 8 | Catch Me If You Can '2002 | Drama / Crime | 8.1 | 96% | 75 | 8.0 | Steven Spielberg |
| 9 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 '2004 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 8.0 | 84% | 83 | 7.9 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 10 | Sin City '2005 | Crime / Thriller | 8.0 | 76% | 74 | 7.5 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 11 | Mystic River '2003 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.7 | Clint Eastwood |
| 12 | Memories of Murder '2003 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | - | 82 | 8.1 | Bong Joon Ho |
| 13 | In Bruges '2008 | Comedy / Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 84% | 67 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 14 | Hot Fuzz '2007 | Crime / Action / Comedy | 7.8 | 91% | 81 | 7.6 | Edgar Wright |
| 15 | Training Day '2001 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 74% | 71 | 7.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 16 | American Gangster '2007 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 81% | 76 | 7.6 | Ridley Scott |
| 17 | Zodiac '2007 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 90% | 79 | 7.5 | David Fincher |
| 18 | Ocean's Eleven '2001 | Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 83% | 74 | 7.5 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 19 | American Psycho '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 69% | 64 | 7.4 | Mary Harron |
| 20 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? '2000 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | 78% | 69 | 7.3 | Joel Coen |
| 21 | Saw '2004 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 50% | 46 | 7.4 | James Wan |
| 22 | Infernal Affairs '2002 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.0 | 94% | 75 | 7.8 | Alan Mak Siu-fai |
| 23 | Dogville '2003 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 70% | 61 | 7.7 | Lars von Trier |
| 24 | Lucky Number Slevin '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.7 | - | 53 | 7.5 | Paul McGuigan |
| 25 | Gangs of New York '2002 | Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 72% | 72 | 7.3 | Martin Scorsese |
| 26 | Inside Man '2006 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 86% | 76 | 7.4 | Spike Lee |
| 27 | Road to Perdition '2002 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 82% | 72 | 7.4 | Sam Mendes |
| 28 | Sherlock Holmes '2009 | Action / Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 69% | 57 | 7.2 | Guy Ritchie |
| 29 | Dancer in the Dark '2000 | Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 69% | 63 | 7.8 | Lars von Trier |
| 30 | Collateral '2004 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 71 | 7.2 | Michael Mann |
| 31 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2009 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 85% | 76 | 7.5 | Niels Arden Oplev |
| 32 | Gone Baby Gone '2007 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 94% | 72 | 7.3 | Ben Affleck |
| 33 | Adaptation. '2002 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 83 | 7.3 | Spike Jonze |
| 34 | Eastern Promises '2007 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.6 | 89% | 83 | 7.3 | David Cronenberg |
| 35 | Changeling '2008 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.7 | 61% | 63 | 7.6 | Clint Eastwood |
| 36 | Lord of War '2005 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 62% | 62 | 7.4 | Andrew Niccol |
| 37 | Elite Squad '2007 | Drama / Action / Crime | 8.0 | 53% | 33 | 8.1 | José Padilha |
| 38 | 25th Hour '2002 | Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 80% | 69 | 7.3 | Spike Lee |
| 39 | 21 Grams '2003 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 80% | 70 | 7.3 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 40 | Traffic '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 93% | 86 | 7.1 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 41 | Blow '2001 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 56% | 52 | 7.4 | Ted Demme |
| 42 | Kung Fu Hustle '2004 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy | 7.7 | 90% | 78 | 7.5 | Stephen Chow |
| 43 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer '2006 | Crime / Fantasy / Drama | 7.5 | 59% | 56 | 7.4 | Tom Tykwer |
| 44 | Law Abiding Citizen '2009 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 26% | 34 | 7.4 | F. Gary Gray |
| 45 | The Man Who Wasn't There '2001 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 81% | 73 | 7.5 | Joel Coen |
| 46 | Frequency '2000 | Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 70% | 67 | 7.3 | Gregory Hoblit |
| 47 | Insomnia '2002 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 92% | 78 | 7.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 48 | Red Dragon '2002 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.2 | 68% | 60 | 7.1 | Brett Ratner |
| 49 | Irreversible '2002 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 60% | 51 | 7.2 | Gaspar Noé |
| 50 | A History of Violence '2005 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 88% | 82 | 7.2 | David Cronenberg |
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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Directors on this list
Christopher Nolan Martin Scorsese Quentin Tarantino Joel Coen Guy Ritchie Steven Spielberg Robert Rodriguez Clint Eastwood Bong Joon Ho Martin McDonagh Edgar Wright Antoine Fuqua
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