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Crime movies

Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 158.

A Fever in the Blood (1961)

Crime, Drama

Judge Leland Hoffman and district attorney Dan Callahan take a weekend hunting trip. However, Callahan is summoned back to the city when socialite Paula Thornwall is found murdered in her posh estate. Because of the high-profile nature of the case, Callahan decides to handle the prosecution himself, thus boosting his political ambitions.

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Cool Breeze (1972)

Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, Heist

Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.

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Hard Cash (2002)

Action, Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film

Master thief Thomas Taylor (Slater) is released on parole. Later, he uses his job as a Paramedic to rob an off-track betting office, inadvertently stealing cash that a corrupt FBI agent named 'Cornell' (Kilmer) had planned to steal himself. Cornell retaliates by kidnapping Taylor's daughter and forcing him and his crew to steal a large shipment of cash.

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Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)

Detective, mystery film

The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor James Moriarty. During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their old acquaintance Irene Adler, now a popular music-hall singer, who reveals that Moriarty has kidnapped her young son Scott.

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Cat Run 2 (2014)

Action, Crime

Two assassin sisters Tatiana (Winter Ave Zoli) and Mina (Maria Rogers), disguised as Russian sex workers, arrive in New Orleans working under Cordray (Dan Bilzerian) in a strip club. The pair are hired by U.S. military soldiers for a "sex party" where they infiltrate the base and attempt to steal military secrets by storing it in a USB drive.

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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after the war, helps in the stealing and transporting of black market goods in coffins to crime boss Narcy's (short for Narcissus) headquarters in a funeral parlour. Clem finds the activity harmless enough, until one day he finds drugs in the latest coffin. Clem objects and tells his girlfriend, Ellie, that he will quit after one last job that night, the looting of a warehouse.

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Why Me? (1990)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, Heist

The Byzantine Fire, a sacred ruby on loan from Turkey to the United States for exhibition, no sooner arrives in Los Angeles than it is stolen by Eastern religious extremists and hidden inside the safe of a local jewelry store. When professional burglar and jewel thief Gus Cardinale (Christopher Lambert) breaks into the store and inadvertently steals the Byzantine Fire, he finds himself being chased around Los Angeles by the LAPD, the entire Los Angeles criminal element (whom the police have been mercilessly harassing to find the thief), two less-than-competent CIA agents, Turkish government agents and a not-too-tightly wrapped female…

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Le casse (1971)

Action, Crime, thriller film

In Athens, Azad, Ralph, Renzi, and Helen execute a heist, pilfering a suitcase of emeralds from a wealthy Greek citizen, M. Tasco, during his absence. Breaking into the house, they crack the safe and abscond with the jewels.

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Streets of Blood (2009)

Action, Drama

During the rage of Hurricane Katrina, Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) discovers the body of his former partner in a warehouse. Quickly forgetting about his discovery, he joins a newly transferred detective named Stan Johnson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) trying to end a conflict involving looters. Post-Katrina, Andy and Stan are now partners.

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Trenchcoat (1983)

mystery film

When aspiring mystery writer Mickey Raymond travels to Malta to research her first novel, she finds herself falling in love with Terry, a handsome, mysterious American. She also finds herself falling into a conspiracy of events, apparently fuelled as much by her vivid author's imagination as real-life events. A local police official is seemingly one step behind these events.

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Delia's Gone (2022)

Crime, Drama

The film follows Louis, a young man with an intellectual disability, who is wrongfully convicted of the brutal murder of his older sister, Delia. The primary evidence against him is his own coerced confession, which he doesn't fully understand due to his condition. After spending five years in a psychiatric prison, Louis is released on parole.

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Whole Lotta Sole (2012)

Crime Comedy, independent film

Hoping to pay back some gambling debt he owes to local mobster Mad Dog Flynn, Jim robs the local fishmongers, only to discover that it's actually a front for the mobster's business. Now on the run and pursued by police detective Weller, Jim is cornered in an antique shop where he takes hostage a collection of colourful characters, including American Joe Maguire, the owner who may be his illegitimate father, and his girlfriend Sophie. Caught between the mobster's gang and the police, the unfortunate young Jim must find a way out of this tricky situation with help from his hostages

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Borderline (1950)

Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film

Pete Ritchie runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the U.S. from Mexico that the Los Angeles Police Department and the federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, federal authorities have not determined the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough.

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Dangerous Men (2005)

Action, Adventure, Crime, documentary film, Drama, mystery film

The plot of Dangerous Men is nigh incomprehensible, and changes abruptly towards the middle of the film. Mina (Melody Wiggins) and her fiancé, Daniel (Coti Cook) are walking on a beach when two bikers, named Tiger and Leo, set upon them. They kill the fiancé and attempt to rape Mina.

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The Killer Inside Me (1976)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Beneath his likable exterior, Lou Ford, a deputy in a small Montana town, is a sadistic sociopath with violent sexual tastes. When Lou gets involved with a local prostitute's blackmail schemes, the carefully crafted facade he maintains begins to unravel into a killing spree.

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Cruel Doubt (1992)

Crime

In their bedroom asleep one night, Bonnie and Lieth Von Stein are violently attacked and stabbed by home intruders. Bonnie barely survives, but her husband does not. The investigation into who could do such a thing, and for what purpose, takes an unexpected twist when Bonnie's son Chris Pritchard becomes a prime suspect in the case.

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The Stranger (2010)

Action, Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film

A mysterious stranger (Steve Austin) cannot remember his past or what has brought him to the places he finds himself in. Broken and confused, he will slowly find what happened to his loving family and his promising career. But with the determined FBI Agent Mason Reese (Adam Beach) on his trail, it will not be easy.

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The Boys (1962)

Crime, Forensic, trial film

Four young Teddy boys are on trial for the murder of a garage night watchman in the course of a burglary on the night of 15 January. Much of the storyline revolves around the Three Aces, a pub opposite the Lantern Garage where the murder occurred. Witnesses and the accused give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime during a dispiriting and frustrating evening out in London.

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