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1. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,256,888 | Gross: $46.84M
2. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,066 | Gross: $32.00M
3. No Time to Die (2021)
PG-13 | 163 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux
Votes: 444,570 | Gross: $160.87M
4. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope's parents and Scott's daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way to escape, but what secrets is Hope's mother hiding? And who is the mysterious Kang?
Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 227,978 | Gross: $214.50M
5. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,788 | Gross: $2.24M
6. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,235
7. Kill the Irishman (2011)
R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer
Votes: 51,331 | Gross: $1.19M
8. Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured.
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, Jin Zhang
Votes: 16,971
9. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,114 | Gross: $0.48M
10. 16 Blocks (2006)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bruce Willis, Yasiin Bey, David Morse, Jenna Stern
Votes: 134,763 | Gross: $36.90M
11. Victim (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 7,196
12. The Oath (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Votes: 2,452
13. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 19,002 | Gross: $0.24M
14. Weird Woman (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Horror, Mystery
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,153
15. Black Legion (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Votes: 3,919
16. The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Inspector Palmu investigates the death of an old astronomer, whose body is found on Helsinki's Observatory Hill, but the investigation is complicated by the media's spreading of false information concerning the case.
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Helge Herala
Votes: 1,294
17. The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Society-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta
Votes: 284
18. Insiders (1989)
107 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
The newspaper's summer editor is invited to a yuppie party, and the information he gathers there turns out to be very dangerous.
Director: Lauri Törhönen | Stars: Mikko Reitala, Ilkka Heiskanen, Niina Nurminen, Katja Kiuru
Votes: 224
19. Star Reporter (1939)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
John Randolph (Warren Hull), an idealistic young newspaper owner who uses his paper as an instrument for the public good, uses a campaign against crime to successfully run grafting ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement
Votes: 124
20. Fantômas: The False Magistrate (1914)
Not Rated | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Mesnery
Votes: 1,199
21. Forgotten Girls (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman is sentenced to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Her stepmother's gangster friends break her out, but it turns out that her problems are only beginning.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Louise Platt, Donald Woods, Wynne Gibson, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 43
22. The Man in Blue (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police officer who kills a thief during the commission of a robbery takes on the responsibility of raising the man's son.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Edward Ellis, Nan Grey, Richard Carle
Votes: 18
23. Ristikon varjossa (1945)
91 min | Drama
Set in Helsinki, the story follows Lauri Haapa and Anna Kauhto as they are released from prison.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Edvin Laine, Mervi Järventaus, Yrjö Tuominen, Aku Korhonen
Votes: 51
24. All American Sweetheart (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Cap Collender (Arthur Loft), a showboat gambling racketeer, ensnares a collegiate rowing team's coxswain, "Squirt" Adams (Jimmy Eagles), into the sports-gambling racket. "Squirt" is also ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Patricia Farr, Scott Kolk, Gene Morgan, James Eagles
25. Nevada Cyclone (1934)
Passed | 35 min | Short, Drama, Western
Lafe is after Hammond's cattle. Dick, who works for Hammond, owes Lafe money and Lafe forces him to reveal the details of Hammond's next cattle drive. When Ben becomes suspicious, Bud goes ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Fred Humes, Ben Corbett, Frances Morris, Lafe McKee
26. Meet the Bride (1954)
77 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Sakari Jurkka | Stars: Heidi Krohn, Matti Oravisto, Eija Karipää, Mia Backman
Votes: 41
27.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Road Rage: Part One
(1998)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest.
Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: George Baker, Louie Ramsay, Christopher Ravenscroft, Isobel Middleton
Votes: 111
28.
Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood (2000–2005)
Episode:
Ilolintu
(2002)
Crime, Drama
Director: Minna Virtanen | Stars: Ville Virtanen, Antti Reini, Leena Uotila, Jukka Kärkkäinen
Votes: 10
29.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Stone Pillow
(1972)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When the game is blackmail one must protect the trump card, especially when the victim is a mobster. But when the IMF wants a piece of the action just be glad they want the mobster more.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Lynda Day George, Peter Lupus
Votes: 126
30.
Perry Mason (2020–2023)
Episode:
Chapter Four
(2020)
TV-MA | 61 min | Crime, Drama, History
Mason (Matthew Rhys) and Strickland (Shea Whigham) lean on Virgil (Jefferson Mays), again, for extra-legal assistance. Following Sister Alice's (Tatiana Maslany) recovery from a frightening... See full summary »
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Stars: Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, Shea Whigham
Votes: 1,279
31.
Ragdoll (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2021)
44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Ragdoll killer proving unstoppable, the team hunts down the second victim on the list; when hazy memories from the past surface, Rose starts his own investigation into the case and his dubious interview causes concern for Edmunds.
Director: Toby MacDonald | Stars: Thalissa Teixeira, Lucy Hale, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Michael Smiley
Votes: 144
32.
Helsinki Crimes (2022– )
Episode:
Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät 2/2
(2022)
40 min | Crime, Drama
The millionaire feels the pressure from the hackers and slowly loses his mind. A blackmail message arrives from the mischief-makers, and the victim decides to take the law into his own hands.
Director: Matti Kinnunen | Stars: Olli Rahkonen, Olga Temonen, Kai Vaine, Anna Viktoria Eriksson
Votes: 25
33.
One Lane Bridge (2020– )
Episode:
Buckle Up
(2022)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Things get bumpy for Ariki and Tilly as locals throw their weight and privilege around.
Stars: Dominic Ona-Ariki, Phoebe McKellar, Nicola Kawana, Joel Tobeck
Votes: 25
34.
One Lane Bridge (2020– )
Episode:
Lost and Found
(2022)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Ariki closes in on all the answers, but did he turn his back on One Lane Bridge too soon?
Stars: Dominic Ona-Ariki, Phoebe McKellar, Nicola Kawana, Jonno Roberts
Votes: 32