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1. Narcos (2015–2017)
TV-MA | 50 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Alberto Ammann
Votes: 467,987
2. The Great Debaters (2007)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker
Votes: 62,684 | Gross: $30.23M
3. Road to Perdition (2002)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Votes: 283,808 | Gross: $104.45M
4. Sister Act (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn
Votes: 107,959 | Gross: $139.61M
5. Lilyhammer (2012–2014)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A New York mobster goes into hiding in rural Lillehammer in Norway after testifying against his former associates.
Stars: Steven Van Zandt, Trond Fausa, Steinar Sagen, Marian Saastad Ottesen
Votes: 32,212
6. Next of Kin (1989)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt
Votes: 12,543 | Gross: $15.94M
7. Inherit the Wind (1960)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York
Votes: 32,662
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 12,237 | Gross: $3.27M
9. Prince of the City (1981)
R | 167 min | Crime, Drama
A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett
Votes: 9,477 | Gross: $8.12M
10. I Confess (1953)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
Votes: 23,182
11. Danton (1983)
PG | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
Votes: 7,741
12. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,678
13. Terminal Exposure (1987)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in ... See full summary »
Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Mark Hennessy, Scott King, Hope Marie Carlton, Steve Donmyer
Votes: 1,388
14. Place of Execution (2008)
TV-PG | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young girl mysteriously vanishes from her English village home. 45 years later, a journalist's attempts to make a documentary on the case threaten to shatter the lives of all involved.
Stars: Lee Ingleby, Emma Cunniffe, Juliet Stevenson, Philip Jackson
Votes: 1,717
15. The Garment Jungle (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
Directors: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone
Votes: 1,212
16. Bus 174 (2002)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Crime
On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
Directors: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda | Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Anonymous
Votes: 8,599 | Gross: $0.22M
17. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
60 min | Western
A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.
Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano
Votes: 180
18. Dancing with Crime (1947)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh
Votes: 480
19. Chandler (1971)
GP | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
Director: Paul Magwood | Stars: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 628
20. None Shall Escape (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
The career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf
Votes: 972
21. Driven Underground (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.
Director: George Erschbamer | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Emily Tennant, Lochlyn Munro, Rick Ravanello
Votes: 268
22. Excellent Cadavers (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.
Director: Marco Turco | Stars: Giuseppe Ayala, Letizia Battaglia, Alexander Stille
Votes: 160
23. Sex Hunter: Wet Target (1972)
69 min | Crime, Drama
Pinky violence.
Director: Yukihiro Sawada | Stars: Hiroko Isayama, Miyoko Aoyama, Akira Takahashi, Jôji Sawada
Votes: 57
24. The Witness Protection Program (2020)
77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Created and written by Marc Brissett, this a story of a secret government agency that places people in the Witness Protection Program. Some of them are turning on their former friends and ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Brissett | Stars: Anthony Alexander, Ali Kareem Bandele, Ali Nasir Bandele, Michelle Blake
25. The Witness Files (1999)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Yancy Butler, David Nerman, Barry Flatman, Matthew Harbour
Votes: 531
26. Midnight Court (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Victor Shanley had once been New York City's most-acclaimed crime-fighting, crusading District Attorney and the scourge of the underworld. But the workaholic demands of the job led him to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Ann Dvorak, John Litel, Carlyle Moore Jr., Joseph Crehan
Votes: 127
27. Kefauver Investigation (1951)
Approved | 52 min | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV
The Movietone news department took the televised proceedings of the United States Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearings, also filmed in their entirety by Movietone News cameraman, ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Reek | Stars: Joe King, Joe Adonis, Frank Costello, Vito Genovese
Votes: 12
28. My Brother Jack (2004)
82 min | Thriller, Comedy
Chili Bandler loves big brother Jack and seeks his affection with a childlike zeal. Jack Valento doesn't share his half brother's zest for their relationship. Jack makes his living from ... See full summary »
Director: Sean Corcoran | Stars: John Fiore, Ken Cheeseman, Sarah Rachel Isenberg, Walter Bavineau
Votes: 26
29. Klan (1991)
72 min | Mystery
Two Moscow investigators, investigating the corruption case, become a serious obstacle for the southern mafia. Trying to interfere with the investigators, the criminals go to any lengths - ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Voropaev | Stars: Evgeniy Matveev, Evgeniy Tashkov, Aleksandr Goloborodko, Gennadi Voronin
Votes: 8
30. The Valachi Papers: The Valachi Hearings (1963 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
Stars: Joe Valachi, John L. McClellan
31. Trapped (1937)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Western
Ted Haley rides to his brother's ranch and finds him dying from a knife wound. The brother names Sol Rothert as his killer. Leaving the house, Ted doesn't notice a mysterious man watching ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: Charles Starrett, Peggy Stratford, Robert Middlemass, Allan Sears
32. The Astray (2009)
27 min | Short, Crime, Thriller
When Max Travis is arrested, he must choose between helping detectives nab his mob bosses or show his bosses he's on their side by carrying out an order to kill a female target.
Director: Patrick Lazzara | Stars: Seth Adams, Lina Alvarez, James Arlen, Don Danielson
Votes: 5
33. The Lone Defender (1934)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Feature version of the same-titled 1930 serial, with re-shot and added material.
Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Walter Miller, June Marlowe, Buzz Barton
Votes: 16
34.
La huella del crimen (1985–2010)
Episode:
El crimen de Don Benito
(1991)
Crime, Drama, History
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
Director: Antonio Drove | Stars: Fernando Delgado, Francisco Vidal, Gabino Diego, Germán Cobos
Votes: 37
35.
Timewatch (1982– )
Episode:
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
(1993)
99 min | Documentary, History
A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.
Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal
Votes: 10
36.
Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode:
Haircut for a Mob Boss
(2023)
Crime
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.
Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano
37.
Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
Episode:
Dance with the Devil
(2013)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The decades-old death of a mother and child open a closet door revealing skeletons that threaten to complicate the start of Paddy Doyle's RICO trial.
Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Brian Goodman, Jordan Bridges
Votes: 426
38.
Major Crimes (2012–2018)
Episode:
Backfire
(2013)
Not Rated | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Major Crimes needs help from the Feds when they discover that the victim in a mob-related murder was an FBI informant, a case that hits home especially hard for Rusty.
Director: Sheelin Choksey | Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan
Votes: 298