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1. Molly's Game (2017)

R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera

Votes: 187,368 | Gross: $28.78M

2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham

Votes: 615,758 | Gross: $3.90M

3. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster

Votes: 419,045 | Gross: $144.53M

4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones

Votes: 554,389 | Gross: $54.51M

5. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.

Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced, Jeffrey Donovan

Votes: 166,695 | Gross: $50.07M

6. Predestination (I) (2014)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.

Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West

Votes: 304,383 | Gross: $0.07M

7. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Sport

Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel

Votes: 721,158 | Gross: $100.49M

8. Young & Beautiful (2013)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat

Votes: 38,238 | Gross: $0.05M

9. Don't Breathe (2016)

R | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.

Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto

Votes: 300,152 | Gross: $89.22M

10. The A-Team (2010)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel

Votes: 268,838 | Gross: $77.22M

11. 21 (2008)

PG-13 | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Inspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Director: Robert Luketic | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Aaron Yoo

Votes: 266,300 | Gross: $81.16M

12. Halloween (I) (2018)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 168,949 | Gross: $159.34M

13. Captive State (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, 'Captive State' explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.

Director: Rupert Wyatt | Stars: John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 57,848 | Gross: $5.96M

14. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit

Votes: 188,620 | Gross: $147.25M

15. The Commuter (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

An insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks

Votes: 125,285 | Gross: $36.34M

16. The Way of the Dragon (1972)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.

Director: Bruce Lee | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Ping-Ou Wei

Votes: 40,987 | Gross: $4.06M

17. Boy (I) (2010)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore

Votes: 29,473 | Gross: $0.26M

18. The Stepfather (2009)

PG-13 | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller

Michael Harding (Penn Badgely) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there to help.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard

Votes: 38,657 | Gross: $29.06M

19. Delhi Belly (2011)

Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Three struggling room-mates unknowingly become potential prey of a ruthless gangster.

Directors: Abhinay Deo, Akshat Verma | Stars: Imran Khan, Vir Das, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Shenaz Treasury

Votes: 32,225 | Gross: $1.53M

20. Fireworks (1997)

103 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima

Votes: 33,135 | Gross: $0.23M

21. The Dilemma (2011)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

A man discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly

Votes: 56,840 | Gross: $48.48M

22. Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A group of over-achieving East Asian American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extracurricular criminal activities.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Shirley Anderson

Votes: 10,441 | Gross: $3.80M

23. Easy Money (2010)

R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni

Votes: 19,702 | Gross: $0.19M

24. Vigilante (1982)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.

Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda

Votes: 4,530

25. Max Dugan Returns (1983)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

An English teacher and struggling single mother's life is disrupted when her long-lost father, who abandoned her as a child, returns with some shady money in the hope of spending some time with her and the grandson he's never met.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Jason Robards, Marsha Mason, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick

Votes: 3,965 | Gross: $17.61M

26. Martial Law II: Undercover (1991 Video)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A martial arts expert cop teams up with another to take down a criminal organization after one of his fellow detectives suspiciously dies in a car accident.

Director: Kurt Anderson | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Jeff Wincott, Billy Drago, Paul Johansson

Votes: 1,163

27. Boiling Point (1990)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Taka Guadalcanal

Votes: 7,488 | Gross: $0.00M

28. Blind Woman's Curse (1970)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Crime, Horror

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô, Hideo Sunazuka

Votes: 1,634

29. Touch of Death (1988 Video)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, Al Cliver, Sacha Darwin

Votes: 1,781

30. 'R Xmas (2001)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Lisa Valens, Ice-T

Votes: 1,630 | Gross: $0.00M

31. The Saint's Girl Friday (1953)

73 min | Crime, Mystery

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor

Votes: 246

32. Lost in Beijing (2007)

112 min | Drama

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

Director: Yu Li | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Dawei Tong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Elaine Jin

Votes: 2,393 | Gross: $0.01M

33. Grand Central Murder (1942)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Classic whodunit mystery film about a gold-digging variety show actress who has many enemies and is found dead in her private railroad car at Grand Central Station in New York.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey

Votes: 1,067

34. The Baron and the Kid (1984 TV Movie)

94 min | Drama, Sport

William "The Baron" Addington is a former pool pro whose lifetime of boozing has cost him his career and family. Determined to straighten out his life, he gave up drinking and now plays ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Johnny Cash, Darren McGavin, Greg Webb, Tracy Pollan

Votes: 193

35. Hammerhead (1987)

90 min | Action

A detective's hunt for the man who murdered his friend takes him to the Caribbean, where he finds himself enmeshed in a web of corruption and murder.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Daniel Greene, Melonee Rodgers, Jorge Gil, Donna Rosea

Votes: 135

36. The Hit Producer (2015)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer in search of an investor, reluctantly follows the promise of money into Dublin's drug underworld where she witnesses a botched murder attempt... See full summary »

Director: Kevin de la Isla O'Neill | Stars: Michelle Doherty, Neill Fleming, Fergus Kealy, Susan Barrett

Votes: 55

37. Young Mr. Jazz (1919)

10 min | Comedy, Short

While running away from his girl's father, their car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Sammy Brooks

Votes: 663

38. Kings for a Day (2017)

84 min | Drama

A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.

Director: Xabi Molia | Stars: Kad Merad, Kacey Mottet Klein, Sylvie Testud, Lucie Bourdeu

Votes: 192

39. Love, Guns & Christmas (2015)

83 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Love, Guns & Christmas is a dark comedy about two men in the witness protection program. After a few years in hiding, they sneak back into town for Christmas to see their friends while ... See full summary »

Director: Earl Nanhu | Stars: Yvonne Maverick, Karl Campbell, Brian Skelhorn, Mary Bodnar

Votes: 18

40. The Debt of Maximillian (2019)

83 min | Drama, Thriller

Max is a family man who's addiction begins to pull him under. His younger brother may be his only hope, but luck plays a wicked game.

Director: Saxon Moen | Stars: Travis Lee Eller, Mark Valeriano, Angelica Briones, Kate Prendergast

41. Niotkuda s lyubovyu, ili Vesyolye pokhorony (2006)

Drama, Romance

Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Fokin | Stars: Aleksandr Abdulov, Anna Aleksakhina, Elena Rufanova, Polina Fokina

Votes: 52

42. Convenience (II) (2017)

Comedy, Crime

A young war vet and his gambling-addicted roommate find themselves on a local gangster's bad side when they go looking for a quick score.

Director: David James | Stars: Gregory Patrick Agnew, Kevin Borngrebe, Michael Compton, David Eves

43. The Panic Is On (1931)

Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his ... See full summary »

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Charley Chase, Virginia Whiting, Chester A. Bachman, Harry Bernard

Votes: 65

44. Run 'Em Ragged (1920)

14 min | Comedy, Short

Two tramps wrest a pistol from a hold up man, then try to pull a stick up of their own, unfortunately for them, a cop appears and takes the money back and then chases them through a park ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Ernest Morrison, William Gillespie

Votes: 25

45. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: The 100th (2002)

TV-PG | Comedy

Becker tries to discourage a friend from expressing interest in Chris by telling him that she is gay. Unfortunately, the friend sets up Chris with a lesbian acquaintance. Bob buys a pair of... See full summary »

Director: Ken Levine | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 90

46. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: The Jogging Clampetts (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

The Drysdales now jog, so the banker can get the account of Jason Detweiler, head of a running club. The Clampetts don't understand the concept, leading to misunderstandings, then Elly and Jethro become enthusiastic.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 72

47. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: Death Squad (1970)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jim and Barney vacation together in a Latin American country. While there, Barney falls in love with artist Alma Ross. But the brother of the local police chief obsesses over Alma and is ... See full summary »

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 179

48. My Hero (1952–1953)
Episode: The Boat (1953)

30 min | Comedy

Beanblossom sells a $17,500 cabin cruiser, and he is flabbergasted when the purchaser pays with a stack of cash.

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Robert Cummings, Julie Bishop, John Litel, Louis Jean Heydt

Votes: 9

49. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Married Moonlighter (1958)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Danny Harrison, a schoolteacher, holds a second job at Luke Hickey's diner to make ends meet. Frank Curran comes to the diner flashing a wad of cash, which is tempting to Danny. When Curran is robbed and killed, Danny is charged.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 344

50. Undeclared (2001–2003)
Episode: Addicts (2001)

TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy

Steven, Lizzie, and Rachel feel guilty after paying for someone to write their term papers, while Lloyd and Ron become addicted to online stock trading.

Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam, Monica Keena

Votes: 231