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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: 1,261,257 | Gross: $46.84M
2. The Big Lebowski (1998)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 862,324 | Gross: $17.50M
3. Suicide Squad (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.
Director: David Ayer | Stars: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis
Votes: 723,407 | Gross: $325.10M
4. Bookie (2023– )
TV-MA | Comedy
Follows a veteran bookie struggling to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family and co-workers.
Stars: Sebastian Maniscalco, Omar J. Dorsey, Jorge Garcia, Andrea Anders
Votes: 3,966
5. Ava (IV) (2020)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis
Votes: 63,081 | Gross: $0.50M
6. St. Vincent (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell
Votes: 108,671 | Gross: $44.13M
7. Hardball (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A gambling addict and ticket scalper living an aimless life reluctantly agrees to coach a Little League team from the Chicago projects as part of a loan agreement.
Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, Bryan Hearne
Votes: 33,440 | Gross: $40.22M
8. Quiz Lady (2023)
R | 99 min | Comedy
A game-show-obsessed woman and her estranged sister work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts.
Director: Jessica Yu | Stars: Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Will Ferrell, Holland Taylor
Votes: 19,593
9. Dark Places (2015)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 47,847
10. Dirty Work (1998)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy
A loser finds success in the revenge-for-hire business.
Director: Bob Saget | Stars: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard
Votes: 30,251 | Gross: $9.98M
11. Malibu Express (1985)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A womanizing private detective is assigned the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning, Art Metrano, Shelley Taylor Morgan
Votes: 2,757
12. Dreamscape (1984)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but stumbles upon an assassination plot.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert
Votes: 18,204 | Gross: $11.48M
13. Needful Things (1993)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer
Votes: 27,584 | Gross: $15.19M
14. Premium Rush (2012)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Sean Kennedy
Votes: 118,613 | Gross: $20.28M
15. Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
Votes: 4,401
16. Money Train (1995)
R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Blake
Votes: 43,248 | Gross: $35.32M
17. New Police Story (2004)
R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.
Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu
Votes: 29,060
18. The Cooler (2003)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy
Votes: 35,554 | Gross: $8.24M
19. The Air I Breathe (2007)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star falls prey to a crime boss; a doctor must save the love of his life.
Director: Jieho Lee | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Andy Garcia, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 34,965 | Gross: $0.03M
20. California Split (1974)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
When a casual gambler (George Segal as Bill) befriends a professional one (Elliott Gould as Charlie), he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles
Votes: 8,438 | Gross: $10.90M
21. The Glass Key (1942)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville
Votes: 7,416
22. Take (2007)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - who meet in tragedy. Years pass and they must come to terms with themselves and one another.
Director: Charles Oliver | Stars: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, Adam Rodriguez
Votes: 1,711 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Al Capone (1959)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory
Votes: 1,912
24. Vig (1998 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Drama
Frankie Peterson has taken money from the mob. Now they want it back.
Director: Graham Theakston | Stars: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Freddie Prinze Jr.
Votes: 606
25. Quick (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime
Quick is an assassin with a corrupt cop boyfriend. She's hired to bring a mob accountant back to the mob after he's taken $3,000,000 and turned himself in to LAPD as witness. It doesn't go as planned.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Teri Polo, Martin Donovan, Jeff Fahey, Robert Davi
Votes: 474
26. Station West (1948)
Approved | 97 min | Western
After two U.S. cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, U.S. Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Tom Powers
Votes: 1,519
27. L'Ibis rouge (1975)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Forty eight hours in an area around a Parisian canal where a former Tango champion meets a killer.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Michel Simon, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Jean Le Poulain
Votes: 295
28. Black Hair, Velvet Soul (1982)
66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Drunk husband who is addicted to gambling get into trouble with local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he deed his wife Izumi' in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs.
Director: Mamoru Watanabe | Stars: Izumi Shima, Kumiko Hayano, Kazuyo Ezaki, Jun Etô
Votes: 41
29. The Payoff (1935)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe is a reporter who is looking for his big break and he gets it when he takes over George Gorman's sports column. Marty is a hood who would fix any sporting event he could and Joe keeps ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: James Dunn, Claire Dodd, Patricia Ellis, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 162
30. Speed to Burn (1938)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tim Turner raises a horse for a trainer and sees it sold to the police. He later finds that crooks have conspired to keep it from racing.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari, Marvin Stephens, Henry Armetta
Votes: 26
31.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Vote of Confidence
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Miami Vice raids a train of prostitutes and johns and finds one of the candidates for governor on board, with his pants down. When he disappears, Crockett and Tubbs investigate the corrupt world of local politics.
Director: Randy Roberts | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 295
32.
Justified (2010–2015)
Episode:
Fixer
(2010)
TV-MA | 38 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raylan comes to the aid of a bookie informant, who has been kidnapped by one of his collectors and one of his delinquent clients.
Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts
Votes: 2,294
33.
True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode:
The Westies
(2003)
Documentary
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »
Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo
34.
Banshee (2013–2016)
Episode:
Always the Cowboy
(2013)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hood rushes Ana to the hospital after finding her badly beaten and suffering. Rabbit comes to Banshee. An injured and distraught Ana rushes to find her children. However, she is too late to prevent Rabbit from kidnapping Max.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison
Votes: 2,344
35.
The Deuce (2017–2019)
Episode:
Pilot
(2017)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama
Set in and around Times Square, New York, twin brothers Vincent and Frankie Martino navigate the dawn of the modern pornography industry. The series pilot began shooting in October 2015 and the series was picked up in January 2016.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Gary Carr
Votes: 1,887