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1. The Sopranos (1999–2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
Stars: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli
Votes: 471,668
2. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 18,277
3. The Sting (1973)
PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning
Votes: 279,978 | Gross: $159.60M
4. The Deuce (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 1,583 min | Drama
A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s, when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.
Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Margarita Levieva
Votes: 31,949
5. The Grifters (1990)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Votes: 30,557 | Gross: $13.45M
6. The Killers (1946)
Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker
Votes: 23,638
7. The Exterminating Angels (2006)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy
A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Frédéric van den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil, Lise Bellynck, Marie Allan
Votes: 3,415 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Get Gotti (2023)
50 min | Documentary, Crime
Told from both sides of the law this documentary series from the makers of "Fear City" follows the FBI's battle to bring down infamous mob boss John Gotti.
Stars: Anthony Ruggiano Jr., George Gabriel, Eric Shawn, Barbara Nevins Taylor
Votes: 2,857
9. Break Point (2023–2024)
TV-MA | 50 min | Documentary, Sport
Follows men's and women's pro tennis players throughout four Grand Slam tournaments.
Stars: Courtney Nguyen, Nick Kyrgios, Ajla Tomljanovic, Maria Sharapova
Votes: 4,290
10. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 4,873
11. Racket Boys (2021– )
TV-14 | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A city kid is brought to the countryside by his father's new coaching gig; reviving a ragtag middle school badminton team on the brink of extinction.
Stars: Kim Sang-kyung, Oh Na-ra, Tang Joon-sang, Son Sang-yeon
Votes: 28,059
12. The Young Savages (1961)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan
Votes: 2,938
13. Fear in the Night (1972)
PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, and finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.
Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing
Votes: 2,393
14. What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 2,398
15. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
Director: Brian Knappenberger | Stars: Aaron Swartz, Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman
Votes: 18,040 | Gross: $0.05M
16. The Mob (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line?
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley, Otto Hulett
Votes: 2,631
17. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Documentary, Biography, Crime
Told by those who brought them to justice, this takes you through the rise and fall of some of the mafia's most notorious outlaws.
Stars: Colin Tierney, Selwyn Raab, Thomas Reppetto, Joseph Coffey
Votes: 181
18. 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
Passed | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley
Votes: 2,047
19. Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G. Young, Robert Clarke
Votes: 671
20. Johnny Staccato (1959–1960)
24 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective.
Stars: John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dennis Sallas, Frank London
Votes: 274
21. Smart Money (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde
Votes: 2,238
22. City Streets (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 1,872
23. The Long Firm (2004)
220 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of characters who live, love, and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.
Stars: Mark Strong, George Costigan, Neil Conrich, Geoff Bell
Votes: 733
24. Gold (I) (2024)
Biography, Drama, Sport | Post-production
Cheah Liek Hou's life from being an ordinary badminton player to a paralympic player after suffering from brachial nerve numbness.
Director: Adrian Teh | Stars: Jack Tan, Farid Kamil, Yasmin Hani, Wan Raja
25. Bartkowiak (2021)
TV-MA | 91 min | Action, Crime, Sport
After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub and soon learns his sibling's death wasn't an accident.
Director: Daniel Markowicz | Stars: Józef Pawlowski, Zofia Domalik, Szymon Bobrowski, Bartlomiej Topa
Votes: 1,436
26. Lady Killer (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 1,885
27. Pickpockets (2018)
TV-MA | 108 min | Crime, Drama
Aspiring teen thieves learn what it takes to be successful pickpockets on the streets of Bogota from a master in the art of trickery and deception.
Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Emiliano Pernía, Carlos Bardem, Dubán Andrés Prado, Natalia Reyes
Votes: 1,314
28. The Fake (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton
Votes: 493
29. The Netflix Slam (2024)
TV-MA | 150 min | Documentary, Game-Show, Reality-TV
Two tennis greats square off in a one-of-a-kind exhibition match when 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal takes on fellow countryman and No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz in the featured match. From Las Vegas.
Stars: Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick
Votes: 94
30. Chicago Confidential (1957)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its whistle blower treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 554
31. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in love with a smuggled woman.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready
Votes: 917
32. Twilight Women (1952)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Vivanne is thrown on her own when her lover is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house run by a woman who provides room-and-board for unmarried mothers with an ulterior motive.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Freda Jackson, Rene Ray, Lois Maxwell, Laurence Harvey
Votes: 213
33. Contract on Cherry Street (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When his partner is killed, NYC detective Frank Hovannes and his organized-crime squad go against the mob, despite strong objections from his superiors and the legal-departmental restrictions that hinder him.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Jay Black, Verna Bloom
Votes: 319
34. Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 2,035
35. Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969)
168 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Old friends Munish and Jai become enemies when they end up loving the same girl. But Munish decides to save Jai when he gets caught in a case involving a faulty railway bridge.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Dharmendra, Saira Banu, Feroz Khan, Mumtaz Askari
Votes: 193
36. Canada Russia '72 (2006)
2 min | Drama, History, Sport
CANADA RUSSIA '72 is shot in a fluid documentary style that effectively captures all the immediacy of the '72 hockey summit's intrigues.
Stars: Mark A. Owen, Sonia Laplante, David Berni, Gabriel Hogan
Votes: 348
37. The Dancing Masters (1943)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
Two bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey
Votes: 1,114
38. Hoodlum Empire (1952)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After WW2, ex-mobster war hero Joe Gray goes straight, to the dismay of his New York mob boss uncle who's afraid that his nephew will testify against his outfit before a Grand Jury.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston
Votes: 359
39. The Gangster (1947)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Shubunka (Barry Sulivan) is a cynical gangster who controls the Neptune Beach waterfront. He runs a numbers racket with the local soda shop owner. The police are in his pocket and the local hoods are on his payroll.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 1,071
40. Susi Susanti: Love All (2019)
TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Susi Susanti rises through the rank to become Indonesia's most beloved athlete. In time of economic turmoil, Susi seizes the opportunity to show her country and the world that heroism is measured by the depth of one's sacrifice.
Director: Sim F. | Stars: Laura Basuki, Dion Wiyoko, Jenny Chang, Lukman Sardi
Votes: 354
41. Citizen Ashe (2021)
94 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Explores the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and his impact on tennis and HIV activism.
Directors: Rex Miller, Sam Pollard | Stars: Johnnie Ashe, Beth Barnes, Loretta Burnette, John Carlos
Votes: 371
42. Le bar du téléphone (1980)
93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Toni Veronese, small strike, attacks the interests of the Perez brothers, mobsters wanted throughout the country.
Director: Claude Barrois | Stars: Daniel Duval, François Périer, Raymond Pellegrin, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 155
43. Race Street (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In San Francisco, when a bookie is murdered by a protection racket syndicate, his bookie friend Dan Gannin and police lieutenant Barney Runson investigate.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen
Votes: 706
44. That Brennan Girl (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A mother encourages Ziggy, her teen daughter, to grow up quickly, and her boyfriend recruits Ziggy into his racket. Living fast and loose, Ziggy is soon a single mother herself.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez
Votes: 359
45. The Wise Guy (1926)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance
Guy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Kirkwood, Mary Astor, Betty Compson, George F. Marion
Votes: 23
46. Final Round (1994 Video)
R | 75 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After a recruiter sees him winning a bar fight, Tyler Verdiccio is kidnapped and thrown into an abandoned industrial complex which has been converted into the arena. Along with his lover, ... See full summary »
Director: George Erschbamer | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, Anthony De Longis, Clark Johnson
Votes: 302
47. Quick Millions (1931)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns
Votes: 405
48. Slaves in Bondage (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley
Votes: 242
49. Harmony Lessons (2013)
120 min | Drama
Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova
Votes: 1,016
50. The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young man who insists that he is innocent is slated to be the first executed in the prison's electric chair.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Sally Parr, Patrick Waltz, Walter Reed, Lee Frederick
Votes: 277