Greatest Crime Films

100 Greatest Crime & Gangster Films of All-Time



The 100 Greatest Crime & Gangster Films of All-Time

Crime and Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and violently murdering their way through life. In the 1940s, a new type of crime thriller emerged, more dark and cynical - see the section on film-noir for further examples of crime films. Criminal and gangster films are often categorized as post-war film noir or detective-mystery films - because of underlying similarities between these cinematic forms. Crime films encompass or cross over many levels, and may include at least these different types of films: the gangster film, the detective (or who-dun-it) film, the crime comedy, the suspense-thriller, and the police (procedural) film.

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100 Greatest Crime & Gangster Films of All-Time

Filmsite's 100 Greatest Crime & Gangster Films
(chronological order, unranked)
The linked titles below refer to reviews (with screenshots) in the "Greatest Moments and Scenes" section of the site

Underworld (1927)

Lights of New York (1928)

The Racket (1928)

Little Caesar (1930)

The Public Enemy (1931)

I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

Scarface (1932) (aka Scarface, The Shame of the Nation)

G-Men (1935)

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Dead End (1937)

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

High Sierra (1941)

The Killers (1946)

T-Men (1947)

Force of Evil (1948)

Key Largo (1948)

The Naked City (1948)

Gun Crazy (1949/1950)

White Heat (1949)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Big Heat (1953)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Rififi (1955, Fr.) (aka Du Rififi Chez les Hommes)

The Killing (1956)

Al Capone (1959)

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Ocean's Eleven (1960)

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

(Ernest Hemingway's) The Killers (1964)

Topkapi (1964)

Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

In Cold Blood (1967)

Point Blank (1967)

The Detective (1968)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Dirty Harry (1971)

The French Connection (1971)

Get Carter (1971, UK)

Shaft (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

Badlands (1973)

Mean Streets (1973)

Serpico (1973)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Thieves Like Us (1974)

Atlantic City (1980)

Cruising (1980)

The Long Good Friday (1980, UK)

Prince of the City (1981)

Thief (1981)

Scarface (1983)

Blood Simple (1984)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984, It./US)

The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)

Prizzi's Honor (1985)

The Untouchables (1987)

GoodFellas (1990)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Q & A (1990)

Boyz N The Hood (1991)

Bugsy (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Carlito's Way (1993)

True Romance (1993)

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Leon (1994, Fr.) (aka The Professional)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Casino (1995)

Heat (1995)

Se7en (1995)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Fargo (1996)

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Jackie Brown (1997)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

American History X (1998)

Sexy Beast (2000, UK/Sp.)

Snatch. (2000, UK)

Traffic (2000, Germ./US)

Training Day (2001)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

City of God (2002, Braz./Fr./US) (aka Cidade De Deus)

Gangs of New York (2002)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Monster (2003)

A History of Violence (2005)

The Departed (2006)

American Gangster (2007)

Eastern Promises (2007)

No Country For Old Men (2007)

Public Enemies (2009)

Gangster Squad (2013)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Irishman (2019)


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