Cinema
Crime films
Every film in the archive tagged Crime.
No Country for Old Men
A welder takes money from a drug deal gone wrong and is followed by something implacable.
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Pulp Fiction
Hitmen, a boxer and a gangster's wife cross paths in a story told deliberately out of order.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A banker convicted of murder spends decades quietly outlasting the prison that holds him.
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Goodfellas
Thirty years inside the New York mob, narrated by a man who always wanted to be a gangster.
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Taxi Driver
An insomniac Vietnam veteran drives nights in New York and decides someone should act.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A mother rents three billboards to shame the police over her daughter's unsolved murder.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
A stockbroker builds a fortune on fraud and narrates his own excess without apology.
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Drive
A stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway man breaks his own rule for a neighbour.
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In Bruges
Two hitmen are sent to wait in a Belgian tourist town after a job goes wrong.
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Zodiac
A cartoonist, a reporter and a detective are consumed by a case that never closes.
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The Green Mile
Death row guards in the 1930s meet a giant of a prisoner with an inexplicable gift.
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American History X
A neo-Nazi leaves prison determined to pull his younger brother back before it is too late.
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Trainspotting
A group of Edinburgh heroin users try, in various bad-faith ways, to choose life.
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Casino
A mob-run Las Vegas casino is lost to greed, a marriage and an old friend.
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Se7en
Two detectives track a killer staging murders around the seven deadly sins.
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The Usual Suspects
A conman explains a massacre to a customs agent, and the explanation is the trick.
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Léon: The Professional
A silent hitman takes in the orphaned girl next door, and neither of them knows how to stop.
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A Clockwork Orange
A violent young man is conditioned by the state into being incapable of choosing wrong.
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The Nice Guys
A bruiser and an incompetent private eye investigate a missing girl in 1970s Los Angeles.
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The Hateful Eight
Eight strangers wait out a Wyoming blizzard in one room, and at least one of them is lying.
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The Place Beyond the Pines
A stunt rider robs banks for his son, and the consequences reach the next generation.
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I Saw the Devil
An agent hunts his fiancée's killer and keeps letting him go so it can continue.
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The Chaser
A former detective turned pimp realises his missing women share one client.
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American Gangster
A Harlem heroin importer builds an empire while an outcast detective assembles a case.
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Eastern Promises
A London midwife's discovery pulls her into a Russian crime family and its driver.
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Lord of War
An arms dealer narrates his rise through every war that needed him.
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Mystic River
Three childhood friends are reunited by a murder and by what happened to one of them.
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Insomnia
A detective in the Alaskan midnight sun cannot sleep, and cannot undo his own mistake.
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Training Day
A rookie narcotics officer spends one day with a detective who makes his own law.
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Snatch
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and several incompetent criminals collide.
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Two terminally ill strangers steal a car and drive for the sea neither has ever seen.
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Sleepers
Four boys abused in a juvenile facility engineer their revenge as adults, through the courts.
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T2 Trainspotting
Twenty years on, the same men meet again with nothing resolved and less time left.
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Solace
A psychic doctor helps the FBI track a killer whose gift matches his own.
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Filth
A corrupt Edinburgh detective schemes his way toward a promotion while coming apart entirely.
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The Frozen Ground
An Alaska state trooper works with a teenage survivor to convict a serial killer.
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Trance
An auctioneer with amnesia is hypnotised to recover a painting he helped steal.
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Seven Psychopaths
A blocked screenwriter is dragged into his friend's dog-kidnapping business.
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Burn After Reading
Two gym employees find a disc they cannot read and try to sell it to the Russians.
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Green Street
An expelled Harvard student falls in with a West Ham football firm and learns its rules.
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Taking Lives
An FBI profiler hunts a killer who assumes the identities of the men he murders.
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The Pledge
A retiring detective promises a mother he will find her daughter's killer, and cannot stop.
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Rounders
A law student who swore off poker is pulled back to the table by a friend's debt.
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The Devil's Own
An IRA gunman hides in the home of a New York cop who does not know who he is.
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