Top 10 Favorite Crime Movies of All Time

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Crime - some of you will probably take issue with my list, that's fine lol... NOTE: I have never seen any of the Godfathers.

10. Heat
9. L.A. Confidential
8. The Wolf of Wallstreet
7. Pulp Fiction
6. Training Day
5. Goodfellas
4. Seven
3. Catch Me If You Can
2. The Town
1. The Departed

15 years ago (aside from the obvious in that some of these movies weren't out) this list would look quite different. Goodfellas was one of my favorites for the longest time, but idk... became a little stale on like my 47th viewing... still good though lol. Same with Scarface

Honorable Mentions: Inside Man, Collateral, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface

 

[DonMan]

lots to choose from, here are some of my favorites that aren't listed above -

Best Picture - No Country for Old Men, The French Connection

Older - Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

more recent - Double Jeopardy (1999), Jackie Brown (1997), LA Confidential (1997)

Crime movies that include Comedy - Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Sting (1973) (also Best Picture), A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

 

[PatsFan2003]

Crime - some of you will probably take issue with my list, that's fine lol... NOTE: I have never seen any of the Godfathers.

10. Heat
9. L.A. Confidential
8. The Wolf of Wallstreet
7. Pulp Fiction
6. Training Day
5. Goodfellas
4. Seven
3. Catch Me If You Can
2. The Town
1. The Departed

15 years ago (aside from the obvious in that some of these movies weren't out) this list would look quite different. Goodfellas was one of my favorites for the longest time, but idk... became a little stale on like my 47th viewing... still good though lol. Same with Scarface

Honorable Mentions: Inside Man, Collateral, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface

That's why your list needs the Godfather I and II

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Crime - some of you will probably take issue with my list, that's fine lol... NOTE: I have never seen any of the Godfathers.

10. Heat
9. L.A. Confidential
8. The Wolf of Wallstreet
7. Pulp Fiction
6. Training Day
5. Goodfellas
4. Seven
3. Catch Me If You Can
2. The Town
1. The Departed

I can live with that list aside from no Godfathers.

LA Confidential should be higher though.

 

[returnofjakedog]

No mention of "The Usual Suspects" yet??

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

No mention of "The Usual Suspects" yet??

It's ok. I appreciated the twist and think it is a good movie, but just didn't resonate with me too much.

 

[ill]

Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels need to be on these lists.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels need to be on these lists.

Honorable mention

 

[ill]

Honorable mention

I mean, if you want to make a mob movie vs crime movie kind of thing...

I also liked The Thomas Crown Affair

and I guess Swordfish was pretty good

and Clue

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

I mean, if you want to make a mob movie vs crime movie kind of thing...

I also liked The Thomas Crown Affair

and I guess Swordfish was pretty good

and Clue

I thought about separating those, but in the end, I felt they were still too similar. Plus The Departed would still be #1 for me lol. Though Goodfellas would be higher.

Clue is an interesting choice, I didn't even think about that. I wouldn't have it on my list as I think all of the aforementioned movies are better, but I do like Clue. Good choice.

 

[ill]

I thought about separating those, but in the end, I felt they were still too similar. Plus The Departed would still be #1 for me lol. Though Goodfellas would be higher.

Clue is an interesting choice, I didn't even think about that. I wouldn't have it on my list as I think all of the aforementioned movies are better, but I do like Clue. Good choice.

I mean, Goodfellas is a crime movie, but I feel like Godfather isn't really a crime thing, just a mafia thing.

I mean, Oceans 11 is a crime movie because there is a heist in there.

Godfather is a lot of family drama, but not a heist.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

I mean, Goodfellas is a crime movie, but I feel like Godfather isn't really a crime thing, just a mafia thing.

I mean, Oceans 11 is a crime movie because there is a heist in there.

Godfather is a lot of family drama, but not a heist.

Well I have never seen the Godfathers so I can't comment on those, but Goodfellas is a straight up mafia movie.

But I wouldn't call any of the Ocean's movies a mob movie.

 

[ill]

Well I have never seen the Godfathers so I can't comment on those, but Goodfellas is a straight up mafia movie.

it has elements of both though.

I mean it has a mafia theme, but the plot has a big heist in it...but there is the coke and Henry being a gangster and everything...

it is more than just a heist movie.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

it has elements of both though.

I mean it has a mafia theme, but the plot has a big heist in it...but there is the coke and Henry being a gangster and everything...

it is more than just a heist movie.

Are you calling Goodfellas a heist movie?

 

[ill]

Are you calling Goodfellas a heist movie?

I mean, the movie is a true story about the biggest heist at the time...but it became a more minor part of the movie with the surrounding mafia theme taking over.

I think I'd put it in the heist category.

 

[ill]

Rotten Tomatoes does not categorize it as one though

78 Best Heist Movies of All Time

We put together a list of the 78 best-reviewed heist movies of all time for you to look over. Just don't get caught!

editorial.rottentomatoes.com

 

[Wamu]

In no order.

-Training Day
-Heat
-Usual Suspects
-Pulp Ficton
-Goodfellas
-The Departed
-French Connection
-Chinatown
-The Godfather I & II

 

[R.J. MacReady]

I mean, Goodfellas is a crime movie, but I feel like Godfather isn't really a crime thing, just a mafia thing.

I mean, Oceans 11 is a crime movie because there is a heist in there.

Godfather is a lot of family drama, but not a heist.

You could do nuts trying define the criteria.

 

[ill]

You could do nuts trying define the criteria.

really could...

but "crime movie" is a much broader genre

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

I mean, the movie is a true story about the biggest heist at the time...but it became a more minor part of the movie with the surrounding mafia theme taking over.

I think I'd put it in the heist category.

Rotten Tomatoes does not categorize it as one though

78 Best Heist Movies of All Time

We put together a list of the 78 best-reviewed heist movies of all time for you to look over. Just don't get caught!

editorial.rottentomatoes.com

Yeah to me it is a mafia movie, Just happens to have a heist in it. The focal of the story is around the lead and the mafia, not so much the act of the heist.