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Top Crime Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
2 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
3 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
4 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
5 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
6 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
7 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
8 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
9 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
10 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
11 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
12 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
13 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
14 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
15 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
16 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
17 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
18 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
19 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
20 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
21 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
22 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
23 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
24 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
25 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
26 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
27 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
28 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
29 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
30 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
31 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
32 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
33 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
34 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
35 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
36 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
37 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
38 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
39 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
40 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
41 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
42 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
43 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
44 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
45 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
46 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
47 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
48 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 303
49 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 312
50 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
51 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
52 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
53 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
54 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
55 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 331
56 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
57 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 350
58 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 352
59 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
60 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 367
61 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
62 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 378
63 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 379
64 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
65 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
66 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 408
67 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 414
68 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 418
69 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
70 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 434
71 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
72 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 441
73 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 446
74 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 447
75 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 468
76 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 469
77 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
78 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
79 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 484
80 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 489
81 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 492
82 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 493
83 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 494
84 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 500
85 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 520
86 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
87 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 525
88 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 535
89 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 550
90 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
91 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
92 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
93 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 559
94 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
95 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 569
96 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 574
97 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse 583
98 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 589
99 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 595
100 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 596
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