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1. Narcos (2015–2017)

TV-MA | 50 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years.

Stars: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Alberto Ammann

Votes: 471,755

2. Batman (1989)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl

Votes: 405,043 | Gross: $251.19M

3. Serpico (1973)

R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

Votes: 135,270 | Gross: $29.80M

4. Death to Smoochy (2002)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A kids' show host, Rainbow Randolph, is fired in disgrace while his replacement, Sheldon Mopes, A.K.A. Smoochy the Rhino, finds himself a rising star. Unfortunately for Sheldon, the business of kids' television isn't all child's play.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito

Votes: 42,691 | Gross: $8.36M

5. Dick (1999)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy

After wandering off during a White House tour, two high school girls inadvertently become Richard Nixon's top secret advisers at the height of the Watergate scandal.

Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell

Votes: 21,399 | Gross: $6.24M

6. The Housemaid (2010)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.

Director: Im Sang-soo | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Youn Yuh-jung, Woo Seo

Votes: 12,537 | Gross: $0.15M

7. The Killer Inside Me (2010)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty

Votes: 35,766 | Gross: $0.21M

8. Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A womanizing, crooked cop on the payroll of the mafia is confronted with the reality of his double life after he is asked to kill a beautiful and ruthless Russian gangster.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Wallace Wood, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 15,186 | Gross: $3.28M

9. The House on 92nd Street (1945)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 3,312

10. The Yards (2000)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Ex-con Leo tries to go straight, but his plans are derailed after reuniting with his old crew and a well-connected railway contractor.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan

Votes: 23,131 | Gross: $0.88M

11. Miami Blues (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An ex-con's first act of freedom is moving to Miami where he restarts his old criminal ways with even more potency.

Director: George Armitage | Stars: Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cecilia Pérez-Cervera

Votes: 10,192 | Gross: $9.89M

12. 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: 2,642

13. The Border (1982)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates

Votes: 7,104 | Gross: $6.12M

14. Three Monkeys (2008)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal

Votes: 23,045 | Gross: $0.04M

15. Perrier's Bounty (2009)

R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Don Wycherley

Votes: 7,457 | Gross: $0.00M

16. Too Late for Tears (1949)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Film-Noir

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 5,716

17. Death Walks on High Heels (1971)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

After a French stripper is harassed by a man who wants a cache of diamonds stolen by her late father, she flees to England in the company of a doctor, but danger follows.

Director: Luciano Ercoli | Stars: Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Carlo Gentili

Votes: 2,281

18. Failan (2001)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.

Director: Hae-sung Song | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Cecilia Cheung, Son Byung-ho, Kong Hyeong-jin

Votes: 6,232

19. Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)

92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 888

20. Bernard and Doris (2006)

TV-14 | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke who develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Asher, Don Harvey

Votes: 4,485

21. The Naked Street (1955)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A mobster (Quinn) springs a condemned murderer (Granger) because he got his sister (Bancroft) pregnant.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves

Votes: 1,320

22. Loaded Guns (1975)

PG | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Ursula Andress, Woody Strode, Marc Porel, Isabella Biagini

Votes: 494

23. The Student Body (1976)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Three female inmates are offered early parole if they become test subjects for a college class. The class professor, Dr. Blalock, is secretly testing an experimental drug on the girls on behalf of a pharmaceutical company.

Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Warren Stevens, Jillian Kesner, Janice Heiden, June Fairchild

Votes: 210

24. The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.

Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Marne Maitland

Votes: 1,183

25. Scenes of the Crime (2001)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is killed by a rival crime boss.

Director: Dominique Forma | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Jon Abrahams, R. Lee Ermey, Mädchen Amick

Votes: 2,051

26. Don King: Only in America (1997 TV Movie)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Darius McCrary

Votes: 1,367

27. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)

PG-13 | 79 min | Documentary, Biography

Twelve years after the dramatic collapse of the Christian empire of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, this documentary tells for the first time what really happened when they lost control of the first and most successful TV ministry of its kind.

Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Stars: RuPaul, Tammy Faye Bakker, Virginia Fairchild, Johnny Grover

Votes: 2,224 | Gross: $1.03M

28. Vig (1998 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama

Frankie Peterson has taken money from the mob. Now they want it back.

Director: Graham Theakston | Stars: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Freddie Prinze Jr.

Votes: 605

29. In the Beginning (2009)

130 min | Crime, Drama

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and ... See full summary »

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Gérard Depardieu, Soko

Votes: 2,617

30. The Outcasts (1968–1969)

60 min | Western

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.

Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano

Votes: 182

31. The Clinton Chronicles (1994 Video)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary

A documentary accusing Bill Clinton of crimes in Arkansas.

Director: Patrick Matrisciana | Stars: Jim Johnson, Nora Waye, Larry Nichols, Doc DeLaughter

Votes: 137

32. 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: 1,073

33. Shinjuku Swan II (2017)

133 min | Action, Crime, Drama

On this second movie, Tatsuhiko Shiratori moves to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Yûsuke Arai, Kenta Arima, Kokoro Asami, Tadanobu Asano

Votes: 291

34. McBride: Fallen Idol (2006 TV Movie)

120 min | Mystery

McBride takes the case of a teenager accused of a murder during a botched robbery - a case where the victim was McBride's mentor.

Director: John Larroquette | Stars: John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, Matt Lutz, Madison Mason

Votes: 258

35. No Mercy, No Future (1981)

110 min | Drama

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she ... See full summary »

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Elisabeth Stepanek, Nguyen Chi Danh, Karl Heinz Reimann, Jorge Reis

Votes: 138

36. Merci Docteur Rey (2002)

R | 91 min | Comedy

A hot young phone sex addict and his narcissistic opera diva mom. A dangerously agitated hustler and a half-dozen dangerously agitated hustlers who look just like him. A tittering neurotic ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Litvack | Stars: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Stanislas Merhar, Bulle Ogier

Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.02M

37. Angel in Exile (1948)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.

Directors: Allan Dwan, Philip Ford | Stars: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Thomas Gomez, Barton MacLane

Votes: 122

38. Affair in Reno (1957)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A female detective falls in love with a public relations man.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: John Lund, Doris Singleton, John Archer, Angela Greene

Votes: 94

39. Wall Street Cowboy (1939)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Music, Western

Roy Rogers and his pals go to New York City to prevent a Wall Street conglomerate from taking their land. The land is rich in a mineral used for making steel and some greedy power brokers will stop at nothing to get it.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Raymond Hatton, Ann Baldwin

Votes: 139

40. Carrefour (1938)

84 min | Drama

A amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Tania Fédor

Votes: 135

41. Hot Water (1937)

Approved | 55 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The Jones family is into politics with father running for mayor. His son prints a newspaper which causes controversy by quoting his dad regarding his crooked opponent.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason

Votes: 35

42. WIF! There Is Always Money in the Banana Stand (2013 Video)

Action, Sport

Assailant defends the WIF. Banana Title against Jaka, "The Intergalactic Luchadora" Saturyne looks to settle her feud with Princess Kimberlee in a Kiss My Foot match, the Baltic Siege battle the Batiri in trios action, and more.

Stars: Mark Angelosetti, Alexander Bird, Stephen Delicato, Joey Eastman

43. Dead Innocent

Horror | Announced

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44. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: A Picture of Death (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

When Hugh Blaine bets $50,000 that all four hooves of a racehorse are off the ground at once, he agrees to pay Bat 10% of the bet to supply proof. Bat hires a man to take photographs of the trotter in action, but the pictures are stolen.

Director: John Rich | Stars: Gene Barry, Donald Woods, Patricia Donahue, Howard Petrie

Votes: 38

45. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode: Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law (1967)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, War

While awaiting word to complete a sabotage mission, Stalag 13 gets a new officer under Klink - Burkhalter's alert brother-in-law, who enjoys tormenting prisoners.

Director: Edward H. Feldman | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary

Votes: 176

46. Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode: The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree (1963)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, Keir Dullea

Votes: 58

47. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
Episode: Act of Faith (1969)

60 min | Western

Earl and Jemal capture a black man wanted for murder. The man says he'll never get a fair trial because he's black. A wealthy rancher holds great influence over townspeople. It was his ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Brock Peters, Robert F. Simon

Votes: 13

48. T.J. Hooker (1982–1986)
Episode: Sweet Sixteen and Dead (1983)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young prostitute is killed by her pimp which was witnessed by a former prostitute who works at a shelter that helps them. Hooker tries to find her before the pimp.

Director: William Shatner | Stars: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, Richard Herd

Votes: 88

49. Nip/Tuck (2003–2010)
Episode: Gala Gallardo (2006)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama

Sean considers selling his shares of the practice to Christian and Michelle, although Michelle's past starts to threaten her future with Christian. Meanwhile, Escobar's wife needs cosmetic surgery.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, John Hensley, Roma Maffia

Votes: 404

50. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2679 (2004)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Sharon faces up to her feelings about Dennis. Billy struggles to stay on the straight and narrow without Little Mo. Ronny has a scare. Adi is furious about being left on the stall whilst Ash and Kareena are at the hospital.

Director: Jo Johnson | Stars: Letitia Dean, Nigel Harman, Perry Fenwick, Michael Higgs