Home / Movies / Best Crime Movies The 25 best crime movies, ranked by critics Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Tomatometer), then Metacritic score. Only movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% or higher make the list. Scores as recorded in Wikidata.
1 Rotten Tomatoes 99% · Metacritic 91
Directed by Curtis Hanson
2 Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Roman Polanski
3 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 100
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
4 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 91
Directed by John Carpenter
5 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 94
Directed by William Friedkin
6 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
7 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Clint Eastwood
8 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 75
Directed by Steven Spielberg
9 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Jonathan Demme
10 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 78
Directed by Jan de Bont
11 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 88
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
12 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Christopher Nolan
13 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Christopher Nolan
14 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 80
Directed by Martin Campbell
15 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 72
Directed by John McTiernan
16 No Country for Old Men 2007
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
17 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Martin Scorsese
18 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 84
Directed by Miloš Forman
19 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
20 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 90
Directed by David O. Russell
21 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 88
Directed by Wes Anderson
22 Slumdog Millionaire 2008
Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 84
Directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan
23 Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Martin Scorsese
24 City of God 2002
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 79
Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
25 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 76
Directed by James Gunn
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