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198 crime titles on Max rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.

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The Wire (2002)
★ 9.3 IMDb   TV-MA · 60 episodes · Crime · Drama
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucrac
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The Sopranos (1999)
★ 9.2 IMDb   TV-MA · 86 episodes · Crime · Drama
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficu
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The Dark Knight (2008)
★ 9.1 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 85   PG-13 · 2h 32m · Action · Thriller · Crime
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership
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Oz (1997)
★ 8.7 IMDb   TV-MA · 56 episodes · Crime · Drama
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutua
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Shadows (2014)
★ 8.7 IMDb   TV-MA · 21 episodes · Crime · Drama
Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu',
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Homicide Hunter: Lt Joe Kenda (2011)
★ 8.7 IMDb   TV-14 · 142 episodes · Documentary · Crime
A non-fiction investigative series of murder cases told through the personal experience of retired detective, Lieutenant Joe Kenda. Through re-enactments, discussions with investigation teams, and interviews with victims
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The Penguin (2024)
★ 8.6 IMDb   TV-MA · 8 episodes · Drama · Crime
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first,
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Deadwood (2004)
★ 8.6 IMDb   TV-MA · 36 episodes · Western · Crime · Drama
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless w
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
★ 8.5 IMDb   🍅 87%   MC 76   R · 1h 46m · Drama · Crime · Thriller
The lone survivor of an explosive heist gone wrong recounts for interrogators the events that began with five disparate criminals assembled for a police lineup - with alleged criminal mastermind Keyser Soze at the center
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
★ 8.5 IMDb   TV-MA · 56 episodes · Crime · Drama
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and
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The Jinx (2015)
★ 8.5 IMDb   TV-14 · 12 episodes · Documentary · Crime
Robert Durst, scion of NY's billionaire real-estate family, has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years. Durst speaks in this true crime series, revealing secrets of a case that has baffled
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 87%   MC 78   PG-13 · 2h 44m · Action · Crime · Thriller
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years
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Mare of Easttown (2021)
★ 8.4 IMDb   TV-MA · 7 episodes · Drama · Crime · Mystery
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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The Night Of (2016)
★ 8.4 IMDb   TV-MA · 8 episodes · Crime · Drama · Mystery
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Luther (2010)
★ 8.4 IMDb   TV-MA · 20 episodes · Crime · Drama · Mystery
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
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Banshee (2013)
★ 8.4 IMDb   TV-MA · 38 episodes · Crime · Drama
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up pl
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High and Low (1963)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 90   Not Rated · 2h 23m · Drama · Crime · Thriller · Mystery
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Warrior (2019)
★ 8.4 IMDb   TV-MA · 30 episodes · Crime · Drama · Action & Adventure · Western
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San
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A Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez (2022)
★ 8.4 IMDb   5 episodes · Documentary · Crime
In 1992, actress and dancer Daniella Perez was murdered by her co-star, Guilherme de Pádua and his wife, Paula Thomaz, in a cruelly premeditated crime. The untimely death of the 22-year-old, daughter of Brazilian author
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Joker (2019)
★ 8.3 IMDb   🍅 68%   MC 59   R · 2h 2m · Crime · Thriller · Drama
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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M (1931)
★ 8.3 IMDb   🍅 100%   Passed · 1h 39m · Drama · Thriller · Crime
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is
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Barry (2018)
★ 8.3 IMDb   TV-MA · 32 episodes · Comedy · Crime · Drama
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
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Batman Begins (2005)
★ 8.2 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 70   PG-13 · 2h 20m · Drama · Crime · Action
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
★ 8.2 IMDb   🍅 86%   MC 77   R · 2h 16m · Science Fiction · Crime
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to cr
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Watchmen (2019)
★ 8.2 IMDb   TV-MA · 9 episodes · Drama · Crime · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Mystery
Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.
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Blue Lights (2023)
★ 8.2 IMDb   TV-MA · 24 episodes · Crime · Drama
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
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Patria (2020)
★ 8.2 IMDb   TV-14 · 8 episodes · Drama · War & Politics · Crime
A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 88   R · 1h 55m · Crime · Drama
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the to
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Rashomon (1950)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 98%   MC 98   Not Rated · 1h 28m · Crime · Drama · Mystery
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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Tokyo Vice (2022)
★ 8.1 IMDb   TV-MA · 18 episodes · Crime · Drama
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction
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Z (1969)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 86   M/PG · 2h 7m · Thriller · Crime · Drama
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
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4 Blocks (2017)
★ 8.1 IMDb   TV-PG · 19 episodes · Crime · Drama
Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.
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Infernal Affairs (2002)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 75   R · 1h 41m · Drama · Thriller · Crime
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Ins
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Le Samouraï (1967)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 90   GP · 1h 41m · Crime · Thriller · Drama
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora
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The Deuce (2017)
★ 8.0 IMDb   TV-MA · 25 episodes · Drama · Crime
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, t
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000)
★ 8.0 IMDb   TV-MA · 39 episodes · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Animation · Comedy · Action & Adventure · Crime
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series
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See No Evil (2015)
★ 8.0 IMDb   TV-14 · 165 episodes · Crime · Documentary
Every second of every day, millions of Americans are caught on CCTV. Living in a surveillance society means everyday actions are caught on camera, mostly of honest citizens going about their daily lives. But a few are g
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Saving Face (2012)
★ 8.0 IMDb   Not Rated · 40m · Crime · Documentary
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them
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Task (2025)
★ 7.9 IMDb   TV-MA · 7 episodes · Crime · Drama
In the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent heads a task force assembled to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man.
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Strike (2017)
★ 7.9 IMDb   TV-MA · 19 episodes · Crime · Drama · Mystery
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator p
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Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 94   Not Rated · 1h 31m · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 100%   Approved · 1h 45m · Comedy · Crime
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and mu
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 86%   Not Rated · 2h 2m · Crime · Mystery · Thriller
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are
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Show Me a Hero (2015)
★ 7.9 IMDb   TV-MA · 6 episodes · Crime · Drama · War & Politics
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, ra
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Evil Lives Here (2016)
★ 7.9 IMDb   TV-14 · 176 episodes · Crime · Documentary
The true stories of people who lived with a killer. How well do you really know your family? Would you recognize the warning signs? Or would you become entangled in evil?
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The Batman (2022)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 72   PG-13 · 2h 56m · Crime · Mystery · Thriller
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 83%   MC 65   PG · 1h 16m · Animation · Crime · Mystery
Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders.
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Bored to Death (2009)
★ 7.8 IMDb   TV-MA · 24 episodes · Comedy · Crime · Mystery · Drama
Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather tha
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 97%   Approved · 2h 4m · Comedy · Crime · Drama
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, h
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Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler (2019)
★ 7.8 IMDb   TV-MA · 30 episodes · Drama · Crime
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, b

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