Top Rated Crime Movies

This is a criminal saga about New-York Sicilian mafia family Corleone. The film covers the period from 1945 to 1955. The family head, "Don" Vito Corleone, marries off his daughter. At this time his beloved son Michael returns from World War II. Michael, the war hero and family pride, does not want to continue cruel family business. "Don" Corleone continues to follow the old rules, but there appear the people around change the rules and laws of conducting affairs. His enemies make an attempt upon his life. He survives but loses the ability to conduct family affairs for some time. Family prosperity and even its survival are under the threat. This is when Michael has to interfere. For the family sake he murders twice and has to conceal himself in Italy. He gets married there but his young wife is murdered during the encroachment on him. Michael comes back to New York and starts seriously carrying on family business. Finally he becomes its head.

Andy is a vice president of a large bank and he lives happy life with his wife. One day he finds out that she is cheating on him and he murders her together with her lover. Andy is sentenced to spend his whole life in Shawshank, which is a prison that lives according to its own rules. Andy doesn’t have any illusions. He is only thirty and he knows that now his normal life is over. However his new friend Red has got an idea how to change their life for better. He is a prison businessman with outstanding sixth sense. They want to use a famous American actress to become successful, but this actress has no idea who Andy and Red are.

The gangster story of the Corleone family follows Vito Corleone, who spent his childhood in Sicily and later in New York in 1910s. There is also a parallel story about the son of Vito, Michael Corleone in the 1950s. Together they turn mafia into a large and powerful corporation in America, continually enlarging its influence.

"Pulp Fiction" was the biggest symbolic film of the 90th years due to its three reasons. First of all, the whole film is an incredible drive, which is generated by irony and cruelty. Secondly, due to the structure, which is so refined and elegant, because the character, who was killed in the middle of the film, reappears in the next story. Finally, this film became so signed due to a simple but an important discovery. As everyone knows that America is a cinematographic country, that its film's images are more real than reality. But it was the first time when Tarantino showed that the modern humans began to behave as if they were characters of mass culture. When Bruce Willis's hero chooses the weapon of vengeance - the baseball bat, a gasoline-powered saw, a samurai sword, the audience fall about laughing, because every type of weapon has its own genre tradition.

It is nearly one year after Batman’s last mission on eliminating city streets’ gangs. Now the Gotham City is again full of criminal organizations and scared citizens. Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter-ego the Batman takes the case in his own hands. Teamed with the Lieutenant James Gordon and the new District Attorney Harvey Dent, the Batman declares war to the Joker, the most violent mafia leader in Gotham. Taking control over the City, the Joker issues an ultimatum to Gotham: people will die each day until Batman reveals his identity. What should Batman do in this way: sacrifice him to the ungrateful public or struggle up to the end?

How many lonely, nearly sociopathic thirty-something office workers want an escape from the mundane lifestyle? Plenty. But not many of them seek help from a weird, vicious salesman. And not many find themselves out of the cage... but into the maze of underground fight clubs where every man has a right to be what the world does not want to see in him. It starts with regular boxing matches and fun, totally harmless pranks, but then it all spins out of control... and down the rabbit's hole.

Henry Hill, a youngster who loves gangsters from childhood, and his only dream is to become the same gangster as they are – to drive speed cars, wear expensive suits and be held in great “respect”. His dream come true, he became a gangster, but it is necessary to pay for everything in this life. He trespasses against the laws, got with drug-dealing with no approval and the power players’ participation, and to avoid reprisal he bears testimony on his former “colleagues”, then he will disappear without a trace under an assumed name.

American provincial town is terrified with consequent murders. The maniac shows unbelievable cruelty and horrible calmness. The FBI agents Clarice and Jack are sure he is a coldblooded psychopath and the only way to predict his forthcoming actions is to consult insane psychiatrist Lecter who is imprisoned for numerous terrible murders and cannibalism. Lecter used to be admired doctor and he is still very clever psychiatrist despite of his mental disorder. However it is not that easy to make Lecter talk and while the agents are trying to persuade him to cooperate, the anonymous serial killer is looking for his new victim.

Roger "Verbal" Kint, a con artist with cerebral palsy, and a hospitalized Hungarian criminal were the only two who survive after the ship ablaze. Now, at the police station, they tell how everything started. Six weeks earlier in New York five criminals were arrested and brought together for questioning. As they were not guilty, they planned revenge against the police and had a success in this case. Suddenly it turned out that their bitterest enemy is not police but Turkish criminal mastermind with a nearly mythical reputation. Having once declared him war they decided to continue until the last gun is fired.

Two detectives Sommerset and Mills investigates the case of a serial killer, John Doe, who gets into his head that he is God and punishes people for the ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. Being obsessed with the idea of punishment for the deadly sins – Gluttony, Avidity, Idleness, Arrogance, Carnality, Envy, Anger, John Doe mercilessly commits multiple brutal murders. On the scene of the crime ingenious murderer leaves only the name of the sin which committed the victim and the clue which lets Sommerset and Mills find the next victim. The last two victims are he for his Envy and Mills for his Anger.