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2542 titles in this genre

The Crime genre has captivated audiences with its thrilling mysteries and intense investigations, exploring the darker side of human nature and society, making it a popular choice for movie and TV show enthusiasts.

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Mutiara Syifa

Javiar Ilham

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Muhammad Rafly Akbar

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Isabel Putri

On Air (2023)

10.0 1 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Duration: 15 min.

Story: Ema, a campus radio announcer, faces a scandal when her video is spread by her boyfriend, Bima, who wants to break up. With support from friends, Ema gathers the courage to reveal the truth through a radio broadcast.

Plot: radio, university, social scandal

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless

Cast

Kyu014dsuke Machida

Tomisaburu014d Wakayama

Sumiko Fuji

Shingo Yamashiro

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless (1969)

10.0 1 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

Plot: yakuza

Cast

Ali Fazal

Sonali Bendre

Akash Makhija

Rakesh Bedi

Raakh (2026) TV Show

9.1 7 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: India

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When two teenagers vanish, a close-knit family is shattered and the city is left on edge. Determined to uncover the truth, a relentless officer leads a nationwide manhunt that pulls him deep into a world of violence and human depravity.

Girgit (2021) TV Show

9.0 1 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: India

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Story: The storyline of the show revolves around the couple Ranbir and Janvi. They seem like any other normal couple from the outside, but, in reality, are highly dysfunctional. They plot and plan together against every person they know, until they turn against one another too. The love which they felt for each other evaporates into nothingness and obsession takes over. A dysfunctional but happy marriage turns into a battleground and a stalking pit. Who would come out of this alive? Who is more dangerous, Ranbir or Janvi? What are they going to do to one another?

A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers

Cast

Goru014d Ibuki

Tsunehiko Watase

Ichiro Araki

Asao Koike

A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers (1971)

9.0 1 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 91 min.

Story: When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.

Plot: 任侠

Cast

Bryan Cranston

Aaron Paul

Anna Gunn

RJ Mitte

Breaking Bad (2008) TV Show

8.9 18.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 62

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Style: dark, violent

Plot: new mexico, drug dealer, narcissism, psychopath, terminal illness, outlaw, dark comedy, cancer, ...

Cast

Nikita Panfilov

Andrii Saminin

Mykhailo Zhonin

Denys Rodnianskyi

Dog (2015) TV Show

8.8 38 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: Ukraine

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 174

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Cast

Tim Robbins

Morgan Freeman

Bob Gunton

William Sadler

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

8.7 30.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Style: epic

Plot: prison, friendship, police brutality, corruption, based on novel or book, freedom, hope, prison cell, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Phakphum Romsaithong

Nattawin Wattanagitiphat

Wichapas Sumettikul

Jakapan Puttha

KinnPorsche: The Series (2022) TV Show

8.7 173 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: Porsche agrees to guard mafia heir Kinn for his family's sake, but fighting off danger soon turns into fighting his own feelings.

Plot: stockholm syndrome, based on novel or book, kidnapping, bodyguard, bartender, rivalry, family relationships, mafia, ...

Cast

Bob Odenkirk

Jonathan Banks

Rhea Seehorn

Tony Dalton

Better Call Saul (2015) TV Show

8.7 6.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 63

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

Style: gritty

Plot: new mexico, moral conflict, crooked lawyer, prequel, romance, dark comedy, family relationships, tragedy, ...

Cast

Marlon Brando

Al Pacino

James Caan

Robert Duvall

The Godfather (1972)

8.7 23.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 175 min.

Audience: R

Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Plot: based on novel or book, loss of loved one, love at first sight, gangster, symbolism, patriarch, europe, organized crime, ...

Time: 1940s, 1950s

Place: italy

Cast

James Gandolfini

Edie Falco

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Robert Iler

The Sopranos (1999) TV Show

8.7 3.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 86

Audience: TV-MA

Story: 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 difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

Style: philosophical, satirical, witty

Plot: new jersey, italian american, drug dealer, strip club, mafia boss, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, family relationships, ...

Cast

Tom Ellis

Nick Gehlfuss

Natalee Linez

Necar Zadegan

CIA (2026) TV Show

8.6 102 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass. Together they work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.

Plot: new york city, central intelligence agency (cia), fbi, criminal investigation, odd couple, police procedural, fbi agent, cia officer

Cast

Dominic West

Lance Reddick

Sonja Sohn

Wendell Pierce

The Wire (2002) TV Show

8.6 2.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 60

Audience: TV-MA

Story: 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 bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Style: cynical, tense

Plot: corruption, newspaper, drug trafficking, drug dealer, baltimore, gangster, police, organized crime, ...

Place: usa

Good Boy (2025) TV Show

8.6 177 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: Olympic medalists join the police force through a special recruitment program, trading medals for badges as they tackle violent crimes and injustices with their athletic skills.

Plot: police, police drama

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Pu0131nar Deniz

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Zeyno Eracar

Family Secrets (2021) TV Show

8.6 49 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Family

Country: Turkey

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 95

Audience: NR

Story: Ceylin is a fierce, rule-bending defence attorney whose father was wrongly imprisoned — for her, justice always comes before the law. Ilgaz is a by-the-book prosecutor who believes the two are the same thing. When his brother is accused of murder, he has no choice but to go to her for help. What follows is a gripping cat-and-mouse legal thriller built on brilliant opposing chemistry — winner of the International Emmy for Best Telenovela in 2023.

Cast

Al Pacino

Robert Duvall

Diane Keaton

Robert De Niro

The Godfather Part II (1974)

8.6 14.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 202 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Plot: new year's eve, new york city, based on novel or book, italian american, gangster, praise, blackmail, symbolism, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: cuba, italy

Cast

Yuma Uchida

Kenji Nojima

Unsho Ishizuka

Hiroaki Hirata

Banana Fish (2018) TV Show

8.6 925 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A teenaged gang leader in New York City faces his abuser and rival gangs alongside a photojournalist from Japan as they investigate a deadly new drug.

Style: psychological

Plot: prison, rape, anti hero, photography, revenge, mafia, conspiracy, tragedy, ...

Cast

Park Shin-hye

Kim Jae-young

Kim Ah-young

Kim In-kwon

The Judge from Hell (2024) TV Show

8.6 174 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Story: A cruel and vicious judge, who wields power only for herself, meets a warm and cheerful detective who puts the victims first.

Style: intense

Plot: judge, supernatural, murder, romance, demon, fantasy, action

Cast

Arshad Warsi

Vir Hirani

Vikrant Massey

Shruti Marathe

Pritam and Pedro (2026) TV Show

8.6 10 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The dynamic between the two contrasting personalities, a seasoned cop who prefers old-school methods and a tech-savvy cop who relies on modern technology for investigations, as they navigate their partnership in solving crimes.

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Exploring the World of Crime Movies and TV Shows

Crime movies and TV shows have become a staple of modern entertainment, offering a unique blend of suspense, drama, and intrigue that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats. From classic whodunits to gritty thrillers, the genre has evolved over the years to incorporate a wide range of themes and styles.

Popular Sub-Genres of Crime Movies and TV Shows

Some of the most popular sub-genres of crime movies and TV shows include detective fiction, film noir, and crime comedy. These sub-genres offer a fresh perspective on the traditional crime narrative, often incorporating elements of humor, satire, or social commentary to create a more nuanced and engaging viewing experience.

Some notable examples of crime movies and TV shows include:

Breaking Bad, a critically acclaimed TV series that explores the darker side of human nature
The Godfather, a classic crime film that sets the standard for the genre
True Detective, a gritty and atmospheric TV series that delves into the world of crime and mystery

What Makes a Great Crime Movie or TV Show?

A great crime movie or TV show typically has a compelling narrative, well-developed characters, and a strong sense of tension and suspense. The best examples of the genre often incorporate complex themes and moral ambiguities, challenging viewers to question their assumptions and think critically about the world around them.

Whether you're a fan of classic detective fiction or modern crime thrillers, there's never been a better time to explore the world of crime movies and TV shows. With so many great options available, you're sure to find something that suits your tastes and keeps you entertained for hours on end.