Best movies — crime on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2012 · James McTeigue

A respected banker convicted in the 1940s of killing his wife and her lover is sent to Shawshank Prison, where he puts his financial expertise at the service of a corrupt warden. Over many years behind bars, his moral steadiness and relentless optimism earn him the respect and friendship of his fellow inmates, particularly an older man named Red.

With John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jimmy Yuill

2008 · Christopher Nolan

Batman pushes his campaign against Gotham’s underworld to the next level, joining forces with Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent to systematically break apart the last criminal networks. Their cooperation brings hope for a safer city, but a cunning new antagonist who calls himself the Joker sparks a spiral of violence and anarchy that threatens to overwhelm them all.

With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman

1999 · Frank Darabont

On death row in a Southern penitentiary, a towering, soft-spoken inmate named John Coffey harbors a baffling ability to lift illness and suffering from others. When Paul Edgecomb, the cell block’s chief guard, witnesses Coffey’s restorative gift, he becomes obsessed with preventing the condemned man’s execution. Battling institutional forces and his own uncertainty, Edgecomb mounts a desperate attempt to save a man whose power challenges everything they thought they knew.

With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter and Graham Greene

1991 · Jonathan Demme

A promising trainee at the FBI Academy, Clarice Starling is chosen by her superior, Jack Crawford, to question the incarcerated Dr. Hannibal Lecter — a brilliant psychiatrist infamous for his violent psychopathy and serving life for multiple murders and acts of cannibalism. Crawford believes Lecter may possess crucial leads on an active investigation, and he suspects that Clarice’s youth and composure might be exactly what it takes to penetrate the doctor’s guarded mind. Tasked with drawing out the reluctant genius, she must navigate a dangerous psychological game to extract the information needed.

With Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith and Diane Baker

1995 · Bryan Singer

Seated beneath the harsh glare of interrogation lights in Los Angeles, Verbal Kint tells federal agents a gripping tale: he insists that the legendary criminal Keyser Söze is real and engineered a multimillion-dollar heist that drew in him and four accomplices, culminating in a catastrophic explosion at San Pedro harbor that left almost no one alive. Through a mix of calculated detail and a portrait of a cold, seemingly omnipotent mastermind, Verbal seduces his interrogators into believing a story of manipulation and brutality that borders on the supernatural.

With Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Suzy Amis

1957 · Sidney Lumet

Both sides having presented their cases, the jurors withdraw to the deliberation room to decide whether a young Spanish-American is guilty of killing his father. What begins as an apparently clear-cut decision quickly transforms into a tense, revealing examination of each juror's biases, assumptions about the accused and the evidence, and the simmering conflicts that rise between them.

With Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns and Jack Warden

2019 · Todd Phillips

In 1980s Gotham City, a struggling stand-up comedian crushed by rejection and isolation spirals into madness, shedding his former life to become a calculating, unhinged criminal whose theatrical violence and anarchic schemes plunge the city into fear.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham and Bill Camp

2003 · Quentin Tarantino

Shot and left for dead by her merciless boss Bill and his circle of killers, a seasoned assassin survives and embarks on a patient, calculated campaign to settle the score.

With Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Julie Dreyfus

1995 · Martin Scorsese

In Las Vegas, two lifelong friends—a high-powered casino manager and a mob enforcer—become rivals as they battle for control of the city's gambling empire and the heart of a glamorous, thrill-seeking socialite.

With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, James Woods, Alan King and Kevin Pollak

2003 · Quentin Tarantino

Wounded by her merciless boss Bill and betrayed by their tight-knit circle of killers, a seasoned hitwoman survives and quietly begins to orchestrate a ruthless plan for revenge.

With Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Julie Dreyfus

2015 · Tom McCarthy

Based on true events, Boston Globe reporters expose a widespread pattern of child sexual abuse and systematic concealment by leaders of the local Catholic archdiocese, igniting a scandal that reverberates throughout the global Church.

With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci and Brian d'Arcy James

1998 · Joel Coen

A mellow Los Angeles drifter nicknamed "The Dude," who lives for bowling and White Russians, is mistaken for a wheelchair-bound tycoon who shares his name and gets pulled into a surreal, escalating mess involving swaggering nihilists, manipulative figures from the adult-film world, a missing pet ferret, a severed toe, and a disappearing fortune.

With Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro

2017 · Martin McDonagh

Seven months after her daughter's murder remains unsolved, Mildred Hayes decides to force the town to face her grief by erecting three provocative billboards on the roads into Ebbing that single out the town's admired police chief, Bill Willoughby. The stunt ignites a fierce reaction when Officer Jason Dixon, Willoughby's volatile deputy—an immature, overprotected man with a taste for violence—steps in, escalating a bitter showdown between Mildred and the local police.

With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek and Caleb Landry Jones

2002 · Steven Spielberg

Before his nineteenth birthday, Frank Abagnale Jr. assumes a string of high-profile identities—posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor and a lawyer—to cash millions in fraudulent checks. A relentless FBI agent makes it his mission to catch him, but Frank stays several moves ahead, thriving on the thrill of the chase and his ability to slip away.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams and James Brolin

2014 · Wes Anderson

During the interwar years, a celebrated concierge at a storied European hotel forges a close bond with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. Their partnership is drawn into a daring plot when an invaluable Renaissance painting is stolen, setting off a fierce struggle to recover the work and to claim a vast family inheritance. As they navigate danger, loyalty, and social ritual, they witness the continent’s gradual decline and then rapid convulsions that reshape Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum and Harvey Keitel

1973 · George Roy Hill

A rookie grifter teams up with a famed con artist to avenge the murder of a shared friend by staging an audacious, high-stakes scam designed to bleed a powerful mob boss of his fortune.

With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan and Harold Gould

1962 · Robert Mulligan

Six-year-old Scout Finch and her older brother Jem grow up in the languid town of Maycomb, Alabama, while passing their days with their curious friend Dill and spying on their mysterious, reclusive neighbor Boo Radley. Their widowed father Atticus, a principled and respected lawyer, agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman; the courtroom battle and the town’s response shatter the siblings’ innocence and force them to confront the realities of racial injustice and social prejudice.

With Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Brock Peters and Rosemary Murphy

2003 · Clint Eastwood

When a devastating family tragedy strikes one member of a trio of childhood friends, their tightly knit lives begin to unravel as they confront grief, fractured loyalties, and the decisions that will redefine their futures.

With Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Kevin Chapman

2022 ·

In his second year as Gotham’s masked guardian, Batman uncovers a sprawling web of corruption that reaches into his own family’s past while he hunts a calculating serial killer who calls himself the Riddler.

With Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard and Andy Serkis

2020 · Guy Ritchie

An American expatriate named Mickey Pearson has quietly turned a London-based cannabis operation into an extremely lucrative enterprise. When rumours spread that he intends to sell up and leave the trade for good, rival players, corrupt officials and ambitious schemers unleash a web of plots, bribery and blackmail as they jockey to seize his territory.

With Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant