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

2005 · Andrew Niccol

Yuri Orlov crisscrosses the globe peddling weapons, moving through some of the most brutal war zones while trying to stay ahead of a dogged Interpol investigator, ruthless competitors, and clients who count notorious dictators among their ranks. As his business draws him deeper into violence and betrayal, he ultimately must confront the moral fallout of the life he's built.

With Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm and Sammi Rotibi

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

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

1995 · David Fincher

Two homicide detectives pursue a relentless serial killer who stages his crimes around the seven deadly sins. The seasoned detective, Somerset, immerses himself in the theology and psychology of each sin to anticipate the murderer’s next move, while his rookie partner, Mills, dismisses those cautious efforts — and together they trace a grim string of victims from one horrific scene to another.

With Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey, John C. McGinley, Julie Araskog and Mark Boone Junior

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

1992 · Quentin Tarantino

A robbery goes horribly awry, and when clues point to an informant the remaining crew sequester themselves in a rundown warehouse under rising suspicion. Tensions and injuries fuel a spiral of betrayal and brutality as the survivors — seasoned Mr. White, rookie Mr. Orange, the volatile paroled Mr. Blonde, squabbling Mr. Pink, and Nice Guy Eddie — fray at the edges and turn on one another.

With Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney and Randy Brooks

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

2013 · Martin Scorsese

A New York stockbroker, caught in the crosshairs of a sprawling securities fraud probe, refuses to turn state's evidence, drawing him deeper into a tangled web of Wall Street corruption, corporate banking collusion, and organized crime influence. Adapted from the autobiography of Jordan Belfort.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner and Jon Bernthal

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

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

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

2022 · Javier Ruiz Caldera

Inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, the film follows a daring anarchist who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood in Paris, running a cunning forgery operation to produce counterfeit travelers’ checks. He funnels the stolen funds into radical causes he believes in, but his success provokes the wrath of America’s largest bank and the international forces determined to bring him down. As the stakes escalate, alliances shift and moral lines blur in a tense, high-stakes chase between conscience and the law.

With Juan José Ballesta, Miki Esparbé, Luis Callejo, Liah O'Prey, Alexandre Blazy, Josean Bengoetxea and Philip Schurer

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

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

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

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

2015 · Quentin Tarantino

When a fierce blizzard drives a group of bounty hunters into an isolated shelter, they soon find themselves ensnared in a dangerous web of betrayal and deceit.

With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen

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

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