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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2004 · Quentin Tarantino

Determined and relentless, the Bride continues her brutal quest for vengeance against the squad of killers who tried to end her life and her unborn child. She hunts down each former ally in turn, striking the five names from her revenge list until only one target remains: Bill.

With Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Gordon Liu Chia-hui, Michael Parks and Perla Haney-Jardine

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

2014 · Dan Gilroy

Out of work and hungry for success, Lou Bloom forces his way into Los Angeles's crime-reporting circuit and slowly shifts from detached observer to active provocateur, staging and exploiting scenes until he becomes the focal point of his own story. His rise is enabled by Nina, a seasoned television news producer who recognizes and harnesses his ruthless ambition.

With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, Kevin Rahm, Michael Hyatt and Price Carson

1969 · George Roy Hill

In the 1890s, as the open range gives way to towns and sheriffs, two Wyoming fugitives find themselves chased by a relentless posse. With the frontier closing in, they make a desperate run for freedom, heading to South America in the hope that distance and unfamiliar territory will put them beyond the reach of the law.

With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey and George Furth

2011 · David Fincher

Once-prominent investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist reopens the cold case of the niece of a powerful, aging industrialist who vanished forty years ago. He joins forces with Lisbeth Salander, a fierce, tattooed punk and brilliant hacker, and their investigation peels back layers of deceit to expose a sprawling, ruthless web of corruption far beyond anything they expected.

With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen and Steven Berkoff

1987 · Brian De Palma

Relentless Prohibition agent Elliot Ness puts together a handpicked, incorruptible team to dismantle Al Capone’s criminal operation, a group that soon earns the nickname "The Untouchables."

With Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro, Richard Bradford and Jack Kehoe

2013 · Paul Greengrass

Based on true events, Captain Richard Phillips must confront a violent boarding by Somali pirates in 2009 when his US-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, is taken. The unprecedented seizure—the first successful hijacking of an American merchant vessel in nearly two centuries—sets off a tense hostage crisis and a high-stakes rescue effort.

With Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali and Michael Chernus