Best movies — crime on Prime Video : 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

1994 · Quentin Tarantino

A burger-obsessed hitman, his introspective partner, a drug-addled gangster’s companion and a fallen prizefighter cross paths in a sprawling, darkly comic crime caper. Their tangled exploits unfold across three interwoven episodes that cleverly leap through time, peeling back secrets, rivalries and unlikely loyalties as past and present collide.

With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel and Eric Stoltz

1990 · Martin Scorsese

Based on the real-life rise of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth of Irish and Sicilian parentage who is taken under the wing of local mobsters and, mentored by Jimmy Conway, climbs the hierarchy of a Mafia crew.

With Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero and Tony Darrow

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

1998 · Tony Kaye

Released after a three-year prison term for the racially motivated murders of two Black men, Derek Vineyard returns determined to leave his violent past behind. Once a skinhead leader whose white supremacist gang spread terror across Los Angeles, his earlier actions profoundly shaped his younger brother Danny. Told through Danny’s narration, the film follows Derek’s struggle to break all ties with his former comrades and shield Danny from repeating the same destructive path as he seeks redemption and faces the consequences of his past.

With Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk and Avery Brooks

2002 · Fernando Meirelles

In the impoverished favelas of 1970s Rio de Janeiro, two young men head down opposing roads: Rocket, an aspiring photographer, documents the neighborhood’s escalating drug violence through his lens, while José “Zé” Pequeno, driven by ambition and a hunger for power, plunges into the ruthless world of drug trafficking.

With Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele and Seu Jorge

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

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

1997 ·

In 1950s Los Angeles, three detectives embedded in a violent, corrupt police department hunt for the truth after the patrons of a late-night diner are massacred with a shotgun. Each officer pursues the case in his own way—by-the-book, ruthless, and morally compromised—creating friction as they unearth a tangled conspiracy linking the killings to powerful interests. As they dig deeper into the city’s seedy underbelly, their clashing methods and ethical limits are pushed to the breaking point, forcing them to decide how far they will go for justice.

With Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell and David Strathairn

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

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

1976 · Martin Scorsese

An insomniac, socially isolated man named Travis Bickle takes a taxi job in New York, prowling the city's nighttime streets and, as sleep deprivation and alienation deepen, becomes fixated on purging what he sees as its filth and corruption.

With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd

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

2000 · Guy Ritchie

Ruthless boxing promoters, brutal bookmakers, a Russian mobster, bungling amateur thieves and jewellers rumored to be Jewish collide in a chaotic scramble to recover a priceless stolen diamond.

With Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Dennis Farina, Alan Ford, Benicio del Toro and Vinnie Jones

1984 · Sergio Leone

More than thirty years after abandoning the bootlegging world, a once-feared Prohibition-era Jewish mobster comes back to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to reckon with the ghosts and remorses of his past.

With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld and Treat Williams

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