Top 150 Greatest Crime Movies and Documentaries

  1. The French Connection – 1971 
  2. Tales of the Grim Sleeper – 2014 
  3. The Usual Susoects – 1995 
  4. The Act of Killing – 2012 
  5. The Big Sleep – 1946 
  6. The Thin Blue Line – 1988 
  7. Pulp Fiction – 1994 
  8. Murder on a Sunday Morning – 2001 
  9. Chinatown – 1974 
  10. O.J.: Made in America – 2016 
  11. Goodfellas – 1990 
  12. The Imposter – 2012 
  13. The Godfather – 1972 
  14. Brother’s Keeper – 1992 
  15. The Godfather Part II – 1974 
  16. Tower – 2016 
  17. Heat – 1995 
  18. Bus 174 – 2002 
  19. Scarface – 1983 
  20. F for Fake – 1973 
  21. Fargo – 1996 
  22. Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art – 2020 
  23. L.A. Confidential – 1997 
  24. Capturing the Friedmans – 2003 
  25. City of God – 2002 
  26. Animal Kingdom – 2010 
  27. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father – 2008 
  28. Trainspotting – 1996 
  29. Lost for Life – 2013 
  30. Rocco and His Brothers – 1960 
  31. Mommy Dead and Dearest – 2017 
  32. Graduation – 2016 
  33. Sour Grapes – 2016 
  34. Mystic River – 2003 
  35. The Central Park Five – 2012 
  36. The Big Risk – 1960 
  37. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden – 2013 
  38. Grisbi – 1954 
  39. The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz – 2014 
  40. The Last Seduction – 1994 
  41. Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop – 2015 
  42. The Silence of the Lambs – 1991 
  43. The Newburgh Sting – 2014 
  44. The Trial of the Chicago 7 – 2020 
  45. The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman – 2001 
  46. The Departed – 2006 
  47. The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer – 1992 
  48. Widows – 2018 
  49. The Cheshire Murders – 2013 
  50. Sweet Sixteen – 2002 
  51. The Grifters – 1990 
  52. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills – 1996 
  53. Drug War – 2012
  54. Into the Abyss – 2011 
  55. Traffic – 2000
  56. 1971 – 2014 
  57. In the Bedroom – 2001 
  58. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley – 2019 
  59. Boys Don’t Cry – 1999
  60. Our Father – 2022
  61. Dreamcatcher – 2015 
  62. Murder to Mercy: The Cyntonia Brown Story – 2020
  63. The Murder of Fred Hampton – 1971 
  64. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork – 2021 
  65. The Executioner’s Song – 1982 
  66. The Hunting Ground – 2015 
  67. Serpico – 1973 
  68. WeWork: Or the Making of $47 Billion Unicorn – 2021 
  69. The Fugitive – 1993 
  70. Fyre – 2019 
  71. In Cold Blood – 1967 
  72. Museo – 2018 
  73. Baby God – 2020 
  74. Hell or High Water – 2016 
  75. American Murder: The Family Next Door – 2020 
  76. Band of Outsiders – 1964 
  77. The Tinder Swindler – 2022 
  78. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 2017 
  79. Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist – 2022 
  80. On the Waterfront – 1954 
  81. Abducted in Plain Sight – 2017 
  82. Assault on Precinct 13 – 1976 
  83. The Girl in the Picture – 2022 
  84. American Hustle – 2013 
  85. 13th – 2016 
  86. United 93 – 2006 
  87. Athlete A – 2020 
  88. A Bright Summer Day – 1991 
  89. Strong Island – 2017 
  90. The Crying Game – 1992 
  91. The Fog of War – 2003 
  92. No Country for Old Men – 2007 
  93. 4 Little Girls – 1997 
  94. Cool Hand Luke – 1967 
  95. Big Men – 2013 
  96. Badlands – 1973 
  97. Time – 2020 
  98. Elevator to the Gallows – 1958 
  99. Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 – 2017 
  100. Taxi Driver – 1976
  101. I Called Him Morgan – 2016 
  102. Double Indemnity – 1944
  103. Citizenfour – 2014 
  104. Mean Streets – 1973 
  105. Crime + Punishment – 2018 
  106. 12 Angry Men – 1957 
  107. Deliver Us from Evil – 2006 
  108. Rififi – 1955 
  109. Red Roll Red – 2018 
  110. Touch of Evil – 1958 
  111. The Night of the Hunter – 1955 
  112. The Good Nurse – 2022 
  113. My Friend Dahmer – 2017 
  114. Audrie & Daisy – 2016 
  115. L’Argent – 1983 
  116. Charm City – 2018 
  117. Tell Me Who I Am – 2019 
  118. Shoplifters – 2018 
  119. White Boy – 2017 
  120. Why Did You Kill Me? – 2021 
  121. The Red Circle – 1970 
  122. Uncut Gems – 2019 
  123. 16 Shots – 2018 
  124. The Seven Five – 2014 
  125. The Ladykillers – 1955 
  126. The Wolf of Wall Street – 2013 
  127. Pervert Park – 2014 
  128. Team Foxcatcher – 2016 
  129. Foxcatcher – 2014 
  130. Dark Waters – 2019 
  131. A Prophet – 2009 
  132. 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets – 2015 
  133. Private Violence – 2014 
  134. Bonnie and Clyde – 1967 
  135. The Fear of 13 – 2015 
  136. Gangs of Wasseypur – 2012 
  137. Piccadilly – 1929 
  138. Bernie – 2011 
  139. Man Bites Dog – 1992 
  140. Bowling for Columbine – 2002 
  141. The Phantom – 2021 
  142. Capote – 2005 
  143. Strangers on a Train – 1951 
  144. Collective – 2019 
  145. Icarus – 2017 
  146. To Kill a Mockingbird – 1962 
  147. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room – 2005 
  148. Inside Job – 2010 
  149. Amanda Knox – 2016 
  150. Gomorrah – 2008 

Documentaries to See Before You Die Part I

  1. Apollo 11 – 2019
  2. 20 Feet from Stardom – 2013
  3. Minding the Gap – 2018
  4. Man on Wire – 2008
  5. Dick Johnson is Dead – 2020
  6. Amy – 2015
  7. Totally Under Control – 2020
  8. Stop Making Sense – 1984
  9. Inside Job – 2010
  10. Hoop Dreams – 1994
  11. One Child Nation – 2019
  12. Iris – 2015
  13. Rewind – 2020
  14. The Invisible War – 2012
  15. Spellbound – 2002
  16. March of the Penguins – 2005
  17. Muscle Shoals – 2013
  18. Citizenfour – 2014
  19. Tower – 2016
  20. Blackfish – 2013
  21. McQueen – 2018
  22. Amazing Grace – 2019
  23. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution – 2020
  24. Athlete A – 2020
  25. Slay the Dragon – 2020
  26. 56 & Up – 2013
  27. Collective – 2020
  28. Three Indentical Strangers – 2018
  29. Time – 2020
  30. The Decline of Western Civilization – 1981
  31. Jiro Dreams of Sushi – 2012
  32. Seymour: An Introduction – 2015
  33. On the Record – 2020
  34. Sound CIty – 2013
  35. The Look of Silence – 2015
  36. RBG – 2018
  37. Life Itself -2018
  38. Faces Places – 2017
  39. The Last Waltz – 1978
  40. Welcome to Chechnya – 2020
  41. Paris is Burning – 1991
  42. Capturing the Friedmans – 2003
  43. I am Not Your Negro – 2017
  44. Taxi to the Dark Side – 2007
  45. The Interrupters – 2011
  46. A Thousand Cuts – 2020
  47. More Than Honey – 2013
  48. Hitchcock/Truffaut – 2015
  49. The War Tapes – 2006
  50. We Were Kings – 1996
  51. Rivers and Tides – 2001
  52. Bill Cunningham: New York – 2010
  53. Last Train Home – 2010
  54. Afghan Star – 2009
  55. The Missing Picture – 2014
  56. Maiden – 2019
  57. Knock Down the House – 2019
  58. Muderball – 2005
  59. Free Solo – 2018
  60. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – 2018
  61. Waste Land – 2010
  62. Bowling for Columbine – 2002
  63. Searching for Sugar Man – 2012
  64. Grey Gardens – 1975
  65. The Work – 2017
  66. The Act of Killing – 2012
  67. Gleason – 2016
  68. Life, Animated – 2016
  69. How to Survive a Plague – 2012
  70. O.J.: Made in America – 2016
  71. The Times of Harvey Milk – 1984
  72. The Thin Blue Line – 1998
  73. Harlan County, U.S.A. – 1976
  74. Shoah – 1985
  75. Night and Fog – 1956
  76. Don’t Look Back – 1967
  77. Nanook of the North – 1922
  78. Man with a Movie Camera – 1929
  79. Grizzly Man – 2005
  80. Hearts and Minds – 1974
  81. Roger & Me – 1989
  82. Titicut Follies – 1967
  83. Lake of FIre – 2006
  84. Woodstock – 1970
  85. The Sorrow and the Pity – 1969
  86. Salesman – 1969
  87. Triumph of the Will – 1935
  88. Crumb – 1994
  89. Gimme Shelter – 1970
  90. For Sama – 2019
  91. Monterey Pop – 1968
  92. F for Fake – 1973
  93. Kon-Tiki – 1950
  94. Helen Keller in Her Story – 1954
  95. The War Game – 1966
  96. The Hellstrom Chronicle – 1971
  97. Marjoe – 1972
  98. Malcolm X – 1972
  99. The 81st Blow – 1974
  100. Best Boy – 1979