Best crime biopics - Charts
Best crime biopics
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford
2. Papillon (1973)
USA / France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
3. Goodfellas (1990)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta
4. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
USA / Canada, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks
5. American Gangster (2007)
USA / UK, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe
6. Changeling (2008)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich
7. Serpico (1973)
USA / Italy, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph
8. Loving Vincent (2017)
UK / Poland, Animation / Biography
Directed by: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
Cast: Douglas Booth, Holly Earl
9. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
USA, Biography / Comedy
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill
11. Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
France / Canada, Action / Drama
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier
12. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Brian Knappenberger
Cast: David Sirota
14. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Germany / France, Action / Drama
Directed by: Uli Edel
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
15. Midnight Express (1978)
UK / USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alan Parker
Cast: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle
16. An American Crime (2007)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Tommy O'Haver
Cast: Elliot Page, Hayley McFarland
17. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale
18. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
USA, Biography / Music
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins
20. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
21. The Basketball Diaries (1995)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Scott Kalvert
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco
22. Monster (2003)
USA / Germany, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci
23. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
France / Canada, Action / Drama
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France
24. Richard Jewell (2019)
USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell
25. Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
UK, Action / Crime
Directed by: Julian Gilbey
Cast: Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone
26. Freedom Writers (2007)
USA / Germany, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey
27. The Whistleblower (2010)
Canada / Germany, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Larysa Kondracki
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave
29. Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
UK / USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Adrian Shergold
Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson
30. American Made (2017)
USA / Japan, Biography / Action
Directed by: Doug Liman
Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson
32. The General (1998)
UK / Ireland, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: John Boorman
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar
33. Molly's Game (2017)
USA / Canada, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba
36. The Irishman (2019)
USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino
37. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Spike Lee
Cast: John David Washington, Adam Driver
38. Kill the Irishman (2011)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jonathan Hensleigh
Cast: Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer
39. Just Mercy (2019)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx
40. The Story of a God-Father (2013)
Czech Republic, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Petr Nikolaev
Cast: Ondřej Vetchý, Lukáš Vaculík
41. Papillon (2017)
USA / Czech Republic, Biography / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Noer
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek
43. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Daniel Vigne
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
44. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
USA / Canada, Western / Crime
Directed by: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck
45. Public Enemies (2009)
USA / Japan, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale
46. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
New Zealand / Germany, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet
48. The Infiltrator (2016)
UK / USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Brad Furman
Cast: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo
50. Find Me Guilty (2006)
Germany / USA, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Vin Diesel, Alex Rocco
51. I Want to Live! (1958)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland
52. The Report (2019)
USA, Biography / Historical
Directed by: Scott Z. Burns
Cast: Adam Driver, Annette Bening
56. Rheingold (2022)
Germany / Italy, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Fatih Akin
Cast: Emilio Sakraya, Kardo Razzazi
57. Argentina, 1985 (2022)
Argentina / USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Santiago Mitre
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani
59. House of Gucci (2021)
USA, Biography / Thriller
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver
62. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
USA / Canada, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: George Clooney
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore
63. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Joe Berlinger
64. Veronica Guerin (2003)
Ireland / UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley
65. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt
66. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Joe Berlinger
Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins
68. The Iceman (2012)
USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Ariel Vromen
Cast: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder
69. The Clan (2015)
Argentina / Spain, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani
71. Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
USA / Canada, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Cast: 50 Cent, Terrence Howard
73. Loving Pablo (2017)
Spain / Bulgaria, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Fernando León de Aranoa
Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz
74. Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot
75. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: John McNaughton
Cast: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles
76. The Robber (2010)
Germany / Austria, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Benjamin Heisenberg
Cast: Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz
77. Nokas (2010)
Norway, Crime / Action
Directed by: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Cast: Marit Synnøve Berg, Frode Winther
78. Alpha Dog (2006)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake
79. Siberian Education (2013)
Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Arnas Fedaravicius, John Malkovich
80. American Animals (2018)
UK / USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Bart Layton
Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan
81. Lea (2015)
Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast: Linda Caridi, Mauro Conte
82. Stander (2003)
Canada / Germany, Drama / Action
Directed by: Bronwen Hughes
Cast: Thomas Jane, Deborah Kara Unger
83. Dance with a Stranger (1985)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Mike Newell
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett
84. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Tim Metcalfe
Cast: James Woods, Ellen Greene
85. The Snowtown Murders (2011)
Australia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Justin Kurzel
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adriaens
90. Big Boys Don't Cry (2020)
UK, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Steve Crowhurst
Cast: Michael Socha, Zoë Tapper
91. All the Money in the World (2017)
USA / Italy, Mystery / Biography
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Cast: Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg
93. Black Mass (2015)
USA / UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Scott Cooper
Cast: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton
94. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
USA, Western / Biography
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter
95. Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Marc Forster
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan
96. Ted Bundy (2002)
UK / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Matthew Bright
Cast: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss
97. Devil's Knot (2013)
USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth
98. City of Lies (2018)
UK / USA, Biography / Crime
Directed by: Brad Furman
Cast: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker
99. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Chris James Thompson
Cast: Frankie Latina, Nick Sommer
100. Lady Gucci: The Story Of Patrizia Reggiani (2020)
Italy, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jovica Nonkovic