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1. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 2,012,555 | Gross: $134.97M

2. The Wire (2002–2008)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.

Stars: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 377,534

3. Law & Order (1990– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.

Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston

Votes: 44,597

4. Die Hard (1988)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson

Votes: 945,633 | Gross: $83.01M

5. The Untouchables (1987)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith

Votes: 330,835 | Gross: $76.27M

6. The Deuce (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 1,583 min | Drama

A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s, when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.

Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Margarita Levieva

Votes: 31,936

7. Sudden Impact (1983)

R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 48,646 | Gross: $67.64M

8. King of New York (1990)

R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller

A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo

Votes: 42,108 | Gross: $2.55M

9. The Devil's Own (1997)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades

Votes: 71,653 | Gross: $42.87M

10. Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.

Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates

Votes: 94,761 | Gross: $24.01M

11. Code of Silence (1985)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take down an irresponsible cop.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese

Votes: 9,394 | Gross: $20.35M

12. Q&A (1990)

R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 7,004 | Gross: $11.21M

13. Brooklyn South (1997–1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama

A realistic and gritty police drama centering on the lives of a group of close knit police officers and crime victims at a seedy police station in Brooklyn, New York City.

Stars: Jon Tenney, Michael DeLuise, Gary Basaraba, Titus Welliver

Votes: 2,344

14. Final Mission (1984)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, War

Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being ... See full summary »

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Richard Young, Christine L. Tudor, Jason Ross, John Dresden

Votes: 221

15. Half a Sinner (1940)

Passed | 59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off ... See full summary »

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Heather Angel, John 'Dusty' King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett

Votes: 416

16. Caught by Wireless (1908)

10 min | Short, Drama

In Ireland, Paddy is having troubles with his rent collector who has also made advances to Paddy's wife. The rent collector enlists the aid of the Black-and-Tans and Paddy has to flee to ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace McCutcheon | Stars: D.W. Griffith, Edward Dillon

Votes: 83

17. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: High & Low (2000)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A college coed, who is a stripper by night, gets murdered. Two drug dealers are arrested by the detectives. The dealers link her death to a famous porn star, a top business exec, and an illegal insider trading scam.

Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 283

18. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Zodiac Killer: I Am the Zodiac Part 2 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

He terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s, killing young couples at secluded lover's lanes. Not satisfied with just the murders, he also taunted the public with cryptic clues, ... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Butterfield, Pierre Bidou, Tom Voigt

Votes: 49

19. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Son of Sam Part 1: The Duke of Death (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

From 1976 to 1977, David Berkowitz terrorized New York City - under his creepy self-given moniker: "the Son of Sam"; he is among the most infamous serial killers in American history.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Antoinette Collarini-Schlossberg, Steve Wax, Mark Jay Heller

Votes: 30

20. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: Chapo Public Enemy No 1 (2021)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's ... See full summary »

Director: Minna Sedmakov | Stars: Mike Ferrara, Olivia Flores, Mia Flores, Jack Riley

Votes: 24

21. Outlaw Empires (2012– )
Episode: Boston's Irish Mob (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime, History

"Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter examines the complete story of the South Boston Irish Mob. From the 1800s to the early 1970s, Irish street gangs waged war for control of Boston's ... See full summary »

Director: Marielle Woods | Stars: Kevin Weeks, Kurt Sutter, Pat Nee, Rick Marinick

Votes: 18

22. Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode: Haircut for a Mob Boss (2023)

Crime

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.

Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano