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Top 10 by Genre

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Pepper Ratings / Top 10 by Genre / Movies / Crime

Top 10 Crime Movies

Criminal ambition, investigations and the complicated cost of power.

10 EDITORIAL PICKS
1
MovieThe Godfather Part IICover pending
Movie1974

The Godfather Part II

Parallel stories of a father’s rise and a son’s consolidation of power examine how ambition can hollow out a family’s original bonds.

9.5/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
2
MovieThe GodfatherCover pending
The Godfather cover
Movie1972

The Godfather

A family’s criminal business draws its reluctant son into leadership in a richly observed study of power, loyalty and compromise.

9.2/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
3
MovieGoodfellasCover pending
Movie1990

Goodfellas

A mob associate’s rise reveals the exhilaration and insecurity of criminal belonging through energetic storytelling and sharply drawn relationships.

9.2/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
4
MovieCity of GodCover pending
Movie2002

City of God

Lives intersect around organised violence in Rio de Janeiro, with kinetic technique exposing the human cost of a self-perpetuating criminal world.

9.0/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
5
MoviePulp FictionCover pending
Movie1994

Pulp Fiction

Interlocking criminal encounters rearrange chronology and expectations, distinguished by vivid dialogue, dark humour and sudden shifts in power.

9.0/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
6
MovieMemories of MurderCover pending
Movie2003

Memories of Murder

A murder investigation in rural South Korea becomes a darkly comic and deeply unsettling study of flawed methods and human frustration.

9.0/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
7
MovieHeatCover pending
Movie1995

Heat

A meticulous thief and a driven detective recognise something of themselves in each other as their paths move towards confrontation.

8.8/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
8
MovieOnce Upon a Time in AmericaCover pending
Movie1984

Once Upon a Time in America

A gangster reflects on friendship and betrayal across decades in an expansive, melancholy story about memory and irreversible choices.

8.6/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
9
MovieL.A. ConfidentialCover pending
Movie1997

L.A. Confidential

Three police officers navigate corruption and ambition in a carefully layered portrait of crime and power in mid-century Los Angeles.

8.6/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime
10
MovieThe DepartedCover pending
Movie2006

The Departed

An undercover officer and a criminal infiltrator struggle to protect their identities in a pressure-filled contest of loyalty and suspicion.

8.4/ 10 · Pepper Score
Peppermoon pick · Crime

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