Crime Genre

  • Crime — justice, and the laws we choose to live by

Crime is about the law and the people on either side of it. A wrong is done, the story follows the effort to answer it, and justice turns out to be harder to define than the rulebook says.

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Crime films

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  • The Shawshank Redemption

    1994

  • The Godfather

    1972

  • The Godfather Part II

    1974

  • The Dark Knight

    2008

  • Pulp Fiction

    1994

  • The Green Mile

    1999

  • GoodFellas

    1990

  • Inception

    2010

  • Se7en

    1995

  • City of God

    2002

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    1991

  • Léon: The Professional

    1994

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    1984

  • The Departed

    2006

  • Joker

    2019

  • A Clockwork Orange

    1971

  • Scarface

    1983

  • The Usual Suspects

    1995

  • Reservoir Dogs

    1992

  • Taxi Driver

    1976

  • Prisoners

    2013

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    2013

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