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1967 · Jean-Pierre Melville
Melville's trench-coated hit man moves like a ghost through the coolest crime film ever composed.
Find it on Amazon →Goodfellas
1990 · Martin Scorsese
Scorsese's kinetic mob epic makes the wiseguy life intoxicating right up to the paranoid crash.
Find it on Amazon →The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme
A rookie agent bargains with a caged genius in the most intimate serial-killer thriller ever made.
Find it on Amazon →Pulp Fiction
1994 · Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino scrambles time, hit men, and diner philosophy into an endlessly quotable crime mosaic.
Find it on Amazon →Heat
1995 · Michael Mann
Mann's cops-and-thieves opera builds to a coffee-shop standoff and downtown gunfight for the ages.
Find it on Amazon →Strangers on a Train
1951 · Alfred Hitchcock
Two men, one deadly proposal to swap murders, and a merry-go-round finale off the rails.
Find it on Amazon →Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
A laid-up voyeur watches a possible murder unfold across the courtyard in Hitchcock's tightest thriller.
Find it on Amazon →The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
A preacher with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles stalks two children through a fairy-tale nightmare.
Find it on Amazon →Touch of Evil
1958 · Orson Welles
Welles opens with a legendary tracking shot, then spirals into corruption on a rotten border town.
Find it on Amazon →The Long Goodbye
1973 · Robert Altman
Altman drops a rumpled Marlowe into hazy '70s L.A., mumbling his code in a world that lost it.
Find it on Amazon →Se7en
1995 · David Fincher
Rain-soaked serial-killer nightmare that drags two detectives to an unforgettable box in a field.
Find it on Amazon →Fargo
1996 · Joel and Ethan Coen
A pregnant sheriff calmly unravels a snowbound kidnapping gone gruesomely, comically wrong.
Find it on Amazon →L.A. Confidential
1997 · Curtis Hanson
Three cops chase glamour and rot through 1950s Los Angeles in a razor-sharp neo-noir.
Find it on Amazon →Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon-ho
Bong's rural cops flail against Korea's first serial killer in a haunting, mud-caked procedural.
Find it on Amazon →The Departed
2006 · Martin Scorsese
Twin moles burrow into Boston's cops and mob in Scorsese's brutal, blackly funny mole hunt.
Find it on Amazon →Zodiac
2007 · David Fincher
Fincher's obsessive procedural haunts you with a killer who was never caught and never let go.
Find it on Amazon →Drive
2011 · Nicolas Winding Refn
A neon-lit stunt driver turns getaway wheelman in Refn's stylish, sudden-violence L.A. fable.
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