101 Recommended crime movies (inspired by Baker's crime/noir list)
Submitted by kenji on Wed, 03/30/2005 - 03:00
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- Les Vampires (Feuillade, 1915)
- Sherlock jnr (Keaton, 1924)
- Spies (Lang, 1928)*
- Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1928)
- M (Lang, 1931)
- The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Lang, 1933)
- The 39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935)
- Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936)
- Pépé le Moko (Duvivier, 1937)
- La Bete Humaine (Renoir, 1938)
- Le Jour se Leve (Carné, 1939)
- The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)*
- Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
- Murder my Sweet (Dmytryk, 1944)
- Laura (Preminger, 1944)
- Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945)
- The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)*
- Gilda (Vidor, 1946)
- The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)
- Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 1947)
- Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
- The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1948)
- The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
- White Heat (Walsh, 1949)
- Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)*
- The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton, 1951)
- Casque d'Or (Becker, 1952)*
- The Big Heat (Lang, 1953)
- Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
- Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
- Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)*
- Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)*
- Bob le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)
- Diaboliques (Clouzot, 1955)
- The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
- Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)*
- North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)*
- Shoot the Pianist (Truffaut, 1960)
- Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
- High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963)
- The Pink Panther (Edwards, 1963)
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Kramer, 1963)
- Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
- The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964)
- Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)*
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965)
- Le Samourai (Melville, 1967)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
- Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
- Branded to Kill (Suzuki, 1967)
- Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut, 1968)
- La Femme Infidele (Chabrol, 1969)
- Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970)
- The Red Circle (Melville, 1970)
- The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
- Klute (Pakula, 1971)
- Ten Days Wonder (Chabrol, 1971)
- The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
- Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)
- Badlands (Malick, 1973)
- The Wicker Man (Hardy, 1973)
- The Godfather 2 (Coppola, 1974)
- Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
- The American Friend (Wenders, 1977)
- Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
- Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981)
- Diva (Beineix, 1981)
- Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1983)*
- Scarface (De Palma, 1983)
- Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984)
- Prizzi's Honour (Huston, 1985)
- Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)*
- The Untouchables (De Palma, 1987)
- A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
- Crimes and Misdemeanours (Allen, 1989)
- Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
- Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)*
- Grifters (Frears, 1990)
- The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
- The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
- Sonatine (Kitano, 1993)
- True Romance (Scott, 1993)
- Darkness in Tallinn (Jarvilaturi, 1993)
- Heat (Mann, 1995)
- Fargo (Coen, 1996)
- Bound (Wachowski bros, 1996)
- L.A.Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
- Hana-Bi (Kitano, 1997)
- Audition (Miike, 1999)
- Eureka (Aoyama, 2000)
- Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000)
- Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)
- Mulholland Dr (Lynch, 2001)*
- Femme Fatale (De Palma, 2002)
- Road to Perdition (Mendes, 2002)
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho, 2003)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook, 2004)
My favourites asterisked. Definitions aren't easy so i've allowed a wide berth, included a few favourites by Hitch that probably fit, even if often as much about suspenseful adventure/ spies/ psychological turmoil as gangsters + the details of crime. Also some comedies, even an animation. No doubt i've forgotten some, so suggestions welcome.
I've not forgotten Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, Scarface (32), Get Carter, Taxi Driver, Trainspotting, The Italian Job (69), Dirty Harry, City of God, The Ladykillers (55) + other famous ones, but i'm just not keen enough, sorry.