Ever since the 70s Crime Film Festival I’ve been a bit on a crime film kick, having watched Get Carter, Mean Streets, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Casino and Scarface. Along the way I’ve found a few Best Crime Films lists that may be worthy of your attention:
Here’s a list of Top 25 Crime Films I can’t really quibble too much about, though I’d probably change the order on some.
Here’s the IMDB Top 5o Crime Films List, which is a bit more eclectic.
Here’s a Top 100 List broken out by sub-genre. Unfortunately, in addition to expanding the list to include things like Westerns, it also lets some dubious crap in. (Constantine and Rendition? Really?) And Ronin is a great car chase surrounded by a pretty mediocre thriller.
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I’m not crazy about the choices of 20% of Top 25 list either. Looking at it makes me suspect that “Crime Film” is just too broad a list. You can’t throw Heist films, Mobster films, and Cop dramas all together like that. And they give short shrift to Crime movies in the Film Noir and Revenge category.
If Casino counts as 70s Crime then so does Goodfellas is too.