Movies by Lists - Top British Crime Movies (73 [83]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 44 Inch ChestA jealous husband and his friends plot the kidnapping of his wife's lover with the intention of restoring his wounded ego. | 2009 | Malcolm Venville | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (7.1K votes) | 95 | 20240205 |
| AdulthoodSix years after KiDULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on,... | 2008 | Noel Clarke | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (13.1K votes) | 99 | 20240122 |
| Bank Job, TheMartine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets. | 2008 | Roger Donaldson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (179.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Brighton RockCharts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish. | 2010 | Rowan Joffe | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (6.7K votes) | 111 | 20240127 |
| Brighton RockIn Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang. | 1948 | John Boulting | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| BronsonA young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson. | 2008 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (127.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Business, TheFrankie is sent from London to Spain to make a delivery to Charlie, who likes the kid and shows him the ropes including the use of guns and drugs. Frankie likes the sun, pools and the cute, bikini clad girls and stays in Spain. | 2005 | Nick Love | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (14.3K votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| CassAn orphaned Jamaican baby is adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London and becomes one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Based on a true story. | 2008 | Jon S. Baird | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (6.5K votes) | 108 | 20240329 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| ClubbedAn underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman. | 2008 | Neil Thompson | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.7 (3.7K votes) | 95 | 20240122 |
| Concrete Jungle, The [The Criminal]In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money. | 1960 | Joseph Losey (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (1.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Crew, TheAs a major heist approaches and with betrayal all around him, a respected crime boss has to summon all his street nous and killer instinct as he fights for survival. | 2008 | Adrian Vitoria | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (2.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| CroupierAn aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel. | 1998 | Mike Hodges (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (20.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Dead FishTraitors, killers and lovers collide in London. | 2005 | Charley Stadler | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 5.3 (3.5K votes) | 98 | 20240306 |
| Dead Man RunningNick's borrowed money from a loan shark. He's 4 weeks behind. He gets 24 hours to come up with GBP100,000. His mom's a hostage. | 2009 | Alex De Rakoff | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (4.5K votes) | 92 | 20240127 |
| Debt Collector, TheMean, gritty, dirty, and low - and that's just Policeman Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1970s by notorious, torturous, and killer de | 1999 | Anthony Neilson | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Dom HemingwayAfter spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed. | 2013 | Richard Shepard | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.2 (26.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Down TerraceA crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business. | 2009 | Ben Wheatley | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (4.1K votes) | 89 | 20231101 |
| Escapist, TheFrank's 14 years into a life sentence when he decides to break out of the London prison to set things right with his ill junkie daughter. He plans an ingenious escape requiring 4 inmates with different skills. | 2008 | Rupert Wyatt | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (16.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Essex BoysThe film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6th December Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the po | 2000 | Terry Winsor | Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| FaceIn the face of demise in his values, a socialist in England decides to form a gang and rob banks for a living. | 1997 | Antonia Bird | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (4.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Firm, TheThis is the story of rival "Firms" of football supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discussed, the opposing leaders are not happy, as they believe this i | 1989 | Alan Clarke | Drama | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Football Factory, TheAn insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol. | 2004 | Nick Love | Crime, Drama, Sport | 6.7 (32.7K votes) | 91 | 20240329 |
| Frightened City, TheA small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him. | 1961 | John Lemont | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (793 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Gangster No. 1Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster. | 2000 | Paul McGuigan | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (13.8K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Get CarterWhen his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. | 1971 | Mike Hodges (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (32.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Going Off Big TimeAfter surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world. | 2000 | Jim Doyle | Thriller | 6.1 (903 votes) | 86 | 20240122 |
| Green Street Hooligans [Hooligans]A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism. | 2005 | Lexi Alexander | Crime, Drama, Sport, War | 7.4 (151.1K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| Hackney's FinestA small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies. | 2014 | Chris Bouchard | Action, Comedy, Crime | 4.6 (419 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Harry BrownAn elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. | 2009 | Daniel Barber | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (86.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Hell DriversA rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets. | 1957 | Cy Endfield | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 91 | 20220414 |
| Hit, TheTen years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong. | 1984 | Stephen Frears (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (8.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Human TrafficFive friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture. | 1999 | Justin Kerrigan | Comedy, Music | 7.1 (24.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| HyenaGood policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive? | 2014 | Gerard Johnson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (3.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| I.D.When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side. | 1995 | Phil Davis | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (6.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| I'll Sleep When I'm DeadA former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide. | 2003 | Mike Hodges (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (8.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Italian Job, TheComic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam. | 1969 | Peter Collinson | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (45.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| KidulthoodA day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London. | 2006 | Menhaj Huda | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (19.7K votes) | 89 | 20240122 |
| Kill ListNearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness. | 2011 | Ben Wheatley | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (39.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Krays, TheThis fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld. | 1990 | Peter Medak | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (8.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Layer CakeA successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement. | 2004 | Matthew Vaughn | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (176.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| League of Gentlemen, TheA disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision. | 1960 | Basil Dearden | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (4.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| LegendIdentical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s. | 2015 | Brian Helgeland | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (174.5K votes) | 132 | 20220414 |
| Let Him Have ItThis drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit. | 1991 | Peter Medak | Crime, Drama, History | 7.2 (3.5K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Lock, Stock And Two Smoking BarrelsEddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds. | 1998 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime | 8.2 (564.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| London BoulevardAn ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by working as a handy man for a reclusive actress but this is unfortunately not the wish of London's underground crime lord. | 2010 | William Monahan | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (47.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| London to BrightonDesperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong. | 2006 | Paul Andrew Williams | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (8.7K votes) | 85 | 20240323 |
| Long Good Friday, TheAn up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat. | 1980 | John Mackenzie | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (21.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Love, Honor and Obey [Love, Honour and Obey]A north London postman gets involved with a gang of criminals. | 2000 | Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis | Comedy, Crime | 6.4 (5.7K votes) | 103 | 20240122 |
| Made in BritainAfter being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo. | 1982 | Alan Clarke | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (6.8K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Man of ViolenceA mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country. | 1970 | Pete Walker | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (224 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| McVicar'John McVicar' was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is t | 1980 | Tom Clegg | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Mona LisaA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. | 1986 | Neil Jordan | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (16.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Nil by MouthA rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel. | 1997 | Gary Oldman | Drama | 7.3 (9K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Perfect FridayThe deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spe | 1970 | Peter Hall | Comedy, Crime | 6.4 (727 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| PerformanceA violent gangster seeks refuge from the mob in the Bohemian home of a former rock star. | 1970 | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (10.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| PulpA seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta. | 1972 | Mike Hodges (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (2.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Rise of the FootsoldierThe life of career criminal Carlton Leach. | 2007 | Julian Gilbey | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (20.6K votes) | 119 | 20220423 |
| RocknRollaWhen a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign m | 2008 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (246.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| ScumAn uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's. | 1979 | Alan Clarke | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (11.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Sexy BeastBrutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them. | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (60.2K votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
| ShiftyShifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him | 2008 | Eran Creevy | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| ShinerThe past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter. | 2000 | John Irvin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (2.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Sitting TargetImprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nig | 1972 | Douglas Hickox | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| SnatchUnscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Comedy, Crime | 8.2 (826.3K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Squeeze, TheA dangerous, violent gang kidnaps a woman and her daughter to extort some money from her rich husband. He and her down-on-his-luck ex-cop ex-husband decide to deal with the kidnappers themselves. | 1977 | Michael Apted | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (640 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Stormy MondayA crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot. | 1988 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.2 (4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| This Is EnglandA young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit. | 2006 | Shane Meadows | Crime, Drama | 7.7 (120.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| VillainIn 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament. | 1971 | Michael Tuchner | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| War Zone, TheAn alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret. | 1999 | Tim Roth | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (10.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Welcome to the PunchWhen a notorious criminal is forced to return to London, it gives a detective one last chance to take down the man he's always been after. | 2013 | Eran Creevy | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (33.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Wild BillA street-toughened parolee finds his two boys abandoned by their mum and fending for themselves. Time to step up, or not. | 2011 | Dexter Fletcher | Drama | 7.2 (14.4K votes) | 98 | 20231216 |
| Wrong Arm of the Law, TheIn London, when Australian gangsters disguised as "Bobbies" rob British criminals, the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal". | 1963 | Cliff Owen | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (1.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Peaky Blinders | 2013 | nan | Crime, Drama | 8.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mr In-Between | 2001 | Paul Sarossy | Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Long Firm | 2004 | nan | Crime, Drama | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Minder | 1979 | nan | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hard Men | 1996 | J.K. Amalou | Comedy, Crime | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bullet Boy | 2004 | Saul Dibb | Action, Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Sins | 2000 | nan | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Fear | 2012 | nan | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Goodbye Charlie Bright | 2001 | Nick Love | Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| He Who Rides a Tiger | 1965 | Charles Crichton | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |