Best Crime Movie of All Time...

[Saddlepoint]

...not including either Godfather, or any film directed by Martin Scorcese.

Definition is naturally subjective, but heist films, gangster films, and movies about con artists are all permissable as far as I'm concerned.

[istewart]

OMG! CITY OF GOD!!!

[DemonDeac]

goodfellas

[TheCroShow]

for first time experience, The Usual Suspects...man so many though, The Godfather is great, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, New Jack City...so many to choose from...

[istewart]

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goodfellas

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Read the post. And then rewatch the movie and realize it's not anyway.

[coffeecrazy1]

Heat
Chinatown
The Usual Suspects
Heist

In that order...

[DemonDeac]

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goodfellas

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Read the post. And then rewatch the movie and realize it's not anyway.

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whatever, i stand by my post

[imported_CaseClosed326]

Doe "Clue" count?
If so, then clue.

[TheCroShow]

lmfao that's ridiculous, not including the godfather or any film by martin scorcese...how about this thread "best fantasy and/or sci-fi films not including anything by: lucas, spielberg, or jackson."

scorcese has made some of the best gangster/mafia/crime movies of this era, to exclude him would be a crime. (no pun intended)

[istewart]

It's really not ridiculous. Everyone would pick Goodfellas or The Godfather (I certainly would), so this poll changes that a bit.

[Josh W]

The Sting

[TheCroShow]

kinda defeats the purpose of a "best of" thread

[sexdrugsmoney]

Butt Raiders IV: The Search for Brown Gold.

[IronDragon1]

Scarface

[2+2 wannabe]

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Scarface

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[Nottom]

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The Sting

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[Vince Young]

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kinda defeats the purpose of a "best of" thread

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Seriously. Who cares what the 3rd or 4th best is?

[Saddlepoint]

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kinda defeats the purpose of a "best of" thread

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Seriously. Who cares what the 3rd or 4th best is?

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Me, when the top 2 or 3 are so intuitively obvious that discussing it would be a massive waste of time. If you want to run an official Greatest Crime Movies poll, I'd happily to vote in it, and I'd also bet my entire bankroll that The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Goodfellas take the top three spots in some order. And then we don't get to discuss the relative merits of The Sting, Scarface, The Usual Suspects, City of God, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Limey, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, and a dozen other movies I haven't seen yet but hopefully will as a result of this thread, which, I might add, ought to be a much more fertile discussion topic. So bite me.

[ucfryan]

Heat or Pulp Fiction, thread over. Goodfellas is a Scorcese film and if you don't think it's one of the best movies ever made you know nothing about movies.

[private joker]

http://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/forsidealm/1097061448338046.jpg

You didn't say anything about no Kubrick...

[blatz]

The Killing is the first one I thought of, my favorite heist movie.

I'll also toss in Dog Day Afternoon and Millers Crossing.

[TheCroShow]

how about reservoir dogs? that movie OWNS

[AsiaKurosawa]

http://www.maximument.com/graphics/Posters/Killer.jpg

::swoon::

[diebitter]

Get Carter (the original, obviously)

[IQ89]

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I love this movie.

[bort411]

Rear Window

[pryor15]

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Rear Window

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nh

[sfer]

Double Indemnity

Thomas Crowne Affair (original with Steve Mcqueen, not the P brosnan vehicle)

[johnnybeef]

Usual Suspects, and Snatch

[hoopsie44]

LA Confidential.

[mwilli31]

Dog Day Afternoon

[jakethebake]

Scarface

[correia]

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OMG! CITY OF GOD!!!

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Agreed
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[djoyce003]

don't forget pulp fiction

[jakethebake]

The Maltese Falcon

[WillMagic]

The French really know what they are doing in this genre...

Le Samourai (my choice)
Bob Le Flambeur
Rififi

Will

[Soul Daddy]

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LA Confidential.

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I concur.

[swede123]

Lots of excellent ones mentioned so far. Particularly I like The Sting and L.A. Confidential.

Swede

[NoPeak]

Pulp Fiction
Scarface

[mmbt0ne]

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LA Confidential.

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DING

[hoopsie44]

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Scarface

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Which did you think was better, the original or the remake?

[Hamish McBagpipe]

The Spinal Tap of crime movies:

http://www.csicop.org/si/9905/man-bites-dog.jpg

[bwana devil]

how about someone making a case for pulp fiction even being a crime film? it is a great movie. (i even watched it w/ tarintino). but im not sure it should be considered a crime film.

resevoir dogs is clearly a crime film. there's a bank heist. in pulp fiction there are murders committed but those are the result of immediate reactions the characters have. not elaborate plots that are laid out throughout the movie (such as double indemnity).

in a crime film, the characters should plot out and struggle w/ committing the crime. have obstacles, be unsure of themselves, risk getting caught, etc. what is THE crime in pulp fiction?

[Dominic]

Double Indemnity

[Paluka]

Reservior Dogs
Snatch
City of God

[sam h]

Touch of Evil

[chaas4747]

Seven, if you can consider it a crime movie.

[2planka]

Some fun heist flicks:

Killing Zoe
Snatch
Reservoir Dogs

Some underworld motif flicks:
Red Rock West
Blue Velvet
Things to do in Denver when you're dead

[M2d]

Laslo was a criminal, so this qualifies /images/graemlins/smile.gif
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[Sponger15SB]

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The Maltese Falcon

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I was more of a The Big Sleep fan.

[nervous]

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Scarface

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[ryanghall]

City of God, if it counts.

[touchfaith]

Lord of the Flies

[wayabvpar]

LA Confidential
The Sting
Heat
The Usual Suspects

and to add one that hasn't been mentioned-
Ocean's 11 (either version works). Fun caper movie.

[Iplayragstoo]

Hands down..end of story.

[oreogod]

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The French really know what they are doing in this genre...

Le Samourai (my choice)
Bob Le Flambeur
Rififi

Will

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Le Samurai rules. In fact I think its John Woos favorite movie. City of God is good, not the best though.

Some of my favorites (if u take Godfather and Casino out)

Heat.
Leon (The Professional)
The Killer
Hardboiled (two of the best)
Natural Born Killers (how was this not mentioned already)
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Blow
Ronin
La Femme Nikkita (the original)
Boondock Saints
Usual Suspects

....and many of the others mentioned here already.

[Soya]

I'll throw in another vote for Miller's Crossing, which I think is the best movie the Coen Brothers have made (and I consider Raising Arizona and Lebowski to be among the top comedies of all time).

[Forbin]

'Way of the Gun' may not be the best, but I thought it was pretty good.

[Jules22]

a few not mentioned (i think) are reservoir dogs, and "blow", the one with johnny depp. i liked both of those, and also casino, altho i dont know if that one qualifies