This is chronological list of

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

s split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between Crime and other genres (including, action,

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, and drama films); the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to crime, even if it bends genres.

Films by decades

* List of crime films before 1930 * List of crime films of the 1930s * List of crime films of the 1940s * List of crime films of the 1950s * List of crime films of the 1960s *

List of crime films of the 1970s The following is a list of crime films released in the 1970s. Notes {{Filmsbygenre Crime films 1970s File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignati ...

* List of crime films of the 1980s *

List of crime films of the 1990s A list of crime films released in the 1990s. * List of crime films of 1990 * List of crime films of 1991 *List of crime films of 1992 * List of crime films of 1993 * List of crime films of 1994 * List of crime films of 1995 * List of crime films ...

List of crime films of the 2000s This is a list of crime films released in the 2000s. * List of crime films of 2000 * List of crime films of 2001 * List of crime films of 2002 * List of crime films of 2003 * List of crime films of 2004 * List of crime films of 2005 * List of cr ...

List of crime films of the 2010s A list of crime films released in the 2010s. Notes {{Filmsbygenre Crime films 2010s File:2010s collage v21.png, From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, m ...

* List of crime films of the 2020s

Films by decades

See also