Top Rated Crime Movies on Amazon Video - Page 327

Undercover Maisie

1947

Undercover Maisie

1947
8
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996
10
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Blind Spot

2012

Blind Spot

2012
7
Police officer Tom Faber was found shot to death in his car behind the stadium. Inspector Hastert (André Jung) from the criminal police leads the investigation and searches for the murderer together with Olivier (Jules Werner), the brother of the murdered man, who is also a police officer. After an initial clue that led to the drug milieu, a prostitute appears who is said to be in a relationship with Tom and who has given him a key to a place where something important is hidden. It turns out that in a locker in the sacristy of the National Library is a file with documents that indicate Tom was on the trail of an influential businessman's sordid dealings before his death. But Olivier still doesn't see what lies behind the dead end of the investigation...
Sign of the Wolf

1941

Sign of the Wolf

1941
6
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Amsterdam Connection

1978

Amsterdam Connection

1978
4
When two Hong Kong buddies become rivals for the same woman, their friendship ends, and they join rival tong gangs. Later, a tong boss cleverly conspires to use a motion picture company to cover illegal drug trafficking: Actresses are sent to Amsterdam for film roles not realizing that they carry cocaine shipments. Once in Holland, the actresses are sold into prostitution. Soon the faux film company shanghais the woman who put the two friends at odds. To save their beautiful damsel, the two ex-buddies must join forces and go on the offense. Written by Neva Friedenn
Ivy League Killers

1959

Ivy League Killers

1959
6
Bunch of ruthless rich kids frame a gang of bikers for their crimes.
The Honor of the Press

1932

The Honor of the Press

1932
6
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
Hotel Continental

1932

Hotel Continental

1932
6
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
Warm Blooded Killers

1999

Warm Blooded Killers

1999
6
John Portenza is a hit man and baseball card collector, working on his anger management. His little sister Vicky works alongside her brother in the people removal business.
Danger Street

1947

Danger Street

1947
4
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
American Dream

2008

American Dream

2008
1
Movie that chronicles Mikes Jones' real life rise to fame as an aspiring rapper from the streets who finds his path in life through music in his hometown of Houston, Texas.
A Killer Walks

1952

A Killer Walks

1952
3
Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger brother. Before long, the old woman ends up dead—murdered. Fingers point strongly to one suspect, but is he really guilty?
There Is Another Sun

1951

There Is Another Sun

1951
6
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Skeem

2011

Skeem

2011
6
South African crime/comedy movie. Forced to spend the night at a creepy old holiday resort, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when, unpacking the car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway
Meet Mr. Callaghan

1954

Meet Mr. Callaghan

1954
6
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Missing Girls

1936

Missing Girls

1936
5
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Rollin: The Decline of the Auto Industry and Rise of the Drug Economy in Detroit

2010

Rollin: The Decline of the Auto Industry and Rise of the Drug Economy in Detroit

2010
10
Artists and journalists love to invoke that holy word of American evil ' Detroit ' whenever they can. After all, what could be cooler than cars, Motown, and murder? And in the aftermath of the recent economic meltdown and auto industry bail-out Detroit has become shorthand for all that ails America. Detroit was once the seat of the greatest economic empire the world has ever seen; the auto industry; but now, Detroit is the face of failure. Failure not of the city's people, but of its leaders and of America itself. 'Rollin' is the true story of the decline of the auto industry and the rise of the drug economy in Detroit.
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996
6
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarah's whereabouts. When the crucial clue is discovered, Sarah's father confronts her kidnapper at gunpoint.
Tell Me No Lies

2007

Tell Me No Lies

2007
6
In a small town, Jordan, the son of police chief Bates, and his friends Glenn and Russel Derrek, the son of the garage-owner Gordon Russell, enjoy having their way with local girls, like Tori, and recording those exploits on video. When Alex Mills is about to report them to the police, he is pushed but it's staged as an accident. Samantha 'Sam' Cooper witnesses this, and is threatened in order to keep her silent, next her mothers car is sabotaged, finally ecstasy laid in her locker so an anonymous tip to the police gets her arrested. When Derrek turns his back to his friends and promises Sam's mother Laura to testify, he has a 'car accident', actually run off the road, but survives. Laura and Tori's mother Shawna get one cop, Officer Brady Thomas, to investigate, and the chief starts to suspect his son is going bad again, but where lies his loyalty?
Pinching Penny

2011

Pinching Penny

2011
4
A British hypochondriac turns to crime after becoming addicted to consumerism. As his obsession worsens, his life falls quickly into the absurd and he continues to spend himself deeper and deeper into depravity.