Top Rated Crime Movies on Kanopy - Page 40

The Living

2014

The Living

2014
5.5
After beating his wife in an alcohol-fueled rage, a man (Fran Kranz) tries to redeem himself, while his brother-in-law (Kenny Wormald) hires a hit man to kill him.
Happy Valley

2014

Happy Valley

2014
6.8
The children of "Happy Valley" were victimized for years, by a key member of the legendary Penn State college football program. But were Jerry Sandusky’s crimes an open secret? With rare access, director Amir Bar-Lev delves beneath the headlines to tell a modern American parable of guilt, redemption, and identity.
Sun Don't Shine

2013

Sun Don't Shine

2013
5.3
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
Bad Seed

1934

Bad Seed

1934
5.6
A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
Eat the Night

2024

Eat the Night

2024
6.5
Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.
New York Ninja

2021

New York Ninja

2021
5
A sound technician's pregnant wife is brutally murdered while witnessing a kidnapping in broad daylight. Dressing as a white ninja, he takes to the streets as a sword-wielding vigilante hell bent on cleaning up the streets of New York City.
Lucky Grandma

2020

Lucky Grandma

2020
6.5
In New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck — and in the middle of a gang war.
Piccadilly

1929

Piccadilly

1929
6.4
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

2022

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

2022
6
Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.
Buoyancy

2019

Buoyancy

2019
7
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
A Scandal in Paris

1946

A Scandal in Paris

1946
6.4
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Wanted for Murder

1946

Wanted for Murder

1946
6.4
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Yakuza Graveyard

1976

Yakuza Graveyard

1976
6.7
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Appointment with Danger

1950

Appointment with Danger

1950
5.5
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Chan Is Missing

1982

Chan Is Missing

1982
6.8
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
The Dirty South

2023

The Dirty South

2023
6
Sue Parker is thrust into a desperate struggle to rescue her family's failing business, teetering on the edge of ruin due to her father's negligence. With the arrival of a charming wanderer, she sees him as their sole hope to help prevent their bar from being seized by the merciless local tycoon.
Limbo

2023

Limbo

2023
5.8
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
Assassins

2021

Assassins

2021
6.8
True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?
Budapest Noir

2017

Budapest Noir

2017
6.1
A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.
Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded

2014

Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded

2014
7.2
In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago. Cocaine Cowboys is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States. But it isn't the whole story - Pulling from hundreds of hours of additional interviews and recently uncovered archival news footage, Cocaine Cowboys has been RELOADED: packed with footage and stories that have never been told about Griselda Blanco, the Medellín Cartel, and Miami's Cocaine Wars, with firsthand accounts by hit man Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala, cocaine trafficker Jon Roberts, smuggler Mickey Munday, and others. Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded recreates Miami's Cocaine Wars like you've never experienced it.