Top Rated Crime Movies on Kanopy - Page 8

A Pure Formality

1994

A Pure Formality

1994
7.4
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
Angst

1983

Angst

1983
7.1
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Ms .45

1981

Ms .45

1981
6.7
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.
The Nile Hilton Incident

2017

The Nile Hilton Incident

2017
6.6
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
Abducted in Plain Sight

2018

Abducted in Plain Sight

2018
6.5
In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trusted neighbour and close family friend.
Bullhead

2011

Bullhead

2011
7.1
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.
Bandit

2022

Bandit

2022
6.2
After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the true story of The Flying Bandit.
A Touch of Sin

2013

A Touch of Sin

2013
7.2
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
The Wild Goose Lake

2019

The Wild Goose Lake

2019
6.6
A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.
Sabotage

1937

Sabotage

1937
6.7
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Ash Is Purest White

2018

Ash Is Purest White

2018
6.8
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
Trespass Against Us

2016

Trespass Against Us

2016
5.8
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.
Bordertown

2007

Bordertown

2007
6.3
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Cut Bank

2014

Cut Bank

2014
5.7
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
In Her Name

2016

In Her Name

2016
6.8
In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Freejack

1992

Freejack

1992
5.4
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
SK1

2015

SK1

2015
6.9
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006
6.5
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
Snowtown

2011

Snowtown

2011
6.3
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Kill Your Friends

2015

Kill Your Friends

2015
6.1
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.