Top Rated Crime Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 96

Life Tastes Good

1999

Life Tastes Good

1999
5
A quirky tale that brings together a murder, poisonous mushrooms and a mysterious woman to reveal the ephemeral beauty of life and the unforgiving nature of death. It is the story of a rogue mobster who finds love in the darkest days of his life.
Out of Nowheresville

2020

Out of Nowheresville

2020
2
A middle-aged woman, struggling to make ends meet and survive in remote desert town, stumbles onto a dead body and nearly a million dollars in cash. Along with her best friend, the two are swept up in a chaotic world of drugs and bad cops. The choices they make along the way make all the difference as they discover what's most important in life.
Monkey Business

1998

Monkey Business

1998
4
Two ex-cons try to frame the good-guy detective who sent them to jail. However, a group of kids decides to shut the gangsters' operations down with the help of some friends from the animal kingdom.
Russian Holiday

1992

Russian Holiday

1992
4
In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.
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.
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
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?
Identity Theft

2007

Identity Theft

2007
8
When a drug deal turns into a bloodbath, a junkie-gangster crosses paths with an illegal alien. The illegal alien ends up with the gangster's ID and uses it to create a new successful life as a US citizen. A near death experience causes the gangster to re-evaluate his life, and when he leaves prison three years later, he is clean, sober, and ready to put his life back together. But both men are haunted by their pasts and they are soon set on a collision course that may destroy them and the women they love.
In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery

1999

In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery

1999
6
Someone – or something – is stalking the woods of Lynx River, a small isolated town in the unforgiving wilderness. When a geologist on the verge of a major diamond find is murdered, Corporal Michelle Kenidi and her partner Constable James Harper suspect a hotheaded entrepreneur who’d been double-crossed by diamond hunters. But then the town nurse disappears under chilling circumstances and the two cops find themselves tracking a phantom. Through endless miles of rough terrain, their search leads to a startling discovery: the unknown stalker’s real target is Michelle. Now the madman is playing a deadly game with people as bait. And when the two finally meet, it’s a showdown that will leave only one of them standing.
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.
Unknowns

2012

Unknowns

2012
10
A group of young unknown actors arrive in Hollywood with dreams of fame and fortune. When they are cast in a horror film they become the unsuspecting participants in a snuff film - theirs.
The Vault

2005

The Vault

2005
2
After terrorists take over a museum, a reformed jewel thief must decide if he should help them steal a priceless diamond or if he should save the day.
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

1951

Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

1951
6
Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.
A Killing Affair

1985

A Killing Affair

1985
6
Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him. Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
Oldhead

2023

Oldhead

2023
LA, a young hustler tied to the “God Bless” crew, faces a choice after his rival Kareem’s death. His girlfriend Sonya begs him to leave the life, and veteran cop Rosenberg offers him a way out. But when LA discovers who killed his father, revenge takes over. Now his godfather Bumpy, Philly’s mayor, must stop him before it’s too late. Will LA choose love and freedom—or let revenge pull him back in?
Mother Monster

2013

Mother Monster

2013
Neighbors considered nine-year-old Harmony Phillips, her father Cornell Phillips and her mother Estelle Pointer, to be upstanding citizens in their quiet little estate at Concord Manor. They turned a blind eye to the lavish lifestyle they lived, compliments of Cornell's involvement in the drug trade. When Harmony is abruptly taken away from her home by her scorned mother, her world is rocked. Without her father's protection, she doesn't just lose her expensive dolls she also loses any chance of a normal and healthy life. Many years later, under the mental and physical abuse of her mother, Harmony develops a seething hate toward all women, including herself. She quickly develops into a cold, calculating, young and beautiful woman. What a deadly combination.
Blood Empires

2014

Blood Empires

2014
Blood Empires is about pride, family, redemption, and above all love; struggling people on either side of the law, rise out of pain and misery. Daniel and Elena live in middle America. They crave love and acceptance in all the wrong places. Daniel is an unassuming hitman and enforcer with an even darker secret. Elena is an unlikely cop struggling with revenge. Peter Joachim travelled from India to Canada, shooting his first feature film in twelve days. This stylized allegory gives a window into the characters' everyday decisions.
The Ribbon

2024

The Ribbon

2024
When Kate goes missing, Carmen is dedicated to finding her, which leads her to John's house, who is suspiciously unaware.
Conned: A True Story

2023

Conned: A True Story

2023
True stories of scams: bank accounts wiped out, lives all but lost. The survivors reveal the dark secrets of the con.