Hidden Gems
Underrated Crime Movies
Crime films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Crime Films
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Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$57K box officeJean Servais, Carl Möhner +2
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The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.0$654K box officeRobert Mitchum, Shelley Winters +2
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Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami·1990·BiographyTML 90★ 8.2$3K box officeHossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf +2
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Elevator to the Gallows
Louis Malle·1958·CrimeTML 89★ 7.9$375K box officeJeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet +2
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri·1970·CrimeTML 88★ 8.0$265K box officeGian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan +2
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan·1962·CrimeTML 88★ 8.2$592K box officeGregory Peck, John Megna +2
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The Ladykillers
Alexander Mackendrick·1955·ComedyTML 87★ 7.7$23K box officeAlec Guinness, Peter Sellers +2
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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Fritz Lang·1931·CrimeTML 87★ 8.3$29K box officePeter Lorre, Ellen Widmann +2
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Band of Outsiders
Jean-Luc Godard·1964·ComedyTML 87★ 7.6$67K box officeAnna Karina, Claude Brasseur +2
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Khosla Ka Ghosla!
Dibakar Banerjee, Pravin E. Birje·2006·ComedyTML 86★ 8.2$26K box officePravin E. Birje, Anupam Kher +2
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