Note: Multi-part divided post (today It'll be this topic, next week or tomorrow another topic and that'll be the drill here).

Warning: Long list, lots of images.

Let us face it, movies are an important part of our life and we've spent a huge part of it watching these beautiful pieces of art (and sometimes garbage). Which brings me to what I'm about to list here; I'm a big fan of cinema, I've been watching movies since I was a kid and really consider myself as an avid moviegoer and the items that I'm about to example here are my personal favourites, awesome movies that I enjoyed and loved.

If you are bored, or just having ardor to see really good movies in your language (maybe french or german haha) well, you've stumbled upon the right post because I'm gonna drop a huge list here so here we go:

Criminal Drama / Mafia / Policial / Serial Killers / Detective work


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The Fugitive

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt.

8mm

A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.

The next three days

A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.

C'est arrivé près de chez vous (man bites dog)

In this dark satire, a film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routines. But complications set in when the film crew loses their abjectness and begin lending a hand.

Jackie Brown

A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.

Carlito's way

A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.

The american

An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.

Ghost dog: The way of the samurai

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Chinatown (1974)

A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

The usual suspects

A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

The bank job

Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.

Mean streets (1973)

A small-time hood struggles to succeed on the "mean streets" of Little Italy.

Lost highway

After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life.

Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.

Taxi Driver (1976
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A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

Snatch

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Public enemies

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Falling down

An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Miller's crossing

Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.

Rear window (1954)

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Road to perdition

Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.

The liability (2012)

When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.

The untouchables (1987)

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

Sin city

A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.

Training day

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Drive (2011)

A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour.

Pulp Fiction

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Zodiac (2007)

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

Casino (1995)

Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

Eastern promises

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

American psycho

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

In bruges

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

Heat

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Reservoir dogs

After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Alpha Dog

A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Goodfellas

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

The godfather Part 1 (and 2)

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

List in constant update, these are mostly american movies but I'm trying to remember a lot of british crime movies that I've enjoyed as well.
No particular order, all by memory and all the images were taken from imdb and watchthis.