# List of crime films of the 2010s

This is a list of crime films released in the 2010s.

## 2010

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2010 |||||
| 22 Bullets | Richard Berry | Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Richard Berry | France | Crime thriller |
| Animal Kingdom | David Michôd | James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton | Australia | |
| Beyond the Grave | Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro | Daniel Bacchieri, Leandro Lefa, Rafael Tombini | Brazil | |
| Brighton Rock | Rowan Joffé | Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren | United Kingdom | Crime thriller |
| Brooklyn's Finest | Antoine Fuqua | Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke | United States | |
| Cold Fish | Sion Sono | Denden, Megumi Kagurazaka, Tetsu Watanabe | Japan | Crime thriller |
| I Saw the Devil | Kim Jee-woon | Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Chun Kook-Haun | South Korea | Crime thriller |
| The Killer Inside Me | Michael Winterbottom | Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Killing Jar | Mark Young | Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau Jr., Amber Benson | United States | Crime thriller |
| London Boulevard | William Monahan | Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Ben Chaplin | United Kingdom | |
| The Next Three Days | Paul Haggis | Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson | United States | Crime drama, crime thriller |
| Outrage | Beat Takeshi Kitano | | Japan | |
| The Robber | Benjamin Heisenberg | Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz, Markus Schleinzer | Germany Austria | |
| Small Town Murder Songs | Ed Gass-Donnelly | Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Martha Plimpton | Canada | |
| A Somewhat Gentle Man | Hans Petter Moland | Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Gard Eidsvold | Norway | |
| Takers | John Luessenhop | Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Tip "T.I" Harris | United States | |
| The Town | Ben Affleck | Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm | United States | |
| Twelve | Joel Schumacher | Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford, Anthony Quarles | France United States | |

## 2011

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2011 |||||
| 30 Minutes or Less | Ruben Fleischer | Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari | United States | Crime comedy |
| The Big Bang | Tony Krantz | Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, James Van Der Beek | United States | Crime comedy |
| Bullhead | Michaël R. Roskam | | Belgium | |
| Delhi Belly | Abhinay Deo | Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vir Das | India | Crime comedy |
| Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston | United States | Crime thriller |
| Flypaper | Rob Minkoff | Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson | United States | Crime comedy |
| Hodejegerne | Morten Tyldum | Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Norway | |
| Kill the Irishman | Jonathan Hensleigh | Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer | United States | |
| Life Without Principle | Johnnie To | Lau Ching Wan, Richie Jen, Denise Ho | Hong Kong | |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | Brad Furman | Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, Josh Lucas, Bryan Cranston, Michael Peña | United States | |
| Pinching Penny | Dan Glaser | Steven Molony, Timothy J. Meyer, Ginny Glaser Lauren J. Wertz | United States | Crime thriller |
| S.I.U. | Hwang Byung-guk | Uhm Tae-woong, Joo Won, Jung Jin-young | South Korea | |
| Snowtown | Justin Kurzel | Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris | Australia | Crime drama, true crime |
| Tower Heist | Brett Ratner | Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck | United States | Crime comedy, heist film |

## 2012

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2012 |||||
| ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards | Stefano Sollima | | France Italy | Crime drama |
| Black's Game | Oskar Thor Axelsson | | Iceland | |
| Cleanskin | Hadi Hajaig | Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox | United Kingdom | |
| Contraband | Baltasar Kormákur | Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy | United States | |
| Drug War | Johnnie To | Sun Hong-Lei, Louis Koo, Huang Yi | China Hong Kong | Crime thriller |
| End of Watch | David Ayer | Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick | United States | Crime thriller |
| Fury | David Weaver | Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga | Canada | |
| Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 | Anurag Kashyap | Manoj Bajpai, Richa Chadda, Reemma Sen | India | Crime drama |
| Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 | Anurag Kashyap | Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda, Huma Qureshi | India | Crime drama |
| Get the Gringo | Adrian Grunberg | Mel Gibson, Jésus Ochoa, Daniel Jiménez Cacho | United States | |
| Hit and Run | Dax Shepard | Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper | United States | Crime comedy |
| The Iceman | Ariel Vromen | Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans | United States | |
| Ill Manors | Ben Drew | Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press | United Kingdom | Crime thriller |
| Killing Them Softly | Andrew Dominik | Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn | United States | |
| Lawless | John Hillcoat | Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke | United States | Crime drama |
| Lethal Hostage | Cheng Er | Sun Honglei, May Wang, Ni Dahong | China | |
| Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell | United States | Crime thriller |
| Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time | Yoon Jong-bin | Choi Min-sik, Ha Jeong-u, Jo Jin-ung | South Korea | |
| Outrage Beyond | Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura | Japan | |
| Passion | Brian De Palma | Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Place Beyond the Pines | Derek Cianfrance | Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes | United States | Crime drama |
| Robot & Frank | Jake Schreier | Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard | United States | Crime comedy |
| Safe | Boaz Yakin | Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Robert John Burke | United States | |
| Savages | Oliver Stone | Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek | United States | |
| The Scent | Kim Hyoung-jun | Park Hui-sun, Park Shi-yeon, Ju Sang-uk | South Korea | |
| The Thieves | Choi Dong-hoon | Kim Yoon-seok, Lee Jung-jae, Kim Hye-soo | South Korea | |

## 2013

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2013 |||||
| 2 Guns | Baltasar Kormákur | Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton | United States | Crime comedy |
| Ain't Them Bodies Saints | David Lowery | Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster | United States | Prison film |
| American Hustle | David O. Russell | Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams | United States | Crime drama |
| Blind Detective | Johnnie To | Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Guo Tao | Hong Kong China | |
| The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Taissa Farmiga | Germany United States | Crime drama |
| Blue Caprice | Alexandre Moors | Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson | United States | |
| Blue Ruin | Jeremy Saulnier | Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves, Bonnie Johnson | United States | Crime drama |
| Cold Eyes | Cho Ui-seok, Kim Byeong-seo | Sul Kyung-gu, Jung Woo-sung, Han Hyo-joo | South Korea | |
| The Counselor | Ridley Scott | Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz Javier Bardem | United States | Crime thriller |
| Crimes of Passion | Gao Qunshu | Angelababy, Huang Xiaoming, Jae Hui | China | |
| The Devil's Path | Kazuy Shiraishi | Takayuki Yamada, Pierre Taki, Chizuru Ikewaki | Japan | |
| Gangster Squad | Ruben Fleischer | Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin | United States | |
| The Keeper of Lost Causes | Mikkel Norgaard | Nikolaj Lee Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter | Denmark | Police detective film |
| Man of Tai Chi | Keanu Reeves | Keanu Reeves, Tiger Chen, Iko Uwais | United States | |
| New World | Park Hoon-jung | Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min | South Korea | |
| Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn | Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm | Denmark France | |
| Prisoners | Denis Villeneuve | Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo | United States | Crime drama |
| Shield of Straw | Takashi Miike | Takao Osawa, Nanako Matsushima, Goro Kishitani | Japan | |
| The Shifting | Julio Saldarriaga | Carlos Acuña, Matthew Alan, Felix Avitia, Yeniffer Behrens, Tonita Castro, Chris Paradice Daniels, Kaitlyn Dias, Alice Dinnean, Judy Echavez, David Fernandez Jr., Carmina Garay, Cesar Garcia, Vanessa Hidalgo, RoseAnn Kelley, Samantha Kelly, Kim Kendall, Melina Lizette, Eddy Martin, Mauricio Mendoza, Martin Morales, Emily Ozrey, Robert Romanus, Eddie Ruiz, Eric St. John, Kristyn Toney, Craig Tsuyumine, Reggie Watkins and Morgan Larson | United States Colombia | Action crime drama film |
| Trance | Danny Boyle | James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson | United Kingdom | Caper, crime thriller |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie | United States | Crime drama |

## 2014

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2014 |||||
| Black & White: The Dawn of Justice | Tsai Yueh-Hsun | Mark Chao, Lin Gengxin, Huang Bo | China Taiwan Hong Kong | Crime action |
| Black Coal, Thin Ice | Diao Yi'nan | Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Xuebing | China | |
| The Boundary | Wang Tao | Liu Ye, Vincent Zhao, Choo Ja-hyun | China | Suspense action crime drama |
| The Breaking Point | James C. Hunter | Erik Grey, Diana Lovell, Reggie Peters, Roy Williams Jr. and Sean Nelson | United States | Action crime drama |
| Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed | United States | Crime thriller |
| Pale Moon | Daihachi Yoshida | Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Satomi Kobayashi | Japan | Crime drama |
| Poker Night | Greg Francis | Beau Mirchoff, Ron Perlman, Titus Welliver | Canada United States | Action-Crime-Thriller |
| The Raid 2 | Gareth Evans | Iko Uwais, Arifin Putra, Oka Entara | Indonesia | Crime drama, gangster film |
| Sabotage | David Ayer | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard | United States | Crime thriller |
| Scratch | Maninder Chana | Julie Romaniuk, Craig Cyr, Romaine Waite, Jojo Karume, J.J. Reville, Len Silvini and Justin Bott | Canada | Action crime comedy-drama |
| Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez | Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin | United States | |
| Target | Yang Jiang | Song Yang, Yang Chengjun, Kara Wong | China | Action suspense crime |

## 2015

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2015 |||||
| 12 Citizens | Xu Ang | He Bing, Han Tongsheng, Qian Bo | China | Suspense crime drama |
| The Big Short | Adam McKay | Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling | United States | |
| Scratch | Maninder Chana | Julie Romaniuk, Craig Cyr, Romaine Waite, Jojo Karume, J.J. Reville, Len Silvini and Justin Bott | Canada | Action crime comedy-drama |
| Straight Outta Compton | F. Gary Gray | O'Shea Jackson Jr, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, Paul Giamatti | United States | Biographical |
| War on a String | Li Kai | Vincent Chiao, Andrew Lin, Lin Jinfeng | China | Suspense crime action |

## 2016

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 2016 |||||
| South of 8 | Tony Olmos | Brian Patrick Butler, George Jac, Jennifer Paredes, Kathryn Schott, Raye Richards | United States | Crime drama thriller |