Crime Bucket List

Park's debut: a gangster's runner and his boss's girlfriend head for the coast. He disowned it for years.

Lecter in Florence ten years on, and a dinner scene that lost the film half its audience.

A professor rents a room from a churchgoing Mississippi widow and tunnels to a casino vault.

Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.

Getty refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom; Plummer replaced Spacey in nine days of reshoots.

A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.

The Wachowskis' first feature: an ex-convict and a mobster's girlfriend plan to take two million dollars of laundered money out from under him.

A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.

Arthur Fleck on trial from Arkham with Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel, told as a jukebox musical; the lowest CinemaScore ever given a comic-book film.

Small-time swindlers dress as priests to rob peasants, and one of them tires of it.

A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.

The feature cut of Dekalog 5: a murder and an execution, shot through green filters; it helped end the Polish death penalty.

A hitman's routine, his mistakes and his internal monologue, to the Smiths.

Fincher's Lisbeth Salander, with a Reznor score and the coldest Sweden on film.

A gangster forces a student into prostitution and watches her through a mirror.

A triad and his reckless little brother; Wong's first film, and the most conventional.

A woman released after thirteen years for a murder she did not commit collects her debts.

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez solve murders in their Upper West Side building.

Sarah Lund and her jumper hunt a killer over twenty days; the original Forbrydelsen.

A detective in the Weimar Berlin of 1929; Germany's most expensive series.

Colin Farrell under prosthetics rises through Gotham's underworld after The Batman.

A body on the Oresund bridge, half in Sweden and half in Denmark; Saga Noren.

A 13-year-old arrested for murder, four episodes each in a single take; the British series of 2025.

A Mumbai policeman and a gangster's prophecy of the city's end; India's first Netflix original.

Omar Sy as a gentleman thief in Paris inspired by the Arsene Lupin books; the Louvre heist.

Mads Mikkelsen cooks for Will Graham; the most beautiful horror on network television.

A maximum-security prison in Emerald City; HBO's first drama and the model for everything after.