A financial adviser launders cartel money at a Missouri lake; Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
A teenager taken in by his criminal family in Melbourne; Jacki Weaver's grandmother.
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander; the Swedish Millennium film before Fincher's.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
A corporate recruiter who steals art picks the wrong target; Jo Nesbo's thriller on screen.
An anthology in the Coens' Minnesota; each season a new decade and a new crime.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
Two con men and a sheet of rare stamps in Buenos Aires; Argentina's heist classic.
Five stories of the Camorra in the Naples suburbs, shot like a documentary.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
Brad Pitt as an unintelligible boxer and an 86-carat diamond; Ritchie's follow-up.
Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose empire explodes over one Easter weekend.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
Four friends, a card game and a lot of London gangsters; Guy Ritchie's debut.
Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in Louisiana; the six-minute tracking shot and "time is a flat circle".
Ben Kingsley as the most terrifying gangster in Britain arrives at a Costa del Sol villa.
A cop in the triads and a triad in the police; the film The Departed remade.
A hitman tries to fund an eye operation for the singer he blinded; Woo's doves and two-gun ballet.
Five hours of a coal-mafia feud across three generations; Anurag Kashyap's Godfather.
The hunt for Korea's first serial killer in the 1980s; Bong Joon-ho's ending stare.
The Red Army Faction from 1967 to 1977; Germany's terrorism epic.
Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.
A hypnotist leaves a trail of murderers who cannot say why; Kiyoshi Kurosawa's slow terror.
Chow Yun-fat lights a cigarette with a burning banknote; the heroic bloodshed genre begins.
Chow Yun-fat in a hospital shootout of one continuous take; John Woo's Hong Kong farewell.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
A secret agent hunts and repeatedly releases the man who killed his fiancee; Kim Jee-woon's revenge extreme.
Robert Pattinson's detective Batman in a rain-soaked Gotham hunting the Riddler.
Joaquin Phoenix dances down the Bronx stairs; a comic-book film that won the Golden Lion.
Daniel Craig as a Southern detective in a New England mansion; Rian Johnson's whodunit.
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