This is chronological list of crime films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between Crime and other genres (including,

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, thriller, and

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); the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to crime, even if it bends genres.

Films by decades

* List of crime films before 1930 *

List of crime films of the 1930s A list of crime films released in the 1930s. Notes {{Filmsbygenre Crime films Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve vari ...

List of crime films of the 1940s A list of crime films released in the 1940s. Notes

{{Filmsbygenre Lists of 1940s films by genre, Crime films Lists of crime films by decade, 1940s 1940s crime films, * ...

List of crime films of the 1950s A list of crime films released in the 1950s. References {{Filmsbygenre Crime films * 1950s The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began o ...

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List of crime films of the 1990s A list of crime films released in the 1990s. * List of crime films of 1990 * List of crime films of 1991 *List of crime films of 1992 * List of crime films of 1993 * List of crime films of 1994 * List of crime films of 1995 * List of crime films ...

List of crime films of the 2000s This is a list of crime films released in the 2000s. * List of crime films of 2000 * List of crime films of 2001 * List of crime films of 2002 * List of crime films of 2003 * List of crime films of 2004 * List of crime films of 2005 * List of cr ...

List of crime films of the 2010s A list of crime films released in the 2010s. Notes {{Filmsbygenre Crime films 2010s File:2010s collage v21.png, From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, man ...

List of crime films of the 2020s A list of crime film originally released in the 2020s. 2020 2021 2022 2023 TBA References {{Filmsbygenre Crime films 2020s The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" shortened to "the '20s" and referred to as the twenties) is ...

Films by decades

See also