Best Crime / Noir Movies from VHS Era

A hand-picked selection of the greatest crime / noir films of the VHS era — chosen for thrills, craft, and pure rewatch value.

GoodFellas

1990

The Wrong Trousers

1993

Pulp Fiction

1994

The Thin Blue Line

1988

Se7en

1995

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

1979

La Haine

1995

Heat

1995

Nayakan

1987

Fargo

1996

L.A. Confidential

1997

Blue Velvet

1986

Léon: The Professional

1994

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

1993

Vengeance Is Mine

1979

The Usual Suspects

1995

Scarface

1983

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998

Bound by Honor

1993

Reservoir Dogs

1992

Casino

1995

Carlito's Way

1993

Snatch

2000

Satya

1998

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra

1983

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger

1980

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight

1980

Nine Queens

2000

The Untouchables

1987

Fallen Angels

1995

Vabank

1981

Amores Perros

2000

Made in Hong Kong

1997

Ten Little Indians

1987

Donnie Brasco

1997

True Romance

1993

Menace II Society

1993

Sonatine

1993

Reservoir Dogs

1991

The Name of the Rose

1986

Miller's Crossing

1990

The Mission

1999

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

A Better Tomorrow

1986

Blow Out

1981

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles

1981

Serie Noire

1979

Blue Collar

1978

Jackie Brown

1997

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999

Running Out of Time

1999

The Wounds

1998

The Bandit

1996

Glengarry Glen Ross

1992

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

Pickpocket

1997

Set It Off

1996

Violent Cop

1989

Blood Simple

1984

Suzhou River

2000

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

A Simple Plan

1998

Bound

1996

Citizen X

1995

Juice

1992

Midnight Run

1988

Veronika Voss

1982

Thief

1981

Straight Time

1978

The Driver

1978

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

2000

Insomnia

1997

L.627

1992

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1988

To Live and Die in L.A.

1985

Coup de Torchon

1981

The Long Good Friday

1980

Scum

1979

Death on the Nile

1978

Traffic

2000

Sexy Beast

2000

Pusher

1996

Shallow Grave

1994

Bad Lieutenant

1992

City on Fire

1987

Body Heat

1981

Prince of the City

1981

Green Fish

1997

State of Grace

1990

Prison on Fire

1987

At Close Range

1986

Mona Lisa

1986

The Longest Nite

1998

The Crying Game

1992

Presumed Innocent

1990

House of Games

1987

Atlantic City

1980

Rabid Dogs

1996

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

1986

Chopper

2000

Bang, Boom, Bang

1999

Nowhere to Hide

1999

Out of Sight

1998

Red Rock West

1993

Diva

1981

On Board

1998

So Long, Stooge

1983

To Die For

1995

Romper Stomper

1992

One False Move

1991

New Jack City

1991

The Limey

1999

Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century

1999

Get Shorty

1995

The Grifters

1990

River's Edge

1986

The Hit

1984

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978

The Scent of the Night

1998

Gangster No. 1

2000

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995

Cutter's Way

1981

Don

1978

Flickering Lights

2000

Assa

1987

La Balance

1982

Go

1999

Rounders

1998

A Moment of Romance

1990

Wild at Heart

1990

Buffet Froid

1979

Cholera Street

1997

Mississippi Burning

1988

Burnt Money

2000

Juha

1999

Brother

1997

Sleepers

1996

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers

1980

Hardcore

1979

Dance with a Stranger

1985

Deep Cover

1992

Vabank II

1985

The General

1998

Clockers

1995

Gonin

1995

Shanghai Triad

1995

Come, Sweet Death

2000

Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper

1997

American Me

1992

Q & A

1990

Brother 2

2000

Our Lady of the Assassins

2000

God of Gamblers

1989

The Sign of Four

1987

Summer of Sam

1999

Dinner Rush

2000

Man Bites Dog

1992

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target

1998

Pigs

1992

Dead Again

1991

Murder by Decree

1979

Following

1999

Coldblooded

1995

Drowning by Numbers

1988

The Professor

1986

Confidentially Yours

1983

Shinjuku Triad Society

1995

Natural Born Killers

1994

Tell Me Something

1999

Homicide

1991

The Big Easy

1986

American Gigolo

1980

As Tears Go By

1988

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

2000

Bullet Ballet

1998

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes

1998

Crime and Punishment

1983

Evil Under the Sun

1982

Going in Style

1979

Hard Eight

1996

Boiling Point

1990

Rainy Dog

1997

The Funeral

1996

To Catch a Killer

1992

Once a Thief

1991

Boiler Room

2000

Croupier

1998

Dead Presidents

1995

Crime Story

1993

Rush

1991

King of New York

1990

The Murdered House

1988

Ms .45

1981

Short Sharp Shock

1998

The Long Riders

1980

Two Hands

1999

Dance with the Devil

1997

Felidae

1994

Black Rain

1989

The Needle

1988

Stormy Monday

1988

The Swindle

1997

Gotti

1996

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995

Choice of Arms

1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981

Dobermann

1997

Freeway

1996

Young and Dangerous

1996

Boulevard Nights

1979

Dead or Alive

1999

Ley Lines

1999

Of Freaks and Men

1998

A Shock to the System

1990

L'été en pente douce

1987

The Tobacconist of Vallecas

1987

Fingers

1978

Wild Things

1998

The Way of the Gun

2000

Another Day in Paradise

1998

Ghulam

1998

Face

1997

Agneepath

1990

The Hot Spot

1990

The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984

Cop or Hood

1979

Romeo Is Bleeding

1993

Diggstown

1992

Thunderheart

1992

Zero Effect

1998

The Cousin

1997

The Patrolman 777

1978

The Yards

2000

Zero Tolerance

1999

The Public Eye

1992

The Mighty Quinn

1989

Inspector Lavardin

1986

Tightrope

1984

Deadly Circuit

1983

Vice Squad

1982

Thursday

1998

Dick Tracy

1990

Twilight

1998

Above the Rim

1994

China Girl

1987

Year of the Dragon

1985

True Confessions

1981

Cast a Deadly Spell

1991

Nurse Betty

2000

Shaft

2000

The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 1)

1984

Miami Blues

1990

The Krays

1990

Police

1985

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

Street Smart

1987

Code of Silence

1985

The Godfather Part III

1990

Bangkok Dangerous

2000

The Boondock Saints

1999

Kiss the Girls

1997

Love and a .45

1994

In Too Deep

1999

After Dark, My Sweet

1990

Brother

2000

A Rage in Harlem

1991

Cop

1988

American Buffalo

1996

Amateur

1994

Clay Pigeons

1998

Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir

1997

2 Days in the Valley

1996

Kansas City

1996

Golgo 13: The Professional

1983

The Big Pardon

1982

Sharky's Machine

1981

Payback

1999

The Brink's Job

1978

The Bone Collector

1999

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

1992

Sara

1997

The Two Jakes

1990

Tough Guys

1986

Fedora

1978

U Turn

1997

The Doom Generation

1995

Revenge

1990

Subway

1985

The Cotton Club

1984

Fort Apache, the Bronx

1981

Blood and Wine

1996

Assassins

1995

8MM

1999

Hoodlum

1997

Kafka

1991

Last Man Standing

1996

Jawbreaker

1999

Dead Bang

1989

Johnny Handsome

1989

Very Bad Things

1998

Killing Zoe

1993

Bullet

1996

River of Grass

1995

Shattered

1991

An Innocent Man

1989

Hammett

1982

The Corruptor

1999

The Newton Boys

1998

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

1997

China Moon

1994

Harlem Nights

1989

Tequila Sunrise

1988

The Mirror Crack'd

1980

Guncrazy

1992

Belly

1998

Kurt & Courtney

1998

Mulholland Falls

1996

Kill Me Again

1989

The Courier

1986

Josh

2000

B. Monkey

1999

The Young Americans

1993

White Sands

1992

Under Suspicion

1991

For a Cop's Hide

1981

The Hunter

1980

The Presidio

1988

Billy Bathgate

1991

Breathless

1983

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

2000

Best Laid Plans

1999

Judas Kiss

1998

Albino Alligator

1997

Night and the City

1992

Off Limits

1988

Against All Odds

1984

Beautiful Creatures

2000

Kiss of Death

1995

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk

1989

The Bedroom Window

1987

Essex Boys

2000

The Guilty

2000

Sugar Hill

1994

Criminal Law

1989

City of Industry

1997

Shopping

1994

Money for Nothing

1993

8 Million Ways to Die

1986

Fear City

1984

The Minus Man

1999

Phoenix

1998

The Loner

1987

Heaven's Prisoners

1996

Shadows and Fog

1991

Palmetto

1998

Kite

1998

Assassin(s)

1997

The Boys Next Door

1986

Playing God

1997

Mobsters

1991

Jennifer Eight

1992

Appointment with Death

1988

The Concrete Jungle

1982

Excess Baggage

1997

Messenger of Death

1988

Curdled

1996

Tuff Turf

1985

The Big Sleep

1978

Boiling Point

1993

A Prayer for the Dying

1987

Goodbye Lover

1999

True Crime

1995

The Getaway

1994

The Real McCoy

1993

Family Business

1989

Sunset

1988

K-911

1999

Homegrown

1998

Bad Company

1995

The Underneath

1995

L.A. Takedown

1989

Buster

1988

A Stranger Among Us

1992

Thirteen at Dinner

1985

City Heat

1984

Feeling Minnesota

1996

Best Men

1997

Detective

1985

Heat

1986

Bait

2000

The January Man

1989

Baise-moi

2000

V.I. Warshawski

1991

Ordinary Decent Criminal

2000

Violence in a Women's Prison

1982

Striptease

1996

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989

Murder in Three Acts

1986

The Sicilian

1987

The Watcher

2000

Gloria

1999

I Love Trouble

1994

Get Carter

2000

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

1981

The Mod Squad

1999

Deadfall

1993