Artists of Crime

By: alex peterso​n

The best crime films by directors more interested in character.

• 01
  Spies
  Fritz Lang
• 02
  Scarface
  Howard Hawks
• 03
  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  Fritz Lang
• 04
  The Great McGinty
  Preston Sturges
• 05
  High Sierra
  Raoul Walsh
• 06
  Le corbeau
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 07
  Scarlet Street
  Fritz Lang
• 08
  The Big Sleep
  Howard Hawks
• 09
  Drunken Angel
  Akira Kurosawa
• 10
  Stray Dog
  Akira Kurosawa
• 11
  Los olvidados
  Luis Buñuel
• 12
  On Dangerous Ground
  Nicholas Ray
• 13
  Gun Crazy
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 14
  Pickup on South Street
  Samuel Fuller
• 15
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 16
  Touchez pas au grisbi
  Jacques Becker
• 17
  Le deuxième souffle
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 18
  Mr. Arkadin
  Orson Welles
• 19
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 20
  Bob le flambeur
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 21
  Pickpocket
  Robert Bresson
• 22
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 23
  Shoot the Piano Player
  François Truffaut
• 24
  The Trial
  Orson Welles
• 25
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 26
  The Unfaithful Wife
  Claude Chabrol
• 27
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 28
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 29
  The Long Goodbye
  Robert Altman
• 30
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 31
  Vengeance Is Mine
  Shôhei Imamura
• 32
  Blood Simple
  Joel Coen
• 33
  The Thin Blue Line
  Errol Morris
• 34
  Drugstore Cowboy
  Gus Van Sant
• 35
  Violent Cop
  Takeshi Kitano