Best crime from the 2000s
The catalogue's crime films from 2000–2009, ranked by audience score. We bias against the cinephile-canonical picks (Letterboxd top-250) — if you've already seen the obvious entries, scroll past the first row.
City of God
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Memories of Murder
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Elite Squad
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
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Requiem for a Dream
Catch Me If You Can
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Freedom Writers
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Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
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Dancer in the Dark
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Killing Cabos
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3-Iron
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Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street
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Nine Queens
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The Chaser
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Dogville
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Mystic River
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Batman Begins
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Mother
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
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Sin Nombre
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American Gangster
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A Prophet
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Hot Fuzz
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Suspect X
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Zodiac
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Training Day
The Man Who Wasn't There
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In Bruges
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