Best crime movies on MUBI in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
34 movies on MUBI in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.7. Most are in English (17), German (8), French (3). Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. Dogville (2003)
Movie · English · 2h 58m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 8.0 (1.7L votes)
Slow-burnTwistyMatureDark & gritty
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
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2. Carlito's Way (1993)
Movie · English · 2h 24m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.9 (2.5L votes)
MatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
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3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Movie · English · 2h 20m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.9 (1.3L votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittyTwistyMature
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming u
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4. A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Movie · Polish · 1h 25m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.9 (24.8K votes)
Slow-burnMatureCold & detachedDark & gritty
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
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5. No Other Choice (2025)
Movie · Korean · 2h 19m · Comedy, Crime · IMDb 7.5 (77.8K votes)
MatureDark & grittyFunnyEdge-of-seat
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
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6. Victoria (2015)
Movie · German · 2h 18m · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 7.5 (68.2K votes)
Fast-pacedVisually stunningEdge-of-seatMature
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
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7. Fallen Angels (1995)
Movie · Cantonese · 1h 38m · Action, Romance · IMDb 7.5 (61.7K votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunningSlow-burn
An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.
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8. Europa (1991)
Movie · German · 1h 53m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (25.0K votes)
TwistySlow-burnVisually stunningDark & gritty
In 1945 Germany, following the end of World War II, Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, is hired by his uncle as a sleeping car conductor on the Zentropa train line. Leopold's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but ultimate
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9. It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Movie · French · 1h 43m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 7.4 (40.3K votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatCold & detached
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
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10. Revanche (2008)
Movie · German · 2h 1m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (17.5K votes)
MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seatSlow-burn
Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt
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11. Blue Collar (1978)
Movie · English · 1h 54m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.5 (12.4K votes)
Dark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seatCold & detached
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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12. Great Freedom (2021)
Movie · German · 1h 56m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 7.5 (9.0K votes)
Slow-burnMatureDark & gritty
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.
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13. In the Fade (2017)
Movie · German · 1h 46m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 7.1 (38.2K votes)
MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
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14. Short Sharp Shock (1998)
Movie · German · 1h 40m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.1 (6.2K votes)
MatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
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15. Beating Hearts (2024)
Movie · French · 2h 40m · Romance, Crime · IMDb 7.0 (9.3K votes)
Mature
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
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16. The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
Movie · English · 1h 51m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 6.8 (10.6K votes)
MatureCold & detachedTwistyDark & gritty
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
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17. The Golden Glove (2019)
Movie · German · 1h 50m · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 6.7 (22.9K votes)
MatureDark & grittyCold & detachedSlow-burn
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
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18. The Delinquents (2023)
Movie · Spanish · 3h 10m · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 6.7 (5.0K votes)
Dialogue-driven
Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split
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19. The Element of Crime (1984)
Movie · Danish · 1h 44m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.6 (12.4K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which invo
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20. The Living End (1992)
Movie · English · 1h 25m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.6 (4.8K votes)
MatureFast-pacedDark & grittyCold & detached
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
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21. Not a Pretty Picture (1976)
Movie · English · 1h 23m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (395 votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittySlow-burn
Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.
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22. River of Grass (1995)
Movie · English · 1h 16m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 6.5 (3.2K votes)
MatureTwistySlow-burnDark & gritty
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
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23. Paradise (2024)
Movie · Malayalam · 1h 34m · UA · Drama, Crime · IMDb 6.5 (3.5K votes)
SeriousCold & detached
An Indian tourist couple arrive in the hill country of crisis ridden Sri Lanka to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. But, when things take an unexpected turn, conflicts deepen revealing cracks in their relationship.
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24. Moon (2024)
Movie · German · 1h 32m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (1.2K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seatMature
Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters are under surveillance around the clock. They have no interest in learn
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25. Within Our Gates (1920)
Movie · English · 1h 14m · Drama, Romance · IMDb 6.4 (4.2K votes)
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
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26. Guilty Bystander (1950)
Movie · English · 1h 31m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 6.2 (1.4K votes)
Edge-of-seatTwistyDark & grittyFast-paced
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
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27. As Long as Shotguns Remain (2014)
Movie · French · 30m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 5.8 (322 votes)
Cold & detachedMatureDark & gritty
Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.
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28. Murder in Mississippi (1965)
Movie · English · 1h 23m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 5.5 (249 votes)
MatureCold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
Three white kids travel down to Mississippi to help with voter registration. Murder, sex slavery and general unsavoriness follow.
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29. Shanty Tramp (1967)
Movie · English · 1h 12m · Drama, Crime · IMDb 5.6 (606 votes)
Cold & detachedMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
On a hot night in Dixie, the local shanty tramp heads out for adventure and leaves disaster in her wake. The lust she excites in the local men leads to fights, murders, lynch mobs, ruined reputations, and broken homes.
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