Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dumb-criminal"

1. Justified (2010–2015)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Enforcing his own brand of justice, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a strong-willed, quiet law-man haunted by his past, returns to his native town to see that justice is served to those in need.

Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 118,642

2. Fargo (1996)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare

Votes: 726,502 | Gross: $24.61M

3. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham

Votes: 616,186 | Gross: $3.90M

4. Kick-Ass (2010)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown

Votes: 593,204 | Gross: $48.07M

5. Home Alone (1990)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard

Votes: 652,725 | Gross: $285.76M

6. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

R | 89 min | Horror

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie

Votes: 93,369 | Gross: $12.63M

7. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei

Votes: 111,644 | Gross: $7.08M

8. Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.

Director: Navot Papushado | Stars: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 51,131

9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Turtles get into another battle with their enemy the Shredder, who has acquired new allies: the mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady and the alien being Krang.

Director: Dave Green | Stars: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry, Laura Linney

Votes: 99,791 | Gross: $82.05M

10. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung

Votes: 150,815 | Gross: $17.11M

11. Pain & Gain (2013)

R | 129 min | Action, Biography, Comedy

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 229,316 | Gross: $49.88M

12. The Bling Ring (2013)

R | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Claire Julien

Votes: 92,221 | Gross: $5.84M

13. Get Shorty (1995)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, John Travolta

Votes: 89,088 | Gross: $72.08M

14. Be Cool (2005)

PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn

Votes: 72,169 | Gross: $56.05M

15. Cops (1989–2023)

TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Crime, Reality-TV

Camera crews follow police officers while they work.

Stars: Ruben Barela, Andrew Fincher, Alex Cox, Heather Ashley Chase

Votes: 7,177

16. Ghosts of Mars (2001)

R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham

Votes: 57,958 | Gross: $8.43M

17. Fat Albert (2004)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids come to life and step out of their animated, inner-city Philadelphia world.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Kenan Thompson, Kyla Pratt, Omarion, Marques Houston

Votes: 12,948 | Gross: $48.12M

18. The Ladykillers (2004)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall, J.K. Simmons

Votes: 108,906 | Gross: $39.80M

19. Reindeer Games (2000)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After assuming his dead cell-mate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-convict finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, James Frain

Votes: 42,393 | Gross: $23.36M

20. 30 Minutes or Less (2011)

R | 83 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Aziz Ansari

Votes: 106,625 | Gross: $37.05M

21. Hard Rain (1998)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The partner and nephew of an armored-truck driver tries to prevent three million dollars from being taken by a gang during a catastrophic flooding caused by a severe storm.

Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver

Votes: 37,295 | Gross: $19.82M

22. Barbershop (2002)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.

Director: Tim Story | Stars: Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson

Votes: 33,536 | Gross: $75.78M

23. Big Trouble (2002)

PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 21,650 | Gross: $7.26M

24. The Wash (2001)

R | 93 min | Comedy

Life at the car wash is a place in Los Angeles, California where anything can and does happen to two friends Sean & Dee Loc (Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg) trying to earn money to pay their rent.

Director: DJ Pooh | Stars: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Anthony Albano, Tic

Votes: 7,662 | Gross: $10.10M

25. Kid Cannabis (2014)

Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kenny Wormald, Aaron Yoo, Ron Perlman

Votes: 10,504

26. Playing God (1997)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced surgeon leaves his former life and reinvents himself as a gunshot doctor in the criminal underworld.

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee

Votes: 7,967 | Gross: $4.05M

27. Loot (1970)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ... See full summary »

Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 628

28. Best Laid Plans (1999)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A botched robbery leads two crooks and an unwitting buddy into a web of passion, crime and murder in this twist-laden film noir.

Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Gene Wolande

Votes: 8,278 | Gross: $0.03M

29. Next Day Air (2009)

R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes 10 people's lives forever.

Director: Benny Boom | Stars: Yasiin Bey, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Wood Harris

Votes: 11,130 | Gross: $10.02M

30. Lone Star State of Mind (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime

A young Texas mechanic (Jackson) tries to save a dim-witted relative from the mob. There's also something about the murderer of the mechanic's father, who's been in prison for 20 years, thanks to histestimony as a child.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Jaime King, Matthew Davis, Ryan Hurst

Votes: 3,231

31. Dog Gone (2008)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Family

A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.

Director: Mark Stouffer | Stars: Luke Benward, French Stewart, Kelly Perine, Kevin P. Farley

Votes: 850

32. Pups Alone (2021)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Family

While everyone is away on a company ski trip, Robert's neighbor hires two inept thieves to steal his latest invention. The neighborhood dogs will use Robert's inventions to set up a house of horrors for the thieves.

Director: Alex Merkin | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rob Schneider, Danny Trejo

Votes: 1,476

33. The Immortals (1995)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A seedy night-club owner recruits eight violent gangsters for an elaborate heist. But when they all begin to compare notes, they find they're pawns in a dangerous game of double-cross.

Director: Brian Grant | Stars: Eric Roberts, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere, Tony Curtis

Votes: 1,538

34. 99 (I) (2009)

Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A gangster deputes two of his men to recover money from an out of town compulsive gambler.

Directors: Ashu, Ashu, Krishna D.K., Javed Eijaz, Roshan Machado, Raj Nidimoru, Mahesh Shankar, Shamir Tandon | Stars: Kunal Kemmu, Boman Irani, Soha Ali Khan, Cyrus Broacha

Votes: 3,124

35. Double Trouble (1967)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Yvonne Romain

Votes: 1,855 | Gross: $3.49M

36. How to Rob a Bank (and 10 Tips to Actually Get Away with It) (2007)

81 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

Director: Andrews Jenkins | Stars: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews

Votes: 6,192 | Gross: $0.00M

37. The Crumbs (1991)

Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Tween Mads is having trouble fitting in: he's got a crush on a female classmate--and his clumsy father is a teacher at his school. By an unforeseen chance of events, Mads becomes somewhat of a hero, but will he win the girl?

Director: Sven Methling | Stars: Laus Høybye, Dick Kaysø, Karen-Lise Mynster, Line Kruse

Votes: 1,278

38. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

39. Palookaville (1995)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime

Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo, Adam Trese, Gareth Williams

Votes: 2,609 | Gross: $0.32M

40. Live Free or Die (2006)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime

Lackluster criminals look to pull a job in the Granite State.

Directors: Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin | Stars: Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Judah Friedlander, Peter Anthony Tambakis

Votes: 2,520 | Gross: $0.01M

41. Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001)

131 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Desperate for money, three men plot to kidnap a woman and hold her for ransom.

Director: Eeshwar Nivas | Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Fardeen Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonali Bendre

Votes: 1,813

42. Alone in the Woods (1996)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

After unwittingly climbing into the wrong van on the way to grandma's cabin for Thanksgiving, ten year-old Justin discovers he's driving with two bumbling kidnappers and the daughter of a billionaire toy magnate.

Director: John Putch | Stars: Daniel McVicar, Laraine Newman, Sarah Bibb, Brady Bluhm

Votes: 258

43. Spike of Love (1994)

83 min | Comedy, Horror

Jane, a biker chick/dominatrix, lures an innocent businessman back to her apartment for some kinky games. In the midst of fornication, her dumb boyfriend Donny and his religious nut brother... See full summary »

Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: Gerry Quigley, Dyanne DiMarco, Tony Munch, Ron Lea

Votes: 79

44. Scoot & Kassie's Christmas Adventure (2013)

Not Rated | 86 min | Family

Luke Perry stars in this heartwarming "tail." Kassie, her friends and her dog, Scoot, organize a holiday fundraiser, but must protect the cash from some crooks in order to save Christmas.

Director: Benjamin Gourley | Stars: Luke Perry, Ariana Bagley, Taylor Negron, Adam Johnson

Votes: 420

45. The Awful Sleuth (1951)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy

Soda jerk Bert, a true-crime buff, doesn't recognize the notorious crook Memphis Mike. Mike and his henchman hold him captive and Bert escapes, but his bossy mother-in-law claims credit for the crooks' ultimate capture.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Jean Willes, Ben Welden, Minerva Urecal

Votes: 12

46. The Hit Producer (2015)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer in search of an investor, reluctantly follows the promise of money into Dublin's drug underworld where she witnesses a botched murder attempt... See full summary »

Director: Kevin de la Isla O'Neill | Stars: Michelle Doherty, Neill Fleming, Fergus Kealy, Susan Barrett

Votes: 55

47. For a Few Lousy Dollars (1995)

R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Few amateur robbers, few professional and one not so professional assassin, two crime bosses and hillbilly homicidal couple - they all meet in this ultimate Tarantino spoof.

Director: Micheal Bafaro | Stars: Ben Immanuel, Ian Tracey, Donny Lucas, Frank Cassini

Votes: 141

48. Pinching Penny (2011)

R | 104 min | Crime

Alex and Murphy, two small-time crooks trapped in Fargo, try to support their spending habits with robberies and home invasions, until one ill-fated caper brings them face-to-face with Teddi, a femme fatale who joins their gang.

Director: Dan Glaser | Stars: Steven Molony, Timothy J. Meyer, Maddisyn Carter, Lauren Wertz-James

Votes: 237

49. Det perfekte kup (2008)

85 min | Action, Comedy

Sonny, Richael, Steen and Patric dream of doing the perfect heist, but all have very different ideas about how it's done right. The tension rises as they have to spend a night in jail - ... See full summary »

Director: Dennis Petersen | Stars: Anders Brink Madsen, Henrik Vestergaard, Frederik Meldal Nørgaard, Robert Hansen

Votes: 169

50. Convenience (II) (2017)

Comedy, Crime

A young war vet and his gambling-addicted roommate find themselves on a local gangster's bad side when they go looking for a quick score.

Director: David James | Stars: Gregory Patrick Agnew, Kevin Borngrebe, Michael Compton, David Eves