Films based on crime novels

1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

2022 film directed by Pierre Perifel

1967 film by Norman Jewison

2011 film by David Fincher

1974 film by Sidney Lumet

2017 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2004 film directed by Tony Scott

1950 film by John Huston

1964 film by Alfred Hitchcock

Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl, written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film follows a Chicago-based defense attorney who believes that his client, an altar boy, is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.

2009 film directed by Juan José Campanella

1959 film by Otto Preminger

2013 film by Luc Besson

2022 film by Kenneth Branagh

2016 film directed by Tate Taylor

1972 film by Sam Peckinpah

1953 film by Fritz Lang

1964 film directed by Jules Dassin

1931 film by Mervyn LeRoy

2017 film directed by Tomas Alfredson

1958 French film by Louis Malle

1997 film by Gary Fleder

1999 film by Brian Helgeland

1974 film by Michael Winner

2004 film directed by D. J. Caruso

1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks

'''' (; "Obsession") is a 1943 Italian crime drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, in his directorial debut. It is an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice'' by American author James M. Cain, and stars Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, and Juan de Landa in the leading roles. It is often considered to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.

2009 film by Tony Scott

2023 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

1987 film directed by Roger Donaldson

2010 film directed by Anton Corbijn

2001 film by Lee Tamahori

1941 film by Raoul Walsh

2000 film directed by John Singleton

2014 film directed by Scott Frank

Murder! is a 1930 British mystery thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Walter C. Mycroft, based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, it is Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).

2009 film directed by Niels Arden Oplev

2014 film directed by Rowan Joffé

1937 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1993 film by Philip Kaufman

Baazigar () is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan and produced by Venus Movies. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Shilpa Shetty (in her acting debut), Dalip Tahil, and Raakhee. The film follows a young man seeking to avenge the fall of his family by going on a murderous rampage. It is loosely based on the 1991 film A Kiss Before Dying which was adapted from Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same. The soundtrack was composed by Anu Malik.

1994 film by Roger Donaldson

1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix

2013 film by Gary Fleder

2000 French film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

2010 film by Richard Berry

1969 French-Italien film by Henri Verneuil

1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman

2009 film directed by Daniel Alfredson

1997 film by Pedro Almodóvar

2015 film by Billy Ray

1996 film by Brian Gibson

2011 film directed by Elliott Lester

D-Tox is a 2002 American action film directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Sylvester Stallone. The supporting cast features Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Robert Patrick, Stephen Lang, Jeffrey Wright, Courtney B. Vance and Kris Kristofferson. The film had a limited release in the United States on September 20, 2002, under the title Eye See You by DEJ Productions.

2005 film by Mikael Håfström

1978 film by Michael Crichton

1998 film by Sam Raimi

1945 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

2006 film by Joe Roth

1995 film by Carl Franklin