THE BOLLYWOOD 100

By Genre

The Best Bollywood
Crime Films

27 films in the canon are filed under Crime, from 1973 to 2019.

27 films in this canon are filed under Crime, running from 1973 to 2019. The highest-ranked is Deewaar (1975) at #6 — Two brothers: one takes the badge, one takes the docks.

The genre is spread across the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, with Anurag Kashyap (3), Ram Gopal Varma (3), Vishal Bhardwaj (3), Abhishek Chaubey (2) doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.

Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.

RankFilmYearDirectorGenre
6 Deewaar दीवार 1975Yash ChopraCrime, Drama
11 Gangs of Wasseypur गैंग्स ऑफ़ वासेपुर 2012Anurag KashyapCrime, Drama
12 Satya सत्या 1998Ram Gopal VarmaCrime, Drama
19 Ardh Satya अर्ध सत्य 1983Govind NihalaniCrime, Drama
23 Black Friday ब्लैक फ्राइडे 2004Anurag KashyapCrime, Drama
27 Omkara ओंकारा 2006Vishal BhardwajCrime, Drama
28 Maqbool मक़बूल 2003Vishal BhardwajCrime, Drama
30 Parinda परिंदा 1989Vidhu Vinod ChopraCrime, Drama
45 Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! ओए लकी! लकी ओए! 2008Dibakar BanerjeeComedy, Crime
64 Company कंपनी 2002Ram Gopal VarmaCrime, Drama
70 Talvar तलवार 2015Meghna GulzarCrime, Drama
79 Article 15 आर्टिकल 15 2019Anubhav SinhaCrime, Drama
92 Baazigar बाज़ीगर 1993Abbas–MustanThriller, Crime
96 Zanjeer ज़ंजीर 1973Prakash MehraAction, Crime
– Titli तितली 2014Kanu BehlCrime, Drama
– Mardaani मर्दानी 2014Pradeep SarkarCrime, Thriller
– Raman Raghav 2.0 रमन राघव 2.0 2016Anurag KashyapCrime, Thriller
– Chandni Bar चांदनी बार 2001Madhur BhandarkarDrama, Crime
– Godmother गॉडमदर 1999Vinay ShuklaCrime, Biography
– Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro सलीम लंगड़े पे मत रो 1989Saeed Akhtar MirzaDrama, Crime
– Bandit Queen बैंडिट क्वीन 1994Shekhar KapurBiography, Crime
– Ishqiya इश्क़िया 2010Abhishek ChaubeyCrime, Comedy
– Udta Punjab उड़ता पंजाब 2016Abhishek ChaubeyCrime, Drama
– Kaminey कमीने 2009Vishal BhardwajCrime, Thriller
– Delhi Belly दिल्ली बेली 2011Abhinay DeoComedy, Crime
– Vaastav वास्तव 1999Mahesh ManjrekarCrime, Drama
– Sarkar सरकार 2005Ram Gopal VarmaCrime, Drama

Film record Wikipedia — the article linked from each film page · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one

Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result

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