Crime Films
Crime movies are usually TV movies with police activities. Crime movies can also be called police movies. Different from gangster movies: crime movies focus on the detective to catch criminals, crime and crime to prevent the abhorrent immoral all the drama process; Gangster movies focus on the freedom and right of assembly and association, and the rationalization and heroism of gangs’ struggle for power and profit. Police detectives’ detection and prevention of crimes is the plotline, even without police detectives. Crime movies and gangster movies are action movies. They are commercial movies for the public to buy, watch and entertain(Leitch 2002, 84).
The scope of crime movies is relatively broad, but the director has a more focused aspect in the shooting process. Taken, for example, is a crime movie. But it focuses more on the rescue process to show the audio-visual feeling of martial arts scenes, so it is more considered as an action film. Crime films can also be called police and bandits films. In all drama films, there must be both crime and detective investigation.
Watching crime films gives a sense of drive and danger. Such films are quite amusing, the crime may seem like something quite trivial. You can not watch a crime film without experiencing strong emotions towards the hero – either sympathy and concern for his/her fate, or the strongest hatred and desire that everything went wrong with the character.
Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, created dozens of films on this subject, are recognized as kings of crime genre. And among legendary directors, the same actors are often the heroes and inspirers. Martin Scorsese – Leonardo DiCaprio, Guy Ritchie – Jason Statham and Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino – Harvey Keitel and John Travolta, Robert Rodriguez, Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp. They weave a deadly (often literally) seriousness with humor.
Source
Leitch, Thomas M. Crime Movies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Internet resource.
https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/filmgenres/crimefilms (Links to an external site.)
http://screenprism.com/insights/article/what-is-the-difference-between-film-noir-and-the-crime-film