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Best Crime Movies With Kids From The 2000S That Will Make You Cry

The best crime movies with kids from the 2000s that will make you cry. A hand-curated list of crime films for Moviepiq.

Watching a film with kids means finding something that works on two levels — holding their attention completely while giving you something worth watching too.

The 2000s produced a remarkable run of intelligent, ambitious cinema — a decade that took genre seriously and rewarded patient audiences. hold a hard, clear-eyed lens to ambition, desperation, and the systems that push people toward both.

Crime cinema at its best is a mirror — not a celebration of lawbreaking, but an examination of what drives people to it.

The Godfather movie poster
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1972 · ★★★★½ 9.2/10

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Goodfellas movie poster
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1990 · ★★★★½ 8.7/10

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

No Country for Old Men movie poster
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2007 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Heat movie poster
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1995 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Pulp Fiction movie poster
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1994 · ★★★★½ 8.9/10

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

The crime films worth your time are the ones where the moral calculus is genuinely complicated. Not every villain is a monster. Not every hero is clean.

Sicario movie poster
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2015 · ★★★½☆ 7.6/10

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the war against drugs at the border area between the US and Mexico.

City of God movie poster
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2002 · ★★★★½ 8.6/10

In the slums of Rio de Janeiro, two boys growing up in a violent neighbourhood take different paths — one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Prisoners movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue a suspect.

The Departed movie poster
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2006 · ★★★★½ 8.5/10

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

LA Confidential movie poster
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1997 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen — one straight-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy — investigate a series of murders.

Great films that make you cry do so because they've made you care. By the time the emotion lands, you're not surprised — you're just not ready for it.

The best crime films stay with you because they refuse to let you feel entirely comfortable about who you were rooting for.