| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 11:14 | Greg Marcks | Henry Thomas, Blake Heron, Barbara Hershey | United States | Crime comedy |
| 15 | Royston Tan | Melvin Chen, Erick Chun, Melvin Lee | Singapore | Juvenile delinquency film |
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | John Singleton | Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes | United States | Crime thriller |
| 9 Souls | Toshiaki Toyoda | Koji Chihara, Yoshio Harada, Itsuji Itao | Japan | Crime comedy |
| Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly | United States | Crime comedy |
| The Big Bounce | George Armitage | Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise | United States | |
| Boomer | Pyotr Buslov | Maksim Konovalov, Sergei Gorobchenko, Vladimir Vdovichenko | Russia | |
| Carandiru | Héctor Babenco | Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Milhem Cortaz, Milton Goncalves | Brazil
Argentina | Prison film |
| Confidence | James Foley | Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy García | United States | |
| Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Jet Li, DMX | United States | Master criminal film |
| Doble Juego | Alberto Durant | Fabrizio Aguilar, Carlos Alcántara, Mari Pili Barreda | Peru | Crime drama |
| Gettin' Square | Jonathan Teplitzky | Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Timothy Spall | Australia
United Kingdom | Crime comedy |
| Gigli | Martin Brest | Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha | United States | |
| Godforsaken | Pieter Kuijpers | Egbert-Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt, Angela Schijf | Netherlands | |
| High Times' Potluck | Alison Thompson | Frank Adonis, Bryant Carroll, Tommy Chong | United States | Crime comedy |
| How It All Went Down | Silvio Pollio | Silvio Pollio, Daniella Evangelista, Franco Valenti | Canada
United States | |
| I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Mike Hodges | Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers | United States
United Kingdom | |
| Infernal Affairs II | Andrew Lau, Alan Mak | Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Carina Lau | Hong Kong | |
| Infernal Affairs III | Andrew Lau, Alan Mak | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai | Hong Kong
China | |
| The Italian Job | F. Gary Gray | Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton | United States | |
| King of the Ants | Stuart Gordon | Chris L. McKenna, Kari Wührer, Daniel Baldwin | United States | |
| The Life of David Gale | Alan Parker | | Germany
United Kingdom
United States | Crime drama |
| Matchstick Men | Ridley Scott | Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman | United States | |
| Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung | South Korea | |
| Monster | Patty Jenkins | Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern | United States | |
| National Security | Dennis Dugan | Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore | United States | Crime comedy |
| Nicotina | Hugo Rodríguez | Marta Belaustegui, Rosa María Bianchi, Daniel Jiménez Cacho | Mexico
Argentina | |
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin | Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan | United States | Crime thriller |
| Owning Mahowny | Richard Kwietniowski | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin | United States
Canada
United Kingdom | Crime drama |
| Paper Soldiers | Damon Dash, David Daniel | | United States | |
| Scorched | Gavin Grazer | Rachael Leigh Cook | United States | Criminal comedy |
| Shade | Damian Nieman | Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton | United States | |
| Stander | Bronwen Hughes | | South Africa | |
| S.W.A.T. | Clark Johnson | Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez | United States | Crime thriller |
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher | Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley | Ireland
United States | Crime thriller |
| Wonderland | James Cox | Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow | United States | Crime drama |
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