Cinema has been fascinated with crime since the birth of the medium.

As news coverage expanded and people became more aware of crime, their fascination grew.

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Confidentialis a gritty, unflinching look at the murky underbelly hidden by tinsel town’s elite.

Like most great film noirs, L.A. Its an abnormal starting point that leans into its black comedy absurdist charm with every shocking twist and turn.

This 1991 crime horror film focused on F.B.I.

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Bodhi and Johnny clasp hands while skydiving in ‘Point Break’

Johnny Depp and Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco - 1997

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‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘City on Fire’

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Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin, Benecio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne, and Kevin Spacey in a police line-up in the The Usual Suspects

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John Goodman was Walter and Jeff Bridges as The Dude wearing sunglasses at a diner in ‘The Big Lebowski’

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Michael Douglas' D-Fens squatting and thinking in Falling Down

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Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)

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Jodie Foster talking to Anthony Foster’s Hannibal Lecter  through a window in Silence of the Lambs

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Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro in GoodFellas

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