Highest-Rated Movies about 'Criminal Past', Sort by Popularity

For a Few Dollars More (1965), Western Union (1941), El Sicario: Room 164 (2010), Idaho (1943), Six Rounds (2017), Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975), The Cimarron Kid (1951), Despicable Me 3 (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Criminal Past movies.

#16. Villain (2020)

Storyline: The story follows (Eddie Franks) a former criminals release from prison and his attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother's debt. Despite his efforts, he is drawn back into a criminal way of life, with devastating consequences.

Plot Keywords: criminal, gang leader, drug smuggler, gripping, frenetic, thrilling, united kingdom ...

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#17. Angel on the Right (2002)

Storyline: Released from a Moscow prison, ex-convict Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) returns to the Tajikistani village of his birth to care for his frail mother, Halima (Uktamoi Miyasarova). There, Hamro reacquaints himself with old debts -- both financial and emotional -- to the corrupt mayor and to the son he has never met, Yatim (Kova Tilavpur). Hamro faces the judgment of his mother's neighbors, who know all too well about his criminal past, and worries that his days of staying straight may be numbered.

Plot Keywords: ex-convict, mother, son, cousin, mayor, neighbor, sad ...

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#18. The Code (2002)

Storyline: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: gangster, ex-convict, engaging, thrilling, france, marriage, criminal past ...

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#19. Blue Iguana (2018)

Storyline: This anarchic thriller presents a crazy, off-kilter London of action, comedy and true love. Eddie, Paul and Katharine are cool, carefree characters in a world of absolute freedoms: freedom to steal, freedom to fire a gun, freedom to kill, and freedom to fall in love. And freedom never to be hurt--at least not seriously. Only the bad guys die. Sam Rockwell and Ben Schwartz play two London-bound buddies whose outrageous antics never have serious consequences. They always wriggle out of danger, with a wisecrack, a weapon and a smile. Eddie and Paul are two innocents abroad, except they're not innocent at all. They're low-level wise guys who never really have a grip on anything. The controlling intelligence in the story is Phoebe Fox's insecure lawyer, Katherine. She's always one step ahead of the game - but is she ready to fall in love?—tommy@dinolaine.com

Plot Keywords: thief, criminal, lawyer, ex-convict, young woman, british woman, american man ...

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#20. Stolen (2012)

Storyline: In New Orleans, the notorious bank thief and family man Will Montgomery steals $10m with his partners Vincent, Riley Jeffers and Hoyt. However, he has an argument with Vincent in the runaway and Hoyt leaves Will behind. He tries to flee but the FBI agent Tim Harlend organizes a manhunt and Will is captured, but he burns the stolen money to get rid of the evidence against him. Eight years later, Will leaves the prison and he goes to the house of his teenage daughter Alison Loeb, who has issues against him. Alison leaves Will alone in a coffee shop and takes a cab to go to a session with her shrink. However, a couple of minutes later, Will receives a phone call from Vincent, who is presumed dead, telling that he has abducted Alison and will kill her unless he receives the $10m of the last robbery. Now Will has twelve hours to find a way to rescue his daughter from the hands of the psychopath Vincent.

Plot Keywords: daughter, thief, partner, thrilling, cab, prison, rescue ...

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#21. Black Out (1996)

Storyline: Banker John Gray (Brian Bosworth) is hit by a car, and he awakens days later having lost his memory. He goes through the motions of his plush Arizona lifestyle but keeps having momentary visions of a violent past and a sinister figure he identifies as Thomas Payne (Brad Dourif). After his wife, whom he barely knows, is killed, Gray travels to Los Angeles and explores the criminal underworld, hoping to discover the truth about his identity -- and to confront Payne.

Plot Keywords: banker, wife, gang leader, waitress, thug, convict, thrilling ...

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#22. Wrecked (2010)

Storyline: A man awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. Injured and trapped inside, with no memory of how he got there or who he is, he must rely on his most primal instincts to survive. But as he attempts to free himself from the carnage and escape an impossible situation, a darker side is revealed. Even if he manages to survive, the man may have to face the horrible consequences of an earlier, forgotten life.

Plot Keywords: man, woman, drifter, park ranger, security guard, robber, suspenseful ...

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#23. Johnny Allegro (1949)

Storyline: Johnny Allegro (George Raft) trades in his life as a mobster to become an undercover agent for the government. His assignment is to investigate the mysterious Glenda Chapman (Nina Foch). After gaining her confidence by pretending to kill a police officer, Johnny persuades her to let him follow her to an island hideaway. Once there, Johnny discovers that her associate -- a counterfeiter named Morgan Vallin (George Macready) -- is about to inundate the States with a massive flow of fake cash.

Plot Keywords: counterfeiter, undercover agent, mysterious woman, mobster, thug, friend, tense ...

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#24. American Heist (2014)

Storyline: James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother, Frankie (Adrien Brody) after taking the rap for a crime they committed together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, got a steady job and began courting his former girlfriend Emily (Jordana Brewster). Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets with no money and no place to go. He turns to his underworld connections (Akon) and convinces James to join him in hopes that one last job will be the solution to change both their lives.

Plot Keywords: sibling, robber, thrilling, criminal underworld, crime, criminal past, wretched excess ...

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#26. Deewane (2000)

Storyline: Policeman Vishal is shot when his boss bungles a raid on a boat. To avoid the wrath of Vishal's family, his boss hires a lookalike to stop their suspicions. But when the policeman's girlfriend Sapna falls in love with the 'new' Vishal, all sorts of trouble is caused. Watch as events unfold itself and what a negative impact this will have on Vishaul's family.—gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, lover, criminal, best friend, uncle, emotional ...

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#28. Sand (2000)

Storyline: Following the death of his mother, Tyler (Michael Vartan) wants nothing more than to start over, away from his violent father (Marshall Bell), snarling uncle (Denis Leary) and violent stepbrothers (John Hawkes, Rodney Eastman). Moving to an idyllic beach house, he befriends the charming Jack (Norman Reedus) and strikes up a relationship with Jack's sister, Sandy (Kari Wuhrer). But soon his family is back in Tyler's life, and a showdown between his past and present looms.

Plot Keywords: good guy, love interest, friend, father, stepbrother, thug, brash ...

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