Last Updated: March 13, 2015.

It's been four long years since IGN first posted its list of Top 25 Crime Movies, and in this seedy underworld things move fast. So we thought it about time we updated the list to take into account films released in the last few years. The following are our picks for the greatest crime movies of all-time, a list in which killers and kidnappers rub shoulders with cops good and bad, and gangsters dominate proceedings...

25. Miller's Crossing

24. Dirty Harry

23. Scarface

Memento

21. Blood Simple

20. Drive

19. The Public Enemy

18. Pulp Fiction

While the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing doesn't exactly smack of realism, its stylized poetic violence is enough to carry us all through the nihilistic story of a heartless Irish mob consultant caught between two bosses. Albert Finney's Leo Tommy-gunning people down, while his mansion burns behind him, set to the tune of "Danny Boy." Gabriel Byrne's Tom hitting a thug in the face with a chair, causing the thug to pout and storm out of the room. John Turturro's star-making scene, begging for his life in the woods.Miller's Crossing might never fully settle on its messaging, but its morose, occasionally comedic tone is able to paint a wonderfully beautiful and brooding portrait of a world where double-crossing comes as easy as breathing.This oft-imitated 1972 franchise-starter directed by Don Siegel -- which was fairly controversial in its day -- introduced audiences to Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the toughest, most politically incorrect S.O.B. in the San Francisco police department. Harry isn't afraid to lock horns with the city's mayor or with the crazy sniper Scorpio (who was patterned after The Zodiac Killer). Plus, he can foil a bank robbery and eat a hot dog at the same time.By the way, did you know Harry carries a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and that it'd blow your head clean off?Brian De Palma's notoriously violent remake of the 1932 gangster classic updated the action to 1980s Miami with cocaine dealing replacing bootlegging as the title character's occupation. Scarface , as scripted by Oliver Stone, is a perverted take on the 'American Dream' with Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) working his way up from dishwasher to obscenely wealthy (and sometimes just obscene) crime-lord. His rise and fall is littered with the bloody corpses of both friend and foe. Tony may find that the world is indeed his, but he loses everyone close to him, including his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer), sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and best friend (Steven Bauer). He also pisses off his enemies, many of whom end up saying hello to his little friend.Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man unable to make new memories outside of the event that changed his life: Witnessing the rape and murder of his wife at the hands of one John G.Armed with a gun and a Polaroid camera, Leonard sets out on a film noir-inspired hunt for the man who killed her, tattooing himself with mission statements the way people write Post-It notes. One part of Leonard's quest unfolds in reverse, and another unfolds in normal time. Both timelines bleed together in the middle, creating an experience that put The Dark Knight director Chris Nolan on every studio's short-list, and turned Memento into one of the privileged few movies that become lexicon.The Coen Brothers' first feature found the film-making duo planting their roots in the crime thriller -- a genre that's served them well in the intervening years. Murder, money and love -- and how all three rarely play well together -- take proceedings down dark, taillight-only lit roads as Frances McDormand's Abby and her lover Ray (John Getz), try to stay one step ahead of Abby's husband (Dan Hedeya) and his self-serving private investigator, played by M. Emmet Walsh.Film noir radiates hot off the logline alone, and the Coen's find that hard-to-reach storytelling place that chills and entertains with their less-is-more approach. Complications form like vice grips around each character and the choices they make, the consequences of which provide for one hell of a thriller.Drive is the coolest film of the last decade, hands down. Based on the cult book by James Sallis, scripted with restraint by Hossein Amini, and directed with style and swagger by Danish helmer Nicolas Winding Refn, it tells the tale of an LA stuntman who moonlights as a calm, collected getaway driver with penchant for ultra-violence.Ryan Gosling looks and acts the part, delivering a star-making turn as the miraculous motorist in question, while the supporting cast is note-perfect, featuring the talented likes of Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Bryan Cranston. If that weren't enough, the car chases – which are fuelled less by spectacle and more by tension – are genuinely breathtaking, while the irresistible synth-soundtrack will be stuck in your head for days.This 1931 classic stars the iconic James Cagney as Tom Powers, a cocky street kid who degenerates into all-out vicious monster as he rises through the ranks of his bootlegging gang -- an ascent he manages to keep secret from his mother (a premise later exploited by the Michael Keaton comedy Johnny Dangerously), but not from his shell-shocked WWI veteran brother.Although perhaps still best remembered for its grapefruit-to-the-kisser moment and for Tom's climactic, bloody comeuppance, Public Enemy also established the ruthlessness of so many screen gangsters to follow as well as the 'crime doesn't pay' moral of so many later films.In 1995, it came down to Pulp Fiction vs. Forrest Gump for the Best Picture Oscar. Gump won, but in retrospect, the award should have gone less 'box of chocolates' and more wallet that says 'Bad Mutherf@#%er' on it.Tarantino's non-linear, pop-culture touchstone is rock 'n' roll at 24 f/s, fuelled by a fanzine sense of taste and a penchant for creating instantly-spoutable dialogue. The movie has a Bible-quoting hitman, his less-than-righteous partner, leather-clad gimps hiding in corner-store back rooms, watches hiding in places that not even Bruce Willis wants to talk about and five-dollar milkshakes.As a director, Tarantino established himself as a force to be reckoned with. As a movie, Pulp Fiction established itself as a film many would copy but no one would match or surpass.