List of crime films before 1930
A list of crime films released in the before 1930.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Genre/Notes |
| 1895 | - | - | - | - |
| The Arrest of a Pickpocket | Birt Acres | Short film | ||
| 1902 | - | - | - | - |
| Bluebeard | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy | France | Short film |
| 1912 | - | - | - | - |
| The Musketeers of Pig Alley | D.W. Griffith | Alfred Paget, Walter Miller, Jack Pickford | United States | Short film |
| 1913 | - | - | - | - |
| Fantômas | Louis Feuillade | René Navarre, Edmond Breon, Georges Melchior, Renee Carl | France | Film serial |
| 1915 | - | - | - | - |
| Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade | Jean Aymé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora, Stacia Napierkowska | France | Film serial |
| 1920 | - | - | - | - |
| The Penalty | Wallace Worsley | Ethel Grey Terry, Milton Ross, Lon Chaney | United States | Crime drama |
| 1922 | - | - | - | - |
| Fritz Lang | Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel | Germany | Master criminal film | |
| 1923 | - | - | - | - |
| Bulldog Drummond | Oscar Apfel | Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley | United Kingdom | |
| The Street | Karl Grune | Aud Egede-Nissen | Germany | Crime drama |
| White Tiger | Priscilla Dean | United States | ||
| 1925 | - | - | - | - |
| Bulldog Drummond's Third Round | United Kingdom | |||
| The Pleasure Garden | Alfred Hitchcock | Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty | United Kingdom | |
| 1927 | - | - | - | - |
| Chicago | Frank Urson | Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Bradford | United States | |
| The Return of Boston Blackie | Harry Hoyt | United States | ||
| Underworld | Josef von Sternberg | George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent | United States | Crime drama, Gangster film |
| 1928 | - | - | - | - |
| The Big City | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Betty Compson | United States | |
| The Dragnet | Josef von Sternberg, Helen Lewis | George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell | United States | Crime drama |
| Ladies of the Mob | William Wellman | Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard | United States | Crime drama |
| Lights of New York | Bryan Foy | Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Gladys Brockwell | United States | |
| The Racket | Lewis Milestone | Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim | United States | Crime drama, Gangster film |
| 1929 | - | - | - | - |
| Alibi | Roland West | Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch | United States | |
| The Last Warning | Paul Leni | Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy | United States | |
| Thunderbolt | Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler | George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen | United States | Crime drama, Prison film |