Here we've displayed a list of the best Petty Crime films : Sholay(1975), Pickpocket(1959), Nil by Mouth(1997), Going Places(1974), The Troops of St. Tropez(1964), In the Soup(1992), Sally of the Sawdust(1925), Quicksand(1950), Another Day in Paradise(1999), Opportunity Knocks(1990), Miss Robin Hood(1952), The Delinquents(1957) ... ...
Adventure
India
1975
192 Minutes
Dharmendra Sanjeev Kumar Hema Malini Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Amjad Khan
bandit thief police chief daughter-in-law villager gutsy wild amusing india village ramgarh retribution romance robbery petty crime revenge underdog rescue 1970s
After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.
Crime, Drama
France
1959
75 Minutes
Martin LaSalle Marika Green Pierre Leymarie Jean Pélégri Dolly Scal Kassagi Pierre Etaix César Gattegno
pickpocket mother police detective neighbor friend striking creative france horse track police station funeral self-expression petty crime moral dilemma going straight estrangement discovery temptation 1950s
Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.
Drama
UK|France
1997
128 Minutes
Ray Winstone Kathy Burke Charlie Creed-Miles Laila Morse Edna Doré Chrissie Cotterill Jon Morrison Jamie Foreman Steve Sweeney Terry Rowley Sam Miller
husband drug addict wife pregnant woman alcoholic factory worker gritty emotional intense london pub flat hospital family home drug addiction abuse marriage petty crime family dysfunction hard times
A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working class family has his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.
Comedy, Drama
France
1974
117 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Miou-Miou Patrick Dewaere Jacques Chailieux Michel Peurilon Brigitte Fossey Isabelle Huppert Christiane Muller Jeanne Moreau
thug partner ex-convict beautiful woman stranger son wild outlandish offbeat france road car train bedroom car theft misogyny sexual conquests sexual awakening petty crime road trip
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: ... See full summary »
Comedy
France|Italy
1964
95 Minutes
Louis De Funès Michel Galabru Jean Lefebvre Geneviève Grad Daniel Cauchy Madeleine Delavaivre Maria Pacome Claude Piéplu Christian Marin
police captain daughter police officer friend airy amusing charming cheeky engaging hedonistic hilarious lighthearted playful quirky spirited witty saint-tropez, france petty crime new town lying
Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot is re-assigned to the French Riviera seaside resort town of Saint-Tropez where petty criminals and his own daughter give him a hard time.
Comedy
USA|France|Germany|Japan|Italy|Spain
1992
93 Minutes
Steve Buscemi Seymour Cassel Jennifer Beals Pat Moya Will Patton Sully Boyer Steven Randazzo Francesco Messina Jim Jarmusch Carol Kane Stanley Tucci
writer neighbor con artist producer actor director offbeat playful witty gritty new york city apartment restaurant street film set aspirations filmmaking unrequited love unlikely allies petty crime
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.
Comedy
USA
1925
91 Minutes
Carol Dempster W.C. Fields Alfred Lunt Erville Alderson Effie Shannon Charles Hammond Roy Applegate Florence Fair Marie Shotwell Glenn Anders Tammany Young
young girl con artist judge young man father figure wife charming emotional spirited circus carnival connecticut courtroom petty crime trial family reunion performance rise love
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Jeanne Cagney Peter Lorre Barbara Bates Taylor Holmes Wally Cassell
mechanic waitress friend boss police officer ex-girlfriend bleak suspenseful tense melodramatic santa monica, calif. pier garage arcade diner road bad luck unlikely criminal debt petty crime
After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
Drama
USA
1999
101 Minutes
James Woods Melanie Griffith Vincent Kartheiser Natasha Gregson Wagner James Otis Paul Hipp Brent Briscoe Peter Sarsgaard Kim Flowers Branden Williams
teen boy girlfriend criminal lover drug dealer junkie hedonistic bleak brutal raw american midwest apartment pharmacy motel cornfield gas station drug addiction petty crime heist troubled youth
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murder.
Comedy
USA
1990
101 Minutes
Dana Carvey Robert Loggia Todd Graff Julia Campbell Milo O'Shea James Tolkan Doris Belack Sally Gracie Mike Bacarella John M. Watson Sr. Beatrice Fredman
con artist friend factory owner beautiful woman businessman thug cheeky endearing playful stage party trailer office house pool hall con game romance assumed identity petty crime debt
Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in.
Comedy
UK
1952
78 Minutes
Margaret Rutherford Richard Hearne Michael Medwin James Robertson Justice Dora Bryan Peter Jones Sidney James Eric Berry Edward Lexy Frances Rowe Eunice Gayson
writer eccentric safecracker orphanage director small-time crook lord amusing witty engaging lighthearted hilarious cheeky england comic books robbery petty crime robin hood humor hijinks discovery
Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
Crime, Drama
USA
1957
75 Minutes
Tom Laughlin Peter Miller Richard Bakalyan Rosemary Howard Helen Hawley Leonard Belove Lotus Corelli James Lantz
teen boy girlfriend father mother friend gang leader gritty wild melodramatic cool kansas city, mo. bar street dance hall gas station drive-in theater troubled youth gangs peer pressure young love
A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.
Comedy
UK
1965
125 Minutes
Kim Novak Richard Johnson Angela Lansbury Leo McKern Vittorio De Sica George Sanders Lilli Palmer Peter Butterworth
orphan young woman mayor son lady husband banker petty criminal thief ship captain priest prison guard amusing brash campy cheeky confident engaging frenetic gutsy
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Musical
UK
2018
Minutes
Michaela Coel Arinze Kene George MacKay Ashley Thomas Joe Dempsie Luke Norris Rakie Ayola Ronke Adekoluejo
single mother friend daughter young man amusing charming emotional endearing heartwarming melancholy moving positive london united kingdom love parenthood self-discovery petty crime love metamorphosis
A dedicated single mother who, on an unusual night on the town, is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger.
Drama
1970
90 Minutes
Doug McGrath Paul Bradley Jayne Eastwood Cayle Chernin Nicole Morin Pierre La Roche
young man best friend factory worker girlfriend waitress bleak melodramatic gritty toronto nova scotia big city factory apartment canada aspirations poverty petty crime city life friendship pregnancy
Two unskilled, uneducated young men (Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley) leave Nova Scotia to find a better life in Toronto.
Comedy
1961
83 Minutes
Dave King Robert Morley Daniel Massey Dennis Price Coral Browne Norman Rossington Maggie Smith Miles Malleson Finlay Currie James Hayter Wilfrid Lawson
small-time crook firemen ex-convict thief arsonist fire chief amusing witty playful lighthearted madcap engaging london petty crime mishaps firefighting mistaken identity attempted robbery incompetency discovery
Would-be bank robbers (Dave King, Daniel Massey) hire an arsonist (Robert Morley) to create a diversion and buy a fire truck for a getaway.
Drama
1977
110 Minutes
Norman Beaton Trevor Thomas Dawn Hope Floella Benjamin Oscar James Paul Medford
young man immigrant boy mother lover aunt loan shark amusing endearing gutsy hilarious melancholy offbeat spirited london united kingdom migrant experience cultural differences naivete petty crime