Best FBI Movies List

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 208 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $164.44M

Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, | Director: Steven Spielberg,

The story of Frank Abagnale Jr., before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars' worth of checks while posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and legal prosecutor as a seasoned and dedicated FBI agent pursues him.

American Hustle (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 206 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $150.12M

Lead Role: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, | Director: David O. Russell,

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

Sicario (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $46.88M

Lead Role: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Face/Off (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 190 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $112.23M

Lead Role: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, | Director: John Woo,

In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 182 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $41.95M

Lead Role: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, | Director: Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Midnight Run (1988)

Aggregate Rating: 163 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $38.41M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, | Director: Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Manhunter (1986)

Aggregate Rating: 160 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $8.62M

Lead Role: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, | Director: Michael Mann,

Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial murderer named "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.

Black Mass (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 157 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $62.56M

Lead Role: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Joel Edgerton, | Director: Scott Cooper,

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Molly's Game (2017)

Aggregate Rating: 153 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $28.03M

Lead Role: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, | Director: Aaron Sorkin,

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Breach (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 152 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $32.96M

Lead Role: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney, | Director: Billy Ray,

FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Point Break (1991)

Aggregate Rating: 143 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $43.22M

Lead Role: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, | Director: Kathryn Bigelow,

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

The Heat (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 142 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $159.58M

Lead Role: Sandra Bullock, Michael McDonald, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir, | Director: Paul Feig,

An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.

Frailty (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 142 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $13.10M

Lead Role: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, | Director: Bill Paxton,

A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions led to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."

Imperium (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 138 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Sam Trammell, | Director: Daniel Ragussis,

A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.

The Boondock Saints (1999)

Aggregate Rating: 137 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 44 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, | Director: Troy Duffy,

Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.

Fast & Furious (2009)

Aggregate Rating: 135 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 46 | Earnings: $155.02M

Lead Role: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, | Director: Justin Lin,

Brian O'Conner, back working for the FBI in Los Angeles, teams up with Dominic Toretto to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.

Married to the Mob (1988)

Aggregate Rating: 134 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $21.49M

Lead Role: Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, Paul Lazar, Captain Haggerty, | Director: Jonathan Demme,

An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.

Traitor (2008)

Aggregate Rating: 133 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $23.53M

Lead Role: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Archie Panjabi, Saïd Taghmaoui, | Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff,

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

Alpha Dog (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 132 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 53 | Earnings: $15.23M

Lead Role: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Willis, | Director: Nick Cassavetes,

A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Blood Work (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 131 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $26.20M

Lead Role: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, | Director: Clint Eastwood,

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.