Stephen King's Top 10 Movies Are Mostly Crime Movies
Nor horror... crime!
In a post on September 8th of this year, Stephen King shared his top 10 favorite movies. He listed them on the social media platform X (formerly twitter). And guess what? They are mostly crime movies! The least is HALF crime movies, with lots of crime-adjacent movies making up the rest. ALL of these movies are included in the CrimeReads genre pantheon, except maybe Groundhog Day.
This makes sense, though, because so many of King’s novels are crime novels in essence, if not literally.
Sorcerer, dir. William Friedkin (1977)
The Godfather Part II, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
The Getaway, dir. Sam Peckinpah (1972)
Groundhog Day, dir. Harold Ramis (1993)
Casablanca, dir. Michael Curtiz (1942)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, dir. John Huston (1948)
Jaws, dir. Stephen Spielberg (1975)
Mean Streets, dir. Martin Scorsese (1973)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, dir. Stephen Spielberg (1977)
Double Indemnity, dir. Billy Wilder (1944)
Here’s the post!
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
