Film kejahatan adalah sebuah film yang masuk genre fiksi kejahatan. Film-film dari genre tersebut melibatkan berbagai aspek kejahatan dan fiksi. Dalam hal gaya, genre tersebut tumpang tindih dan terpadu dengan beberapa genre lainnya, seperti drama atau film gangster,^[1] selain juga meliputi komedi, dan sebaliknya, terbagi dalam banyak sub-genre, seperti misteri, suspen atau noir.

Penulis naskah dan cendekiawan Eric R. Williams mengidentifikasi film kejahatan sebagai salah satu dari sebelas super-genre dalam Screenwriters Taxonomy, mengklaim bahwa seluruh film naratif berjangka fitur dapat diklasifikasikan oleh super-genre tersebut. Sepuluh super-genre lainnya adalah laga, fantasi, horor, romansa, fiksi ilmiah, potongan kehidupan, olahraga, cerita seru, perang dan barat.^[2] Williams mengidentifikasi drama dalam kategori luas yang disebut "jenis film", misteri dan suspen sebagai "makro-genre", dan film noir sebagai "wadah penulis naskah" menjelaskan bahwa karakteri tersebut bersifat tambahan alih-alih eksklusif.^[3] Chinatown merupakan contoh film yang merupakan film kejahatan (super-genre) drama (jenis film) yang juga misteri (makro-genre) noir (wadah).

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