Best Tamil Crime Movies of 2016
Ranked by IMDb rating — 19 Tamil crime films released in 2016.
Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru
A police officer retires after an accident during a case investigation. Years later, he is forced to relive the past as he narrates the story to his friend's son.
Kuttrame Thandanai
A young man with a visual impairment uses his other heightened senses to unravel a murder mystery.
Kallattam
An honest cop races against time to catch the culprits who stole an unemployed man's loan money needed for his daughter's operation.
Pazhaya Vannarapettai
A political crime thriller which deals with political murders and duplicate liquors which has a strong friendship base throughout the movie.
Vaaimai
A young man tried to prove justice to court and the country
Visaranai
Pandi and his friends, immigrant workers in Andhra Pradesh, are picked up by cops for a crime they never committed. And thus begins their nightmare, where they become pawns in a vicious game where the voiceless are strangled by those with power.
Iraivi
Three men try to overcome the problems in their lives not realising the impact their efforts are having on the women in their lives.
Theri
When an honest cop, Vijay Kumar's family is ruthlessly slaughtered by a politician and his aides, he decides to change his identity and commits his life to bring his daughter up in a serene atmosphere. But some freak events end up compromising his identity and what he does to save his daughter and avenge the death of his family unfurls as Theri.
Kabali
A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.
Paisa
A man chances upon a huge amount of cash belonging to a notorious gangster. With the fortune acquired by luck, he decides to enjoy his life, but fate has other ideas.
Sawaari
A harmless driver who is trying to deliver a car on time from Chennai to Nellore ends up getting into a tangle with the police and a psycho killer. An action-thriller!!
Aviyal
An anthology of short films contains four shorts with a prelude that are linked by their genre.
Aagam
An ambitious youngster who feels very strongly about brain drain gets embroiled in a conspiracy, which borders on what they call, knowledge terrorism.
Arthanari
Cinema story revolves around a lady cop called Arundathi. The film tells about how she fights against people who supports odd works with the help of Nassar and Ramkumar. In this actress, Arundathi played hidden police officer role.
Oru Melliya Kodu
A murder, a case of driving under the influence of alcohol, a hit-and-run, and an investigation which links the incidents together. A film about how a family suffers due to drunken driving.
Aarathu Sinam
An alcoholic cop accepts to investigate a case involving a couple of gruesome murders. Will the case be the redemption that he was waiting for? A remake of Jeethu Joseph's Malayalam film Memories (2013).
Pencil
Two school students find their classmate murdered in their classroom and decide to track down the killer.
Metro
A journalist becomes a vigilante in order to bring down a chain-snatching gang, unaware of the fact that his younger brother is a part of it.
Kannula Kaasa Kattappa
A minister tries to stash his illegal 100 crore INR in an offshore bank account through a hawala broker, but a number of petty thieves in Malaysia plot to steal the cash.