Best Tamil Crime Movies of 2021
Ranked by IMDb rating — 14 Tamil crime films released in 2021.
Jai Bhim
When a tribal man is arrested for a case of alleged theft, his wife turns to a human-rights lawyer to help bring justice.
Master
An alcoholic professor is sent to a juvenile school, where he clashes with a gangster, who uses the children of the school for criminal activities.
Thittam Irandu
Athira, a 25-year-old cop gets to investigate her best friend's missing case. The case turns out to be very mysterious when she suspects that her accident has been staged and that she has been murdered. After digging deep into the case, she gets to know shocking revelations about her and now she has to make some life-changing decisions.
Kabadadaari
An ambitious traffic cop sets out to solve a murder which took place four decades ago with the help of a journalist and a retired cop.
Netrikann
A cat-and-mouse game engages between a blind woman and a serial killer when the former becomes the witness of a kidnap performed by the latter.
Jagame Thandhiram
When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.
Valiyor Silar
The struggle between a youngster and a cop. When the policeman snatches the youngster's money, he must find a unique way to get his money back.
Oomai Sennaai
A man who works for a private detective decides to turn over a new leaf, but ends up antagonising the men behind his last assignment, and gets entangled in a web spun by greedy politicians, corrupt cops and ruthless gangsters.
Chinnanjiru Kiliye
The film has an endearing father-daughter bonding at its crux. The protagonist is someone who comes from a family that traditionally practices natural medicine. He also encourages people to follow it instead of allopathy. At one point, his daughter gets trapped in a major problem through which he unearths a big medical scam.
Calls
Nandini who works at a BPO in Chennai struggles to meet her target and she is on the verge of losing her job. One day she starts getting annoying-calls to her mobile from an 'unknown person'.
Kadaseela Biriyani
A studious teen who wants a simple life is conned by his violent older brothers into joining their grandiose plan to avenge their murdered father.
Irudhi Pakkam
An independent young woman, who stays alone in her apartment, is murdered by a stranger. Who is the killer and what forced the person to take her life?
Chasing
A cop from Chennai sets out to nab a dreaded drug racket based out of Malaysia.
Mirugaa
A serial killer gets hitched to a billionaire with the sole aim of looting her money. However, the presence of a man-eating tiger at the place they reside in becomes an obstacle to him.