Book excerpt: 21st Century Genre-Bending Crime Films The Top Pick Volume One Cinema of the 21st century has transformed the global discourse through an expansion of media reach. The tremendous changes in filmmaking worldwide have witnessed many new dimensions and articulated the best contemporary world cinema. The article spotlights a few of its best pick in the genre-specific convention of the crime films made in the twenty-first century. These inspiring cinemas' appeal has an excuse of the genre bend through several layers, which is also a culmination of interests and styles. The blend worth mentioning of the staple that could catalyse various debates surrounding them. The idea to pen regarding interests about extraordinary experiences of energy and emotion the films motivate and communicate, stirring up the most extensive imaginaries of disciplines to combine and analyse through areas of studies. The essential elements of psychology, history, psychoanalysis, politics, the social order, literary studies and many such influences that sustain the audience that likely to turn the material consumptions to meet the visual needs. Knowledge indicates that the world of cinema reflects the virtual and social construct of the subgenre and besides the interplay of the changing definition. What it brings is the emotions and responses of the audience face-to-face with the ambivalence of the content, production and impact of crime from sources of inherent spring of indie filmmakers, studios, collaboration, mainstream cinemas and also the blockbusters of sorts.