The world of legitimate business often provides the respectable façade behind criminal activity. Corporations, banks, investment firms, manufacturers, and family-owned enterprises can become settings for embezzlement, fraud, industrial espionage, labor disputes, and murder motivated by profit. Crime films frequently reveal how greed and ambition flourish beneath the appearance of success and respectability. This page explores films in which business itself becomes the catalyst for conflict, deception, and crime.

Double indemnity (1944), Body Heat (1981)

Pitfall (1948)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Force of Evil (1948)

Insurance Investigator (1951)

Point Blank (1967)