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Abstract : Cinema is the most powerful and popular medium in the representation of crimes these days. A movie can influence audience both positively and negatively. On one hand, representation of crime film portrayed its effect on social context. If the message or content of the movie is not reached correctly people may have a negative impact on the content of the film. There are movies that show how to plan and do crimes which influence the youngsters badly. This research paper focuses on crime films where the central theme is Crime and Violence. Specifically, two such movies were selected for the study: Robinhood(2009) and Drishyam(2015). A study on the consequences and the causes of cinematic representation of crime in movies is done. It also focuses on examples citing such incidence that clearly shows the negative influence these movies have on the audience. Both quantitative and qualitative form of the analysis method is used to examine its influence on youngsters.