231. Deep Red ( Profondo rosso )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra
Plot: A jazz musician witnesses a horrible murder and tracks down the killer himself.
232. The Public Enemy
Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Plot: Two friends grow up doing jobs for gangsters, and so they become gangsters
themselves.
233. The Grifters
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Laskin
Plot: The story of three con artists; Roy, a small time grifter; Lily, his
mother; and Myra, his girlfriend. As they face divided loyalties and
conflicted feelings, a deadly triangle is formed in this gripping noir.
234. Hang 'em High
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Dennis Hopper
Plot: An innocent man is prosecuted and hung, but he doesn't die. Instead he comes back as a lawman and vigilante trying to bring justice to the town.
235. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Ian McDiarmid, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris
Plot: Two men compete for the honor of being the worst scoundrel around by trying to cheat a lady out of her money.
236. The Devil's Rejects
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Zombie
Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Leslie Easterbrook, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe, Ken Foree
Plot: The serial killing Firefly family is under attack from a sadistic local sheriff looking to avenge the death of his brother. When a couple of the family escape, they turn a fleabag motel into their own playground with the sheriff hot on their heels.
237. Presumed Innocent
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, John Spencer
Plot: D.A. Rusty Sabich becomes the chief suspect in his ex-girlfriends murder and sets out to find the real killer only to realize the man may be closer to him than he could have imagined.
238. The Roaring Twenties
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh
Plot: Three WWI Army buddies get mixed up with the mob in peacetime.
239. The Killers
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Siodmak
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, William Conrad
Plot: A boxer is murdered to little resistance and an insurance investigator is hired to connect the dots uncovering a past robbery.
240. Fox and His Friends ( Faustrecht der Freiheit )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer
Plot: Explores the class struggle and homosexual undertones of when a former circus performer and working class man, Franz "Fox" Biberkopf wins the lottery and looks to improve his lot in life. But money comes at a cost, and his new upper middle-class friends take advantage of him.
