31. Snatch
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro, Lennie James
Plot: A slew of thieves posing as other professions try to track down a huge, priceless stolen diamond while putting to naive men in the middle.
32. The Sting
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan
Plot: A man seeks revenge on his murdered partner while he joins forces with a con man to pull off the ultimate sting.
33. Nightcrawler
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dan Gilroy
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo, Ann Cusack, Anne McDaniels, Kevin Rahm
Plot: A down and out young man, desperate for work, stumbles upon the seedy underworld of L.A.'s crime journalism. The break-neck pace is all about being the first on the scene - murder, accidents, fires, mayhem - and selling the gratuitous footage to the local news stations. But the better he gets, the more likely he is going to become the next story...
34. Mystic River
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney
Plot: As childhood friends drift apart, they are reunited when one of their daughters is killed and one of them could be a suspect based on his past.
35. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, J. Farrell McDonald, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, Ralph Sipperly
Plot: A farmer falls in love with a city girl who tries to convince him to murder his wife and make it look like a suicide.
36. The Killing
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Coleen Gray, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor
Plot: A group of men try to knock off a horse track in an elaborate plan to make them all rich when something goes wrong.
37. The Fugitive
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas
Plot: A doctor is accused of murdering his wife and escapes to find the one-armed man responsible for the crime while dodging the U.S. Marshals in pursuit.
38. The French Connection
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Hickman, Roy Scheider, Sonny Grosso
Plot: During a drug smuggle with a French Connection, the NYC narcotics police division engulf themselves further with breaking up the smuggling process.
39. Prisoners
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Maria Bello
Plot: When his daughter and her best friend go missing, a Boston man tracks down the person he believes is responsible and kidnaps him in return.
40. Boyz n the Hood
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Singleton
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett
Plot: In South Central Los Angeles three friends grow up in an inner-city neighborhood characterized by drugs, violence and crime. Escape, adapt, survive - there are no easy choices and every action has its consequence.
