101. Zodiac
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, John Carroll Lynch
Plot: A serial killer in San Francisco torments the media and the police while a
cartoonist and an obsessed police officer try to catch him in a story
spanning three decades.
102. Promising Young Woman
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emerald Fennell
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Plot: A tragic event in her past causes a young woman to seek vengeance against the men who enter her life.
103. The Batman
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: It has been two years since Bruce Wayne took on the alter ego of Batman in order to protect Gotham City. But now he faces something he could never foresee - corruption at the highest echelons that lead back to his own family as well as taking on a deranged serial killer known as The Riddler.
104. The Boondock Saints
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Troy Duffy
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Brian Mahoney, Billy Connolly
Plot: Two brothers fight the Russian mob in their neighborhood. They begin killing evil men in the name of truth (veritas) and justice (aequitas).
They are pursued by an FBI agent who sees what he has always secretly hoped would happen with criminals and deals with the fact that there is no public outcry for the killings to stop.
105. I Saw the Devil ( Akmareul boatda )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Actors: Byung-hun Lee, Gook-hwan Jeon, Ho-jin Jeon, San-ha Oh, Yoon-seo Kim, Min-sik Choi
Plot: After his pregnant fiance is viciously murdered by a serial killer, a detective plots an elaborate and intricate revenge plot for the man responsible.
106. They Shall Not Grow Old
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Plot: A ground-breaking documentary that takes original footage from WWI, that has been colorized along with adding sound, allowing us to hear voices from the previously voiceless and giving audiences an unprecedented look of the trials, triumph and brutality of this war, and the people who experienced it first hand.
107. Wall Street
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, John C. McGinley, Terence Stamp
Plot: Bud Fox, a young, hotheaded broker, is willing to put his values and relationships on the line when he decides to do anything to get to the top on Wall Street, with help from the successful and ruthless Gordon Gecko.
108. The Nice Guys
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shane Black
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Ty Simpkins, Margaret Qualley
Plot: In 1970s LA, a private investigator finds himself in the middle of a
conspiracy when he investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn
star.
109. The Defiant Ones
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet
after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained
together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid
capture.
110. Sherlock Holmes
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Plot: A new take on the old legend - Sherlock Holmes and the ever-present Watson are still on the case to unravel a nefarious plot to destroy the country, but this time he's just as keen using his fists as his mind.
