221. 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.
222. Bullitt
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Plot: A mafia informant is killed on Frank Bullitt's watch - seemingly with inside knowledge. Now he has to track down the killers and the leak.
223. Colors
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, Randy Brooks
Plot: Detective drama about a police unit trying to control the gangs in East Los Angeles.
224. Dheepan
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Marc Zinga
Plot: A former Tamil warrior in Sri Lanka finds himself having to make an exit after coming out on the wrong side of a civil war. Finding a woman and child, he picks them up along the way, hoping this new "family" will lead to a better chance at asylum. They find themselves in Paris, struggling to find a life and home but even after finally settling into some sense of normalcy, violence still finds them and the man finds the warrior still inside will have to come out to protect those he has come to love.
225. Mean Creek
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Actors: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Carly Schroeder
226. Green Street Hooligans
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lexi Alexander
Actors: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Geoff Bell, Brendan Charleson, Kieran Bew
Plot: A Harvard journalist student takes the fall for his roommate and his expelled. He moves to London to stay with his older sister and finds himself in soccer gang.
227. House of Games
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Mamet
Actors: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Ricky Jay
Plot: Margaret Ford (Crouse) is a psychiatrist who is trying to help Billy Hahn,
a gambler who wants to end his life. Billy confesses that he owes $25,000
that needs to be paid if not he will be killed. She then looks for Mike
(Mantegna) to compromise the dilemma. She gets close to Mike and wants to
write about his line of work.
228. Elevator to the Gallows ( Ascenseur pour l'échafaud )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen
Plot: Julien and his lover Florence - plan to murder her husband - Julien's boss and a powerful man, by staging it as a suicide. Yet one critical error sends Julien to retrieve a key piece of evidence leading to a chain of events that spells doom.
229. The Hitcher
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Harmon
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson, Billy Green Bush
Plot: A driver transporting a friend's car picks up a deadly passenger - a
hitchhiker with a taste for murder. He gets away, but soon is implicated
in the madman's killing spree.
230. 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.
