261. Lucky Number Slevin
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul McGuigan
Actors: Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci
Plot: A man who is meeting his friend in his apartment is mistaken for someone he is not and presented to two separate crime bosses to complete a task. As Slevin tries to convince the men he is not who they say he is, he decides to take on their task.
262. Klute
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam
263. Death Note ( Desu nôto )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura, Shigeki Hosokawa
Plot: Adapted from a highly popular manga, with original charcters and plot
twists developed only for live-action film.
Ace Student Light Yagami finds the death note a notebook intentionally
drpped by a rouge "shinigami" death god named ryuk. Any human whose name
is written in the notebook dies upset with the current justice system
light takes matters into his own hands and vows to use the power of the
death note to rid the world of all evil, and become "the god of the ne
world." A mysterious detective known as "L" quickly learns the serial
killer, Nicknamed "kira" by the public, is located in japan. Light
realizes that L will be his greatest enemy, and a game of psychological
cat and mouse between the two begins.
264. Band of Outsiders ( Bande à part )
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Anna Karina, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn, Chantal Darget, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
Plot: A trio of young miscreants (two male, one female) plan to rob the girl's
caretaker while the boys vie for her affection. Will their plan be
successful?
265. Sinister
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Ethan Hawke, ViJuliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'Addario, Clare Foley, James Ransone, Victoria Leigh
Plot: A true-crime novelist seeks clues behind the murder of the family who inhabited the house he and his family just moved into. Using found footage he begins to unravel the truth, but what he discovers puts his family in danger.
266. Sergeant Rutledge
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Juano Hernandez, Willis Bouchey
267. Yellow Sea, The ( Hwanghae )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hong-jin Na
Actors: Jung-woo Ha, Yun-seok Kim, Seong-Ha Cho, Chul-Min Lee
268. The Krays
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Alfred Lynch, Susan Fleetwood
Plot: Follows the lives of twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray - London-born boys who rose to power in the 1960s as crime lords of the underworld.
269. Big Boss, The aka Fists of Fury ( Tang shan da xiong )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Ying-Chieh Han, Malalene, Tony Liu
Plot: Bruce Lee stars as a man sworn to do no harm. As he helps his cousins in an ice factory, he discovers something that draws him to violence and his only choice is to act out against evil.
270. The Talented Mr. Ripley
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport
Plot: An adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith. Young Tom Ripley discovers that his talent is to be someone else. At all costs.
The poor New Yorker in the 50's is trying to bring, Ricky, a son of the wealthy industrialist, back home from Europe. Instead, he kills Ricky and takes his place. He manages to escape the police, friends and relatives, but not his dark self.
