271. 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.
272. Vera Drake
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham, Eddie Marsan, Anna Keaveney, Daniel Mays, Lesley Manville
273. Deliver Us from Evil
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Amy Berg
Actors: Jeff Anderson, Case Degroot, Jane Degroot, Thomas Doyle, Oliver O'Grady, Bill Hodgman
Plot: A documentary about the history and causes of the Catholic sex abuse scandal.
274. Dolores Claiborne
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, Judy Parfitt
Plot: Mother struggles to protect herself and daughter from alcoholic father. After years of separation the daughter returns to defend her mother for murder and become closer.
275. New Jack City
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Michael Michele
Plot: A small-time drug dealer, Nino Brown, becomes a kingpin after he sees the future in crack cocaine while two undercover cops try and fail to bring him down again and again. As the violence escalates, the lengths they will go to bring down Brown and his gang go into dangerous territory.
276. Blow Out
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, Curt May
Plot: A sound technician inadvertently records a car crash one evening while sampling noises. As he listens to the recording, he realizes that it wasn't an accident.
277. The Lady from Shanghai
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling
Plot: A sailer gets mixed up with a gorgeous woman and a murder plot in which he may or may not be involved in.
278. 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.
279. Take the Money and Run
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman, Jan Merlin
Plot: Presented in a documentary style about the life of Virgil Starkwell, failed musician and highly inept bank robber.
280. Bernie
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Teague, Tommy G. Kendrick, Rick Dial
Plot: When a wealthy widow he's been seeing drops dead, a local mortician will
do just about anything to convince people she's still alive.
