271. Les misérables
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bille August
Actors: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson, Reine Brynolfsson
Plot: This version of Victor Hugo's classic novel puts the relationship between
Jean Valjean, convicted of a petty crime and released, only to break his
parole and Inspector Javert, the man who makes it his life's goal to track
him down - to the forefront. The pursuit consumes both men -
professionally and personally - leading up to the student revolution in
France.
272. 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.
273. 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.
274. 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.
275. 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.
276. Drugstore Cowboy
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, James Remar, Eric Hull
277. The Petrified Forest
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart, Charley Grapewin, Joe Sawyer
Plot: A man walks into a gas station and falls in love with a waitress working there, but only after they are held up and robbed.
278. The Getaway
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens
Plot: Master thief Carter "Doc" McCoy gets bailed out of prison by his wife,
Carol, on the condition that the two pull off a bank heist for a corrupt
politician. But Doc learns that things aren't on the level and he and
Carol escape with the loot. With nothing but the money and each other, Doc
and Carol flee from a crew of criminals with vengeance on their mind.
279. Frozen River
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Courtney Hunt
Actors: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Michael O'Keefe, James Reilly, Charlie McDermott, Mark Boone Junior
Plot: Between New York state and Canada, a young women must smuggler goods in and out of both countries to try and survive. Around Christmas, she struggles to pay for things that are necessary for the holiday season. The story follows those who are involved and get involved to help the women make it through. Some make legal and illegal sacrifices to satisfy the human spirit.
280. Layer Cake
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Colm Meaney, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy
Plot: A seasoned British drug dealer longs to ditch his illegal trade. But he
can't do that without wrapping up just one more job involving the drug-
addicted daughter of an influential criminal and a gargantuan stash of
purloined ecstasy. The cache's original owners are after him as well,
leaving him with no other choice but to run for his life.
