21. No Country for Old Men
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Rodger Boyce, Kelly Macdonald, Beth Grant
Plot: Situated near the Mexican border on the Rio Grande, a hunter finds dead
bodies, heroin, and a stack of cash, in which trouble ensues the
discovery.
22. Double Indemnity
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Tom Powers, Jean Heather
Plot: An insurance man allows himself to be drawn in to a someone who is able to convince him to commit murder and insurance fraud which qualifies for an investigation.
23. The Maltese Falcon
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot: A private detective gets mixed up in a hunt for a valuable item. As he searches for the loot, plot points are exposed.
24. Catch Me if You Can
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams
Plot: An FBI agent meticulously tracks a young con artist who always seems to be one step ahead of him whether posing as an airline pilot, doctor, history professor or assistant attorney general.
25. A Clockwork Orange
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering
Plot: In a futuristic British society Alex and his Droogs enjoy the finer things
in life: sex and violence. When Alex is arrested, he volunteers for a new
"aversion therapy" with the end result that violence and sex now make him
physically ill. Back in society he finds that things are much different.
26. Killers of the Flower Moon
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow
Plot: In the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma are among the richest in the US, sitting atop a goldmine of oil fields. But then they begin to die one after another, murdered under mysterious circumstances. The young bureau of the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, enlists the help of a former Texas Ranger to investigate, uncovering a chilling conspiracy.
27. Rashômon
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
Plot: A crime is told from four different points of view, through different people - but which version is the truth?
28. M
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Gustaf Gründgens, Friedrich Gnaß, Theo Lingen
Plot: When the police can't solve a mystery, others are brought in to join the search.
29. Bonnie and Clyde
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Arthur Penn
Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle
Plot: The Story of the outrageous bank robbing couple and the romance they shared.
30. Once Upon a Time in America
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Plot: Noodles, a Jewish gangster, returns to his stomping grounds where he tries to forget the past and the tragic events that occurred.
