381. Kill the Messenger
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cuesta
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Paz Vega, Michael Sheen, Robert Patrick, Tim Blake Nelson
Plot: Based on the true story of reporter Gary Webb: When Webb uncovers a conspiracy involving the CIA and Nicaragua contra rebels and cocaine in California, he is targeted by a precise, vicious smear campaign that drives him to depression and near suicide.
382. JCVD
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich
Plot: Broke, out of work and stuck in a custody battle, Jean-Claude Van Damme's
life can't get much worse -- until he gets involved in a robbery with the
whole world watching. Part heist thriller, part stream-of-consciousness
dramedy, this is Jean-Claude Van Damme as you've never seen him before:
*as* Jean-Claude Van Damme.
383. Freedom Writers
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Actors: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Kristin Herrera, April L. Hernandez, Imelda Staunton
Plot: A young teacher inspires her class of at risk students to learn tolerance,
apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
384. Fracture
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Anthony Hopkins, Embeth Davidtz, Rosamund Pike, Billy Burke
Plot: Willy Beachum a young, successful prosecutor takes a case against Ted Crawford, a structural engineer representing himself in the death of his wife. Although the case seems open and shut, Crawford has a plan - one that seems to point to his innocence and destroy Beachum's career.
385. Detour
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, Tim Ryan, Esther Howard
Plot: Al, a down and out piano player, hitchhikes from New York to Los Angeles
in order to be with his singer girlfriend. Fate has other plans for Al
when he steps into the car of a character named Haskel, who promptly
dies in his sleep one night while Al is driving. Afraid the cops will
never believe the truth, Al takes Haskell's money, car, and identity,
and tries to make it to Los Angeles, only to have fate intervene again
when he picks up a mean-spirited female hitchhiker.
386. Female Trouble
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: John Waters
Actors: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller
387. As Tears Go By ( Wong gok ka moon )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man, Ronald Wong, To-hoi Kong
388. Little Caesar
Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince
Plot: An up-and-coming gangster makes aggressive plays for more power.
389. The Blue Dahlia
Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall
Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers
Plot: A husband returns home from the war and discovers that his wife has been less than faithful. When she's murdered, he becomes the prime suspect.
390. Drug War ( Du zhan )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Johnnie To
Actors: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang, Michelle Ye, Suet Lam, Wallace Chung
Plot: An accident lands a drug kingpin in the hands of police and he makes a deal: he will become an undercover agent in order to avoid the death penalty. But even though he initially helps out, the police captain suspects he has ulterior motives that could threaten the entire operation.
