Best Crime movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Terrence Howard, Ludacris,
Directors : Craig Brewer,

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

Actors : Michael Palin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, John Cleese,

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.

Actors : Frances Sternhagen, Richard Farnsworth, Kathy Bates, James Caan,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Actors : Fred Ward, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Greg Kinnear, Chris Rock,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, John Travolta,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.

Actors : Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe, Terry Pheto,
Directors : Gavin Hood,

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Actors : Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Actors : Colman Domingo, Regina King, Stephan James, KiKi Layne,
Directors : Barry Jenkins,

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : Sharon Stone, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Susan Sarandon, Raymond J. Barry, Sean Penn,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.