Best Crime movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Anthony Anderson, Ludacris, Taryn Manning, Terrence Howard,
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 : Ted Levine, Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Jon Hamm,
Directors : Scott Z. Burns,

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard,
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 : Verna Bloom, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Tommy Chong,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Actors : Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.

Actors : Romain Duris, Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Björk,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity, Bruce Willis,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.

Actors : Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody, Bob Hoskins, Diane Lane,
Directors : Allen Coulter,

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).

Actors : Naveen Andrews, Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.

Actors : Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr.,
Directors : David Dobkin,

Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.

Actors : Cuba Gooding Jr., Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Laurence Fishburne,
Directors : John Singleton,

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.

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

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

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 : Edward Norton, Bobby Cannavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Edward Norton,

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : James Foley,

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Actors : Rene Russo, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

Actors : Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, 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 : Edward Norton, Jennifer Lien, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo,
Directors : Tony Kaye,

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Chazz Palminteri, Lisa Kudrow, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.