Best Crime movies of 1991

Actors : Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Jason Patric,
Directors : Lili Fini Zanuck,

Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Chazz Palminteri,
Directors : John Landis,

A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".

Actors : Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.

Actors : J.J. Johnston, William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, Vincent Guastaferro,
Directors : David Mamet,

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

Actors : Jay O. Sanders, Angela Goethals, Charles Durning, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father.

Actors : Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Rebecca Eccleston, Eileen Atkins,
Directors : Peter Medak,

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship...

Actors : Julie Brown, Bobcat Goldthwait, Steve Bean, Bruce Baum,
Directors : Bobcat Goldthwait,

Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even ...

Actors : Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

Two cops have to work together to bring down the yakuza, while trying to protect a beautiful women.

Actors : Kevin Pollak, Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Danny Glover, Martin Short,
Directors : Nadia Tass,

The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, ...

Actors : Sarah Keller, Sean Young, James Bonfanti, Matt Dillon,
Directors : James Dearden,

Realising his secret girlfriend Dorothy's pregnancy will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father, career-minded Philadelphia student Jonathan Corliss coolly murders her, making it ...

Actors : Stephen Lang, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Mercedes Ruehl,
Directors : Maurice Phillips,

George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when ...

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae,
Directors : Bill Duke,

A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A ...

Actors : Mimi Rogers, James Remar, Joan Chen, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Actors : Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

After a horrific car wreck leaves him an amnesiac, a man slowly begins to unravel his shocking past.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Anthony LaPaglia, Rene Russo, Kevin Conway,
Directors : Heywood Gould,

An NYPD Detective (Michael Keaton) and his struggle for justice, while taking care of his late partner's three little girls after he is killed in the line of duty.

Actors : John Dye, Mako, Jeff Speakman, James Hong,
Directors : Mark DiSalle,

Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of ...

Actors : Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : John Sayles,

City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the way of a major commercial ...

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Brian Bosworth, William Forsythe, Arabella Holzbog,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.

Actors : Mammootty, Rajinikanth, Arvind Swamy, Shobana,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Surya (Rajnikanth) is an orphan raised in a slum. He finds a friend in the local Godfather (Mamooty). They rule the town and forms a parallel government. Things are well until new district ...