Best Crime movies of 2005

Actors : Eva Longoria, Freddy Rodríguez, Christian Bale, Chaka Forman,
Directors : David Ayer,

A tough-minded drama about two friends in South Central Los Angeles and the violence that comes between them.

Actors : Kais Nashif, Hamza Abu-Aiaash, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal,
Directors : Hany Abu-Assad,

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Actors : Connie Nielsen, John Cusack, Lara Phillips, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

Actors : Paul Walker, Ashley Scott, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan,
Directors : John Stockwell,

A group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, John Travolta,
Directors : F. Gary Gray,

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Kirsten Prout,
Directors : Rob Bowman,

Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen, Vincent Cassel, Addison Timlin,
Directors : Mikael Håfström,

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.

Actors : Delroy Lindo, Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramírez,
Directors : Tony Scott,

A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Actors : Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman,
Directors : Lee Tamahori,

Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States.

Actors : Omar Benson Miller, Joy Bryant, 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Actors : Enrique Murciano, Regina King, William Shatner, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : John Pasquin,

After Cheryl Frasier and Stan Fields are kidnapped, Gracie goes undercover in Las Vegas to find them.

Actors : Fred Ulysse, George Babluani, Pascal Bongard, Aurélien Recoing,
Directors : Géla Babluani,

A man takes over a dead man's task but doesn't realize the horror it entails.

Actors : Dolores Fonzi, Ricardo Darín, Pablo Cedrón, Manuel Rodal,
Directors : Fabián Bielinsky,

A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime.

Actors : David Hayman, Alison Lohman, Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.

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 : Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Goss, Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer,
Directors : Les Mayfield,

Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.

Actors : Shi-hoo Kim, Yeong-ae Lee, Yea-young Kwon, Min-sik Choi,
Directors : Chan-wook Park,

After a thirteen-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old boy, Guem-Ja Lee seeks vengeance on the man truly responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow ...

Actors : Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jamie Babbit,

Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Martin Henderson,
Directors : Rowan Woods,

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Actors : Fabrizio Rongione, Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard,

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.