Best Crime movies of 1997

Actors : James Gammon, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Jack N. Green,

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an ...

Actors : Lela Rochon, James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Two corrupt cops murder an undercover DEA agent by mistake, and frantically try to cover their tracks by framing a homeless man for the crime. That involves juggling evidence, coaching ...

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Bodrov, Mariya Zhukova, Svetlana Pismichenko,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Actors : Antoine Basler, Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Jan Kounen,

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris...

Actors : Aimee Graham, Harley Cross, Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Álex de la Iglesia,

A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Dickens, Vincent Gallo, Mykelti Williamson,
Directors : Kiefer Sutherland,

A group of crooks, an ex con, his friend and a gun crazy gangster plan a drug heist, but not everything goes as planned.

Actors : Famke Janssen, Stephen Dorff, Harvey Keitel, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : John Irvin,

A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.

Actors : Gisken Armand, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Mathiesen,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.

Actors : Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Betty Schuurman, Fedja van Huêt,
Directors : Mike van Diem,

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Actors : Dean Jones, Christina Ricci, George Dzundza, Doug E. Doug,
Directors : Bob Spiers,

A maid is kidnapped and scratches a message onto D.C. the cat's collar and when his owner Patti discovers this, she plays amateur detective with the help of D.C. to try to find the culprits.

Actors : Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn, Claudia Ferri, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Christian Duguay,

An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.

Actors : Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steve Sweeney, Gerry Conlon,
Directors : Antonia Bird,

Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job ...

Actors : Frank Whaley, James Belushi, Shannon Whirry, Kylie Travis,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Actors : Matt Day, Frances O'Connor, Julie Wood, Tiffany Peters,
Directors : Bill Bennett,

After a robbery scam that goes bad, lovers Nikki and Al take off into the Australian outback, pursued by the police and a malevolent footballer named Zipper Doyle, and meet a number of offbeat characters.

Actors : Okan Bayülgen, Savas Dinçel, Müjde Ar, Mustafa Ugurlu,
Directors : Mustafa Altioklar,

A young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.

Actors : Chris Freihofer, Woody Watson, Nick Stahl, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

We see two stories told over four time lines, which wind down to a devastating ground zero collision, as we watch a double tragedy unfold in a small Oklahoma town. The two stories are told ...

Actors : Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Thokozani Nkosi, Ron Smerczak,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother...

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Mikhail Filipchuk, Yekaterina Rednikova, Dima Chigaryov,
Directors : Pavel Chukhray,

A woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...

Actors : Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Rewinski, Cezary Pazura,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

An innocent cab driver Jurek Kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.

Actors : Manisha Koirala, Prem Chopra, Bobby Deol, Kajol,
Directors : Rajiv Rai,

Governor Jaisingh Sinha is murdered and the needle of suspicion points towards his estranged son, Sahil Sinha who must prove his innocence.