Best Crime movies of 2009

Actors : Yolande Moreau, Nicolas Marié, Dany Boon, André Dussollier,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

Actors : Edward Norton, Henry Max Nelson, Lucy DeVito, Keri Russell,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Don Wycherley, Cillian Murphy, Michael McElhatton,
Directors : Ian Fitzgibbon,

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Actors : Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin, David Schaal,
Directors : Ben Wheatley,

A crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business.

Actors : Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Timothy Hutton, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Cheryl Hines,

A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.

Actors : Kevin Corrigan, Patton Oswalt, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Robert D. Siegel,

A hard-core New York Giants fan struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player.

Actors : Jinglei Xu, Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu,
Directors : Tung-Shing Yee,

A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.

Actors : Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu,
Directors : Corneliu Porumboiu,

A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

Actors : Simon Yam, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Johnny Hallyday, Suet Lam,
Directors : Johnnie To,

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Actors : Sébastien Huberdeau, Maxim Gaudette, Martin Watier, Karine Vanasse,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Greg Marcks,

At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.

Actors : Sela Ward, Dylan Walsh, Amber Heard, Penn Badgley,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Michael returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.

Actors : Aubrey Plaza, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes,
Directors : Dan Eckman,

A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Jesse Metcalfe, Joel David Moore, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a corrupt district attorney takes an unexpected turn.

Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Marie Bunel, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

Actors : Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan, John Abraham, Katrina Kaif,
Directors : Kabir Khan,

It's story about three students studying at the New York State University whose lives are changed by 9/11 and its aftermath.

Actors : Alberto Ammann, Manuel Morón, Antonio Resines, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Daniel Monzón,

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

Actors : Peter Sarsgaard, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

Actors : Clifton Collins Jr., Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jonas Åkerlund,

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between a serial killing spree and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Actors : Erin Cummings, America Olivo, Michael Hurst, Julia Voth,
Directors : Rick Jacobson,

Three bad girls travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.