Best Crime movies of 1996

Actors : John Polson, Jeremy Sims, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell,
Directors : David Caesar,

Looking for the fast track out of suburban hell, two natural born losers scheme an impossible heist. Mick is slack, cynical, and most of all, unemployed. He masterminds the plan while Kev, ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Richard Anconina, Roland Blanche,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

With a shipment of counterfeit banknotes waylaid, and their boss in jail, two small-time hoods, Bruno and Vincent, find themselves forced to dognap two canines who have been trained... to sniff out counterfeit money!

Actors : Paige Rowland, Charles Napier, Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard,
Directors : Joseph Merhi,

An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.

Actors : Ross Boatman, Keith Brown, Layla Aldridge, Victoria Bensted,
Directors : J.K. Amalou,

A Cockney thug becomes a daddy just before he and his two colleagues are supposed to put the screws to some unfortunate deadbeat. The new dad decides that he has had enough killing and ...

Actors : Ernst Günther, Charlotte Sieling, Rolf Lassgård, Cecilia Zwick-Nash,
Directors : Per Berglund,

In a world where international terrorism knows no national borders, Wallander and his South African colleagues must prevent a crime that would change the face of history.

Actors : Patrick Goyette, Marie Brassard, Maria de Medeiros, Peter Stormare,
Directors : Robert Lepage,

Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a ...

Actors : Mai Kitajima, Kimiko Yo, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang, five women take advantage of the situation to make off with the heist's loot, while a man hunts the same ...

Actors : Nicholas Sadler, Laurie Bogdanovich, Michael Bondies, Amanda Anka,
Directors : Kevin Lewis,

Four guys' college life centered around a theater production of a bank robbery and how to make it better.

Actors : Gianfranco Brero, José Luis Ruiz Barahona, Diego Bertie, Ana Risueño,
Directors : Francisco J. Lombardi,

Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.

Actors : Peter MacNeill, Lori Hallier, Tony Denison, Joanna Kerns,
Directors : Larry Shaw,

While her husband is away, Jessica Rayner is attacked by a rapist/killer in her own home. The police seem clueless, and the assaults continue in the Rayner family's neighbourhood. Jessica ...

Actors : Richy Müller, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

Edgar, a convicted serial killer, is told by the female prison doctor that he will die of a brain tumor within days. Holding her hostage he manages to escape intending to quietly enjoy his ...

Actors : Daniel McVicar, Sarah Bibb, Laraine Newman, Brady Bluhm,
Directors : John Putch,

Two dopey kidnappers get more than they bargain for when a super-smart ten year old which gets separate from his parents, which also uncovers their plot....and swings into action, Home Alone-style.

Actors : Biff Manard, William McNamara, Rich Willis, Tony De Santis,
Directors : Keith Markinson,

A woman knows too much about a jewelry heist.

Actors : Alfred Cheung, Simon Yam, Irene Wan, Chi Wah Wong,
Directors : Herman Yau,

Actors : Serge Merlin, Chiara Mastroianni, Hubert Saint-Macary, Melvil Poupaud,
Directors : Danièle Dubroux,

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls ...

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Muller,
Directors : Niels Arden Oplev,

This gritty crime drama is a poignant tale of a family that failed and follows two brothers - violent drug criminals.

Actors : Solomon Burke, Pamela Gidley, Brent David Fraser, Johnny Williams,
Directors : Jan Verheyen,

A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defense. The deceased man's down-and-out musician son soon is drawn in by his sexy stepmother ...

Actors : Yûki Amami, James Le Gros, Lori Petty, Jason London,
Directors : Keoni Waxman,

When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of ...

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, C. Thomas Howell, Lisa Zane, Doug Wert,
Directors : Scott P. Levy,

Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al ...

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Akira Hirai, Tetsuo Sano, Keiko Unno,
Directors : Satoshi Isaka,