211. Manhunter
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang
Plot: Using his uncanny ability to get inside psychopaths' minds, former FBI agent Will Graham returns to action to hunt down a serial killer. Graham retired after catching Hannibal Lecter and subsequently suffering a breakdown. Now, he engages in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
212. Lord of War
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, Jared Burke, Eric Uys
Plot: See the rise and fall of Ukrainian arms dealer Yuri Orlov (Cage). Yuri wants money and success and justifies his lifestyle of selling weapons to mobsters and dictators in order to live with himself.
213. The Longest Yard
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters
Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his
prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by)
the guards.
214. Grosse Point Blank
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Armitage
Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria
Plot: Martin Blank is a hit man with some unresolved emotional problems. Blank gets invited to his high school reunion, which he has no intention of attending until he gets hired for a job back in Grosse Point. When he gets back he has to deal with the girl he left on prom night, as well as, his hit.
215. Match Point
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Brian Cox, Emily Mortimer, Penelope Wilton, Matthew Goode
216. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Simon Chandler, David Calder
Plot: This is the story of an orphan who was born with a superior sense of smell. It follows him as he rises from the gutter to being adored by hundreds, with a few murders along the way.
217. The Rip
Year of Release: 2026
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sasha Calle
218. Rififi ( Rififi chez les hommes, Du )
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Pierre Grasset, Janine Darcey, Magali Noël, Robert Manuel
Plot: A group of aspiring men plan the perfect rip off on paper when human error
causes it to go wrong.
219. Pickpocket
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi
Plot: A young man tries his hand at pickpocketing and is almost immediately arrested. After reflecting on the morality he is released, only to dead with the fallout from his mother's death. He rejects offers from his friends and, after learning from a professional, takes up pickpocketing as a means for survival and self-expression.
220. Pineapple Express
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, James Remar, Amber Heard, Brian Scannell
Plot: A comedy along the likes of Superbad meets The Big Lebowski meets Knocked up follows a couple of like minded losers in which one of them happens to witness a horrible crime. While one tells the other of what he just saw and how he was chased and almost killed, they take it upon themselves to get revenge, trust themselves, and try to solve the mystery on their own. In the end they find themselves running for their lives and that thug life is not as easy as it seems.
