221. Bullitt
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Plot: A mafia informant is killed on Frank Bullitt's watch - seemingly with inside knowledge. Now he has to track down the killers and the leak.
222. House of Games
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Mamet
Actors: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Ricky Jay
Plot: Margaret Ford (Crouse) is a psychiatrist who is trying to help Billy Hahn, a gambler who wants to end his life. Billy confesses that he owes $25,000 that needs to be paid if not he will be killed. She then looks for Mike (Mantegna) to compromise the dilemma. She gets close to Mike and wants to write about his line of work.
223. Dheepan
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Marc Zinga
Plot: A former Tamil warrior in Sri Lanka finds himself having to make an exit after coming out on the wrong side of a civil war. Finding a woman and child, he picks them up along the way, hoping this new "family" will lead to a better chance at asylum. They find themselves in Paris, struggling to find a life and home but even after finally settling into some sense of normalcy, violence still finds them and the man finds the warrior still inside will have to come out to protect those he has come to love.
224. Elevator to the Gallows ( Ascenseur pour l'échafaud )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen
Plot: Julien and his lover Florence - plan to murder her husband - Julien's boss and a powerful man, by staging it as a suicide. Yet one critical error sends Julien to retrieve a key piece of evidence leading to a chain of events that spells doom.
225. The Hitcher
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Harmon
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John M. Jackson, Billy Green Bush
Plot: A driver transporting a friend's car picks up a deadly passenger - a
hitchhiker with a taste for murder. He gets away, but soon is implicated
in the madman's killing spree.
226. Klute
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam
227. Marathon Man
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Plot: A series of events leads a regular man to become embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi war criminal and his plan to walk away with a fortune in stolen diamonds.
228. King of New York
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito
Plot: It's Robin Hood with a gritty, urban twist - a drug lord has fallen but after prison he returns home determined to wipe out the competition and spread the wealth to poorer citizens.
229. Pusher
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Andersson
Plot: A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
230. Gomorrah ( Gomorra )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Matteo Garrone
Actors: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Vincenzo Fabricino, Vincenzo Altamura, Italo Renda
Plot: Five individual stories present a contemporary look at the mafia in Italy.
