221. Oliver Twist
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Mary Clare
Plot: Another version of Charles Dicken's classic tale about an orphan taken up by a gang of London pickpockets notable for Alec Guinness portraying their leader, Fagin.
222. 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.
223. Deep Red ( Profondo rosso )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra
Plot: A jazz musician witnesses a horrible murder and tracks down the killer himself.
224. Magnum Force
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Plot: A wayward cop is enforcing vigilante justice by assassinating several criminals who manage to escape punishment by slipping through legal loopholes and "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the case.
225. Colors
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, Randy Brooks
Plot: Detective drama about a police unit trying to control the gangs in East Los Angeles.
226. Mean Creek
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Actors: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Carly Schroeder
227. 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.
228. Green Street Hooligans
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lexi Alexander
Actors: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Geoff Bell, Brendan Charleson, Kieran Bew
Plot: A Harvard journalist student takes the fall for his roommate and his expelled. He moves to London to stay with his older sister and finds himself in soccer gang.
229. 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.
230. 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.
