231. 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.
232. Blue Collar
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, Lane Smith
233. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.
234. 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.
235. The Order
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Justin Kurzel
Actors: Nicholas Hoult, Jude Law, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, Odessa Young
236. 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.
237. Shallow Grave
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Colin McCredie, Robert David MacDonald
Plot: A series of interviews lead to a new roommate for a group of British flatmates. But when the new tenant winds up dead, and surprisingly loaded with cash, they have to decide what to do with the body... and the money.
238. The Grifters
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Laskin
Plot: The story of three con artists; Roy, a small time grifter; Lily, his
mother; and Myra, his girlfriend. As they face divided loyalties and
conflicted feelings, a deadly triangle is formed in this gripping noir.
239. The Iceman
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ariel Vromen
Actors: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, James Franco
Plot: Richard Kuklinski led a double life - on one hand he was a loving family man - on the other, a cold-blooded hitman - this is his story.
240. Fox and His Friends ( Faustrecht der Freiheit )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer
Plot: Explores the class struggle and homosexual undertones of when a former circus performer and working class man, Franz "Fox" Biberkopf wins the lottery and looks to improve his lot in life. But money comes at a cost, and his new upper middle-class friends take advantage of him.
