Best Crime movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Morris Carnovsky, Lauren Hutton, James Caan,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Actors : Stephanie Lawrence, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb,
Directors : David Green,

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna is dating fellow student William whom she plans to marry but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Peter Ustinov, Bob Newhart,
Directors : Eric Till,

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Jesse White, Elaine Stewart, Karen Steele, Ray Danton,
Directors : Budd Boetticher,

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Rütting, Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

Actors : Teri Garr, Mac Davis, Karl Malden, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Heidelinde Weis, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is ...

Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach, Joan Collins, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, May Britt,

The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

Actors : Nina Wayne, Aldo Ray, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

A paroled conman co-ordinates the robbery of an L. A. Airport bank with the arrival of the Soviet premier.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Winner,

The Tremayne bothers decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London - not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.

Actors : Claude Lelouch, Charles Durning, Gary Maas, Peter Falk,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, ...

Actors : Harry Guardino, Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Ted Post,

A private applies to be a test subject for the military's new chemical weapons program. After many tests he decides to use his knowledge on chemical warfare to rob banks. He will need a partner, though.

Actors : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Bianca Roe, Tania Raymonde, Shane Brolly,
Directors : Fabien Pruvot,

Code name "Japan" is a contract killer on a job. Accustom to staying in hotels, Japan find himself jet-lagged in the middle of the night and forced to eat in the hotel restaurant, room ...

Actors : Arjun Asokan, Nimisha Sajayan, Rajisha Vijayan, Venkitesh V.P.,
Directors : Vidhu Vincent,

Diya and Keerthi are friends. Keerthi is an aspiring Stand Up comedian and she is trying to find some opportunities for her shows. a becomes a regular presence in the friend's gatherings ...

Actors : Raymond Burr, Ken Scott, Joan Bennett, Martha Hyer,
Directors : William F. Claxton,

Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ...