Best Crime movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien,
Directors : Tony Kaye,

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, John Travolta,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.

Actors : Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe, Terry Pheto,
Directors : Gavin Hood,

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : James Foley,

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Actors : Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Carolyn Saxon,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Actors : John Ashton, Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Juliette Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Rodney Dangerfield,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Timothy Dalton, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.

Actors : Kais Nashif, Hamza Abu-Aiaash, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal,
Directors : Hany Abu-Assad,

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Mitchell Whitfield, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Actors : Mitchell Ryan, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A veteran policeman, Murtaugh, is partnered with a younger, suicidal officer, Riggs. They both have one thing in common: hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

Actors : Jerome Flynn, Helen McCrory, Robert Gulaczyk, Douglas Booth,

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Tom Cruise, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano,
Directors : Paul Brickman,

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

Actors : Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Harrison Ford, Joaquim de Almeida,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.

Actors : Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.