Best Crime movies that are award winners or nominees

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 : Goran Visnjic, Peter Donat, Tilda Swinton, Jonathan Tucker,

A woman spirals out of control while trying to keep her son from being found culpable in a murder investigation.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Actors : John Malkovich, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Simon West,

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Bradley Cooper,
Directors : Guillermo del Toro,

An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Ben Falcone, Dolly Wells, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Marielle Heller,

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.

Actors : Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Casey Affleck,
Directors : David Lowery,

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

Actors : Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Actors : Anton Rodgers, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Steve Martin,
Directors : Frank Oz,

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.

Actors : Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Danny DeVito,

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

Actors : Obba Babatundé, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Nick Cassavetes,
Directors : Ted Demme,

The story of wrongfully convicted men (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after serving 65 years in prison.

Actors : Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson,
Directors : Nigel Cole,

A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Terence Alexander, Edward Fox,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.

Actors : J.E. Freeman, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Denzel Washington, Lynda Gravatt, Carmen Ejogo,
Directors : Dan Gilroy,

Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.