Best Crime movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

Dead Again(1991)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An amnesiac and a private eye find they might have a past life connection.



Casino Jack(2010)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.



Mississippi Burning(1988)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.



Something Wild(1986)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.



Married to the Mob(1988)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 60

An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.



Sea of Love(1989)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



The Sting(1973)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.



Casino(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



To Die For(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.



Cape Fear(1991)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.



In Cold Blood(1967)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 45

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.



Destroyer(2018)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.



American Gigolo(1980)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.



Changeling(2008)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.




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