Best Crime movies that are oscar winners or nominees

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.

Actors : Colman Domingo, Regina King, Stephan James, KiKi Layne,
Directors : Barry Jenkins,

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Alan Parker,

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

Actors : Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani,

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Actors : Captain Haggerty, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Lazar,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

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.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

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.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, Allie Mickelson,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

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.

Actors : Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Ron Howard,

Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Robert Towne,

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Francisco Bertín, Santiago Armas Estevarena, Gina Mastronicola,
Directors : Santiago Mitre,

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Actors : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

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.

Actors : Steve Zahn, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Kate Capshaw, Ken Takakura, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.

Actors : Sharon Stone, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

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.

Actors : Robert Prosky, Susan Sarandon, Raymond J. Barry, Sean Penn,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

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

Actors : Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Rian Johnson,

Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.