Best Crime movies of 1997

Actors : Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, John Travolta,
Directors : John Woo,

In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.

Actors : John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack,
Directors : George Armitage,

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Pam Grier,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.

Actors : Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro,
Directors : James Mangold,

The sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City police officers slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.

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 : Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Laura Linney,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Bob Thornton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him, is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.

Actors : Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Irma P. Hall, Jack Thompson, John Cusack,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Actors : Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Alex McArthur, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Gary Fleder,

Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.

Actors : Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric,
Directors : Jan de Bont,

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Anna Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Ujiki,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane,
Directors : Dwight H. Little,

A 25 year old female White House staffer, Carla Town, is murdered in the White House. D.C. homicide detective Regis is assigned to investigate, only to find evidence suppressed by the ...

Actors : Jon Voight, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Matt Damon,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.

Actors : M.C. Gainey, Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Jonathan Mostow,

A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.

Actors : Delroy Lindo, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Danny Boyle,

Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in Los Angeles, who takes his boss' daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels", who are in charge of human relationships ...

Actors : Susanne Lothar, Frank Giering, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.