Best Crime movies of 2002

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn,
Directors : Nicolas Cage,

An honorably discharged soldier returns home to New Orleans, hoping to break away from his upbringing as a trained prostitute, but his brothel-madam mother has other expectations.

Actors : Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy, Hugo Anganuzzi,
Directors : Pablo Trapero,

A young locksmith is forced to leave his home and family to join the Buenos Aires police force.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Marian Aguilera, Trevor Steedman,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.

Actors : Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Louie Rankin, Paul Campbell,
Directors : Cess Silvera,

This movie is about crime connected to selling drugs and extortion, hence the title. The crimes which start off in Jamaica then move to USA.

Actors : Christian Redl, Nadeshda Brennicke, August Diehl, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Robert Schwentke,

Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Talisa Soto, Lucy Liu,
Directors : Wych Kaosayananda,

Tasked with destroying each other, an FBI agent and a rogue DIA agent soon discover that there's a much bigger enemy at work.

Actors : Lucas Belvaux, Ornella Muti, Dominique Blanc, Catherine Frot,
Directors : Lucas Belvaux,

After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the...

Actors : Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, John Leguizamo,
Directors : Franc. Reyes,

A successful South Bronx drug dealer turns his back on his roots and gives money to a Wall Street broker to invest for him.

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Mahesh Manjrekar,
Directors : Sanjay Gupta,

Six bank robbers trying to pull off the perfect heist discover one of them is an undercover cop.

Actors : Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques,
Directors : Karim Aïnouz,

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Actors : Gilbert Melki, Lucas Belvaux, Ornella Muti, Dominique Blanc,
Directors : Lucas Belvaux,

In the final chapter of director Belvaux's trilogy, Pascal, now a disgraced cop, seeks redemption by capturing Bruno, a fugitive with a strange connection to Agnes, Pascal's heroin-addicted wife.

Actors : Sebastian Urzendowsky, Walter Gontermann, Ulrike Bliefert, Tobias Schenke,
Directors : Kai S. Pieck,

Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960's after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys...

Actors : Maria Chen, Jason Chu, Richard Chen, Shô Aikawa,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.

Actors : Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, Raphael Sbarge,
Directors : Paul F. Ryan,

A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.

Actors : Goran Visnjic, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine, Miranda Otto,
Directors : Nick Willing,

A hypnotherapist is caught up in the pursuit of a serial killer.

Actors : Elijah Wood, Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, Jimmy Cummings,
Directors : Edward Burns,

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Actors : Mariya Mironova, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Krasko, Levan Uchaneishvili,
Directors : Pavel Lungin,

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest...

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Sylvester Stallone, Raoul Bova, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

A woman who has just discovered she is the daughter of a murdered Mafia chieftain seeks revenge, with the aide of her father's faithful bodyguard.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Doug Hutchison, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Manisha Koirala, Seema Biswas, Mohanlal,
Directors : Ram Gopal Varma,

A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.