| | Gladiator (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $187.67M Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, | Director: Ridley Scott, When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
| | Memento (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $25.53M Lead Role: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, | Director: Christopher Nolan, A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. |
| | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $227.14M Lead Role: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, | Director: Paul Greengrass, Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer. |
| | The Sting (1973)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $159.60M Lead Role: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, | Director: 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. |
| | L.A. Confidential (1997)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $64.60M Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, | Director: 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. |
| | Halloween (1978)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $47.00M Lead Role: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes, | Director: John Carpenter, Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again. |
| | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $249.36M Lead Role: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Griffiths, | Director: Alfonso Cuarón, It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry. |
| | From Russia with Love (1963)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $24.80M Lead Role: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, | Director: Terence Young, James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. |
| | The Green Mile (1999)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $136.80M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, | Director: Frank Darabont, The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. |
| | Il conformista (1970)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 100 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, | Director: Bernardo Bertolucci, A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. |
| | Shutter Island (2010)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $127.97M Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, | Director: Martin Scorsese, In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. |
| | Chinatown (1974)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, | Director: Roman Polanski, A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. |
| | Looper (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $66.47M Lead Role: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, | Director: Rian Johnson, In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. |
| | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $45.95M Lead Role: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones, | Director: Martin McDonagh, A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. |
| | Léon (1994)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $32.35M Lead Role: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, | Director: Luc Besson, Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. |
| | Minority Report (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $132.01M Lead Role: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, | Director: Steven Spielberg, In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. |
| | The Fugitive (1993)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $183.88M Lead Role: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, | Director: Andrew Davis, Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt lead by a seasoned US Marshall. |
| | Horrible Bosses (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $117.53M Lead Role: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Wiebe, | Director: Seth Gordon, Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. |
| | Casino (1995)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $42.44M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, | Director: 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. |
| | Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $154.22M Lead Role: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, | Director: Robert Zemeckis, A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. |
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