Crime and Justice Films Genre* Date Rating

Title

Description

Vigilante justice Re-enactment of the 1965-66 Indonesian killings & the memories of those Not rated involved Two brothers involved in the Neo-Nazi movement R

A Time to Kill

DR

1996

Act of Killing American History X American Hustle American Psycho Arsenic and Old Lace (classic)

D DR

2012 1998

CO/DR DR CO

2013 2000 1994

Badge of Silence

A

1993

Beverly Hills Cop

A/C

1984

Big Lebowski Boondock Saints

CO A

1998 1999

R R

The Dude seeks restitution for ruined rug with the help from his bowling buddies Vigilante justice for Irish brothers

Boys n the Hood

DR

1991

R

Story of a group of childhood friends growing up in LA ghetto

Breaking Bad

DR

2008-2013

R

After being diagnosed with cancer, chemistry teacher starts cooking meth

Capturing the Friedmans Carlito's Way Casino

D DR DR

2003 1993 1995

Central Park Five Chinatown (classic)

D

2012

DR

1974

R

DR/SF DR

1971 1967

X PG

DR DR

1988 1995

R R

Obsessive cop is convinced a serial killer is loose & disobeys orders to catch him Nun comforts death row killer & his victim's family

A

1971

R

San Francisco Inspector tracks criminals throughout the series

Clockwork Orange (classic) Cool Hand Luke (classic) Cop Dead Man Walking Dirty Harry (All 4)

R

Corrupt politics R Wealthy, materialistic, sociopath runs amok R Not rated Insanity runs in the family Female cop is gunned down & wrongly accused of excessive force; manic cop returns from the dead to seek revenge R Detroit cop involved in murder investigation deals with a very different Beverly Hills culture R

Not rated Father & son in upper-class Jewish family charged with child molestation Dragged back into criminal life, despite best of intentions R Greed, deception, money, power over a gambling empire R Investigates the case of 5 black/Latino teenagers convicted of raping a white Not rated woman in Central Park Private detective caught up in investigation of corruption & murder Experimental therapy designed to solve crime problem goes awry Inmate's failure to conform in rural prison

*Genre: D (documentary), DR (drama), SF (science fiction), A (action), CO (comedy), F (foreign), H (horror), M (mystery)

*Documentary (D);Comedy (CO);Foreign (F);Action (A);Drama (DR);Science Fiction (SF);Mystery (M);Horror (H)

Crime and Justice Films Genre* Date Rating

Title Dog Day Afternoon Double Jeopardy Dredd Fargo

DR DR

1975 1999

R R

Good intentions lead to hostage situation Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

SF CO/DR

2012 1996

R R

Too much power in one law enforcement agency Bungling criminal & persistent police chief tangle in a crime gone awry

Fugitive Freedom Riders 

A D

Gideon’s Army Glengarry Glen Ross Godfather (1-3) Gomorrah Goodfellas Gone Baby Gone

D DR DR F DR DR

Unjustly accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble hunts the real killer Story of civil rights movement interstate busing campaign Public defenders in the South working for criminal suspects with minimal resources 2013 G Wheeling & dealing in a real estate office 1992 R The activities of an organized crime family 1972-1990 R 2008 Not rated Look inside Italy's modem crime families Henry Hill & friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy 1990 R Kidnaping turns into a political & personal crisis for Boston detectives 2007 R 1993 2010

PG-13 G

Green Mile

DR

1999

Hannibal Rising Hunger

H DR

2007 2008

In Cold Blood (classic)

DR

1967

R

I-Robot Imposter Insomnia

SF D M

2004 2012 2002

PG R R

D F/M D

2011 2002 1997

Interrupters Irreversible Jackie Brown

Description

R

Lives of guards on Death Row are affected by a black man convicted of child murder

Hannibal Lecter's revenge for his sister's killers R Not rated 1981 Irish hunger strike Botched robbery leads to murder & killers face the repercussions of their crime Set in 2035, a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been committed by a robot Frenchman claims to be the missing son of a Texas family LA detectives investigate murder in Alaskan town

Not rated A year in the life of a city dealing with urban violence Not rated A rape in Paris investigated in reverse chronological order Flight attendant is key figure in plot between police & arms dealer R

*Genre: D (documentary), DR (drama), SF (science fiction), A (action), CO (comedy), F (foreign), H (horror), M (mystery)

*Documentary (D);Comedy (CO);Foreign (F);Action (A);Drama (DR);Science Fiction (SF);Mystery (M);Horror (H)

Crime and Justice Films Title

Genre* Date Rating

In July 1964, three nights of rioting in Rochester, NY in two predominantly black Not rated neighborhoods Two judges found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands Not rated of juvenile to detention centers Spy organization recruits an unsophisticated street kid into the agency's training program R

July ‘64

D

2006

Kids for Cash

D

2013

Kingsman

A/C

2014

LA Confidential Law Abiding Citizen

DR DR

1997 2009

Life and Crimes of Doris Payne M (classic) Manhunter Manic Cop

D DR M A

2013 1931 1986 1988

Memento

M

2000

R

Men in Black Menace II Society

C DR

1997 1993

PG-13 R

M/SF

2002

PG

Murder on a Sunday Morning

D

2001

My Cousin Vinny  Natural Born Killers

CO DR

1992 1994

R R

Now You See Me

DR

2013

PG-13

O Brother, Where Art Thou

CO

2000

PG-13

Once Upon a Time in America

DR

1984

R

Minority Report

Description

Set in 1950's, three LA cops investigate murders with their own brand of justice Family takes justice into their own hands Poor, single African-American mother from 1930s segregated America winds up Not rated as one of the world's most notorious jewel thieves Not rated Criminals join in the manhunt for a child-killer in Germany FBI tracks a seemingly random serial killer R In NYC, a man in cop's uniform is killing people for no apparent reason R R R

Husband with short-term memory loss seeks wife's killer using notes and tattoos An NYPD cop joins a secret organization that polices extraterrestrial affairs on Earth Street hustler tries to escape ghetto for better life Set in the future, an officer from an elite unit is accused of future crime

Not rated Fifteen-year old boy wrongfully accused of murder Inexperienced lawyer defends cousins accused of murder in rural Alabama Serial murderers glorified by the media Charismatic magician leads a team of talented illusionists called the Four Horseman In the south during the 1930's, 3 escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while being pursued by the law Regrets about an old life in the Lower East Side of Manhattan by a Prohibition-era Jewish gangster

*Genre: D (documentary), DR (drama), SF (science fiction), A (action), CO (comedy), F (foreign), H (horror), M (mystery)

*Documentary (D);Comedy (CO);Foreign (F);Action (A);Drama (DR);Science Fiction (SF);Mystery (M);Horror (H)

Crime and Justice Films

Title

Genre* Date Rating

Description

Onion Field

DR

1979

R

Four lives affected by the shooting of a cop in an onion field in Bakersfield, CA

Out of the Furnace Papillion

DR D

2013 1973

R R

Brother searches for missing brother when police don't act quickly enough Two men serving their sentence on a prison island plot their escape

Prisoners of Katrina 

D

2006

H/M/C

1960

M/C DR

1954 2002

Reservoir Dogs

DR

1992

R

After bungling a crime, criminals suspect one of their own is an informant

Requiem for a Dream Road to Perdition

DR DR

2000 2002

R R

A/SF

2014

PG-13

Rope

DR

1948

PG

Scarface

DR

1990

R

Se7en

DR

1995

R

Four addicts consumed by their addiction & their lives spin out of control Hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living In 2028 when a Detroit cop is injured on the job a multinational company sees the opportunity for a part-man, part-robot police officer Two men strangle their classmate and invite his family/friends to dinner to assess the perfection of their crime Determined Cuban immigrant in Miami takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed Two detectives hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi

Shawshank Redemption

DR

1994

She Made Them Do It 

DR

2013

Psycho Rear Window (classic) Red Dragon

Robo Cop

Not rated What happened to the city prisoners left behind during Hurricane Katrina Secretary who has stolen money from her employer goes on the run & ends up at Not rated a remote motel owned by a man dominated by his mother Wheelchair bound photographer looking out his window is convinced one of his Not rated neighbors committed murder Hannibal Lecter assists retired FBI agent to track down a serial killer R

Two long-imprisoned men find redemption through acts of decency Based on a true story of Sarah Ponder who is found guilty to masterminding a Not rated double murder R

*Genre: D (documentary), DR (drama), SF (science fiction), A (action), CO (comedy), F (foreign), H (horror), M (mystery)

*Documentary (D);Comedy (CO);Foreign (F);Action (A);Drama (DR);Science Fiction (SF);Mystery (M);Horror (H)

Crime and Justice Films

Title

Genre* Date Rating

Description

Secret US abduction of suspected terrorist leads to a series of terrorist attacks in NYC and the imposition of martial law R FBI agent works with manipulative killer to catch another serial killer who skins his victims R Told through the eyes of 6 protesters, Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders to Not rated build a new society

Siege

DR

1998

Silence of the Lambs

DR

1991

Square

D

2013

Sting

CO

1973

PG

Super Troopers

CO

2001

R

Training Day

DR

2001

R

Untouchables

DR

1987

R

Rookie narcotics officer goes on a 24 hour training day with a rogue detective Federal agent Eliot Ness assembles a hand-picked team to stop notorious criminal Al Capone

R

Boat explosion kills a bunch of people and the only survivor has a convoluted story involving 5 career criminals in a seemingly random police lineup.

M

Usual Suspects West Memphis Three

D

1995 2012

Set in Chicago during the 1930's, con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with seasoned con to win money from a criminal banker Group of prankster Vermont state troopers try to salvage their jobs by trying to out-do the local police in solving a crime

Three men tried and convicted as teenagers in the 1993 murders of 3 boys in Not rated West Memphis, AR

*Genre: D (documentary), DR (drama), SF (science fiction), A (action), CO (comedy), F (foreign), H (horror), M (mystery)

*Documentary (D);Comedy (CO);Foreign (F);Action (A);Drama (DR);Science Fiction (SF);Mystery (M);Horror (H)