Crime Movies of 1996
Sleepers
Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Family of Cops
In this made-for-TV thriller, Paul Fein (Charles Bronson) is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie (Sebastian Spence) is also a cop. Paul is assigned to ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
From Dusk Till Dawn
In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Fargo
Filmmaking siblings Joel Coen and Ethan Coen both embraced and poked satirical fun at ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Original Gangstas
Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Funeral
Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this dark, emotional tale of life among the criminal ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Mad Dog Time
A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Albino Alligator
Actor Kevin Spacey made his directorial debut with this thriller. Dova (Matt Dillon), Milo (Gary Sinise), and Law (William Fichtner) are three ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Chamber
Based on a novel by John Grisham, this drama deals with a man trying to come to terms with his family and their ugly secrets. Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) is a successful attorney ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Kansas City
The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
2 Days in the Valley
A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Faithful
A hit man discovers the pros and cons of getting to know his victim in this dark comedy. ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Ransom
Ron Howard directed this thriller which stars Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a former fighter pilot who built a ramshackle one-plane airline into a ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Freeway
In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the uneducated daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute flees the foster-care ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Two If by Sea
Co-star Denis Leary co-wrote the script for this romantic comedy-drama. Leary plays Frank O'Brien, a no-class, small-time hood who is the ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Heaven's Prisoners
An ex-cop trying to stay away from trouble finds it ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Gotti
Gotti is the semi-biographical tale of John Gotti, the infamous crime boss of the Gambino mob family. This drama chronicles not only the bloody rise of Gotti, also known as the "Dapper ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Jack Reed: One of Our Own
In this episode of the Jack Reed saga, the Chicago cop takes over where his recently slain partner left off and ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
In the Blink of an Eye
After her lifelong friend is jailed for murder, a brave woman launches a private investigation to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Adventurers
Following up on his two-fisted Hong Kong action thriller Full Contact, ace director Ringo Lam spins this ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Sugartime
This tawdry drama is based on the allegedly true-life love affair between notorious mafioso ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
American Strays
A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Substitute
An ex-mercenary (Tom Berenger) becomes a take-no-prisoners teacher in a drug-ridden, gang-infested Miami high school in this campy morality tale about restoring lost American virtues to the inner city. Berenger's ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Bottle Rocket
A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Bound
Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
No Way Back
Revenge after an investigation gone-wrong turns into a family affair in this ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Set It Off
The sophomore film effort from music video director F. Gary Gray, Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents' death, Stony (Jada Pinkett ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Undue Influence
Just in case the title didn't spill the beans, this made-for-TV nail-biter was based on a novel by Steve Martini. In the midst of a bitter child-custody battle with her former ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Extasis
Three aimless, unemployed and penniless youths hatch a devious plot in order to escape their nowhere lives in this lively Spanish thriller that begins as Rober and Max rob a supermarket owned by ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Grind
A young man trying to break out of his blue collar life in New Jersey finds himself snared by ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Curdled
In this dark comedy, a woman fascinated with crime has an unexpected brush with ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Hit Me
Hit Me is a film adaptation of Jim Thompson's crime novel, A Swell-Looking Babe. Sonny (Elias Koteas) lives with his retarded older brother, Leroy (Jay Leggett), and works very hard as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Cadillac Ranch
Three disparate Texas sisters reunite to celebrate the wedding of the youngest and end-up having a thrilling adventure racing across the prairie ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Street Corner Justice
In this exciting actioner, maverick ex-Philadelphia cop Mike "Street" Justus lands in Southern California, rounds up a gang of ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Deep Crimson
Noted Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein directed this darkly comic drama of love and murder. Coral Fabre (Regina Orozco) is an overweight, emotionally unstable nurse raising two children on her own. Coral ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Driven
Directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Paradies Shoob, the independent drama Driven tells the story of four L.A. cab ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Big Squeeze
In this crime drama with comic overtones, Tanya (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a barmaid who works at a sleazy tavern, while her husband Henry (Luca Bercovici), a one-time baseball player ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
The Heist
When a would-be bank robber's attempt to steal $6 million goes awry, he takes a woman hostage without realizing that she is an ex-cop. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
God's Lonely Man
An unhinged city dweller becomes a vigilante as he tries to protect a troubled teenager. The fellow is Ernest, who came to LA in search of his fortune and who ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Squeeze
A real-life inner city Boston youth shelter yielded the plot, characters, actors, and ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Gravesend
Though made for only $5000, this gritty and bittlerly funny crime drama marks the debut of promising young New York filmmaker Sal Stabile. Set in a blue-collar neighborhood near Coney Island, it centers on four ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Raising Heroes
Longtime gay couple Josh and Paul (Troy Sostillio and ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Timeless
Terry (Peter Byrne) has a lot of responsibilities. Ever since his mother left his father, his dad has been drinking his sorrows away, and Terry has to prop him up and somehow keep him ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Organ
Organ is definitely not a film for the faint-hearted or those easily nauseated. Made in Japan by ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
In Cold Blood
Jonathan Kaplan remakes Richard Brooks' 1967 masterpiece that takes the viewer inside the mind of a pair of killers during a shocking murder of a farm family in 1950s Kansas. Anthony ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Once a Thief
This two-hour pilot for the Canadian TV series is inspired by John Woo's 1991 Hong Kong film of the same title, but the story has been altered ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Street Gun
In the crime actioner, a petty crook joins a major crime lord and as time passes, he rises up through the ranks to become a master criminal himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Dead Homiez
Filmed on location in South Central Los Angeles and featuring a largely ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Big Bullet
Benny Chan Muk-sing spins this high-octane police thriller. Noted ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Fudoh: The New Generation
Seijun Suzuki meets the Grand Guignol in this wild hallucinatory yakuza drama, directed by Japan's gonzo cinema auteur Takashi ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
War of Underworld
Herman Yau Lau-to spins this goo wak jai gangster yarn ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Street of Fury
Billy Tang Hin-sing directs this wild and woolly gangster flick that was part of the goo wak jai craze of the ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Baja Run
A drug deal gone bad spells trouble for a low-level drug delivery boy and a ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
Mongkok Story
A young man learns that Triad life isn't all it's cracked up to be in this ... [ Crime movie - 1996 ]
