Crime Movies of 1997
Jackie Brown
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Cop Land
The second film from writer/director James Mangold, the corruption drama Cop Land stars Sylvester Stallone as ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
L.A. Confidential
Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Donnie Brasco
This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Hoodlum
The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
U-Turn
Oliver Stone directed this John Ridley screenplay adapted from Ridley's novel Stray Dogs. A drifter (Sean Penn) eludes Las Vegas collection agents and arrives in a small town where he decides to linger after his car ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Grosse Pointe Blank
Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
The directorial debut of Kiefer Sutherland is part-Western, ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Suicide Kings
Television director Peter O'Fallon made his feature film debut with this independent film that pays obvious homage to the style of Quentin Tarantino, with plenty of violence and funny, talkative hit men. Suave gangster Charlie Barrett ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Gang Related
A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
The Last Don
This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
The Maker
Tim Hunter, the director of River's Edge, returned with another powerful story of troubled teenagers struggling to find their way out of moral and legal limbo. High school senior Josh Minell ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Flypaper
Suspense and comedy combine in this convoluted tale of a successful Realtor who tries to save his wreck of a daughter ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
City of Industry
Betrayal and revenge are the key ingredients of this violent, streetwise crime drama. Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel) was once a ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Under Oath
Two honest men discover how high the stakes can be when they turn against the law in this thriller. Nick Hollit (Jack Scalia) and Ray Ramirez (Eddie Velez) are a pair of police detectives who have played by the rules all ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
The Swindle
The 50th film from legendary French New Wave writer and director Claude Chabrol is a typically Hitchcockian comic ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Clint Eastwood directed this adaptation of John Berendt's non-fiction best-seller about a Savannah, Georgia, murder case. When this film was released, Berendt's book had ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Cold Around the Heart
This crime film, in the tradition of Bonnie and Clyde, is the directorial debut of writer John Ridley, scripter ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Dance with the Devil
The title character of this Alex de la Iglesia film made her ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
Not only is the teeming metropolis of Isola in the grips of its worst heat wave in history, but the ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Code of Ethics
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Lowball
This crime-drama follows two police detectives as they struggle to break open a drug ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Family of Cops II
A priest has been murdered in the neighborhood of Inspector Paul Fein's youth, and it's up to the seasoned cop to crack the case in director David Greene's entry into the tense Family of Cops series. It's not going to be easy going back to ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Face
Five criminals with varying degrees of experience are brought together and torn apart by a major robbery in this hard-edged British drama. Ray (Robert Carlyle) ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
The Sleepwalker Killing
In this suspenseful mystery, an amnesiac man is arrested for the murder of his mother-in-law but cannot recall whether or not he is guilty. ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Dead End
Eric Roberts stars in this drama about a police detective who is ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Heist
In this crime thriller, four disparate criminals ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Born Bad
A group of teens find themselves surrounded while robbing a bank. They take everyone hostage and begin a standoff with the authorities. ~ All Movie Guide [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Running Time
Like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, the low-budget, black-and-white thriller Running Time was edited to disguise its cuts, giving the illusion that the film takes place in real ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Pusher
Filled with easy money, fast cars and beautiful women, Frank's life as a drug dealer is perfect until the police catch him en route to deliver a large bag of heroin. Just before he is arrested, Frank ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Brother
Young Russian Danila returns home after serving a two-year military stint and discovers that his big brother has become a hit man for mobsters in St. Petersburg and ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Snake Skin Jacket
In this noir thriller, Silas Cooper stars as Patrick, a milquetoast, white-collar banker who has more than a few startling secrets. For years, ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Onibi
Veteran actor Yoshio Harada stars as world-weary gangster Noriyasu Kunihiro in this shaded character study by way of a two-fisted yakuza drama. The film opens with ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Junk Food
Masashi Yamamoto directs this impressionist portrait of the drug-addled riff-raff at the edges of Japanese life. Told in a series of vignettes, the film opens with emaciated beauty Miyuki (Miyuki Iijima) polishing ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
No. 3
Writer Song Neung-Han made his directorial debut with this South Korean crime drama about sharp-witted young gangster Tae-Ju (Han ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Rainy Dog
Takashi Miike directs this brooding, hard-boiled gangster drama set in monsoon-soaked Taiwan. Yuji (played by Miike regular Sho Aikawa) ekes out an existence working as a Japanese hit man for a gang in Taipei. A laconic character with a ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Boogie Boy
Mark Dacascos plays Jesse, who has just been freed after a stretch in prison. He reluctantly helps out his pal Larry (Jaimz Woolvett) with ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Bang
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Firing Squad
A woman tries to obtain justice for a friend and instead finds she and her friends are in grave danger in this crime drama. A woman who has fallen in love with a crime kingpin discovers he has a vicious ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Wild Life
Following up on his acclaimed Helpless and Chimpura, Shinji Aoyama directs this bizarre ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Casino
The Asian crime drama Casino takes place during the ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Full Impact
Marc Messenger's thriller Full Impact stars Gary Daniels as T.J., a tough-guy ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Bottom Feeders
In this crime comedy, a routine heist goes south for a group of low I.Q. crooks, leaving an unplanned pile of bodies. Now the member of the team left holding the loot is a target for the police and every other ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
The Manson Family
Filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, who earned a reputation as one of the most distinctive and uncompromising artists in underground horror with his low-budget feature Deadbeat at Dawn and a series of powerful short subjects and music videos, directed ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
AK-47 Temible Cuermo De Chivo
The Mexican film AK-47 Temible Cuermo De Chivo takes its premise from a popular song. The title weapon helps turn a shoeshiner into one of the most feared marksmen of his time, but he ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Touching Evil: The Lost Boys
The fate of three missing boys lies in the determination of a detective committed to ensuring their safe return in this mystery starring Robson Green and featuring a special appearance by Star Wars star Ian McDiarmid. Three children ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Touching Evil: To Death and Back
When three London hospital patients are administered a drug which none were prescribed and subsequently ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Touching Evil: What Amathus Wants
When a mind-altering internet game begins to manipulate unsuspecting players into ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
This violent comedy is a cinematic bloodbath from cult filmmaker Takashi Miike. The story centers on a trio of ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Pacas de Kilo
A family who has been involved in drug trade for generations finds out just how sins can be passed down from the father in this sprawling south of the border crime drama. The men, women, and children of the Vasquez family have been ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
Infidelity
A middleweight boxing champion looking to cut his underworld ties and begin life anew finds that escaping your past ... [ Crime movie - 1997 ]
El Gato de la Sierra
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