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15 Minutes
15 Minutes is a 2001 American crime thriller directed by John Herzfeld, starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns as investigators hunting killers who film their crimes.
3000 Miles to Graceland
3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 Warner Bros. action film directed by Demian Lichtenstein, starring Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner as ex-cons robbing Las Vegas's Riviera Casino disguised as Elvis impersonators during International Elvis Week, stealing $3.2 million.
9 Souls (ナイン・ソウルズ)
9 Souls (ナイン・ソウルズ, Nain Sōruzu) is a 2003 Japanese drama directed by Toshiaki Toyoda: nine escaped convicts, most murderers, ride a stolen van toward counterfeit money hidden near Mount Fuji and find only a glass key.
A World Without Thieves (天下无贼)
A World Without Thieves (天下无贼) is Feng Xiaogang's 2004 Chinese crime drama adapted from Zhao Benfu's story, starring Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You, and Wang Baoqiang; thieves guard a worker's 60,000 yuan on a train, grossing about 120 million yuan.
After the Sunset
After the Sunset is a 2004 Brett Ratner heist comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, and Woody Harrelson about a retired jewel thief pursued by an FBI agent in the Bahamas; it grossed $38.3 million worldwide and received poor reviews (18% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Arsène Lupin (2004 film)
Arsène Lupin is a 2004 French adventure film by Jean-Paul Salomé, adapted from Leblanc's La Comtesse de Cagliostro, starring Romain Duris, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Eva Green; released 13 October 2004, 125 minutes.
Baise-moi
Baise-moi (Rape Me) is a 2000 French film by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, adapted from Despentes's novel, starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach; famous for its unsimulated sex, French X-rating controversy, and bans in Australia and Ontario.
Bandits (2001 film)
Bandits is a 2001 American crime comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett as two escaped bank robbers and the housewife who joins them.
Basic (film)
Basic is a 2003 American-German-British military mystery thriller directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, and Samuel L. Jackson, set in Panama.
Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow is Justin Lin's 2002 Sundance crime drama about Asian American overachievers descending into crime, financed by credit cards and MC Hammer, released by MTV Films in 2003.
Blind Shaft (盲井)
Blind Shaft (盲井) is Li Yang's 2003 Chinese-German crime drama adapted from Liu Qingbang's novella Shen Mu, about miners who murder coworkers for compensation. It won the 2003 Berlin Silver Bear and is banned in China.
Blood Work (film)
Blood Work (2002) is a Clint Eastwood mystery thriller, directed by and starring Eastwood as FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, adapted from Michael Connelly's 1998 novel; released by Warner Bros. August 9, 2002, with Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston.
Boiler Room (film)
Boiler Room (2000), Ben Younger's debut crime drama, stars Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis, a college dropout selling stocks at the fraudulent Long Island brokerage JT Marlin; with Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Nia Long; Metascore 63.
Brother (2000 film)
Brother (2000) is Takeshi Kitano's first English-language, first film shot outside Japan: a UK-France-Japan-USA yakuza crime film in which exiled gangster Yamamoto builds a Los Angeles drug empire with half-brother Ken and Denny, clashing with the Mafia; produced by Jeremy Thomas, scored by Joe Hisaishi.
Burnt Money
Burnt Money (Plata quemada) is Marcelo Piñeyro's 2000 Argentine-Spanish crime film based on Ricardo Piglia's novel, about criminal lovers El Nene and Ángel whose 1965 armored-truck robbery fails; it won the 2001 Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.
Cellular (film)
Cellular (2004) is a New Line Cinema thriller directed by David R. Ellis, from Larry Cohen's story, starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, and William H. Macy; a kidnapped teacher's random call keeps a stranger's cell phone as her lifeline.
Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes is a 2002 American drama-thriller directed by Roger Michell. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star as two men whose lives spiral into revenge after a New York City collision.
Chopper (film)
Chopper is Andrew Dominik's 2000 Australian biographical crime film starring Eric Bana as criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read; a box-office number one and multi-award winner, re-released in 2021 and 2025.
City of God (2002 film)
City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, adapted from Paulo Lins's novel, about Rocket and Li'l Zé in a Rio favela; four Oscar nominations, Cannes 2002, HBO sequel series 2024.
Cold Creek Manor
Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American thriller film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, and Stephen Dorff, released on September 19, 2003.
Collateral (film)
Collateral is Michael Mann's 2004 neo-noir thriller starring Tom Cruise as hitman Vincent and Jamie Foxx as cab driver Max during one night of five hits in Los Angeles; shot on HD, it earned two Oscar nominations.
Concrete (film)
Concrete (コンクリート, Konkurito) is a 2004 Japanese drama by Hiromu Nakamura, adapted from Joji Atsumi's novel about the Junko Furuta murder; its May 2004 Ginza release was cancelled after protests before a July 2004 Shibuya opening.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (film)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut, a Charlie Kaufman adaptation of Chuck Barris's memoir claiming a CIA assassin double life, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Julia Roberts.
Crash (2004 film)
Crash (2004) is Paul Haggis's Los Angeles ensemble drama about race, premiered at Toronto 2004, released May 2005, and the surprise 2006 Best Picture Oscar winner over Brokeback Mountain, later widely criticized.
D-Tox
D-Tox, also released as Eye See You, is a 2002 Jim Gillespie thriller starring Sylvester Stallone as an FBI agent at a snowbound Wyoming rehab clinic stalked by a serial killer; it cost $55 million and grossed about $6.6 million.
Dark Blue (film)
Dark Blue (2002) is an American crime thriller directed by Ron Shelton, written by David Ayer from a James Ellroy story, starring Kurt Russell as a corrupt LAPD SIS detective during the 1992 Rodney King riots.
Das Experiment
Das Experiment (The Experiment) is a 2001 German psychological thriller, Oliver Hirschbiegel's feature debut, based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Moritz Bleibtreu as prisoner Tarek Fahd.
Dead Man's Shoes (2004 film)
Dead Man's Shoes is a 2004 British revenge thriller directed by Shane Meadows and co-written with star Paddy Considine, about an ex-soldier avenging his learning-disabled brother against a Derbyshire drug gang; a low-budget Warp Films cult classic.
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 Stephen Frears thriller, Steven Knight's first screenplay, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou as undocumented London immigrants who uncover a hotel-based organ trafficking ring; Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Domestic Disturbance
Domestic Disturbance is a 2001 American psychological thriller directed by Harold Becker. It stars John Travolta as a father who believes his son's new stepfather committed a murder.