Greatest 29 Crime Movies Editor's Pick Released in 2005

An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption. See more about Sin City / IMDB / YouTube

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignments require them to kill each other. Read about Mr. & Mrs. Smith / IMDB / YouTube

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. More about Crash / IMDB / YouTube

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent. Get info on Lord of War / IMDB / YouTube

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core. Read about A History of Violence / IMDB / YouTube

After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery. More about Kiss Kiss Bang Bang / IMDB / YouTube

Transporter Frank Martin, surfaces in Miami, Florida and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official. See more about Transporter 2 / IMDB / YouTube

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards. Get info on The Longest Yard / IMDB / YouTube

A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement. Read about Layer Cake / IMDB / YouTube

A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism. Find out about Green Street Hooligans / IMDB / YouTube

When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems. Details on Four Brothers / IMDB / YouTube

When an affluent couple lose all their money following a series of blunders, they turn to a life of crime to make ends meet. Get info on Fun with Dick and Jane / IMDB / YouTube

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious Axe Gang while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. Details on Kung Fu Hustle / IMDB / YouTube

A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. See more about The Exorcism of Emily Rose / IMDB / YouTube

When a family is held hostage, former hostage negotiator Jeff Talley arrives at the scene. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family. Info on Hostage / IMDB / YouTube

Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. Explore The Interpreter / IMDB / YouTube

A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life. Details on Unleashed / IMDB / YouTube

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target. More about The Devil's Rejects / IMDB / YouTube

Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences. Check out Revolver / IMDB / YouTube

An assassin's change of heart leads her into a war against an evil crime syndicate. More about Elektra / IMDB / YouTube

After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means. See more about Lady Vengeance / IMDB / YouTube

A police sergeant must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve, just as corrupt policeman surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks. Read about Assault on Precinct 13 / IMDB / YouTube

Gracie Hart abandons the life of a field agent to become the public face of the FBI. Yet, when Cheryl Frasier and Stan Fields are kidnapped, she is determined to rescue them, along with her reluctant partner. Get info on Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous / IMDB / YouTube

Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas. Explore Into the Blue / IMDB / YouTube

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it. Learn about Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior / IMDB / YouTube

Chicago advertising executive Charles 'Chaz' Schine is mentally worn down by his useless teacher wife Deanna and their equally ingrate daughter Amy, whose bad diabetes requires experimental, uncovered treatment that would exhaust their life savings. When foxy investment adviser Lucinda Harris volunteers to pay his ticket when he arrives on the commuter train without cash, they soon start an affair. Taking her to a tacky hotel, they are held at gunpoint by thug 'Frencie' LaRoche, who rapes her having knocked Chaz down, robs their wallets and calls him afterward, blackmailing a small fortune not to tell his wife. Paying through equally abusive Dexter only incurs more demands and abuse, until Chaz brings along ex con office mail boy Winston Boyko, who promises to scare LaRoche away, but is shot by him., leaving Chaz to deal with the corpse and police detective Church, a friend of Winston's. Only when bled dry, Chaz finds out Lucinda is a stolen identity, part of an elaborate setup. His ill-planned vengeance, as lawyer friend Jerry sees no legal way without timely complaints from him and Lucinda, starts a cycle of bloodshed and other unpleasant surprises for most involved. Info on Derailed / IMDB / YouTube

Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States. See more about xXx: State of the Union / IMDB / YouTube

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way. Details on Be Cool / IMDB / YouTube

A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. Info on Domino / IMDB / YouTube