Abel Ferrara's film stars Keitel as the Bad Lieutenant police officer who has every vice and they are killing him.

Sidney Lumet's film shows you can't get much lower than pulling an armed robbery of your own parents' jewelry store. Hoffman and Hawke are perfection as the miscreants. Anyone's kids look good after being stuck with these two.

Dennis Quaid as the laid back cop with all the down home relatives in New Orleans with Ellen Barkin as the assistant prosecuting attorney who is up tight with no private life. She will be prosecuting a case which will hurt those closest to him. Quaid's best film.

Martin Scorsese's film stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci as casino based "businessmen" in Las Vegas with ties to organized crime. DeNiro has had a very chaotic and troubled marriage and breakup with Sharon Stone. Joe Pesci spirals downward with drugs and violence.

Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as police officers who patrol the streets populated by L.A. gang criminals.

Martin Scorsese's Oscar winning film about a battle between the Irish mafia and the Mass. police with DiCaprio and Damon both undercover for opposite sides. Jack Nicholson is the head criminal that the police are so eager to bring down.

Gena Rowlands as the hardboiled broad Gloria who fights off all the bad guys to protect a young boy who the gangsters need to find and kill (he's a witness). Director Jon Cassevettes most accessible film. Later remade with Sharon Stone.

Coppola's sequel stars Al Pacino as the Godfather and he is icier and more ruthless than his father ever was. Now in Las Vegas, he wrecks further havoc within his family.

Viggo Mortensen is a small town cafe owner who brilliantly defends himself and customers from two thugs who enter wielding guns. As his story is splashed across newspapers, suspicions arise that he is another man hiding out in that town.

David Mamet's film stars Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna as a male con man and a female psychiatrist who tangle in a long con.

Christopher Nolan's film stars Al Pacino as an L.A. cop on assignment in Alaska who is hunting a serial murderer. He can't sleep because he is suffering from intense guilt. He and Robin Williams, the killer, discover things about one another and hunt one another. Remake of Swedish film of same title based on Swedish novel.

Abel Ferrara's film stars Christopher Walken as modern day Robin Hood who emerges from prison determined to take over as criminal czar with a difference. He will redistribute the wealth, including supporting hospitals. A bravura performance by Walken.

Kevin Anderson comes back to the town where his parents were involved in a bizarre murder involving an affair one of them was having. The woman he desires is the other half of the murder equation, her parents were the other half of the affair.

Tony Scott's film stars Denzel Washington as a former CIA assassin who is hired as a bodyguard. He becomes fond of his charge and vows vengance when she is kidnapped.

Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's film who pledges to solve a murder no matter how it takes, keeps at it well into retirement. His pledge consumes him, even making him take outrageous risks.

Brian DePalma's film starring Al Pacino as Scarface, a Cuban gangland leader based in Miami profiting from drug sales. A remake of the film set in Chicago during the gangland era and non-drug crime.

Tony Scott's film of Quentin Tarantino's screenplay starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as the couple in love trying to elude killers. James Gandolfini got his Tony Soprano role from his his acting in this film. Brad Pitt's portrayal of a likable stoner, Floyd, also pushed his career ahead.