It's amazing what you'll find if you look hard enough...

They check in, but they don't...eh, you know.

Hitchcock's last great film chronicles the exploits of a brutal serial rapist and murderer, and the unbearable lout who's unjustly convicted for his crimes.

Chronicling the early development of Don Vito Corleone's criminal career and his son Michael's tumultuous reign of the family business decades later, this sequel to the Mafia classic is superior to its predecessor in many ways. Set against the backdrop of the flourishing American postwar era and the Cuban revolution, this criminal saga assumes an epic scope.

Windswept urban slums and low-rent brothels were ideal locations for one of Imamura's most intricate studies of low-bred trash gone awry, this time in the form of a charismatic serial killer played by the excellent Ken Ogata. If the stagnant postwar zeitgeist of this movie doesn't invoke your autumnal instincts, I don't know what will...!

In this instance, the truth is stranger than any fictional account of organized crime...

De Niro is featured quite prominently on this list, isn't he?

Professional bank robbers in Los Angeles go toe-to-toe with a special police task force assembled to catch or kill them. Michael Mann's contemporary crime saga features some of the most impressive and realistic extended action sequences ever shot.

Relieving others of their hard-stolen money is seldom an easy feat...