The best James Woods’s crime movies

James Woods

James Woods

18/04/1947 (77 años)
Today we present the best James Woods’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best James Woods’s movies.
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Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America
8.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/05/1984
  • Character: Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

John Q

John Q
7.1/10
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Casino

Casino
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/11/1995
  • Character: Lester Diamond
In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.

True Crime

True Crime
6.6/10
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

Against All Odds

Against All Odds
5.9/10
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.

The General's Daughter

The General's Daughter
6.4/10
When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

Officer Down

Officer Down
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/01/2013
  • Character: Captain Verona
When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?

Be Cool

Be Cool
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 04/03/2005
  • Character: Tommy Athens
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.

Night Moves

Night Moves
7.1/10
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
6.3/10
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.

Jamesy Boy

Jamesy Boy
6.2/10
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.

Cop

Cop
6.4/10
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

The Gambler

The Gambler
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/10/1974
  • Character: Bank officer
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Best Seller

Best Seller
6.4/10
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.

The Onion Field

The Onion Field
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/09/1979
  • Character: Gregory Powell
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.

True Believer

True Believer
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/02/1989
  • Character: Eddie Dodd
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.

The Visitors

The Visitors
6.3/10
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they were in the same platoon. They also became opposed parties in a court martial - for a reason that Bill never explained to Martha. What happened in Vietnam, and what is the reason for the presence of Mike and Tony ?

The Choirboys

The Choirboys
5.6/10
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.

Fast-Walking

Fast-Walking
6.4/10
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.

Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 04/10/1972
  • Character: Lt. Wyatt
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.

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