The best Karen Black’s crime movies

Karen Black

Karen Black

01/07/1939- 08/08/2013
We present our ranking of the best Karen Black’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Karen Black.
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The Player

The Player
7.5/10
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Family Plot

Family Plot
6.8/10
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, an unemployed actor.

The Outfit

The Outfit
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1973
  • Character: Bett Harrow
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

Born to Win

Born to Win
5.7/10
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Twisted Justice

Twisted Justice
3.6/10
In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of "The Bullseye Murderer," a psychotic rapist who takes a new drug called "Umbra" that gives him superhuman strength and intelligence.

Homer and Eddie

Homer and Eddie
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/08/1989
  • Character: Belle
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Fallen Arches

Fallen Arches
6.5/10
Transplanted from New York, Duke and his brother Frankie Romano live in a rundown LA apartment with their alcoholic mother (Karen Black).

Hard Contract

Hard Contract
5.7/10
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract

The Pyx

The Pyx
5.4/10
A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.

Law and Disorder

Law and Disorder
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/10/1974
  • Character: Gloria
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.

Crime and Passion

Crime and Passion
5/10
Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.

Little Laura and Big John

Little Laura and Big John
3.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1973
  • Character: Laura
Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.

The Killers Edge

The Killers Edge
4.7/10
A Los Angeles police officer and a female FBI agent team-up to foil a counterfeiting gang in operation. The counterfeiter in question turns out to be an army veteran friend who saved the male cop during their time together in Vietnam.

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