The best Tom Skerritt’s crime movies
We present our ranking of the best Tom Skerritt’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 Tom Skerritt.
The Rookie
5.9/10
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.
Whiteout
5.5/10
The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.
Big Bad Mama
5.7/10
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Fuzz
5.4/10
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Thieves Like Us
6.9/10
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
Calendar Girl Murders
4.8/10
Millionaire Richard Trainor is rolling out a new spread featuring a beautiful nude model for each month of the year. However, the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a building and later Miss February is knifed to death. Homicide detective Dan Stoner is assigned to the case which leads to the seductive former model Cassie Bascombe. What connection is she to the case and will the killer be caught before he/she reaches Miss December?
Plot of Fear
6/10
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
Moving Target
5.7/10
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
Fighting Back
6/10
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
Wisdom
5.7/10
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
The China Lake Murders
6/10
A small town sheriff (Tom Skerritt) has his suspicions in a murder case which involves a rogue cop who goes on a murder spree. Contains mild sexual situations and violence.
Two for Texas
6.1/10
Kris Kristofferson and Scott Bairstow are hunted fugitives from a Louisiana prison camp who come Two for Texas when they opt to lose themselves in a crowd by joining Sam Houston's Texas Volunteer Army.
Greenmail
4.8/10
After huge explosions rip through a chemical processing plant, Alexander Scott, the leader of the radical extremists, is apprehended by a beautiful but tough ATF agent. While in jail, a series of bombings take place, killing innocent people. Scott suspects that one of his own is out of control. An unlikely alliance between Scott and the agent may be the only way to stop the killings. Now, the countdown is on in this race to stop the deadly bomber at any cost.
