List of the best films based on real events

Crime movies have always been popular, and the world is willing to provide real materials for new scenarios. It's hard to write stories, which are based on the classics, such as "Goodfellas" by Martin Scorsese. Even more difficult to come up with a hell like that unfolds in the film Greg McLean "Wolf Creek". So what happens in these films - not a figment of the imagination of directors. We have collected for you the 25 best crime films in cinema history.

25. "American Hustle"

The plot - a real anti-corruption operation codenamed ABSCAM, the FBI carried out in the 70-ies of the last century. Picture, filled with unexpected twists and double transitions elegantly presents the atmosphere of the time with her pop songs and fashionable dances.

24. "Catch Me If You Can"

It's not the best film of Steven Spielberg, but definitely one of the most fascinating. The tape goes on the trail of Frank Abagnale, an expert in the field of documentary security, in 1960 stunned the world with his audacious scam. Played by Leonardo DiCaprio's character came out incredibly charming, and the actor was nominated for the "Golden Globe".

23. "Zodiac"

"Zodiac" tells the story of a mad killer nicknamed the Zodiac, which is kept at bay residents of San Francisco for 25 years. Painstakingly researched story of an investigation into a flawless directing Fincher becomes something more sinister than just a string of murders.

22. "Memories of murder"

Before taking off famous throughout the world of thrillers "Through the Snow" and "Okcha," a South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has created a crime film "Memories of Murder". The plot of the tape based on the story of two detectives who jump higher than his head in an attempt to unravel the identity of the killers of two sophisticated women. Picture spiced with black humor that produce Chung Ho among other directors.

21. "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Martin Scorsese, along with writer Terence Winter, he embodied on the screen the most sensational excerpts from the memoirs of a broker Jordan Belfort, who was convicted for manipulation in the securities market and the organization of cheap stock trading. Perhaps the most dissolute movie director proves that crimes can talk and have fun, but do not forget to show the world the people steeped in luxury and debauchery, and consider other people's money as their own.

20. "Casino"

The spirit of this underrated film by Martin Scorsese recalls "Goodfellas" and cast includes the legendary duo of Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. The story is based on the eponymous book by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandlinga. In doing so, the authors wrote his work, inspired by an article in the Las Vegas Sun newspaper from 1980 on a dispute between Frank Rosenthal, a master of the game on a tote, and his wife Geri McGee, a former stripper.

19. "Summer of Sam"

Atypical for Spike Lee's painting "Summer of Sam" tells the story of the serial killer David Berkowitz, nicknamed "Son of Sam." He wielded in the Bronx in 1977 and held the city in a panic, until the police knocked down.

18. "Sadist"

"Sadist" - a twisted and stiff story of two high school students from South Florida, where one of them kills the other, unable to bear the humiliation. The screenplay is based on the book by Jim Schatz "Sadist: A True Story of Vengeance in high school," and Brad Renfro masterfully embodied his character.

17. "Dog Day Afternoon"

The film is based on a Life magazine article from August 22, 1972. It was called "The guys in the bank" and told about the robbery of the bank Brooklyn Salvatore Naturale and John Voytovitsom. Last played unrivaled Al Pacino.

16. "The French Connection"

This story - a big chase scene two New York detectives of the French drug dealer. Weight painting give the game Gene Hackman and sobering ending.

15. "All the President's Men"

The film is based on the eponymous documentary book Journalists The Washington Post, who investigated the Watergate scandal in 1973. Unparalleled starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, and the picture was awarded four "Oscars".

14. "Wolf Creek"

This is one of the best horror of the 21st century, after which you do not want to go to Australia. Three students come to this country to find the mystique shrouded crater formed by meteorite, but eventually themselves become part of the horrific stories. This crater is actually exists and is called the Wolf Creek. However, the main feature of the tape in its unflinching directness.

13. "John F. Kennedy. Shots in Dallas "

John Kennedy's murder investigation is formally completed, but this historical drama Oliver Stone presents a conspiracy theory so that after watching you remain in the absolute certainty that it was not so easy.

12. "Anatomy of a Murder"

James Stewart is perfect in how it balances between the comical and dramatic drama Otto Preminger, based on a novel inspired by their own affairs counsel. Few films with such realism and tension reflects the ambiguity of the legal system.

11. "In the Spotlight"

The film tells the story of the investigation of journalists The Boston Globe on sexual harassment in the Catholic Church, which led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. The film won the "Oscar" in the category "Best Film" and "Best Screenplay".

10. "The Untouchables"

In one of the best films of Brian De Palma Kevin Costner starred in the form of an FBI agent Eliot Ness and Robert De Niro, who played the famous American gangster Al Capone. The painting was created based on real events, and when it was created by the Soviet filmmaker was inspired by silent film "Battleship Potemkin".

9. "F for Fake"

The last and the great work of Orson Welles - mockumentary about the complex dialectic of the true and the false in art. The director maintains his own narrative, and sometimes appears in the frame. This is his personal fun and extremely intelligent postmodernism.

8. The "Realm of the Senses"

If you see "Realm of the Senses", not knowing the history, you will be surprised what a psychopath is written. But the scenario of the film based on the stories of real Japanese geisha named Sada Abe, who strangled his lover boss of passion and took on parts of his body memory as a souvenir.

7. "Wasteland"

Stunning film debut of director Terrence Malick, "Wasteland" is based on the story of a couple in love of Charles Starkweather and Fugate Caryl, committed in 1958, a series of murders in Nebraska and the surrounding states. The film was released in the early 1970s, when the stories of lovers on the run, were at the peak of popularity after the release of "Bonnie and Clyde."

6. "Bonnie and Clyde"

"Bonnie and Clyde" - especially the monumental film about one of the most famous couples in American history. The painting stands out for the fact that never before in a cinema theme of crime and sex is not discussed as openly and without hard conviction. Sharp, bloody culmination tape revolutionary to this day.

5. "Munich"

This is not the most famous three-hour film by Steven Spielberg. In the center of the story ¬- revenge Israeli spies Palestinian terrorists staged an attack at the Olympic Games in 1972, which killed 11 members of the Israeli team. In "Munich," has a meaning and attempt to answer the important questions - and there is a place of humanism.

4. "M"

Genre films about serial killers owes much to the German director Fritz Lang for an amazing film in 1931, which is based on the true story of the investigation of the case maniac Peter Kurten of Dusseldorf. Portrait of the underworld, whose members try to catch one of "their" amazing today.

3. "A Man Escaped"

The classic work of Robert Bresson talks about a criminal who escaped from prison in Nazi-occupied France. The plot is based on the memoirs of Andre Devin soldier. As well as other works of Bresson, this film is weighted so that it seems a documentary.

2. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

This has become a classic work of Tobe Hooper's very, very loosely interprets the history of crime and necrophiliac serial killer Ed Gina. But despite the fact that the maniac "Leatherface" a fictional character, the film and the rating for its realism.

1. "Goodfellas"

If this is not the best film of Martin Scorsese (and it could be them), then at least one of the best: here and the time jumps, and inflated ego Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), and life itself mafia. No one else was able to get a similar picture, and every gangster film will always be compared with that of the legendary band.