While the rating spans a wide range of genres, crime movies are in a league all their own.

With explicit content mixed with beautiful cinematography and writing, these are some of the best R-rated movies around.

Unfortunately, the answers in the film are never confirmed.

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Tarantino andRoger Averyjointly won the Academy Award forBest Original Screenplay.

The film is ultra-violent, taking the stereotypical shot-em-up approach often seen in action thriller movies.

He joins the family business.

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Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter wearing a muzzle in The Silence of the Lambs

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Jack Nicholson looking over his shoulder with a scowl in a car in Chinatown

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Sean Connery as Jim Malone and Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables

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Jules aiming a gun at someone off camera in a diner in Pulp Fiction

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Gene Hackman as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, aiming a handgun in The French Connection

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Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro in Goodfellas

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Tony Montana Shooting a Rifle in ‘Scarface’

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Vito Corleone speaking to Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather (1972)

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