The best of the best, here are presented the ten best movies about crime which are based on true stories.  They are listed in alphabetical order and each is generally a quite good movie, but what makes them especially interesting, and in some cases, very, very terrifying, is that this is not complete fiction; in fact, most of what is being portrayed really did happen…
1.  Blow 2001 – Directed by Ted Demme
Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, and Ray Liotta, this Ted Demme directed picture tells us the story of George Jung (Depp) who goes from being the son of a lower-middle class plumber (Liotta) to drug dealer, to drug trafficker, to basically cocaine king of the United States, to inmate, to parolee trying to get back into his daughter’s life, and finally to permanent inmate.  The movie is heart-wrenching and the kind of movie men will in which men watching will tear up at the end because George finally realizes that the advice his father gave him long ago, when his father’s business was in trouble, was the truth, and George has realized it too late to do anything about it.  It is as tragic as it is brilliant with fantastic acting, a great cast and the never-changing excellence in direction of Demme.

Elf is a wholesome holiday comedy that tells us the story of a human raised by elves at the North Pole.   Buddy, skillfully played by Will Ferrell, is mistakenly brought back to the workshop after crawling into Santa’s toy bag.  He is adopted by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) and raised like an elf until he discovers that he’s actually a human.

The Matrix: Revolutions is the final installment of the Wachowski brothers’ Matrix trilogy which, when viewed on its own merit is a remarkable action movie, but of very poor quality when considered in its proper role as the final episode of this modern epic. In Revolutions, which is set to take place immediately after the conclusion of The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition), Neo (Keanu Reeves) is in an apparent coma, having been imprisoned by a rogue program, somewhere between the Matrix and the computer network that lies outside of it.

Director Marcus Nispel has managed to make an interesting contribution to 2003′s movie lineup, taking a B-movie originally made in the 1970s on a minuscule budget, and turning it into a B-movie made with a grand Hollywood budget. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of 2003 makes some changes to plot, characters, and other miscellaneous aspects of the original version, but fails to succeed in turning it into a quality horror film.