American Gangster

Directed by Ridley Scott

With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.