Focus is a 2015 film starring Will Smith as Nicky, an accomplished con artist, and Margot Robbie as Jess, his apprentice. While Nicky teaches Jess his trade, the two become involved in a romantic relationship. Uncomfortable with the change in their situation, Nicky severs the relationship, only to encounter Jess again years later while working a dangerous job in Buenos Aires involving a billionaire international race car owners. Jess is working the opposite side of the same scam that Nicky is involved in—the most dangerous job he has tackled yet. To add to Nicky's woes, Jess is now an accomplished con artist in her own right, and manages to throw Nicky off his game at a time when he cannot afford to be anything but focused. What will happen when these two seasoned con artists with a romantic history collide?

Brad Pitt plays Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik's crime thriller Killing Them Softly, a mobster whose task is to investigate an impudent murder which happened during the illegal poker game organized by mafia bosses. To have a holistic perception of the movie atmosphere just mix-up in your imagination The Sopranos, GoodFellas, Pulp Fiction and put them in a Bush/Obama post-crisis America of last half of 2008; ladle it with some thick layer of political dressing made of pragmatic thoughts and infallible Jackie Cogan's phrases about what happens with people when recession comes and who is responsible for all of this mess. Killing Them Softly is loosely based on George V. Higgins novel Cogan's Trade which he wrote in the period of time 1972 – 1974, when he worked as lawyer, specializing in crime processes involving mafia complicity. This fact leads us to believe that he knows a lot about the shady inside world of gangster's "paradise" which served as a perfectly sharpened background for Andrew Dominik's movie. Filmed for that point in post-Katrina New Orleans Killing Them Softly immerses us in the abyss of despair and hopelessness which enveloped everyone's minds and souls of in America, regardless of occupation – even for thorough-paced gangster – it's time to think about what's wrong with this world. The movie was nominated for the Palme d'Or at 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

The Peacock film's main protagonist is John Skillpa, who lives in the small town of Peacock, Nebraska. After the death of his domineering and cruel mother, he begins to change into her clothes, and wear a wig. The image of women John live much easier, she - sociable and charming, and he - is closed in itself and does not see the meaning of life. So flows the everyday life of, until near his home is no railway accident: in his court enters a train off the rails. People who have run away to see if everything is OK, and finding it in a dress. His old girlfriend, Maggie reads about this case reads in the newspaper and comes to John, asking to help her with money. In the course of the film turns out that Maggie and John met three years ago, thanks to his mother, who saw the Maggie's need of money, and asked her to meet with his son, and paid for it. John finally gets tangled in his own life, and decides to fake his own death…

Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a hymn to the absurd and total irrationality of everything. You can feel itwhen you are on the way of your own self-destruction, when the moral imperatives are thrown in the trash, and the place occupied by sleeping rational naughty and daring instincts. It is paradoxical but true: it is Herzog managed to break Nicolas Cage's (with rare perseverance ruin their once-glorious career) familiar mask of grief and sorrow. In fact, this local success is a mirror image of director's methods of the maestro.

"Valkyrie" is a 2008 historical thriller movie based on the true story of the July 20 Plot of 1944, a failed assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler by German officers who were opposed to the Nazi regime. The movie follows Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a key figure in the plot, as he devises a plan to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi government.

"Gone Girl" is a 2014 psychological thriller film that tells the story of the disappearance of Amy Dunne, and the subsequent investigation into her husband Nick Dunne's possible involvement in her disappearance. The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is directed by David Fincher and stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in the lead roles.