Animal Kingdom is an Australian crime thriller, released in 2010, written and directed by David Michaud. Movie stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver. Motive of this crime thriller is about a family of malicious criminal Melbourne was inspired by the Pettingill family and the murder of police officers on Welch Street, which happened in Melbourne in 1988. The film was received good feedback from the critics and won a prize at Sundance in 2010. Animal Kingdom is directed by David Michaud, who interested in Melbourne's underworld. He wrote the screenplay under the name J. Working for the Screen NSW Script Development. His friend, producer Liz Watts, saw the potential in the script, pushed the director to rewrite the script several times and eventually produced this movie with a budget of AUD 5,000,000. The film was shot in Victoria, mostly in Melbourne. The scene with the funeral was filmed outside the Church of the Mother of the Lord in the East Ivanho.

The "shady" action of Lawless is unfolding in times of Great Depression which covered America in in the 1930s. The Prohibition Law and followed mass bootlegging and rum-running led to organized crime wide spreading across the USA. This "dark times" of twenty century were laid down in the movie storyline by the writers Nick Cave (screenplay), Matt Bondurant (novel) and mastermind Megan Ellison (daughter of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's) who shepherded this project. For those who like watching movies about the gangs rending the "society of law abiding citizens" this film would be a great choice, mostly because of perfectly selected cast. You should agree, not every day you see Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Shia LaBeouf all playing the gangsters and Guy Pearce as Special Agent. Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Dane DeHaan, Jason Clarke and Noah Taylor are continuing the star cast of the movie. But the great choice of actors is not crucial strength of Lawless, the thrilling dramatic scenes and scale of the "just unfolding" war between gangs and authorities will keep you engaged all the 135 minutes.

Premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, Brian Klugman's and Lee Sternthal's The Words stars the pleiad of brilliant actors: Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid and Jeremy Irons. And even if you are not an admirer of Olivia and Zoe beauty nor fan of Bradley and Denis play, you will be definitely vanquished by outstanding screenplay of this movie. Although it was a directorial debut of Klugman and Sternthal, the film has gained mostly positive reviews from critics. Three stories nested on in one as Russian Matrioshka, each with separate narration and distinctive filming style fascinate you with an extraordinary tightly knitted plot about thievery of novel, a common plagiarism that encounters on every corner of the world. And as it often happens in a true life, this stealing never leads to a happier life. In The Words, a stagnating writer Rory Jansen, who has totally surrounded to a life of boredom without any glimpse of inspiration, suddenly finds a mysterious manuscript which turns to be an unbelievable exciting novel. Rory decides to publish this novel as his own thanks to the fact the manuscript was not signed by author. Years later, basking in the rays of glory, he meets The Old Man, who apparently turns to be the novel's creator. From that moment Rory gradually understands what price he has to pay for his false success.

The basic concept for the film was developed by Johnson after he made Brick in 2005. He wanted to make an Agatha Christie-inspired murder mystery film, but his next project became Star Wars: The Last Jedi. After finishing his press tour for that film, he spent seven months writing the script for Knives Out.

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…

"Dolores Claiborne" is a film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. Released in 1995, it falls under the genre of psychological thriller. The story revolves around Dolores Claiborne, a woman living in a small town in Maine who becomes the prime suspect in her wealthy employer's murder. As the investigation unfolds, dark secrets from Dolores' past are revealed, shedding light on the complex relationship she had with her late husband and her estranged daughter.