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.

Denzel Washington is Tobin Frost, the most dangerous CIA renegade in this action packed thriller. After being on the run for the past decade he returns. When the safe house he's staying in is under siege from mercenaries it takes a rookie agent to come to his aid and they escape together. Cape Town in South Africa is where Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) has become increasingly frustrated by his inability to get a good directive that will put him in good standing and allow him to prove his worth as an agent. Along comes Tobin Frost, a dangerous man who will become his unwilling ally when they flee from the mercenaries. Now Weston needs to figure out who to trust and who is out to kill the two of them.tars Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern, The Proposal) as the CIA rookie Matt Weston, Tobin Frost is portrayed by Oscar winner Denzel Washington (American Gangster, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3), and Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, Higher Ground).

Former bank robber and cop who has always been after that criminal, both are faced a dangerous conspiracy threatening their life. No one could predict that one only insignificant event will ignite the entire chain of catastrophically hazardous happenings leading to potentially "unhappy end". The former enemies, a retired criminal Jacob Sternwood and a gritty copper Max Lewinsky both have learn how to survive invisible threats, which makes them a team. The movie was directed by Eran Creevy, a man behind Shifty (2009), Scoop, Breakfast on Pluto and Wimbledon. He gathered an awesome ensemble in his thriller Welcome to the Punch: Jacob Sternwood is played by Mark Strong (Mindscape, Zero Dark Thirty, John Carter and Green Lantern) while James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, The Conspirator, Atonement and The Last King of Scotland) stars as Max Lewinsky.

Tragedy, much like misery, loves company. In Clint Eastwood's Hereafter movie, three intertwining stories of persons who have had close encounters with death and the dead are told in dramatic episodes. Matt Damon is George Lonegan, an American worker who can talk with the dead; while Cecile de France is Marie, a French TV journalist and one of the few tsunami survivors and there are brothers, Marcus and Jason (played by Frankie and George McLaren) who died from a car accident. At one dramatic point, these tragic stories converge.

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.

"Cold Pursuit" is a 2019 action thriller film directed by Hans Petter Moland. The movie is a remake of Moland's 2014 Norwegian film "In Order of Disappearance". The story follows Nels Coxman, played by Liam Neeson, who seeks revenge against a drug cartel that killed his son. The film also stars Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson, Emmy Rossum, and Laura Dern.