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 Lincoln Lawyer (2011) is an film adaptation of Michael Connelly's novel written and published in 2005. The Lincoln Lawyer movie's plot is loosely based and showcases the life and job of criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller conducting his business from the backseat of the Lincoln Town Car driven by his formerly client who works off his legal fees as a Mickey Haller's driver. The movie centers on an unusual case of Louis Roulet, a Los Angeles real estate agent and a son of major businessman, who seems to be mistakenly accused in rape and attempt to murder his female "victim". Among the Mickey's cases of drug dealers, narco-barons and other wide-range "innocent" criminals, the Louis Roulet's defense seems to be an easy job of justification of innocent man. But this case starts an unpredictable chain of events immersing Haller in the deadly game with the one question arise: how to survive?"As it was said by Michael Connelly, who has written "The Lincoln Lawyer" novel: "A couple days ago I saw an unfinished cut of it and could not be happier…. Those who loved the book will love the movie, I think. Those who don't know the book will love it just the same." So, there is the case and the question for us to decide: can we trust Michael Connelly?"

"The Naked City" is a film noir crime drama released in 1948. Directed by Jules Dassin, the movie is set in New York City and follows the investigation of a murder case. The story unfolds as Detective Lieutenant Dan Muldoon and his partner Detective Jimmy Halloran work together to unravel the mystery behind the killing of a young model named Jean Dexter.

The story of Stoker is revolving around a teenager with a uncommon name, India, who lost his father. In those sad circumstances, her Uncle decides to move to India's house to join the teenager and her mother. Uncle Charlie seems to be a solicitous, attentive man who really cares about India and her mother. But, what she knows about him. Before her father dies, she doesn't even hear about Charlie. Who is he? What are his real intentions? Is he really her Uncle? There are more questions than answers left. The movie is filmed by unparalleled Chan-wook Park on the screenplay written by Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson. It features quite stellar ensemble cast including: Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, Jane Eyre) playing India Stoker, Nicole Kidman (Just Go with It, Rabbit Hole, Nine) playing India's mother - Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker, while Matthew Goode (Leap Year, Watchmen, A Single Man) plays Uncle Charlie.

"No Country for Old Men" is a 2007 neo-Western thriller film directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. The movie features a drug deal gone wrong, and a hunter named Llewelyn Moss who finds and keeps the two million dollars in cash that resulted from it. A psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, is sent to retrieve the money and brutally kills anyone who gets in his way.

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.