"Year of the Dragon" is a 1985 crime thriller film directed by Michael Cimino. The story follows Stanley White, a New York City police detective assigned to combat the growing influence of Chinese organized crime in Chinatown. As he delves deeper into the criminal underworld, he becomes entangled in a dangerous game of power, corruption, and cultural clashes.

The Town (2010 film) is the Ben Affleck crime drama released in 2010 and it's a second movie directed by him. The Town plot is based on the novel "Prince of Thieves" written by Chuck Hogan. The movie follows Doug MacRae, who lives in a suburb of Boston and Charleston. He has a pretty nice job: he robs banks together with his friends. During one their "adventures" they are taking young girl Claire as a hostage. Lately, when they release her, Doug decides to check whether she may represent some danger for the gang. He seemed to have accidentally meets her, but the familiarity is gradually develops into love, which makes Dag choose on whose side he was on...

"A Most Violent Year" is a 2014 American crime thriller film set in New York City during the winter of 1981. It follows the story of Abel Morales, an immigrant businessman who tries to expand his heating oil empire while being pressured by his competitors and the authorities.

"Jennifer 8" is a crime thriller film released in 1992 and directed by Bruce Robinson. The story follows a Los Angeles police officer named John Berlin who relocates to a small town in California after experiencing a traumatic event. As he settles into his new job, he becomes involved in a serial killer investigation targeting blind women. While trying to solve the case, Berlin meets a young woman named Helena, who becomes a potential target for the killer.

"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.

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.