Tagline: Cops or criminals. When you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference? Based on the Chinese-linguage Hong Kong gangster film of the same name (“Wu jian dao”), “Infernal Affairs” will be reset in Boston amid Irish-American mobsters and the cops who are their nemeses. The film was written by William Monahan. Damon would play…
Category: Crime and Mystery Movies
Firewall (2006)
Tagline: Everything he loves is about to be used against him. After a security chief for a global bank is forced to topple his own security safeguards and steal $37 million from the bank to save his kidnapped family, he has to stop the kidnappers, who’ve created a complex trail that will make him look…
The Good German (2006)
Tagline: If war is hell, then what comes after? Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, “The Good German” takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), a former lover whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt…
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Tagline: Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it. The tumultuous early history of one of the most covert and powerful government agencies in the world is viewed through the prism of one man’s life in the espionage thriller “The Good Shepherd,” starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie,…
Hard Candy (2006)
A smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley probably shouldn’t be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But before she knows it, she’s mixing drinks at Jeff’s place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It’s Jeff’s lucky night. But Hayley isn’t as innocent as…
Harsh Times (2006)
From the creator of Training Day comes Harsh Times, a hyperrealistic story of friendship, loyalty and ambition set on the extremely rough streets of south central L.A. As gritty and unsentimental as Training Day, Harsh Times follows two lifelong friends as they each try to rise above the violence of the streets yet are continually…