American Gangster

IMDb

7.8/10

Rated

R

American Gangster is a 2007 biographical crime drama directed by Ridley Scott. Denzel Washington plays Frank Lucas, a quiet driver for a Harlem crime boss who builds his own empire in the late 1960s by smuggling heroin directly from Southeast Asia. Russell Crowe plays Richie Roberts, an incorruptible New Jersey detective leading a narcotics task force in a city full of crooked police. As Lucas grows richer and more careful, the two men head toward a confrontation that will expose more than one kind of crime.

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