American Gangster (2007)

Ellsworth Johnson (Clarence Williams) is a gangster that runs much of Harlem. He dies of a heart attack, but not before imparting much of his discipline, intelligence and wisdom into his driver, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) who decides to take control of the drug trade.

Lucas begins to bring heroin in from Asia, selling the drugs at half the price and double the quality of that of his competitors. He quietly became a powerful person in the underground criminal community and even controls the local mafia family.

Police detective Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe) is given the task -together with very honest cops like himself- to get to the root of the new drug causing so much havoc in the community. He is given a mandate to get to the supplier. But it is difficult to get Frank Lucas, in fact detective Roberts does not even know of his existence. This is because Lucas keeps an extremely low profile, dresses normally and makes no mistakes.

But a series of events and mistakes bring the police closer and closer to getting their hands on him.

Deja Vu (2006)

The Mardi Gras in New Orleans, it is Fat Tuesday and a ferry carrying several hundred US Navy Sailors and their families explodes and sinks. More than 500 people are killed. Agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)  is part of the investigation.

He learns that the burnt body of a woman, Claire Kucheva (Paula Patton) was pulled out of the river before the time of the explosion.

He is convinced that the body of Kucheva holds the key to apprehending the person responsible for the bombing. He is soon introduced to a new program which enables them to look into the past in great detail and they use it to get the identity of the bomber. The bomber is arrested and he admits to the bombing.

Soon Agent Carlin discovers that the program can  physically take a human being from the present into the past and then he get's an Idea and attempts to save the lives of the ferry victims together with the life of Claire Kucheva, if Possible.

Inside Man (2006)

A group of armed robbers led by the mysterious Dalton Russel (Clive Owen) takes a bank and it's occupants hostage. They are all dressed in painter's uniform with face masks. The police arrive at the scene and Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and his partner Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are in charge.

Detective Frazier feels that something is not right about the stand-off and not everything about it is what it seems. He is convinced that this is not a normal bank robbery.

Meanwhile, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), founder of the bank has a dark secret inside the bank that nobody must know about and attempts to bring it out while the stand-off is still on, without anybody's knowledge.

The police decide to storm the bank and bring the situation to an end, but the robbers have a devastatingly simple plan of escape- and a score to settle.