American Gangster (18)

True story of the rise and fall of Frank Lucas, who created a drugs empire in ’70s New York, controlling a large portion of the city’s heroin trade. Aided and abetted by his five brothers, the so-called Country Boys, Frank successfully out-manouevred the ruling Italian mob, flooding Harlem will cheap, high-grade product. Rumoured to be making more than $1 million a day at the height of his reign, Frank was eventually apprehended thanks to the tenacity of a team of New Jersey cops led by incorruptible Detective Richie Roberts.