From Cinephiles, we recommend 3 gems available on various streaming platforms to watch this weekend.
During the weekend, many people choose different platforms to watch a movie. This time we present 3 gems that are available in Prime Video, Netflix and Star+; to enjoy them in the comfort of your own home or on the go. They have a coincidence: he was driving them Martin Scorsese and in the lead role Leonardo Dicaprio.
Infiltration – Prime Video
gonetitled in Spanish Infiltrators or Infiltratorsis a directed crime thriller Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It’s a star Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark WahlbergWith Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles.
“The Massachusetts Police Department is battling the largest organized crime gang in Boston. The strategy is to defeat Frank Costello, a powerful Irish mafia boss (Nicholson), from within. The person responsible for infiltrating the gang is a young rookie, Billy Costigan (DiCaprio). As Billy tries to gain Costello’s trust, another young cop, Colin Sullivan (Damon), is quickly promoted to a position with the elite Special Investigations unit, also on a mission to bring down Costello. No one knows that Colin is a mole infiltrated into the police by Costello himself. indicates abstract.
It was a critical and commercial success and won several honors, including four Academy Awards at the 79th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing.
The film is a remake of Infernal Affairs and is also loosely based on the Winter Hill Gang of Boston; the character of Colin Sullivan is based on rogue FBI agent John Connolly, while the character of Frank Costello is based on mobster Whitey Bulger.
Shutter Island – Netflix
Mystery Islandentitled Sinister island in Latin America is a 2010 thriller based on Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name. In the summer of 1954, bailiffs Teddy Daniels (Leo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Brand Rufalo) are assigned to a remote island in Boston Harbor to investigate the disappearance of a dangerous killer (Emily Mortimer), who was held at Ashecliffe Psychiatric Hospital, a correctional facility for the criminally disturbed, run by the sinister Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley). They will soon discover that the facility holds many secrets, and that the island harbors something more dangerous than the patients. hints at Scorsese’s plot.
Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, and Elias Koteas; They were also part of the cast.
Gangs of New York – Star+
New York Gangsor New York gangs in Latin America is a 2002 historical film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. Set in the mid-19th century New York City’s Five Points neighborhood, the film is partly inspired by the book The Gangs of New York (1928) by Herbert Asbury. It was filmed at Cinecittà in Rome, distributed by Miramax Films, and nominated for numerous awards, including ten Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
The plot of the film begins in 1846 and quickly jumps to 1862, when the main problems of the time were Irish immigration to the city and the ongoing civil war. The tape tells the story of the confrontation of two rival gangs: the “natives” led by Bill “The Butcher” Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis) and the “Dead Rabbits”, a group of recently arrived immigrants led by Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo Dicaprio). The fight between the two sides coincides with the recruiting riots in New York City in 1863, known as the draft riots.
The cast also includes: Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Lewis, John C. Reilly, Stephen Graham, Larry Gilliard Jr., Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings; among others.
The film grossed $77,812,000 in the United States and Canada, $23,763,699 in Japan, and $16,358,580 in the United Kingdom. Total revenue was $193,772,504. It received a total of ten nominations at the 75th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, though it did not win any statuettes. Similarly, the tape was among the ten best films of the year according to the National Board of Review.
