Set in the dark and painfully ordinary New York of the 1970′s, director Ridley Scott portrays the life of drug kingpin, Frank Lucas. Played byDenzel Washington, Lucas offers that same sense of protagonism seen in characters like Pacino’s Scarface.

Another Academy Award winning actor, Russell Crowe, plays the part of Richie Roberts, the lawman who finally brought “real life” Lucas to justice. The two men then end up working together to expose international heroin trade, and dirty officials.

Enjoy the trailer of American Gangster.