Screenplay: Dennis Lehane

Direction David Simon · Joe Chappelle · Ernest R. Dickerson · Clark Johnson

Cast Dominic West · Lance Reddick · Sonja Sohn · Clarke Peters

Plot TV Series (2002-2008). 5 Seasons. 60 episodes. This unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of...

Direction Terence Winter · Timothy Van Patten · Allen Coulter · Jeremy Podeswa

Cast Steve Buscemi · Kelly MacDonald · Shea Whigham · Michael Shannon

Plot TV Series (2010-2014). 5 Seasons. From Terence Winter, the Emmy Award winning writer of 'The Sopranos' and Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese. Set in the Prohibition era of the...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Sean Penn · Tim Robbins · Kevin Bacon · Laurence Fishburne

Plot When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) spent their days playing...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · Mark Ruffalo · Ben Kingsley · Emily Mortimer

Plot "Shutter Island", an adaptation of another Dennis Lehane's novel ("Mystic River", "Gone Baby Gone"), is a psychological thriller set in 1954, DiCaprio will star as a U.S. Marshall, investigating the...

Direction Dennis Lehane · Michael R. Roskam · Joe Chappelle · Jim McKay

Cast Taron Egerton · Paul Walter Hauser · Greg Kinnear · Ray Liotta

Plot TV Miniseries (2022). 6 Episodes. Adaptation of the true crime memoir by James Keene. Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a...

Direction Ben Affleck

Cast Casey Affleck · Michelle Monaghan · Morgan Freeman · Ed Harris

Plot Gone Baby Gone is a crime thriller adapted and directed by Ben Affleck, set in Boston, and based on the novel of the same title by Dennis Lehane. It stars...

Direction David E. Kelley · Jack Bender · John David Coles · Kevin Hooks

Cast Brendan Gleeson · Harry Treadaway · Robert Fortunato · Bill Kelly

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. Tells the story of a psychopathic killer who drives his Mercedes into a crowd and a recently retired cop who tries to bring...

Direction Michael R. Roskam

Cast Tom Hardy · Noomi Rapace · James Gandolfini · Michael Esper

Plot Follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - "money drops" - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of...

Direction Richard Price · Jason Bateman · Andrew Bernstein · Charlotte Brändström

Cast Ben Mendelsohn · Cynthia Erivo · Jason Bateman · Bill Camp

Plot TV Miniseries. 10 Episodes. Follows police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn), as he sets out to investigate the mutilated body of 11-year-old Frankie Peterson found in the Georgia woods. The...

Direction Ben Affleck

Cast Ben Affleck · Brendan Gleeson · Chris Messina · Zoe Saldana

Plot Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), the son of a Boston police lieutenant, moves to Florida during the Prohibition era to become a bootlegger. As his operation grows, Coughlin faces off against...

Direction Dennis Lehane · Kari Skogland

Cast Taron Egerton · Jurnee Smollett · John Leguizamo · Rafe Spall

Plot TV Series. A troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator will follow in the footsteps of two serial arsonists.