Eastern Promises

Viggo Mortensen and director David Cronenberg reunite for this superb gangster thriller set among the Russian immigrant population of London. Naomi Watts stars as a midwife who attempts to locate the remaining family of a baby whose unidentified teenage mother died in childbirth. However, she unwittingly stumbles into a violent underworld of corruption and people smuggling. Mortensen gives a fantastic performance as a mob driver aspiring to climb the ranks of the Russian Mafia. Vincent Cassel also stars.