Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese's impressive epic period drama chronicling the bloody gangland battles for control of 19th-century New York's Lower East Side as Irish immigrants flood the city, sparking violent clashes. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a young Irishman whose father was murdered in one of the gang battles. Taken under the wing of his father's killer, the infamous crime kingpin Bill the Butcher (the magnificent Daniel Day-Lewis), he earns a position of influence in the underworld - all the while plotting his criminal mentor's death. Meanwhile, plans to draft the city's population into the Civil War push New York toward devastating riots. Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent and Liam Neeson also star