Margin Call

The Big Short

Zero Dark Thirty

Michael Clayton

All The President’s Men

Argo

Day of the Jackal (original 70’s version— Edward is just so amazingly diligent about his character’s craft)

Sully

Greyhound

My Cousin Vinny

Philadelphia

Ocean’s 11

Guns of Navarone

The Great Escape

This is a TV series, but The Wire— both for how the detectives work as well as the various criminal networks.