Cinema Cemetery: Episode 79- The Departed (2006)

“We deal in deception here. What we do not deal in is self-deception”. Welcome to the Irish mob in Boston of the early 2000s. As Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) goes undercover to infiltrate the villainous Frank Costello’s (Nicholson) gang, he has to deal with not only the crimes of the week, but his own self doubt as well.  All the while, Colin Sullivan (Damon) works undercover for Costello as a cop.  When it becomes clear each group as a mole, it becomes a countdown to some which be caught first.

With an all-star cast and an established director, The Departed was an easy pick for Best Picture in 2006.  Does it still hold up today?  Find out now on Cinema Cemetery.

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Lawerence of Arabia  

The Godfather

All About Eve

The Godfather Part II

Silence of the Lambs 

Gone With Wind 

It Happened One Night

Amadeus 

The Deer Hunter

The Sting

All The King’s Men

The Lost Weekend

Lord of Rings: The Return of the King 

Bridge on the River Kwai

Titanic

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Rain Man

Schindler’s List

The French Connection

On The Waterfront

The Sound Of Music

American Beauty

Casablanca

All Quiet on the Western Front

Rebecca

In The Heat of the Night

The Mutiny On The Bounty

Chicago

You Can’t Take It With You 

Marty

The English Patient

Mrs. Miniver

Dances With Wolves 

My Fair Lady

Patton

Gentleman’s Agreement

Hamlet

Cimarron 

Ben Hur

Chariots of Fire

Gandhi

Braveheart

Unforgiven

Annie Hall

Million Dollar Baby

Shakespeare In Love

Driving Miss Daisy

Midnight Cowboy

Best Years of Our Lives

From Here to Eternity

Oliver!

Forest Gump

Around the World in 80 Days

The Apartment
 The Last Emperor

The Great Ziegfeld

A Man Of All Seasons

The West Side Story

Wings

Grand Hotel

Rocky

A Beautiful Mind

Out of Africa

Tom Jones

Kramer v Kramer

Life of Emil Zola

How Green Was My Valley

Platoon

Gladiator

An American in Paris

Going My Way

Greatest Show On Earth

Ordinary People

Terms of Endearment

Broadway Melody 

Crash

Cavalcade

Gigi