Traitor
This week sees the release of Traitor on DVD starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Claydon (Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to head back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn (Cheadle).
A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organisations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down.
The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative - or something far more complicated.
So FemaleFirst takes a look at some of the best undercover cops that have graced the big screen in recent years.
-Reservoir Dogs (Mr Orange) Tim Roth
From the beginning Mr Orange is believed to be a criminal just like the rest of them but it becomes clear that he is the undercover cop.
Real name Freddy Newandyke and has infiltrated the robbers gang gaining their trust. But he spends most of the film bleeding on a warehouse floor after being shot by a woman at the beginning of the film.
- Donnie Brasco (Donnie Brasco) Johnny Depp
Based in real events Johnny Depp took on the role of Donnie Brasco, real name Joe Pistone, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.
During the seventies he infiltrated the Bonanno crime family, one of the Mafia's Five Families based in New York City
- The Departed (Billy Costigan) Leonardo DiCaprio
With The Departed filmmaker Martin Scorsese finally got his hands on a long awaited Best Director Oscar as well as continuing his partnership with Leonardo DiCaprio.
An American remake of Infernal Affairs DiCaprio took on the role of Billy Costigan a State Trooper who infiltrates the Boston Irish mob led by Costello.
- Point Break (Johnny Utah) Keanu Reeves
Starring alongside Patrick Swayze actor Reeves takes on the role of Johnny Utah, a rookie FBI officer who is investigating a string of bank robberies by people in U.S President masks.
They believe that the robberies are being carried out by a group of surfers and he goes undercover to get close to the surfing community.
- Serpico (Officer Frank Serpico) Al Pacino
Al Pacino may have been infiltrated in Donnie Brasco but he was doing the infiltrating in Serpico in 1973, a role for which he was Oscar nominated.
Based on a true story of New York policeman, Serpico goes undercover to expose the corruption of the officers around him.
- ID (John) Reece Dinsdale
John, along with three other police officers goes undercover to investigate football hooliganism at Shadwell Town FC.
But all does not go well for the police officer as he finds himself transforming into a violent, drug-taking, foul-mouthed hooligan like those he is investigating.
- Kindergarten Cop (Detective John Kimble) Arnold Schwarzenegger
While teaching may not have been his strong point protecting, shooting people and being an all round tough was just the think for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger takes on the role of Detective John Kimble, an Austrian-American police detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher.
Kimble is going after drug dealer Cullen Crisp and must protect Crisp’s ex-wife and son from him.
- Eastern Promises (Nikolai) Viggo Mortensen
A change of pace for Mortensen after the success of The Lord of the Rings with the role of Nikolai Luzhin.
Luzhin is a member of the Russian Security Services (FSB) and a Scotland Yard informer on the Russian mafia in London. He protects Naomi Watts’ character Anna as she uncovers a secret about the mafia boss Semyon.
Traitor is out on DVD now
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw