Double trouble

Bad blood spills easily after the first cut. In Michael Mann's incendiary 1995 thriller Heat, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's sworn enemies famously trade verbal blows on opposite sides of a table in a busy diner.

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Director Barry Levinson's gritty crime drama repeats the striking imagery of a tense face-off between rivals. Here, digital trickery allows two De Niros to glower at each other from opposite ends of a booth at the Waldorf Astoria in 1950s' New York.

The Alto Knights is a slow-burning study of fraternal jealousy and deceit fashioned by Oscar-nominated Goodfellas screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi from true events, which tore the Mafia apart and forcibly reshaped the upper echelons of power in the Big Apple.