5 Movies Directed by David Ayer

Street Kings

Street Kings

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-11

Languages:

English, Turkish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (90603 Reviews)

Director:

David Ayer

Cast:

Writer:

James Ellroy (screenplay)

Kurt Wimmer (screenplay)

Jamie Moss (screenplay)

James Ellroy (story)

Fullplot:

LAPD detective Tom Ludlow is a ruthlessly efficient, unorthodox undercover cop. Captain Jack Wander always covers for Tom, as do even his somewhat jealous colleagues. After technically excessive violence against a vicious Korean gang during the liberation of a kidnapped kid sex slave, Tom becomes the target of IA's hotshot, captain James Biggs, who feels passed over after Wander's promotion to chief. Tom's corrupt, disloyal ex-patrol partner Terrence Washington sides with IA but is killed during a shop robbery in Tom's presence.

Harsh Times

Harsh Times

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-11-10

Languages:

English, Spanish, Korean

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(51384 Reviews)

Director:

David Ayer

Fullplot:

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Sabotage

Sabotage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-03-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (42292 Reviews)

Director:

David Ayer

Fullplot:

An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again and then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes us in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light.

End of Watch

End of Watch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-09-21

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (165461 Reviews)

Director:

David Ayer

Fullplot:

In South Central Los Angeles, street cops Brian and Mike are partners - balls-out cowboys patrolling the streets as Latino gangs are in a power struggle with Blacks. Brian and Mike get lucky a couple of times, making big drug and human-trafficking busts, so a Mexican cartel orders their deaths. We meet Mike's pregnant wife (whom he married out of high school) and watch Brian's search for a soul mate. There are internal squabbles within the ranks of the LAPD and lots of squad-car conversation. Can the lads escape the cartel's murderous reach?

Fury

Fury

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-10-17

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, China, UK

Runtime:

134 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (246066 Reviews)

Director:

David Ayer

Fullplot:

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered, and out-gunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

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