Blood Diamond

The illegal trade in dodgy gems - blood diamonds - between corrupt African countries and a grasping Western world is the subject of this 22-carat thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an amoral Rhodesian mercenary who strikes a deal with Djimon Hounsou's fisherman to find a rare pink diamond in exchange for the safety of his family. Together they have to negotiate the deadly chicanery of a duplicitous Sierra Leone government just as bent as the revolutionary forces attempting to overthrow it.