Blood Ties (2016)

This is one of those Cain and Abel stories.  French director Guillaume Canet amassed an all star cast for this first English-language directing project, a gravelly, 1974-set crime thriller.  It features Clive Owen as a pimp-cum-ex-convict, and Billy Crudup as his cop brother (no, really), orbited by James Caan as their dying dad, Lili Taylor as their sister,  Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana and Mila Kunis as assorted ex- and current girlfriends, and Matthias Schoenaerts as a thug.  Unfortunately the film does not quite add up to the sum of it's parts as an action thriller, but it is very good as a movie about choices and moral compasses.  Clive Owens is really a bad to the bone kind of guy who kills without batting an eye and pimps his girlfriend.  His brother Billy Crudup is a good cop but not a great one, and he quits when he realizes that he cannot bring his brother in.   He also makes an enemy of the above mentioned thug, which he does with his eyes wide open, but he doesn't really figure out how to do it safely.  All of which leads to exactly where you think it will, so sad, predictable , but ultimately well done, if not exactly thrilling action.