10 Remakes That Turned Out To Be Classics

7 – The Departed (2006)

Infernal Affairs (2002)

Only Scorsese could direct a foreign-language remake and win the Oscar for Best Picture. The hyper-stylized moments, booming fanfares and piercing melodrama of the Hong Kong crime classic, Infernal Affairs (2002), are replaced with Boston-flavored social realism and black comedy.