Inside Man is a 2006 American heist thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Russell Gewirtz. It centers on an elaborate bank heist on Wall Street over a 24-hour period. The film stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPDs hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates the heist, and Jodie Foster as Madeleine White, a Manhattan power broker who becomes involved at the request of the banks founder, Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), to keep something in his safe deposit box protected from the robbers. In 2019, a sequel titled Inside Man: Most Wanted was released direct-to-video and streaming on Netflix.