I think this movies good to watch to answer how Americans portrayed in our movies, I think its a good examples "Russian man among American people, among American culture"
Американская дочь American Daughter http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112348/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0eORkXdeA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqiAHmSXcF8
Брат 2 The Brother 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238883/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyY1HbnacPo

I think we love to see themselves as a "simple hero" into the "cruel world of money", and this world in some movies associate with USA. But as you'll can see in this movies, many of Americans portrayed not at all сruel, many of them very kind.