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Plot Summary:
An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, anthology, hood, interesting
Best tv shows and movies like Blinded by the Lights (2018):
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Damnation (2017)
Plot Summary:
Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary. An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, historical drama, neo western
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The King of Warsaw (2020)
Plot Summary:
The King is a gangster story set in Warsaw in 1937.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, historical drama, contemplative
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Welcome to No Man's Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pete, Steven and Dave are good friends that have fallen on hard times; They are unemployed and hardly get by on benefits. Coincidentally, they are approached by a low-key gangster who offers them what seems like quick cash-in-hand work. One drop-off. Six bags of cocaine. Both estranged and tempted by the situation, they accept, only things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Bloque De Busqueda (2016)
Plot Summary:
Group of policemen trained to capture Pablo Escobar. It tells the story of the family of some of its members and what they had to experience during the drug trafficking era in Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kara Ekmek (2015)
Plot Summary:
Asiye is young and beautiful girl who works as a manicurist in a small beauty salon. She lives in a poor neighborhood with her family and wants to get married as soon as possible in order to get rid of her step mothers evil tongue. When she learns that she is pregnant, she immediately talks to her boyfriend and wants him to come and ask her family's approval for marriage. However, her boyfriend wants her to have an abortion and mentions clearly that he has no intention for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dom (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. Will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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En la Boca del Lobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story and the book, At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel, En la Boca del Lobo follows the series of events that ultimately lead to the dramatic downfall of Colombia’s infamous Cali drug cartel. The story centers on Ricardo Salgado, an engineer and soldier who rises ranks and became in charge of the security of the godfather of the Cali Cartel, one of the largest criminal organizations in the world and rival of the Medellin Cartel.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ (2017)
Plot Summary:
As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, semi documentary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Somos. (2021)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the people of Allende, a Mexican border town, are overtaken by a powerful cartel's operations, leading to tragedy. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, hood
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Undercover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, detective, thrilling, interesting
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Dealer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tensions erupt when two filmmakers infiltrate an area ruled by gangs to shoot a music video for a rapper in this gritty found-footage series.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Short, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hood
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Mocro Mafia (2018)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, neo noir, suspense, disturbing, interesting
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4 Blocks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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Black Ice (2001)
Plot Summary:
There are many vicious cases in Haizhou, and the suspects are collected by Liu Mei, the general manager of Haizhou Building, which is owned by Haizhou Pharmaceutical Group. Wang Jingwen, who specializes in the aesthetics of the public security department, entered the group company as a Hong Kong investor agent and participated in the investigation. Dr. Guo Xiaopeng, the president of the group, is a famous successful person. He and Wang Jingwen saw each other as soon as possible, which turned the hostility of his long-time lover Liu Mei into action.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Converts (2007)
Plot Summary:
A convert is a person who agrees to cooperate with an enemy in exchange for some benefits. It can be a criminal who cooperates with the police or a policeman who delivers secrets to mobsters. No matter if the convert is the guardian of public order or the bandit it is always perilous game where a life is at stake. Main characters of Converts are Paul Sikora, an experienced officer of Central Investigation Bureau and Blacha - John Blachowski, a mobster from the most powerful gang in Poland. The axis of the series is complicated high risk game which is played between these two protagonists. The policeman tries to convert the criminal and the criminal attempts to corrupt the officer. These two men live on the opposite sides of the barricade, however, they have many things in common. Their occupation ruin their families. Both of them have wonderful wives and they love their children but their life is far away to be perfect. Each of them alone has to straggle with the aversion of their environment and personal weaknesses. They're both in a dilemma. Blacha is torn between the care of his family and the loyalty to the group which he comes from. Sikora is torn between his work and his family for whom he does not have enough time. He is desperate to be a good husband and father and good policeman at the same time. Sikora and Blacha have their own principles which seems never to be broken. However, life writes its own scenario in which some rules have to broken. Next to tension and continuous fight for dominance a thread of understanding appears between them gradually.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Impure (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out of his criminal organization. His business skills and leadership abilities draw the attention of Morello, a federal police officer with a self-destructive behavior who sees in Evandro a worthy enemy. Two strategists that share the love for danger. The hunt down begins.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, disturbing
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Never Say Never (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to great lengths to enter the drug syndicate to finish the undercover mission that his girlfriend started. Fang Han (Qin Junjie) and his girlfriend were childhood friends. She was an exceptional cop and undercover. Upon finding out that she was killed, Fang Han is overwhelmed with grief. He receives a secret code that only he can understand and accepts a mission to infiltrate the drug ring himself. Acting impulsively and always putting himself on the line of fire gets him noticed by their target Gu Tao (Xue Haowen) who begins to trust him. As they encounter countless dangers, Fang Han inches closer to finding his girlfriend's killer and to bringing down the syndicate once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud (2011)
Plot Summary:
Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud is a six-part New Zealand television mini-series. The series originally aired from 17 August 2011 to 21 September 2011. It was the first Underbelly series to be created outside of Australia, and depicts events prior to and concurrent with Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Snitch Cartel: Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Cali during the '60s and '70s, two brothers juggle family, romance and the joint pursuit of a burning ambition: to rule Colombia's drug industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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El Chapo (2017)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, factual, inspirational, hood, crime drama
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Villain (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social, hood
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic
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Sins of the Fathers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A retired policeman and a former criminal, must face their past when their daughters' lives are suddenly put at risk in this gangster thriller shining a light on the dark and dangerous activities of the Warsaw Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Besa (2018)
Plot Summary:
Besa is a strong promise for the Albanians, which must be maintained, even at the cost of living. It is most often used in the form of blood feuds, which is certainly a suitable ground for the action of the series that is in front of us.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, interesting
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Gomorrah (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, dramatic, hood, crime thriller, bleak, rough
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The Lord of the Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, novela, telenovela
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, inspirational, anime, crime thriller
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Narcos: Mexico (2018)
Plot Summary:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, exciting, intense, crime drama, tense, erotic, inspirational, intellectual
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Ganglands (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood