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Plot Summary:
The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 458000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, political, erotic, exciting, retro, intellectual, epic
Best tv shows and movies like Narcos (2015):
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Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Plot Summary:
For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Panama
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, touching, serious, captivating, stylized, suspense, social, hood
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The Preacher (2004)
Plot Summary:
Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, controversial
Similar in 77%
Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, stylized, novela, telenovela
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The Snitch Cartel (2011)
Plot Summary:
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, hood, crime drama, telenovela
Similar in 87%
Corleone (2007)
Plot Summary:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
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ZeroZeroZero (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book of the same name by bestselling author Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero is an unforgettable exploration of the inner workings of the global cocaine trade.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, brutal, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sadistic, hood, neo western, crime thriller
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Queen of the South (2016)
Plot Summary:
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Spain, Malta
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, crime thriller, suspense, telenovela
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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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Traffik (1989)
Plot Summary:
Traffik is a 1989 British television serial about the illegal drugs trade. Its three stories are interwoven, with arcs told from the perspectives of Afghan and Pakistani growers and manufacturers, German dealers, and British users. It was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, winning three. It also won an International Emmy Award for best drama. The 2000 crime drama film Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was based on this television serial. In turn, the 2004 American television miniseries Traffic was based on both versions.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 315 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, bleak, political, realistic, suspenseful
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Traffic (2000)
Plot Summary:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 217000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, political, realistic, dramatic, anthology, neo noir, tense, thought provoking, clever
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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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Black Mass (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, factual, brutal, intense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, stylized
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Blow (2001)
Plot Summary:
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic, atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, realistic
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Goodfellas (1990)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal, cult classic, hood, suspenseful, neo noir, fast paced
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American Made (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, black comedy, factual, humorous, captivating, emotional, inspirational, slasher, scenic, stylized
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La Reina del Sur (2011)
Plot Summary:
After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 378 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, novela, tense, suspense, realistic, soap opera, telenovela
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Plot Summary:
A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of 1977, it was restored for high definition broadcast and presented uncensored nearly forty years later on HBO.
IMDB Rating: 9.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, rough, captivating, exciting, bleak, realistic, saga, stylized
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Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved cult status in Italy. This is the second fiction series after Quo Vadis, Baby? that was produced by Sky and broadcast on Fox Crime, Sky One and on Sky Arts with English subtitles in 2012. The series is set in about 1977-89 and follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect. The gang is led by three old friends, Libanese, Freddo and Dandi. As well as its internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services. The plotline is based on the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
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Fargo (2014)
Plot Summary:
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 398000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, neo noir, dark comedy, captivating, clever, detective, anthology, witty, offbeat, suspenseful
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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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Cocaine Coast (2018)
Plot Summary:
It takes place in the Galicia (Spain) of the 80s, when the fishing sector was transformed and many of the shipowners became indebted. This situation will be favorable for the start of activities such as contraband and drug trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, intense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, erotic, detective, interesting
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Scarface (1983)
Plot Summary:
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 896000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, cult classic, suspense, brutal, harsh, psychological, suspenseful, hood
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American Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh, hood, clever, detective, suspenseful, entertaining
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Nucky interacts with several historical figures in both his personal and political life, including mobsters, politicians, government agents, and the common folk who look up to him. The federal government also takes an interest in the bootlegging and other illegal activities in the area, sending agents to investigate possible mob connections but also looking at Nucky's lifestyle—expensive and lavish for a county political figure. Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter adapted the show from Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, a book by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 200000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, tense, rough, clever, realistic, stylized
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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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The Wire (2002)
Plot Summary:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
IMDB Votes: 367000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: clever, tense, cynical, detective, serious, rough, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, exciting
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Snowfall (2017)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and it's name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark drama, realistic, rough, cynical, bleak, hispanic
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True Detective (2014)
Plot Summary:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 618000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, atmospheric, anthology, gloomy, realistic, southern gothic, clever, stylized, captivating
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Breaking Bad (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
IMDB Rating: 9.5
IMDB Votes: 21000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 3030 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough, cynical, neo noir, clever, dramatic, bleak
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Power (2014)
Plot Summary:
James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that never sleeps. As its success grows, so do Ghost’s plans to build an empire. However, Truth hides an ugly reality. It’s a front for Ghost’s criminal underworld; a lucrative drug network, serving only the wealthy and powerful. As Ghost is seduced by the prospect of a legitimate life, everything precious to him becomes unknowingly threatened. Once you're in, can you ever get out?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, entertaining, anime, crime drama, sensual, independent film