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Cast

Pedro Pascal

Matias Varela

Damiu00e1n Alcu00e1zar

Francisco Denis

Narcos (2015) TV Show

8.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: cocaine, drug dealer, outlaw, based on true story, drug cartel, conflict, drugs, drug lord, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: colombia

Cast

Wagner Moura

Andru00e9 Ramiro

Caio Junqueira

Milhem Cortaz

Elite Squad (2007)

8.1 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Plot: drug dealer, police brutality, slum, war on drugs, drug trafficking, moral conflict, torturing police, special forces, ...

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Lee Tergesen

Harold Perrineau

Dean Winters

Eamonn Walker

Oz (1997) TV Show

8.0 854 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 56

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Plot: prison, experiment, dystopia, revenge, betrayal, racism, drugs, inmate, ...

Strangers from Hell (2019) TV Show

8.0 144 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), fight, kidnapping, paranoia, hallucination, investigation, psychopath, psychological abuse, ...

Cast

Salvatore Esposito

Marco D'Amore

Ivana Lotito

Arturo Muselli

Gomorrah (2014) TV Show

8.0 575 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Italy

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 58

Audience: TV-MA

Story: 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.

Plot: naples, italy, camorra, organized crime, mafia, drugs

Place: italy

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Jonah Hill

Margot Robbie

Matthew McConaughey

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

8.0 26.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 180 min.

Audience: R

Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, drug addiction, anti hero, con man, fraud, wall street, biography, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Ali Fazal

Pankaj Tripathi

Shweta Tripathi Sharma

Rasika Dugal

Mirzapur (2018) TV Show

8.0 191 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The iron-fisted Akhandanand Tripathi is a millionaire carpet exporter and the mafia don of Mirzapur. His son, Munna, is an unworthy, power-hungry heir who will stop at nothing to inherit his father's legacy. An incident at a wedding procession forces him to cross paths with Ramakant Pandit, an upstanding lawyer, and his sons, Guddu and Bablu. It snowballs into a game of ambition, power and greed that threatens the fabric of this lawless city.

Plot: gun, gangster, lawlessness, drugs, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, sex, abusive language, ...

Cast

Michael Keaton

Peter Sarsgaard

Michael Stuhlbarg

Will Poulter

Dopesick (2021) TV Show

8.0 531 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.

Plot: based on novel or book, small town, pharmaceutical industry, high school, addiction, based on true story, lawyer, doctor, ...

Cast

Mohanlal

Sreenivasan

Shobana

Thilakan

Nadodikkattu (1987)

8.0 40 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: India

Duration: 158 min.

Story: After losing their jobs, Dasan and Vijayan have no hope of finding work in Kerala. They plan to escape to Dubai, but end up in Chennai. Can they find luck there?

Plot: drug dealer, detective, time bomb, politician, misunderstanding, bow and arrow, jobless

Place: dubai

El Señor de los Cielos (2013) TV Show

8.0 3.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 10

Episodes: 802

Audience: TV-14

Story: 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.

Plot: drug trafficking, drug cartel, drug lord, telenovela

Time: 1990s

Cast

Brigitte Lin

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Faye Wong

Chungking Express (1994)

8.0 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Plot: drug smuggling, police, ex-girlfriend, girlfriend, snack bar, romance, expiration date, flight attendant, ...

Place: hong kong

BMF (2021) TV Show

8.0 304 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who together took their vision beyond the drug trade and into the world of hip-hop. The drama, per Starz, will tell a story about love, family and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream.

Plot: hip-hop, crime boss, organized crime, mafia, drug lord, kingpin, legal drama

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Ewen Bremner

Jonny Lee Miller

Kevin McKidd

Trainspotting (1996)

8.0 10.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Plot: drug dealer, friendship, london, england, drug abuse, based on novel or book, heroin, drug addiction, ...

Place: scotland

No Country for Old Men (2007)

7.9 13.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Plot: vietnam veteran, sheriff, trailer park, based on novel or book, hitman, psychopath, drug trafficking, motel, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas

Cast

Jeremy Renner

Hugh Dillon

Tobi Bamtefa

Taylor Handley

Mayor of Kingstown (2021) TV Show

7.9 642 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.

Plot: prison, corruption, detective, michigan, drug dealer, prison guard, organized crime, brother brother relationship

Cast

H. Jon Benjamin

Judy Greer

Amber Nash

Chris Parnell

Archer (2009) TV Show

7.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 14

Episodes: 140

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Smart-mouthed superspy Sterling Archer and his dysfunctional team of secret agents turn dangerous missions into messy misadventures around the globe.

Style: witty

Plot: spy, central intelligence agency (cia), secret agent, workplace, dark comedy, drugs, adult animation, sitcom, ...

Cast

Scoot McNairy

Josu00e9 Maru00eda Yu00e1zpik

Alejandro Edda

Luis Gerardo Mu00e9ndez

Narcos: Mexico (2018) TV Show

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: corruption, cocaine, tiger, usa–mexico border, based on true story, drug cartel, marijuana, mariachi, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: mexico

El Infierno (2010)

7.9 791 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: Mexico

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

Plot: drug dealer, gun, dark comedy, organized crime, drug cartel, mafia, death

Place: mexico

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Jennifer Garner

Jared Leto

Denis O'Hare

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

7.9 9.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

Style: intense

Plot: aids, homophobia, rodeo, biography, dallas, texas, based on true story, hiv, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas