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Cocaine Godmother (2017)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.
Style:
factual, tense, captivating, suspense, emotional, independent film
Plot:
drug smuggling, colombian drug cartel, woman, gang, drug cartel, mother, cocaine, smuggler, parent child relationship, drug, kidnapping, murder, drug dealer, arrest, bandit, drug lord, criminal, historical figure, drug traffic, drug dealing, gang leader, illegal drugs, criminal gang, drug crime, true crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
colombia
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Most similar movies to Cocaine Godmother
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about drug, criminal, drug dealer, gangster, organized crime, gang and drug traffic mostly in Crime, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Cocaine Godmother: Loving Pablo (2017), Blow (2001), El Chapo (2017), The Lord of the Skies (2013), American Gangster (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Style:
factual, serious, rough, exciting, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug lord, drug cartel, cocaine, latinx lead, pablo escobar, colombian drug cartel, assassination, lovers, congress, drug traffic, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, year 1992, year 1982, year 1993 ...
Place:
colombia, south america, panama, latin america, florida
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug lord, drug dealing, drug abuse, drug, drug traffic, drug cartel, rise and fall, drug use, friendship, addiction, gangster ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 80s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
latin america, california, south america, usa, colombia ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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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.
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realistic, captivating, factual, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Plot:
cartel, drug cartel, drug lord, business, gang, fight for supremacy, criminal, drug dealing, drug, drug trade, crime boss, mafia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south america
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
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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 ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug cartel, cartel, drug lord, master criminal, rise to the top, drug, money, gangster, smuggling, gang war, generosity, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
latin america, colombia, mexico, new mexico
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, realistic, clever, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, mob boss, drug traffic, heroin, violence, smuggling, crime boss, ghetto, police ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, year 1970, year 2007 ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, vietnam, brooklyn new york city, cuba ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, dark
Plot:
drug dealer, ex soldier, fight, drug, gang leader, criminal gang, crime boss, organized crime, drug smuggling, bandit, criminal, gang ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
factual, suspense, brutal, intense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, violence, corruption, irish mob, organized crime, gangster, fbi, fbi agent, true crime, murder, illness, violent ...
Time:
year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place:
boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, miami ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the 6th December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the three men have yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
criminal, criminal gang, gang leader, crime boss, drug, militant, street fighter, gang war, street gang, organized crime, bandit, fight ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, rise and fall, korean gangster, mafia, rise to the top, gang war, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, disorder, district attorney ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south korea, busan, asia, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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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.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
drug cartel, drug lord, drug dealer, war on drugs, cartel, smuggling, brother brother relationship, drug, crime boss, partners in crime, criminal, drug traffic ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, drug lord, drug, fbi investigation, criminal gang, crime boss, criminal, drug smuggling, drug dealer, bandit, gang, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style:
suspense, realistic, factual, novela, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, money, addiction, drug, federal agent, investigation, undercover agent, drug addiction, biopic, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colombia, florida, middle east, usa, latin america
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense
Plot:
clan, islam, mafia, drug, drug smuggling, gang, brothers, dishonesty, betrayal, family relations, drug lord, drug dealer ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
sex, favela, drug cartel, war on drugs, drug, father son relationship, criminal, drug traffic, cocaine, father son estrangement, relationship problems, estranged father ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, sensual, erotic, captivating ...
Plot:
drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, corruption, drug lord, mexican drug cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing, cocaine ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, north america, new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
TV show
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La Viuda Negra is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La ...
Style:
suspense, tense, telenovela
Plot:
drug, drug dealer, criminal, life, black widow, female protagonist, femme fatale, bandit, colombian drug cartel, female criminal, money, mafia ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
drug cartel, cartel, colombian drug cartel, drug lord, drug smuggling, mafia, war on drugs, drug kingpin, organized crime, drug dealer, gangster boss, drug ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, drug traffic, drug lord, criminal underworld, smuggling, drug, drug trade, underworld, drug dealer, drug smuggling, gang member, drug cartel ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot:
drug dealer, drug crime, drug traffic, drug lord, political corruption, police corruption, drug, political intrigue, danger, murder, rivalry, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
south korea, busan, osaka japan
Similarity:
36%
268
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of the Freeway Boyz, These group of young men sold millions of dollars of drugs in the streets of South Central Los Angeles, and inadvertently financed a CIA private war in Nicaragua.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
gang, cocaine, drug dealing, drug traffic, organized crime, criminal, fight, murder, murderer, drug, problem, criminal gang ...
Place:
south central los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, female agent, gang, rivalry, fighting crime, life is a bitch, danger, special agent, female protagonist, drug dealer, bandit, mafioso ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, suspense, anthology ...
Plot:
cocaine, spy, criminal, drug lord, danger, drug, drug cartel, bandit, drug traffic, smuggler, organized crime, chaos ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
student, drug dealing, marijuana, love, prison, jealousy, teenager, high school, drug dealer, cocaine, murder, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, usa
Similarity:
35%
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229K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
35%
8K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
gang war, mafioso, criminal gang, bandit, criminal, female nudity, organized crime, drug lord, gang, criminal underworld, partners in crime, criminal syndicate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
35%
1.4M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
rough, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Underneath the surface of a sleepy country town a brutal drug war rages as rival crime syndicates battle to control the heroin supply thats fueling a rural epidemic. When Sandra, a young documentary filmmaker, arrives in town committed to exposing ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense
Plot:
battles, drug, vengeance, youth, gangster, master criminal, dea, rivalry, violence, drug dealing, criminal heroes, smuggling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, crime family, killing spree, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
colombian drug cartel, gangster, violence, gang, drug, organized crime, rise to the top, ambition, drug dealing, drug cartel, criminal heroes, money ...
Place:
colombia, south america, latin america, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
34%
534
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
teenage gang, drug trade, drug dealer, drug traffic, revenge killing, gang violence, ghetto, street gang, death of brother, revenge, urban ghetto life, drug ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
marseille
Similarity:
34%
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