Movies and TV shows like Queen of the South

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Queen of the South (2016)
 8.0
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Queen of the South (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Spain, Malta
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, crime thriller, suspense, telenovela
Plot: drug cartel, cartel, twists and turns, drug, shooting, murder, danger, destiny, runaway, adaptation, captivity, chase, vengeance, mafia, viking, hunting, criminal, corruption, legal, mental health, woman with a gun, anti hero, female gangster, badass, female nudity ...
Place: mexico, usa
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Queen of the South

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, captivating, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about criminal, organized crime, danger, gangster, gang, mafia and violence mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Queen of the South: La Reina del Sur (2011), Narcos (2015), El Chapo (2017), Miss Bala (2019), Ozark (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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La Reina del Sur (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story: After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...
Style: serious, suspenseful, novela, tense, suspense ...
Plot: life is a bitch, rise to the top, power struggle, mafia, drug dealing, cocaine, mob boss, rivalry, vengeance, drug traffic, organized crime, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, europe, spain, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 8.8
 466K
Narcos (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, political, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, gangster, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, master criminal, dea, hitman ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, panama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 20K
El Chapo (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, factual, inspirational ...
Plot: cartel, drug cartel, drug lord, drug dealing, business, gang, fight for supremacy, drug, drug crime, criminal, drug dealer, drug traffic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 13K
Miss Bala (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, beauty queen, cia agent, drug lord, undercover agent, mob boss, danger, slave trade, female spy, drug cartel, sniper, sex slave ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tijuana mexico, california, mexico, los angeles, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A Tokyo business man returns to his home country of Mexico where he must battle rivals to replace his grandfather as the head of a cartel.
Style: captivating, exciting, disturbing, tense, telenovela
Plot: drug cartel, rivalry, syndicate, mafia, drug dealing, martial artist, japanese mafia, criminal syndicate, fight, danger, criminal gang, heir ...
Place: japan, mexico, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.5
 343K
Ozark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Plot: money laundering, drug cartel, danger, family relations, rivalry, murder, investigation, drug, teenage girl, organized crime, mafia, violence ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, missouri, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 8.2
 43K
Animal Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, crime family, danger, heist, dysfunctional family, family conflict, escapades, gay brother, twists and turns, brother brother relationship, friendship, ex convict ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, southern california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 8.4
 92K
Narcos: Mexico (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 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, captivating, crime drama, intense ...
Plot: drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, business, corruption, drug lord, cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 8.1
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ZeroZeroZero (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: atmospheric, brutal, serious, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: italian mafia, cartel, drug cartel, mafia, cocaine, drug dealer, drug dealing, drug trade, drug smuggler, drug, brutality, gunfight ...
Time: 2020s
Place: africa, italy, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 12K
Snabba Cash (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of an ambitious businesswoman, a charming gang enforcer and a troubled teen collide amidst a desperate — and sinister — pursuit of wealth.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, hood, entertaining
Plot: friendship, corruption, capitalism, money laundering, juvenile delinquency, criminal, money problems, financial problem, social problems, wealth, businessman, teenage life ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 9K
Miss Bala (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug cartel, rape, beauty pageant, follow your dream, blind ambition, audition, gangster, ambition, hopes, physical appearance, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tijuana mexico, mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.8
 40K
Lethal Weapon (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
Style: exciting, captivating, detective, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police, buddy cop, police partner, lapd, friendship, police detective, police investigation, chase, family relations, murder, investigation, private detective ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 11K
Sky Rojo (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story: On the run from their pimp and his henchmen, three women embark on a wild and crazy journey in search of freedom.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense
Plot: freedom, ex prostitute, pimp, prostitute, money, on the run, fugitives, escapades, woman in danger, fleeing, secret past, strong female lead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Power of Few (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, escapades, religions or cults, medicine, multiple storylines, danger, collision, violent content, profanity, obsessive quest, dishonesty, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 12K
Good Behavior (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 959 min.
TV show
Story: Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: male female relationship, partners in crime, chase, female protagonist, escapades, murderer, killer, organized crime, criminal, ex convict, thief, femme fatale ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: gang leader, black cast, mobster, gang war, gang, violence, danger, crime boss, organized crime, power struggle, showdown, criminal gang ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 2010s
Place: harlem, new york, harlem, new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: profiler, investigation, danger, fbi, law enforcement, forensics, team, special agent, twists and turns, human nature, crime solving, world spanning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Chicago P.D. (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: police, law enforcement, cop, crime investigation, policewoman, victim, police detective, sergeant, shooting, murder, partner, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maria (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel ...
Style: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating
Plot: one woman army, drug cartel, sniper, torture, hitman, revenge, female secret agent, murder, vengeance, chase, anger, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 66K
Sabotage (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style: exciting, intense, stylized, suspense, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, drug cartel, vengeance, crime scene, revenge, death of friend, revenge killing, tough law enforcer, danger, dishonesty, drug, violent ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: mexico, atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 13K
Legends (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, espionage, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, chases and races, dishonesty, on the run, government agency, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Confession (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story: The Confession is a 10-part web series created by Kiefer Sutherland, written and directed by Brad Mirman, and starring Kiefer Sutherland and John Hurt. It premiered on Hulu on March 28, 2011. Each episode is between five and seven minutes long. It ...
Style: contemplative, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: confession, priest, haunted by the past, church, hitman, redemption, sin, twists and turns, victim, religions or cults, doubts and hesitations, regret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lord of the Skies (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, cartel, rise to the top, master criminal, drug, money, drug lord, gangster, smuggling, drug dealing, generosity, gang war ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: latin america, colombia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.6
 23K
Tehran (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, UK, Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: mossad, covert operation, computer, hacker, danger, spy, israeli, secret agent, investigation, criminal, terrorist group, hostage ...
Place: tehran iran, israel, iran, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 54K
Nikita (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: female killer, hitman, spy, tough girl, female spy, female assassin, strong female lead, mole, double life, secret government organization, female protagonist, heroine ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 145K
Triple Frontier (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, greed, ex special forces, drug lord, friendship, violence, ex soldier, murder, escapades, robbery, survival, jungle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: south america, usa, peru, colombia, andes mountains ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: gay, mafia, organized crime, gangster, corruption, rivalry, gang, murder, female nudity, dishonesty, death, betrayal ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 8.2
 1K
Sr. Ávila (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A family man experiences the tremendous burden of leading a double life as a professional hitman.
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Plot: danger, hitman, organized crime, crime boss, intrigue, criminal, couple relations, teenage life, nudity, family relations, anti hero, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
 5K
Reprisal (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: A hyper-noir story that follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gear-heads.
Style: neo noir, tense, bloody, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: gang leader, gang, revenge, female warrior, vengeance, danger, adaptation, violence, murder, brutality, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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