Movies and TV shows like Snowfall

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Snowfall (2017)
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Snowfall (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: sexy, dark drama, realistic, rough, cynical, bleak, hispanic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, dea, african american, ghetto, drug crime, illegal drugs, drug, urban, u.s. government, black, latinx lead, gangster, spy, cia, obsession, criminal, addiction, mossad, black cast, couples, coming of age, drug abuse, urban decay, cocaine, accomplice ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, central america, california, nicaragua, south central los angeles, united states of america
Keyword: gangsters, latin

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Most similar movies to Snowfall

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and hood films and TV series with plots about drug, drug dealer, gangster, drug dealing, criminal, mafia and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Snowfall: Power (2014), Breaking Bad (2008), ZeroZeroZero (2019), Narcos (2015), The Sopranos (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Power (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: nightclub, nightlife, drug dealing, ambition, nightclub owner, businessman, organized crime, money laundering, sexual activity, drug lord, double life, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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82%
 9.5
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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 ⇓
88%
 8.1
 29K
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%
 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 ⇓
83%
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The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style: serious, cynical, clever, psychological, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, killings, mob boss, dark humor, criminal heroes, family life, gangster, violence, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 117K
Weeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marijuana, drug dealing, drug dealer, single mother, smuggling, eccentric family, widow, unlikely criminals, family relations, dark humor, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Cocaine Coast (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, intense, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug smuggling, drug use, cocaine, drug addiction, drug, political corruption, mafia, organized crime, drug dealing, gangster, war on drugs, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, colombia, galicia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Top Boy (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Style: serious, sincere, suspenseful, rough, anime ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ambitious, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug dealing, struggle, partners in crime, right hand man, poverty, social problems, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.3
 909K
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 14K
Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 5K
The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
TV show
Story: The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
75%
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style: hood, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 5K
Shottas (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style: hood, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, disorder, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, society ...
Place: caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 18K
Graceland (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Somewhere in Southern California, in a drug raid run by the US government, a beachfront property was seized and turned into a residence for undercover cops. They are all top agents of the DEA, FBI, and Customs and they are living in this house ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rookie, undercover agent, fbi, working undercover, fighting crime, young man, drug dealer, special agent, police, danger, verbal byplay, temperamental ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 1K
L.A. Dragnet (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, die hard, investigation, car chase, nypd, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ 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 ...
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67%
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Traffik (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 315 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, tense, thought provoking, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: drug dealer, heroin, drug abuse, fighting the system, police corruption, smuggling, politics, organized crime, drug addict, rules and policies, price of justice, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, england, germany, london, pakistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Public Morals (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, moral dilemma, temptation, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, investigation, mafia, nypd, post war, courtroom drama ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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La Viuda Negra (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
TV show
Story: 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: tense, suspense, telenovela
Plot: drug, drug dealer, criminal, life, black widow, female protagonist, femme fatale, thief, bandit, mobster, mafia, conflict ...
Place: colombia
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31%
 3.5
 6K
Narco Sub (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: drug cartel, dea, criminal, cartel, criminal heroes, drug dealer, cia agent, sex trafficking, armed forces, kidnapping, drug, cia ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Natural Born Narco (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Chronicles the origins of notorious real-life drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, inspired in the acclaimed telenovela.
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic
Plot: drug traffic, drug dealing, drug dealer, criminal underworld, drug crime, drug, criminal, drug trade, illegal drugs, drug lord, narcotics, gangster
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Somos. (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: tense, suspense, hood
Plot: drug cartel, gang, cartel, drug, dea, drug traffic, small town, smuggling, drug dealer, gang war, outlaw gang, drug overdose ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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South Central (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style: hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Snitch Cartel: Origins (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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: tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: drug cartel, drug lord, drug dealer, war on drugs, cartel, smuggling, brother brother relationship, drug, partners in crime, drug traffic, organized crime, criminal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud (2011)
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: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug, drug lord, drug dealer, drug smuggling, criminal underworld, illegal drugs, gang member, crime boss, smuggling, gang of outlaws, smuggler, gang leader ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Dumb (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Shiri is 30 years old actress waiting for her big break, which doesn't seem to come because she looks too young. An unexpected opportunity comes when she is recruited by the police as a secret agent in a high-school where drugs are suspected to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: drug dealer, police investigation, high school, secret agent, undercover agent, working undercover, gangster, drug, dea, snitch, criminal heroes, illegal drugs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 356
Road Dogz (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: latinx lead, ex convict, tragedy, murder, criminal, robbery, drug dealer, friend, money, ghetto, prison, gang ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Blinded by the Lights (2018)
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, anthology, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: cocaine, spy, danger, criminal, drug lord, drug, murder, drug dealing, disorder, escapades, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 3K
The Mack (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style: grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time: 70s
Place: bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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