Movies and TV shows like Snowfall
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Snowfall (2017)
46K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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, inspirational, depressing, psychological thriller, realistic, rough, cynical, bleak, hispanic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealer, african american, drug crime, dea, ghetto, drug, illegal drugs, urban, u.s. government, black, latinx lead, gangster, spy, obsession, criminal, addiction, mossad, black cast, couples, coming of age, drug abuse, angry, urban decay, drug dealing, cia ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, year 1983
Place:
usa, los angeles, central america, california, nicaragua, south central los angeles, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Snowfall
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, tense, serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about drug, drug dealer, gangster, drug dealing, criminal, organized crime and drug lord mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Snowfall: Power (2014), Breaking Bad (2008), Narcos (2015), ZeroZeroZero (2019), Top Boy (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
58K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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, realistic, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
nightclub, drug dealing, nightlife, nightclub owner, drug lord, ambition, organized crime, money laundering, double life, politics, businessman, criminal ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
81%
2.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 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:
cancer, criminal, peril, drug lord, master criminal, drug dealing, drug, unlikely partners, drug cartel, life turned upside down, meth lab, family problems ...
Time:
y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, south america, usa, north america
Similarity:
89%
521K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, drug lord, rise to the top, master criminal, sex, cia agent, illegal drugs, dea, drug ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, south america, latin america, mexico, panama ...
Similarity:
90%
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:
brutal, atmospheric, serious, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, italian mafia, cartel, drug cartel, cocaine, drug dealer, drug trade, drug dealing, drug smuggler, drug, brutality, gunfight ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
africa, south america, mexico, italy
Similarity:
100%
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48K
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:
gang, urban ghetto life, ambitious, leader, drug dealing, society, rivalry, teenage life, poverty, right hand man, partners in crime, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, east end london
Similarity:
100%
565K
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, dramatic, clever, cynical, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, dark humor, family life, criminal heroes, mob boss, parents and children, criminal, dysfunctional family, family relations, introspection ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, north america
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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 67 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:
erotic, realistic, intense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug smuggling, drug use, drug, cocaine, drug addiction, political corruption, mafia, drug dealing, organized crime, gangster, war on drugs, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, colombia, galicia, new mexico
Similarity:
100%
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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, gang, ghetto, african american gangster, organized crime, roman empire, urban, rapper, drug, gangster, drug lord, black ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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:
serious, emotional, rough, sitcom, hood ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, urban, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, going straight, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
baltimore
Similarity:
100%
122K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 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, sexy, sensual, witty, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single mother, marijuana, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, drug dealer, dark humor, family life, single parent, eccentric family, smuggling, sexual activity, widow ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
57%
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, immigrant, partner, disorder, drug dealing ...
Place:
caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
Similarity:
100%
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:
rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
temptation, moral dilemma, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, post war, nypd, investigation, mafia, crime family, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
1.0M
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:
exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
gangster, mafia, organized crime, drug lord, gunfight, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, violence, badass ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
miami, miami beach, bolivia, cuba, florida ...
Similarity:
100%
22K
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, 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
Similarity:
67%
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:
100%
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, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, juvenile delinquency, fighting crime, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, police corruption ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
18K
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:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
working undercover, rookie, undercover agent, fbi, fighting crime, young man, drug dealer, coworker, police, danger, special agent, frame up ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 53 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, police corruption, fighting the system, smuggling, organized crime, politics, drug addict, price of justice, rules and policies, down on your luck ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, pakistan, london, england, germany ...
Similarity:
100%
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 investigation, police detective, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, die hard, nypd, car chase, investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
31%
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:
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:
30%
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:
29%
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161
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former ranch hand confronts the realities of drug addiction and runs afoul of a local gangster after he moves to Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, going straight, life is a bitch, self discovery, addiction, drug, rancher, father son relationship, pimp, drug dealer, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south america
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 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:
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:
29%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Cocaine kingpin Otoniel is the drug lord who scares all other drug lords.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, educational
Plot:
drug lord, drug traffic, organized crime, illegal drugs, law enforcement, cartel, cocaine, true crime, drug cartel, war on drugs, drug trade, fighting crime ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
29%
656
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
When a boatload of cannabis belonging to Moroccan drug lord El Feo is hijacked, the robbery has repercussions stretching across three countries.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, marijuana, drug traffic, organized crime, drug lord, criminal, cannabis, drug dealer, gangster, drug, illegal drugs, drug dealing ...
Place:
europe, morocco
Similarity:
28%
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, cartel, sex trafficking, criminal heroes, criminal, drug dealer, cia agent, armed forces, kidnapping, drug, cia ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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:
crime drama, realistic, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
drug lord, narcotics, organized crime, drug cartel, trafficking, drug trade, drug crime, criminal, drug dealer, criminal underworld, drug traffic, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
28%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
28%
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