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List of drug smuggling movies

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 5.5
 616
Hostile Border (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug smuggling, social problems, drug smuggler, father daughter relationship, money problems, illegal immigrant, smuggling, family problems, criminal gang, dysfunctional family, illegal drugs, male female relationship ...
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 7.0
 251
Undercover Law (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story: An action-packed series about several Colombian women who work as intelligence agents. They investigate the perilous criminal activities of drug lords while maintaining their lives outside of work. Undercover Law is based on a true story.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
Plot: drug cartel, mission, drug smuggling, working undercover, drug traffic, informant, drug, drug lord, crime boss, moral dilemma, multiple storylines, undercover police officer ...
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 7.2
 578
The Straits (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: smuggling, family business, criminal heroes, parents and children, family relations, exotic island, dark humor, siblings relations, profanity, rivalry, gang war, family feud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: FBI agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the U.S. border.
Style: neo noir, suspense, bleak, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cartel, black ops, terrorist, drug cartel, cia, u.s. mexico border, cia agent, organized crime, mission, kidnapping, military, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: somalia, sonora, kansas city, mexico, texas ...
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 6.9
 472
Lady of Steel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia
TV show
Story: The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, female protagonist, love and romance, crime boss, drug smuggling, danger, rivalry, criminal, strong female presence, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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 8.7
 1.2M
Goodfellas (1990)
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, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
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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 ...
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 6.8
 16K
The Mechanic (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes ...
Style: exciting, tense, fast paced, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, killer, hired killer, murder, car chase, espionage, revenge, explosions, death, betrayal, assassination ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: naples italy, los angeles
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French Connection II (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Style: neo noir, detective, crime drama, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, organized crime, cop, spy, mafia, car, police, tough cop, gangster, buddy cop, bad guy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, europe
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 4.1
 580
Dutch (2021)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to rule the streets and he seized it. With both the protection and respect of the Mafia, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, hood
Plot: crime boss, police officer, district attorney, drug lord, drug dealing, gang, drug traffic, drug, drug cartel, street gang, criminal gang, problem ...
Place: new jersey
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 4.0
 218
Narco Soldiers (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Narco Soldiers is a timely, action-packed crime thriller that explores the resurgence of the Caribbean drug routes and one couple's violent, Bonnie and Clyde-style rise to power.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: drug, criminal underworld, drug cartel, drug trade, organized crime, drug smuggling, couples, love affair, drug lord, drug traffic, criminal, heroin addict ...
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 6.9
 2K
Jil Jung Juk (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Three bumbling underlings who are tasked with smuggling cocaine get into problems during their journey.
Style: semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating, dark comedy
Plot: smuggling, drug, misfit, cocaine, mistaken identity, criminal, satire, chase, farce, bandit, problem, machine ...
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The Sheriff In Town (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After he leaves the police force, Dae-ho establishes himself as the sheriff of his town. He then investigates Jong-jin, a businessman, because of his alleged ties to drugs.
Style: disturbing, humorous, captivating, crime drama
Plot: drug dealer, investigation, uncover truth, partners against crime, war on drugs, forensics, drug dealing, cold case, sleuth, drug smuggling, private investigation, crime investigation ...
Place: busan
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Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After his mother is brutally murdered by the Triad in Thailand, Soo-hyun is adopted by NIS agent Kang Joong-ho, and he grows up with Min-ki like brothers. Min-ki and Soo-hyun both become NIS agents later on. One fateful day, Soo-hyun meets Ji-woo ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: vengeance, martial arts, revenge, undercover, fight, murder, working undercover, double life, organized crime, criminal's revenge, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place: korea
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Undercover vs. Undercover (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An undercover cop is forced to team up with a group of unlikely allies to take down a drug smuggling ring.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: organized crime, police, fighting crime, swat team, gang war, undercover agent, criminal underworld, criminal gang, working undercover, drug, criminal syndicate, war on drugs ...
Place: hong kong
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Going Off Big Time (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy
Plot: gang, gangster, criminal, drug dealing, released from prison, violence, drug dealer, ex convict, crime boss, bandit, criminal underworld, british gangster ...
Place: england, britain, liverpool
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 6.3
 4K
Mama Weed (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one ...
Style: exciting, humorous, disturbing, captivating, touching
Plot: drug dealing, lifestyle, war on drugs, manipulative woman, police dog, police, drug, master criminal, drug lord, drug traffic, double life, money laundering ...
Place: france, paris france
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Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.
Style: serious, semi documentary, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: drug cartel, cartel, prison, drug dealer, faithfulness, friendship between men, brutality, hitman, criminal, murderer, enemy, struggle for survival ...
Place: colombia
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 4.2
 706
Rage (2017)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his last connection to humanity, a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, slasher ...
Plot: gang war, ex special forces, violence, drug dealer, revenge, criminal, smuggler, criminal's revenge, gang, confronting the past, criminal gang, drug lord ...
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 7.2
 3K
Dom (2021)
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, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense ...
Plot: war on drugs, sex, drug cartel, favela, criminal, drug traffic, drug, father son relationship, cocaine, father son estrangement, relationship problems, estranged father ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
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Powder and Gold (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Story: The real-life story of a drug cartel leader set to Macbeth.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: drug, drug cartel, drug dealer, drug lord, drug dealing, criminal, drug crime, smuggler, drug traffic, drug money, drug smuggler, smuggling ...
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 6.3
 479
Chouf (2016)
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: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: teenage gang, drug traffic, drug dealer, drug trade, ghetto, gang violence, street gang, death of brother, revenge, urban ghetto life, drug, bandit ...
Time: 2010s
Place: marseille
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Drug Squad: Costa del Sol (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Four intrepid and impulsive police officers form a special narcotics unit to combat the birth of drug trafficking on Spain's Costa del Sol in the 1970s.
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, detective
Plot: police, drug dealer, criminal, police officer, drug, fighting crime, partners against crime, war on drugs, criminal gang, smuggling, investigation, drug smuggling ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain
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 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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The Unknown Hitman: The Story of El Cholo Adrián (2017)
Genre: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on real events, the fictional story of Mexican drug lord El Chato's number one hitman, El Cholo.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating
Plot: hitman, murderer, killer, criminal, murder, bandit, gang, cartel, life is a bitch, gang member, outlaw gang, drug smuggling ...
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Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.
Style: tense, captivating, telenovela
Plot: drug dealer, changing lives, romancing a criminal, family problems, bandit, social problems, drug cartel, gang, drug smuggling, poverty, inferiority complex, illegal drugs ...
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 8.1
 52K
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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Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
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: organized crime, gangster, rise and fall, police, mafia, rise to the top, ambition, gang war, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, asia, korea
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The Neighborhood (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A brash group of hoodlums have been doing minor crime jobs in their neighborhood since they were kids until they step on the wrong toes and get caught up in a war with an old-school mafia king pin and their lives soon become hell on earth.
Style: serious, brutal, realistic, rough
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, group of criminals, fight for supremacy, drug dealing, partners in crime, criminal heroes, hitman, smuggling, power struggle, fighting crime, drug lord ...
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Carlo & Malik (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Inspector Carlo Guerrieri, a veteran police officer from Rome, finds himself partnered with a rookie who was born in Ivory Coast but raised in the capital.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: police, drug money, crime scene, illegal drugs, trainee, drug abuse, partnership, guilty, unlikely friendships, drug smuggler, police investigation, drug dealer ...
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