Movies and TV shows set in colombia

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in colombia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, tense, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with conflict, murder, drug, drug dealing, cocaine, drug dealer, gangster, death, jungle and nudity plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Colombia, USA, Spain and other countries.
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colombia movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as colombia: The Snitch Cartel (2011), Maria Full of Grace (2004), Alias el Mexicano (2013), The Colors of the Mountain (2010), Operation E (2012), Green Frontier (2019), Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014), Narcos (2015), Crime Diaries: Night Out (2019), Missing (2023).

List of movies set in colombia

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The Snitch Cartel (2011)
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, gang, drug, violence, organized crime, rise to the top, drug dealing, ambition, drug cartel, criminal heroes, money ...
Place: colombia, latin america, florida, miami, usa ...
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Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Ecuador, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style: realistic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, life is a bitch, illegal immigration, women, loneliness, drug abuse, depression, addiction ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, latin america, new jersey, usa ...
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Alias el Mexicano (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story: Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a humble young man, becomes an emerald miner to one of Colombia's most powerful drug lords.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, telenovela
Plot: drug, crime boss, drug lord, criminal, organized crime, drug cartel, drug dealing, criminal gang, drug dealer, gang, conflict, gangster
Place: colombia
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The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing ...
Style: realistic, bleak, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: soccer, youth, political unrest, friendship, family relations, soldier, obsessive quest, civil war, social relations, life is a bitch, human nature, military ...
Place: colombia, latin america
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Operation E (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, jungle, captivity, rescue, escapades, race against time, rebellion, danger, confined, political unrest, baby ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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Green Frontier (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Deep in the Amazon, on the border of Brazil and Colombia, a series of bizarre deaths are investigated by a young female detective, Helena, and her partner, an indigenous policeman named Reynaldo. It becomes clear that the murders are not the biggest ...
Style: detective, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot: jungle, native, rain forest, missionary, female detective, police detective, murder, medieval, indigenous people, arson, supernatural power, danger ...
Time: 2010s
Place: colombia, south america, latin america
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Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Panama
Duration: 120 min.
Story: For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, date night
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealing, gangster, family relations, murder, forbidden love, young lovers, siblings relations, mafia, uncle niece relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 80s, 90s, year 1991
Place: colombia
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 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 ...
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Crime Diaries: Night Out (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Colombia, Mexico
TV show
Story: After going to a Halloween party, college student Luis Andrés Colmenares is found dead. Was it an accident or murder? Inspired by true events.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, tense, captivating
Plot: investigation, mysterious disappearance, puzzle, uncover truth, crime solving, criminal, cold case, crime boss, forensics, disappearance, crime investigation, social justice
Place: colombia
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 7.1
 57K
Missing (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her ...
Style: dramatic, independent film, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, missing person, missing woman, mysterious disappearance, teenage protagonist, found footage, amateur sleuth, teenage girl, female protagonist, investigation, cat, fbi ...
Time: 2020s, year 2008
Place: colombia, los angeles, san antonio texas
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, spy, conspiracy, sniper, politics, assassination, shootout, drug cartel, violence, espionage, covert operation, mercenary ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, washington d.c., usa, langley virginia, iraq ...
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Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord (2012)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pablo Escobar: El PatrĂ³n del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
Style: realistic, rough, stylized, serious, novela ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, dea, latinos, drug dealing, rise to the top, ambition, drug traffic, terrorism, gangster, notoriety, mafia, sociopath ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: colombia, latin america, panama
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When Heroes Fly (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Eleven years after falling out, four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reunite for one final mission: to find Yaeli, a former lover of one of them and sister of another. Their journey will take them deep into the Colombian jungle but, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot: israeli, soldier, jungle, disappearance, israeli army, girlfriend, friendship, investigation, danger, rivalry, mossad, ptsd ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: colombia, israel
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Killing Jesus (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: motorcycle, murder, assassination, police officer, murder of father, police, revenge, student, loss of father, death of father, violence, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
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Chronicle of the End of the World (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A retired teacher fears the world is coming to an end when his jobless son is abandoned by his wife after having a baby.
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, sexy, gloomy
Plot: family relations, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature, elderly, husband wife relationship, family crisis, father son relationship, conflict, urban, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: colombia
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Sin tetas no hay paraĂ­so (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Byron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend Albeira and becomes a prostitute ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: prostitute, older woman younger man sex, sex scene, drug dealer, surgery, poverty, love and romance, society, couples, gang rape, teenage prostitute, male nudity ...
Place: colombia
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
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Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair, drug, writers, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, usa
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Hotel Colonial (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And ...
Style: independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: erotica, conflict, jungle, child trafficking, danger, terrorism, uncover truth, mistaken identity, dishonesty, drug dealing, fratricide, murder disguised as suicide ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: colombia, latin america, venice, south america, new york ...
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 7.1
 206K
American Made (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Style: exciting, black comedy, factual, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: drug cartel, pilot, cia, money laundering, aviation, smuggler, money, cocaine, fbi, trial, drug, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, year 1978, year 2017, 2010s, 70s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, usa, panama, nicaragua ...
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 6.4
 962
A Ton of Luck (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Colombia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story, based on true events occurred in Colombia en May 2003, tells the dreams and adventures of Porras, Venegas, Lloreda and Perlaza, four of the 147 soldiers that were in a company of the anti-guerrilla "Destroyer" battalion. It ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, surreal ...
Plot: military, prostitute, rescue, treasure hunt, money falling through the air, money, conflict, soldier, jungle, battles, curses spells and rituals, anti war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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 7.2
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Dirty Hands (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in ...
Style: suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, social ...
Plot: drug dealing, crime gone awry, family relations, disorder, escapades, chases and races, ocean, murder, drug, teenager, mafia, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: colombia, africa
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 6.7
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The Towrope (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, uncle niece relationship, society, life is a bitch, wartime life, against humanity, village, cousin cousin relationship, refugee, survival, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of BogotĂ¡, where they will gather new ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: murder, soldier, women, life is a bitch, violence, wartime, violent, jungle, female protagonist, female nudity, river, little girl ...
Place: colombia
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The Preppie Connection (2015)
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, jealousy, prison, drug dealing, drug dealer, cocaine, high school, marijuana, teenager, love, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, usa
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The Art of Losing (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: nudist, political corruption, investigation, partners against crime, life is a bitch, partner, state affairs, journalism, media, dishonesty, social decay, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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SatanĂ¡s - Profile of a Killer (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: dishonesty, clergy, hopes, weakness, looking for love, life is a bitch, femme fatale, woman peeing, true crime, parallel story, redemption, killer ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: colombia
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Paraiso Travel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: PARAISO TRAVEL is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his girlfriend Reina leaves his comfortable life in Medellin and flees with her through Guatemala and Mexico, across the borders, illegally into the United States. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hopes, starting over, young lovers, self discovery, couples, street walker, youth, follow your dream, obsessive quest, love and romance, couple relations, anarchist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, usa, new york, latin america, atlanta georgia ...
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En la Boca del Lobo (2014)
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: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: drug cartel, drug lord, cartel, mafia, war on drugs, colombian drug cartel, organized crime, drug dealer, drug traffic, gangster boss, drug, drug trade ...
Place: colombia
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 6.3
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Loving Pablo (2017)
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, exciting, rough, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, cocaine, journalist, pablo escobar, colombian drug cartel, assassination, congress, drug traffic, latinx lead, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2017, year 1982, year 1993 ...
Place: colombia, south america, panama, latin america, florida
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