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 6.4
 541
El Rey (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cali, Colombia, 1970s. The fictional story of Pedro Rey, the first drug trafficker and drug lord.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, crime drama
Plot: drug, drug traffic, drug lord, drug cartel, organized crime, drug dealer, criminal, betrayal, criminal underworld, criminal gang, male female relationship, ambition ...
Place: colombia
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 6.6
 111K
Licence to Kill (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 133 min.
Story: James Bond and his American colleague Felix Leiter arrest the drug lord Sanchez who succeeds in escaping and takes revenge on Felix and his wife. Bond knows but just one thing: revenge.
Style: saga, exciting, controversial, cult classic, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, 007, vengeance, spy, woman with a gun, drug lord, secret agent, secret service, shark, secret service agent, revenge, cold war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: latin america, colombia, florida, mexico, miami ...
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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
Style: grindhouse, action adventure, disgusting, cult classic, action thriller ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, rescue, colombian drug cartel, death, cannon, commando, hostage, soldier, machine gun, military ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: latin america, the philippines, colombia, south america, rio de janeiro ...
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 4.7
 7K
Fire Birds (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aviation, justice, heroic mission, danger, tough heroes, against the odds, daring rescue, save the day, military, death, flying, airplane ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: colombia, iraq, south america, pentagon
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 6.6
 25K
Toy Soldiers (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, bloody, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: terrorism, boarding school, high school, siege, preparatory school, terrorist, father son relationship, friendship, hostage, childhood, violence, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1991, 90s
Place: usa, new jersey, colombia, virginia, florida
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Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The anti-terrorist team Delta Force destroys a billion dollar cocaine stash, to the extreme displeasure of drug cartel leader Umberto Salvatore. To retaliate, he hijacks a stealth submarine and threatens to unleash a biological weapon with the power ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, hijacking, conflict, boat, cavalry, subway, disaster, martial arts, satellite, stash, secret agent, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, colombia, usa
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 6.3
 59K
Proof of Life (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, terrorism, rescue, survival, brutality, runaway, insurance, prisoner, new love, gain trust, couple relations ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: south america, latin america, colombia, london
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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
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State of Affairs (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, cia, national security, spy, dead son, white house, workplace situations, usa president, u.s. president, president, female protagonist, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., colombia, afghanistan, nigeria
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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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Operación Pacífico (2020)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Captain Amalia Ortega, leader of a secret unit, whose mission is to capture the most wanted Mexican drug trafficker, putting both her profession and family's life at risk.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: strong female lead, female agent, agent, partner, special agent, investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, female protagonist, police investigation, crime investigation, police ...
Place: colombia
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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
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, danger, race against time, forced into action, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, heroes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, colombia
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 6.7
 437
Time Out (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Spain, Italy, Colombia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
Plot: police, partisan, world cup, truce, prostitution, oil, soccer, titanic
Place: colombia
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Rosario Tijeras (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, hood
Plot: love triangle, hitman, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, friendship, social decay, vigilantism, vengeance, gang, drug, conflict ...
Time: year 1989, 21st century
Place: colombia, mexico, latin america
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Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, heroes, battles, soldier, secret agent, hostage, heroic mission, frame up, military life, daring rescue, manhunt ...
Place: colombia, latin america
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 6.7
 494
Gente De Bien (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, rich and poor, social differences, kids in trouble, family problems, parents and children, estrangement, youth, human nature, realism, single parent, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, south america, latin america
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Pedro el escamoso (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pedro el escamoso is a popular telenovela filmed in Colombia and produced by the Colombian network, Caracol TV. This novela is about a cheesy but charming macho man who lives in a small town in Colombia. He moves to the city to find his fortune and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, novela ...
Plot: love triangle, changing lives, workplace romance, fish out of water, womanizer, workplace intrigue, rivalry, fall in love, boss and employee, eccentric family, workplace, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
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The Snail's Strategy (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come up with a strategy, but in the process—while the landlord and his aggressive ...
Style: political, hispanic, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, lawyer, anarchism, protest, anarchy, chaos, justice, miraculous event, pastor, house, roommate, settler ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america
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 2.7
 856
Monster (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Style: natural horror, retro, independent film, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, kaiju, deadly creature, giant monster, creature feature, snake, dinosaur, shark, octopus, creature, animal attack, mutant ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 70s
Place: colombia, latin america
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 6.8
 19K
Monos (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, USA, Switzerland, Denmark, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, avant garde, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child soldier, violence, chase, teenage boy, surrealism, rescue, teenage girl, hostage, coming of age, nude, murder, teenager ...
Time: year 2019
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
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 5.0
 6K
Kill Chain (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and ...
Style: exciting, brutal, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, hitman, hotel, murderer, twists and turns, brutality, friendship, organized crime, police corruption, corpse, cruelty, gangster ...
Place: colombia
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 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 ...
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 85K
Papillon (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Henri "Papillon" Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he becomes obsessed with escaping. After planning and executing a series of treacherous ...
Style: suspense, factual, psychological, art house, homoerotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, prison escape, island prison, friendship, life sentence, escape, thief, solitary, survival, wrongful conviction, human spirit, jungle ...
Time: year 2017, year 1931, 1930s, year 1969, year 1970 ...
Place: south america, colombia, france, venezuela, paris france
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Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
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Everything is Free (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Ivan's old college roommate comes to visit him in Columbia, he brings his brother and a whole lot of romantic complications.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, queer cinema
Plot: friendship, secret love, best friend, gay love, love, love and romance, brothers, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqi, threesome, gay subtext ...
Place: colombia, los angeles
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Tangos Are for Two (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of ...
Style: manga
Plot: tango, mistaken identity, wedding, mystery woman, ambition, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, rise and fall, music, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, colombia, spain, peru ...
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The Liberator (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of ...
Style: captivating, serious, epic, tense, political ...
Plot: revolutionary, revolution, military, war, biopic, battles, rebellion, leadership, ambition, folk hero, state affairs, freedom ...
Time: 1820s, 19th century, ancient times, 18th century
Place: venezuela, latin america, colombia, paris france, spain ...
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 6.8
 68K
Harsh Times (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging ...
Style: tense, bleak, intense, hood, serious ...
Plot: drug, violence, corruption, transformation, gangster, addiction, depression, culture clash, redemption, street gang, lapd, weed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, mexico, colombia, latin america, usa ...
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 5.5
 998
Green Ice (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: He wanted adventure...She craved revenge...Emeralds held the answer.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, vintage
Audience: boys' night
Plot: caper, bank robber, robbery, bank, chase, jewel theft, emerald, partner, revolution, battles, chaos and mayhem, social differences ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: colombia, latin america
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