Drug dealing movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant drug dealing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating and rough films and TV shows about / with drug dealing, drug, drug dealer, gangster, drugs/alcohol, violence, drug traffic, drug crime, mafia and criminal heroes plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Colombia and other countries.
drug dealing movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as drug dealing: Free Ride (2013), Power (2014), Essex Boys (2000), Coyote (2021), Savages (2012), Narcos (2015), The Wire (2002), La Reina del Sur (2011), Power Book II: Ghost (2020), Weeds (2005).

List of drug dealing movies

 5.6
 3K
Free Ride (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, retro ...
Plot: rise and fall, criminal heroes, drug dealing, dealer, parents and children, single parent, unlikely criminals, danger, hopes, crime gone awry, family relations, protecting from truth ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, ohio
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 8.1
 58K
Power (2014)
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
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 6.1
 4K
Essex Boys (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, murder, female pubic hair, police, ambition, criminal's revenge, gang, criminal heroes, rise and fall, rivalry, vengeance, british gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe
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 6.9
 4K
Coyote (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 289 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: drug dealing, police investigation, martial arts, border patrol, showdown, drug, law enforcement, society, love interest, machismo, fighting crime, love ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 6.4
 138K
Savages (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Style: sexy, tense, action packed, intense, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: violence, twists and turns, rescue, kidnapping, sex scene, drug cartel, marijuana, drug dealing, friendship, woman in danger, polyamory, organized crime ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, afghanistan, south america, los angeles ...
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 8.7
 521K
Narcos (2015)
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 ...
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 9.3
 425K
The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, dramatic ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police detective, working undercover, urban ghetto life, gang, drug dealing, police, fighting crime, police investigation, urban decay, shooting ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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La Reina del Sur (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story: After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...
Style: serious, suspenseful, novela, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rise to the top, mafia, cocaine, power struggle, drug dealing, vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, smuggling, mob boss, drug traffic, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america, spain, europe ...
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Power Book II: Ghost (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: drug dealing, organized crime, gang leader, nightclub owner, heir, black, hotshot, investigation, family relations, revenge, gangster, going straight ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 7.9
 122K
Weeds (2005)
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
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 9.5
 2.5M
Breaking Bad (2008)
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
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 5.9
 863
Fuck Up (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, tense, suspense ...
Plot: nothing goes right, crime gone awry, drug dealing, going straight, chase, hopes, dark humor, save the day, friendship, drug abuse, violent content, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.8
 3K
WiseGirls (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A new waitress working at an Italian restaurant in New York City finds herself entangled in a mob-run underworld of drug dealing and murder.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: drug dealing, restaurant, friendship, working undercover, criminal heroes, buddies, mafia, murder, mob boss, undercover, girl power, gangster ...
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 2.0
 6K
The Hillz (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style: serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: white trash, student athlete, drug dealing, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, youth, buddies, lifestyle ...
Place: california, usa
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 6.6
 8K
Paulette (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: marijuana, urban ghetto life, racial slur, unlikely criminals, fish out of water, criminal heroes, disorder, life is a bitch, society, elderly, drug dealing, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.7
 530K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
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 7.5
 286K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug dealing, drug abuse, drug, drug traffic, drug cartel, rise and fall, drug use, friendship, addiction, gangster ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 80s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: latin america, california, south america, usa, colombia ...
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 6.7
 4K
Black's Game (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, drug dealing, gay rape, orgy, gang, anal rape, psychopath, police corruption, drug dealer, corrupt law enforcer, suicide, nightclub ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century
Place: iceland, scandinavia, europe, reykjavik iceland
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 6.8
 3K
Black Souls (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former narcotics trafficker now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son, in this darkly elegant gangster drama.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot: drug dealing, italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, family relations, betrayal, family business, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, milan italy
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 7.3
 51K
Pusher (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Style: brutal, cult classic, atmospheric, intense, talky ...
Plot: heroin, drug dealing, gangster, drug, organized crime, crime gone awry, mafia, violent, desperation, debt, drug deal, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996, 70s
Place: denmark, bolivia, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe ...
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 6.4
 8K
Mr. Nice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, indie film, absurd ...
Plot: drug dealing, terrorism, elite, drug use, plan gone awry, conspiracy, partners in crime, sex scene, smuggler, biopic, drug traffic, intercourse ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, wales, europe
Is relevant?
 8.3
 1.0M
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: 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 ...
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 7.5
 16K
Fresh (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style: hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, childhood trauma, coming of age, drug dealing, drug lord, african american, ghetto, father son relationship, drug, hip hop, urban ghetto, blaxploitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, africa
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 8.5
 46K
Snowfall (2017)
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 ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, african american, drug crime, dea, ghetto, drug, illegal drugs, u.s. government, urban, latinx lead, gangster, black ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, central america, california, south central los angeles ...
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 8.5
 6K
The Corner (2000)
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
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The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The rise and fall of the Essex Boys gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense
Plot: murder, drug dealing, gangster, gang, fighting crime, rise and fall, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, police, violence, informant ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1995, 21st century
Place: england, netherlands, amsterdam, united kingdom
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 5.1
 2K
High Road (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Directed by Matt Walsh, a co-founding member of world-renowned comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, High Road showcases a totally improvised script about Glenn “Fitz” Fitzgerald (James Pumphrey), a young man whose loyalties are split among ...
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug dealing, road trip, stoner, couples, on the run, buddies, disorder, on the road, chases and races, drug, improv, drug dealer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style: sentimental, sincere, independent film, depressing, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, drug, illegal immigration, women, drug abuse, addiction, character study ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, south america, new jersey, latin america ...
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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It is the third film in the Trailer Park Boys franchise, and a sequel to Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009). In the film, Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) ...
Style: humorous, mockumentary, captivating, tense, light ...
Plot: drug dealing, buddies, society, legislation, friends, trailer park boys, disorder, marijuana, road trip, stripper, weed, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia
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