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, rough, suspenseful, tense and captivating films and TV shows about / with drug dealing, drug, drug dealer, gangster, organized crime, murder, mafia, gang, violence and drugs/alcohol plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as drug dealing: Power (2014), La Reina del Sur (2011), Snow on tha Bluff (2011), Weeds (2005), Maria Full of Grace (2004), Paid in Full (2002), Blow (2001), Black's Game (2012), Savages (2012), Scarface (1983).

List of drug dealing movies

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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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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: life is a bitch, rise to the top, power struggle, mafia, drug dealing, cocaine, mob boss, rivalry, vengeance, drug traffic, organized crime, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, europe, spain, morocco
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Snow on tha Bluff (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids during a dope deal, he gives the camera to his best friend, Pancho, and they start documenting their lives. At first its business as usual for Curtis. He robs dope boys, he runs from the ...
Style: realistic, serious, hood, captivating, tense ...
Plot: found footage, dealer, drug dealing, filmmaking, introspection, single parent, life is a bitch, urban, rivalry, danger, down on your luck, real life ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.9
 117K
Weeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 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, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marijuana, drug dealing, drug dealer, single mother, smuggling, eccentric family, widow, unlikely criminals, family relations, dark humor, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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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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 7.0
 14K
Paid in Full (2002)
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, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.5
 274K
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: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
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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: drug dealing, orgy, violence, psychopath, police corruption, drug dealer, male nudity, corrupt law enforcer, gang, suicide, nightclub, new year's eve ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century
Place: iceland, scandinavia, europe, reykjavik iceland
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 6.4
 134K
Savages (2012)
Genre: Action, 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, intense, action packed, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, drug cartel, rescue, marijuana, violence, twists and turns, drug dealing, friendship, woman in danger, polyamory, gangster, drug lord ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, los angeles, usa, tijuana mexico ...
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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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 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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 6.0
 4K
Essex Boys (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, 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, police, criminal's revenge, ambition, gang, criminal heroes, vengeance, rise and fall, rivalry, female pubic hair, british gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe
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 9.5
 2.1M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
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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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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, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: murder, drug dealing, gangster, gang, fighting crime, rise and fall, police investigation, law enforcement, who done it, police, violence, informant ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, year 1993, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, netherlands, united kingdom, amsterdam
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 5.2
 877
Garter Snake (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, prison, drug dealing, vengeance, couples, prisoner, murder, private investigator, prison escape, womanizer, male nudity, assignment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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 9.3
 373K
The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 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, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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 7.4
 16K
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style: disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
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 6.6
 15K
The Business (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he ...
Style: captivating, serious, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rise and fall, drug dealing, organized crime, drug dealer, femme fatale, on the run, gangster, drug abuse, murder, british gangster, ambition, friendship ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: colombia, britain, england, spain, london
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 7.5
 1K
Kingpin (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rule the family. Control the empire. A Change in power looms imminent in the drug cartel family.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealing, drug smuggling, family relations, brother brother relationship, partner, police corruption, rivalry, gangster, drug abuse, addiction, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas, thailand, michigan ...
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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: serious, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: drug dealing, gang leader, organized crime, nightclub owner, black, revenge, hotshot, family relations, investigation, gangster, family drama, heir ...
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Hollands Hoop (2014)
Genre: Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: weed, countryside, marijuana, family relations, drug dealing, violence, couples, farm, parents and children, death, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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Eye for an Eye (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, drug dealing, drug dealer, murder, police raid, doctor, police, lawyer, prison, danger, organized crime, betrayal ...
Place: galicia
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 5.2
 5K
We Die Young (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
Style: thought provoking, rough, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: life is a bitch, organized crime, gang, war veteran, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, friendship, redemption, dishonesty, danger, transformation, youth ...
Place: washington d.c., afghanistan
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 7.3
 44K
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: tense, atmospheric, intense, talky, captivating ...
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealing, organized crime, drug, mafia, character study, drug addiction, drug dealer, hitman, visceral, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: denmark, scandinavia, bolivia, copenhagen, europe
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 6.4
 92K
Snitch (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer ...
Style: suspense, realistic, tense, intense, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: father son relationship, drug lord, drug dealing, agent, prison, protective parent, organized crime, secret service, family relations, police investigation, suspicion, frame up ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa, mexico
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 8.5
 5K
The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 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: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
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 7.5
 14K
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, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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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, on the run, on the road, buddies, disorder, couples, chases and races, drug, gang bang, weed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
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