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Scarface(1983)

R
| 2h 50min | Action, Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,452 votes)

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 state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, ...
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Bad Boys for Life(2020)

R
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.6/5 (with 3,806 votes)

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

Directed by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah - With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Joe Pantoliano, Charles Melton, ...
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No Country for Old Men(2007)

R
| 2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 5,549 votes)

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - With Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, ...
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El Infierno(2010)

2h 25min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 255 votes)

Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.

Directed by Luis Estrada - With Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosío Osuna, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Elizabeth Cervantes, Daniel Giménez Cacho, ...
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Loving Pablo(2017)

R
| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 455 votes)

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.

Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa - With Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaardd, Julieth Restrepo, Óscar Jaenada, Atanas Srebrev, ...
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The Marksman(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 654 votes)

Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.

Directed by Robert Lorenz - With Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, Teresa Ruiz, Jacob Perez
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2025: Blood, White & Blue(2022)

2h 15min | Horror, Action, Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Undercover U.S. agent Bill Wilson makes the bust of his career taking down a cartel leader. Hiding the evidence in his home exposes his family to a brutal targeting on the night of the annual Purge, the deadliest night of the year.

American Made(2017)

R
| 1h 55min | Action, Crime, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1,951 votes)

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

Directed by Doug Liman - With Tom Cruise, Lola Kirke, Domhnall Gleeson, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Wright, ...
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Peppermint(2018)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 916 votes)

A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

Directed by Pierre Morel - With Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher, Jr.
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Triple Frontier(2019)

R
| 2h 5min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 1,368 votes)

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

Directed by J. C. Chandor - With Ben Affleck, Adria Arjona, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, ...
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The Mule(2018)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 2,234 votes)

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Taissa Farmiga, Michael Peña, Alison Eastwood, Dianne Wiest, ...
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Hot Pursuit(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Action, Comedy, Crime
2.8/5 (with 733 votes)

An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

Directed by Anne Fletcher - With Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro, Michael Mosley, Robert Kazinsky, Richard T. Jones, ...
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Clear and Present Danger(1994)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 647 votes)

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Directed by Phillip Noyce - With Miguel Sandoval, Belita Moreno, Joaquim de Almeida, James Earl Jones, Anne Archer, Donald Moffat, ...
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Red Heat(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime
3.1/5 (with 619 votes)

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Directed by Walter Hill - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, ...
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Paradise City(2022)

R
| 1h 32min | Action, Crime, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 56 votes)

Renegade bounty hunter Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his father.

Directed by Chuck Russell - With John Travolta, Bruce Willis

Sabotage(2014)

R
| 1h 50min | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
2.8/5 (with 658 votes)

John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.

Directed by David Ayer - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, Olivia Williams, ...
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Believer(2018)

NR
| 2h 3min | Crime, Action, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 54 votes)

After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.

Directed by Lee Hae-young - With Cho Jin-woong, Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Joo-hyuk, Cha Seung-won, Kim Sung-ryung

Assassination Games(2011)

R
| 1h 41min | Action
3.1/5 (with 161 votes)

Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.

Directed by Ernie Barbarash - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Kevin Chapman, Michael Higgs, Kristopher Van Varenberg, Marija Karan, ...
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Gringo(2018)

R
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Action, Crime
3.0/5 (with 324 votes)

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Directed by Nash Edgerton - With David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandiwe Newton, Sharlto Copley, ...
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Beast of Burden(2018)

R
| 1h 30min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 49 votes)

Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.

Directed by Jesper Ganslandt
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The Snitch Cartel(2011)

R
| 1h 46min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle".

Directed by Carlos Moreno - With Manolo Cardona
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Miss Bala(2011)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Action
3.3/5 (with 75 votes)

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

Directed by Gerardo Naranjo - With Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Noé Hernández, James Russo, Juan Carlos Galván, Stephanie Sigman, ...
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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection(1990)

R
| 1h 51min | Action
2.7/5 (with 78 votes)

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.

Directed by Aaron Norris - With Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, John P. Ryan, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Perri, Mark Margolis, ...
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Bholaa(2023)

2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

Close Range(2015)

1h 20min | Action, Crime
3.3/5 (with 135 votes)

A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.

Directed by Isaac Florentine - With Scott Adkins, Nick Chinlund, Tony Pérez
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Maria(2019)

1h 29min | Action, Crime
3.1/5 (with 70 votes)

When a former BlackRose cartel assassin deliberately betrays them by refusing to complete her mission, the cartel orders her execution. Unbeknownst to them, she fakes her own death and is able to create a new life of her own. When the cartel discovers she is alive, the hunter becomes the hunted as she fights to get revenge on those who took her new life away from her.

Directed by Pedring Lopez - With Cristine Reyes
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Extraordinary Mission(2017)

1h 57min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

An undercover police officer attempts to take down a drug trafficking syndicate from the inside.

Directed by Alan Mak

Gun Shy(2000)

R
| 1h 41min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 55 votes)

Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra, Charlie seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.

Directed by Eric Blakeney - With Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zúñiga, Richard Schiff, Mary McCormack, ...
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The Hollow Point(2016)

R
| 1h 34min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 75 votes)

Los Reyes County, Arizona. Leland, a retired lawman, works with Wallace, the new sheriff who replaces him, when a vicious hit man, sent by a Mexican drug cartel, threatens their border small town.

Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego - With Patrick Wilson, Ian McShane, Lynn Collins, John Leguizamo, Jim Belushi
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Who Killed Captain Alex?(2015)

1h 4min | Action, Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain is killed.

Directed by Isaac Nabwana
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