Best "drug lord" Movies of All Time

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Scarface(1983)

FSK: 18+ years

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, ...

Emmanuelle 6(1988)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a powerful drug lord. Now they must escape from a land of darkness.

Directed by Jean Rollin, Bruno Zincone - With Antonio Rodriguez, Natalie Uher, Santiago Pérez Fernández

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Dredd(2012)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 35min | Action, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 2,226 votes)

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

Directed by Pete Travis - With Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Wood Harris, Lena Headey, Domhnall Gleeson, Joe Vaz, ...

We're the Millers(2013)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Crime

3.4/5 (with 3,988 votes)

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber - With Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, ...

Loving Pablo(2017)

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, ...

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.

Traffic(2000)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 27min | Thriller, Drama, Crime

3.5/5 (with 941 votes)

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh - With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Don Cheadle, Tomas Milian, ...

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent(2022)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime

3.4/5 (with 793 votes)

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

Directed by Tom Gormican - With Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick Harris, ...

Triple Frontier(2019)

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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Above the Law(1988)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 39min | Action, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 293 votes)

Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.

Directed by Andrew Davis - With Sharon Stone, Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean, Michael Rooker, ...

Desperado(1995)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 44min | Thriller, Action, Crime

3.4/5 (with 1,240 votes)

Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his best friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, the Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves a trail of blood of his own.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino, ...

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Romancing the Stone(1984)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 46min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Comedy, Action

3.4/5 (with 829 votes)

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Holland Taylor, ...

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico(2003)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 42min | Action, Drama, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 938 votes)

Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Rubén Blades, Eva Mendes, ...

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The Infiltrator(2016)

2h 7min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 742 votes)

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

Directed by Brad Furman - With Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Amy Ryan, Saïd Taghmaoui, ...

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Shaft(2019)

1h 51min | Action, Crime

3.3/5 (with 794 votes)

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

Directed by Tim Story - With Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Alexandra Shipp, Regina Hall, Method Man, Richard Roundtree, ...

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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 35min | Action, Crime, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 150 votes)

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.

Directed by Isaac Florentine - With Scott Adkins

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Veronica Guerin(2003)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 38min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 128 votes)

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell, Paudge Behan, Gerard McSorley, ...

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The Happytime Murders(2018)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 31min | Action, Comedy, Crime

2.9/5 (with 441 votes)

In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.

Directed by Brian Henson - With Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale

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King of New York(1990)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 43min | Thriller, Crime

3.3/5 (with 262 votes)

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, ...

Bulletproof(1996)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 24min | Comedy, Crime, Action

2.8/5 (with 253 votes)

An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.

Directed by Ernest Dickerson - With Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, Allen Covert, Bill Nunn, ...

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Holiday(2018)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 33min | Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 46 votes)

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

Directed by Isabella Eklöf - With Lai Yde, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Morten Hemmingsen, Stanislav Sevcik, Adam Ild Rohweder, Laura Kjær, ...

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The Ruthless(2019)

1h 52min | Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 187 votes)

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

Directed by Renato De Maria - With Riccardo Scamarcio, Sara Serraiocco, Marie-Ange Casta, Ignazio Oliva

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Shanghai Triad(1995)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 48min | Drama, Crime

3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Xiao-Xiao Wang, Fu Biao

The Replacement Killers(1998)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 27min | Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 209 votes)

Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, ...

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The Drug King(2018)

2h 19min | Crime, Action, Drama

3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.

Directed by Woo Min-ho - With Song Kang-ho, Jo Jung-suk, Bae Doona, Lee Sung-min, Kim So-jin, Lee Hee-joon, ...

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Born to Fight(2004)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 36min | Crime, Action, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 42 votes)

When a remote Thai village is overrun by terrorists armed with a nuclear missile, an elite undercover operative leads the most unique fighting force ever assembled in a heroic bid to save their nation.

Directed by Panna Rittikrai - With Somluck Kamsing, Kessarin Ektawatkul

Tequila Sunrise(1988)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 55min | Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 211 votes)

In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

Directed by Robert Towne - With Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J. T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon, ...

Clockers(1995)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 8min | Mystery, Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 134 votes)

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, ...

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The Death and Life of Bobby Z(2007)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 37min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

3.1/5 (with 158 votes)

A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.

Directed by John Herzfeld - With Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde, Jason Lewis, Joaquim de Almeida, Jason Flemyng, Paul Walker, ...

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Larceny(2017)

1h 27min | Action, Thriller

2.0/5 (with 26 votes)

After being busted for a heist, a former CIA contractor is sent to a Mexican prison. His former CIA boss offers him freedom if he can break into the prison vault and steal $50 Million.

Directed by R. Ellis Frazier - With Dolph Lundgren, Corbin Bernsen, Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

Movies: Best "drug lord" Movies

Scarface(1983)

Emmanuelle 6(1988)

Dredd(2012)

We're the Millers(2013)

Loving Pablo(2017)

2025: Blood, White & Blue(2022)

Traffic(2000)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent(2022)

Triple Frontier(2019)

Above the Law(1988)

Desperado(1995)

Romancing the Stone(1984)

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico(2003)

The Infiltrator(2016)

Shaft(2019)

Ninja: Shadow of a Tear(2013)

Veronica Guerin(2003)

The Happytime Murders(2018)

King of New York(1990)

Bulletproof(1996)

Holiday(2018)

The Ruthless(2019)

Shanghai Triad(1995)

The Replacement Killers(1998)

The Drug King(2018)

Born to Fight(2004)

Tequila Sunrise(1988)

Clockers(1995)

The Death and Life of Bobby Z(2007)

Larceny(2017)

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