List of films about drug cartels
The list provides an overview of film productions about mainly Colombian and Mexican drug cartels .
- See also Gangster Movie and List of Mafia Movies for more films about organized crime .
Title list
| Movie title | country | year | Director | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Seal: Only in America (OT: American Made ) | United States | 2017 | Doug Liman | Film about the life of Barry Seal |
| Blow | United States | 2001 | Ted Demme | Film about the life of George Jung , his relationship with Carlos Lehder and their business for the Medellín cartel under Pablo Escobar's leadership. |
| Borderland | MEX / USA | 2007 | Zev Berman | Horror / splatter film |
| Chapo: the escape del siglo | MEX | 2016 | Axel Uriegas | Film about Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán . |
| Close range | United States | 2015 | Isaac Florentine | |
| Cocaine Godmother | United States | 2017 | Guillermo Navarro | Film about the life of Griselda Blanco . |
| Crossing point | United States | 2016 | Daniel Zirilli | |
| The cartel (OT: Clear and Present Danger ) | United States | 1994 | Phillip Noyce | |
| Delta Force 2 - The Columbian Connection | United States | 1990 | Aaron Norris | |
| Desperado | MEX / USA | 1995 | Robert Rodriguez | |
| El gringo | United States | 2012 | Eduardo Rodríguez | |
| El Infierno | MEX | 2010 | Luis Estrada | |
| End of Watch | United States | 2012 | David Ayer | |
| Escobar: Paradise Lost | FRA / ESP / BEL / PAN | 2014 | Andrea Di Stefano | Film about a love story within the Escobar clan between a niece of Escobar and a Canadian immigrant. |
| Extreme Rage (OT: A Man Apart ) | United States | 2003 | F. Gary Gray | |
| Fast & Furious - New model. Original parts. | United States | 2009 | Justin Lin | |
| Sometime in Mexico (OT: Once Upon a Time in Mexico ) | United States | 2003 | Robert Rodriguez | |
| Kill Bobby Z - A Deal for Life and Death (OT: The Death and Life of Bobby Z ) | USA / DEU | 2007 | John Herzfeld | |
| La clave 7 | MEX | 1999 | Jorge Reynoso | Film about the efforts of the Mexican army to bring down drug lord Pedro Avilés Pérez . |
| machete | United States | 2010 | Robert Rodriguez | |
| Miami Vice | United States | 2006 | Michael Mann | |
| Miss Bodyguard - In high heels on the run (OT: Hot Pursuit ) | United States | 2015 | Anne Fletcher | Action film comedy |
| Most Wanted - In the crosshairs of the cartel (OT: El cartel de los sapos ) | COL | 2011 | Carlos Moreno | A true story film with fictional names, about the Norte del Valle Cartel and the Cali Cartel . |
| sabotage | United States | 2014 | David Ayer | |
| Savages | United States | 2012 | Oliver Stone | |
| Scarface (1983) | United States | 1983 | Brian De Palma | |
| Sicario | United States | 2015 | Denis Villeneuve | |
| Sicario 2 | United States | 2018 | Stefano Sollima | |
| Snitch - a risky deal | United States | 2013 | Ric Roman Waugh | |
| The Counselor | United States | 2013 | Ridley Scott | |
| The Good, the Bad and the Dead | United States | 2015 | Timothy Woodward Jr. | |
| The Infiltrator | United States | 2016 | Brad Furman | Film about attempting to overturn Pablo Escobar's money laundering organization, based on the book The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel by Robert Mazur , a Florida Customs agent. |
| The Mule | United States | 2018 | Clint Eastwood | |
| The Last Stand | United States | 2013 | Kim Jee-woon | |
| The Line - Deal with the enemy (OT: La Linea ) | USA / MEX | 2009 | James Cotten | |
| Traffic - power of the cartel | DEU / USA | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Fictional film based on the Tijuana cartel . |
| Triple frontier | United States | 2019 | JC Chandor | |
| Tropa de Elite | BRA | 2007 | José Padilha | |
| Vigilante Diaries | United States | 2016 | Christian Sesma |
TV Shows
| Series title | country | year | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Reina del Sur (Telenovela) | United States | 2011, 2019 | Film adaptation of the novel Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte . |
| Fariña - Cocaine Coast | ESP | 2018, since | Series about illegal drug trafficking in Spain . |
| Narcos: Mexico | United States | 2018, since | Series about the illegal drug trade in Mexico . The first season tells the story of the rise of the Guadalajara cartel . |
| Mayan's MC | United States | 2018, since | As in the mother series Sons of Anarchy , the fictional Galindo cartel plays a bigger role. |
| Ozark | United States | 2017, since | |
| El Chapo | United States | 2017-2018 | Series about the rise and fall of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from the Sinaloa cartel . |
| Queen of the South | United States | 2016, since | |
| El Capo - The Lord of the Cartel | MEX | 2016 | |
| cannabis | FR | 2016 | |
| Narcos | United States | 2015-2017 | Series about drug cartels in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s . The first two seasons tell the story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín cartel , the third season that of the Cali cartel . |
| Escobar, El Patrón Del Mal | COL | 2012 | Colombian mini-series about the “exploits” of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. |
| Sons of Anarchy | United States | 2008-2014 | In the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, two fictional warring drug cartels play a bigger role. |
| Breaking Bad | United States | 2008-2013 | In the fourth season of the series, a fictional drug cartel from Ciudad Juarez plays a bigger role. |
| El Cartel (OT: El Cartel de los Sapos ) | COL | 2008-2010 | A true story series with fictional names, about the Norte del Valle Cartel and the Cali Cartel. |
| Miami Vice | United States | 1984-1989 |
Docuseries
| Movie title | country | year | Manufacturing company | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The real Narcos (OT: Inside the Real Narcos ) | GB | 2018 | Plum Pictures | 3-part documentary series about drug trafficking in Mexico, Colombia and Peru. |
| Drug Lords | United States | 2018, since | ITN Productions | Documentary series about the most notorious drug traffickers in the world. |
| Escobar: The Hunt for the Millions (OT: Finding Escobar's Millions ) | United States | 2017-2018 | 6-part documentary series about the whereabouts of and the search for Pablo Escobar's surviving funds. | |
| The day I met El Chapo (OT: The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story ) | United States | 2017 | 25/7 productions | The Mexican actress Kate del Castillo tells in three episodes how a meeting between her, Sean Penn and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán came about . |
| Elite troops on the hunt for criminals (OT: Manhunt: Kill or Capture ) | GB | 2015 | World Media Rights | Crime - documentary series and the rücksichtslosesten and notorious figures in the history of organized crime. |
| The Smugglers (OT: Extreme Smuggling ) | United States | 2013 | Discovery Studios | Documentary series on smuggling by cartels. |
Documentaries (dubbed in German)
| Movie title | country | year | Director | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Lehder Rivas | United States | 2013 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Gangster - Without Scruples and Morals (OT: Gangsters: America's Most Evil ), about Carlos Lehder Rivas . | |
| Cartel Land | United States | 2015 | Matthew Heineman | |
| Chaos in the Cartel (OT: Cartel Chaos ) | United States | 2015 | Ewen Thomson | Documentary episode from the documentary series Drugs in Sight (OT: Drugs Inc. ), about the influence of drug cartels. |
| Cocaine Bandits 3 (OT: The True Story of Killing Pablo ) | United States | 2002 | David Keane | Documentary about Pablo Escobar , based on the book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for Pablo Escobar, Colombia's drug lord , which was released in 2001. |
| Cocaine Cowboys | United States | 2006 | Billy Corben | Documentary about the drug imports and war in Miami during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Cocaine Cowboys 2 | United States | 2008 | Billy Corben | Documentary about the life of Griselda Blanco . |
| The End of Pablo Escobar (OT: The King Of Cocaine ) | CDN / GB | 2006 | Documentary episode of the television program Countdown of Terror , about Pablo Escobar. | |
| The contract killer - Room 164 (OT: El Sicario, Room 164 ) | F, USA | 2010 | Gianfranco Rosi | Documentary about an anonymous Sicario from Ciudad Juárez , who reports on his work for a drug cartel in a hotel room. |
| The sins of my father (OT: Pecados de mi padre ) | COL | 2009 | Nicolas Entel | Documentary film about the history of Pablo Escobar from the perspective of his son, who now lives in Argentina under the name Sebastián Marroquín . |
| You can't shoot drugs - ways out of the drug war | DEU / FR | 2015 | Peter Puhlmann | A documentary produced by SWR in collaboration with Arte about drug lords, drug cartels, drug hubs and the fight against drug crime. |
| Drug King Pablo Escobar (OT: Pablo Escobar: King of Cocaine ) | United States | 1998 | A documentary film produced by Parco International Inc. on The Learning Channel , about the life of Pablo Escobars. | |
| El Chapo - In the Name of the Cartel (OT: Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty ) | UK / USA / MEX | 2014 | Angus MacQueen | Documentary about the Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from the Sinaloa cartel . |
| El Chapo | United States | 2018 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Kingpin - The Greatest Criminal Bosses , about El Chapo Guzmán. | |
| Escobar Exposed - Inside the Drug Cartel (OT: Escobar Exposed ) | CDN | 2017 | Olivier Aghaby | One of Télégramme média inc. Produced two-part documentary for addikTV about Pablo Escobar with Escobar's son Sebastián Marroquín , born Pablo Escobar Henao. |
| Gangster bosses (OT: Crime Lords ) | United States | 2018 | Max Serio | Documentary episode from the documentary series Inside the Criminal Mind , about the mafia bosses Al Capone and John Gotti and Semjon Mogilewitsch , as well as the cartel bosses Pablo Escobar and El Chapo. |
| Griselda Blanco | United States | 2012 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Gangster - Without Scruples and Morals (OT: Gangsters: America's Most Evil ), about Griselda Blanco. | |
| In the crossfire of the cartels - Mexico's bloody drug war | DEU | 2010 | A documentary produced by ARD Studio Mexico City from the documentary series My Abroad , about the consequences of the drug wars in Mexico. | |
| Juan Raul Garza | United States | 2012 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Gangster - Without Scruples and Morals (OT: Gangsters: America's Most Evil ), about Juan Garza . | |
| Juarez, Mexico (OT: Mexico ) | UK | 2012 | Ewen Thomson | Documentary episode from the documentary series Ross Kemp: Extreme World , about violence by drug cartels in Ciudad Juárez. |
| La Sierra - Born to be a killer (OT: La Sierra - Muerte En Medellin ) | COL / USA | 2005 | Scott Dalton | Documentary about the Bloque Metro gang that works for various drug cartels. |
| Mexico: The power of cartels (OT: Narco-finance, les impunis ) | F. | 2014 | Agnes Gattegno | |
| Pablo Escobar | United States | 2018 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Kingpin - The Greatest Criminal Bosses , about Pablo Escobar. | |
| Pablo Escobar - Drugs, Power and Terror (OT: The Rise and Fall of Pablo Escobar ) | United States | 2018 | Michael Driscoll | A Lincoln Square Productions documentary about Pablo Escobar, for History . |
| Arms race of the drug cartels (OT: Arming the Mexican Cartels ) | United States | 2011 | Documentary episode from the documentary series Vanguard about the arming of the drug cartels and the drug war in Ciudad Juárez. |
Planned films and series
- In 2020, the Sky Originals series ZeroZeroZero , created by Leonardo Fasoli and Mauricio Katz , with Gabriel Byrne , Andrea Riseborough and Dane DeHaan in the lead roles, will appear.
- HBO has been planning a film about Griselda Blanco called The Godmother with Jennifer Lopez in the lead role for some time . The script was written by Regina Corrado and Terence Winter .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "ZeroZeroZero": First trailer of the Sky Original. In: Sky Germany . August 30, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Why Is Catherine Zeta-Jones Playing Colombian Drug Lord Griselda Blanco? In: The Mary Sue. January 19, 2018, accessed November 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Koks-Queen: Jennifer Lopez with "The Godmother" before directorial debut. In: Moviejones. July 29, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .