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  1. The Seven Five 2015

    Documentary

    Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of '80s Brooklyn.

    The sides of The Seven Five

    • Michael Dowd, a corrupt Brooklyn cop
    • The 75th Precinct in the 1980s
    • Cocaine dealers paying police for protection

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing how a cop ran a drug business from his patrol car.
    • you want the real story behind a police scandal.
    • you're fascinated by a man who brags about what he did.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand cops and dealers describing beatings and threats.
    • you can't watch a cop's slide into cocaine addiction told in his own words.

    About: corruption · loyalty · betrayal

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  2. New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.

    The sides of Fear City: New York vs The Mafia

    • The five mafia families of New York
    • Federal agents and their wiretaps
    • The city in the 1970s and 1980s

    Good for you if

    • you like the mafia seen from the inside of a real investigation.
    • you want the agents and prosecutors who were there telling it.
    • you like seeing who really ran New York, and how they fell.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't look at real crime scene photos of mob killings.
    • you'd rather follow one person deeply than a whole case at once.

    About: justice · fear · power

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  3. Narcos 2015

    Series

    A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

    The sides of Narcos

    • Pablo Escobar's rise in 1980s Colombia
    • Two DEA agents hunting him
    • The Cali cartel after him

    Good for you if

    • you want the hunt for Pablo Escobar told through the American agents who were part of it.
    • you like seeing how cocaine money flowed from Medellín to Miami.
    • you like a manhunt where every raid could go wrong.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch the bombings and killings that took real lives in Colombia.
    • you won't read subtitles for long Spanish-language scenes.

    About: power · violence · justice

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  4. Griselda 2024

    Series

    Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.

    The sides of Griselda

    • Griselda Blanco's rise in Miami's cocaine trade
    • Sofía Vergara as a drug lord and a mother
    • Miami in the 1970s and 1980s

    Good for you if

    • you want to see Sofía Vergara in a role far from comedy.
    • you like the rise of a cartel boss told from the inside.
    • you're drawn to dramas drawn from real criminal history.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand cartel killings shown on screen.
    • you'd rather not watch drug addiction and loss up close.

    About: ambition · motherhood · power

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  5. La Viuda Negra is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar de José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.

    The sides of Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow

    • The rise of Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco
    • Cocaine routes between Medellín and Miami
    • A telenovela based on a true story

    Good for you if

    • you like a cartel story told across years of a trafficker's life.
    • you can follow a woman who rules through fear.
    • you want a drama based on the real life of Griselda Blanco.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand shootings and killings on screen.

    About: ambition · drug trafficking · motherhood

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  6. Basada en la vida real de Barry Seal, un expiloto que se convirtió en un importante narcotraficante en el cartel de Medellín y que acabó siendo reclutado por la CIA y el departamento de inteligencia de la DEA.

    Las caras de Barry Seal: el traficante

    • Un piloto de TWA reclutado por la CIA
    • Vuelos de cocaína para el cártel de Medellín
    • Dinero en efectivo que se amontona en un pueblo de Arkansas

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta la historia real de Barry Seal, que voló para la CIA y para el cártel a la vez.
    • te gusta reírte de un hombre que se ahoga en más dinero del que puede esconder.
    • te gusta Tom Cruise como un contrabandista encantador al que no deberías apoyar.

    Mala para ti si

    • prefieres no ver escenas de sexo, como una en una cabina en pleno vuelo.
    • prefieres una película paciente a un viaje rápido y frenético.

    Temas: la codicia · la América de los años 80 · el doble juego

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  7. American Gangster 2007

    Película

    Nueva York, 1968. Frank Lucas es el taciturno chófer de un importante mafioso negro de Harlem. Cuando su jefe muere inesperadamente, Frank aprovecha la oportunidad para construir su propio imperio. Gracias a su talento, se convierte no sólo en el principal narcotraficante de la ciudad, inundando las calles con productos de mejor calidad y precio, sino también en un hombre público muy respetado. Richie Roberts, un policía incorruptible marginado por su honradez que conoce bien las calles, se da cuenta de que una persona ajena a los clanes trepa por la escalera del poder. Tanto Roberts como Lucas comparten un estricto código ético que les aparta de los demás y los convierte en dos figuras solitarias en lados opuestos de la ley. Cuando se encuentren, el enfrentamiento entre ellos será inevitable.

    Las caras de American Gangster

    • Frank Lucas importando heroína desde Vietnam
    • Un policía honrado en un cuerpo corrupto
    • Harlem a finales de los años 60

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una historia basada libremente en los verdaderos Frank Lucas y Richie Roberts.
    • te gusta Denzel Washington como un empresario sereno e implacable.
    • te gusta el ascenso y la caída de un imperio de la droga.

    Mala para ti si

    • dos horas y media es demasiado para ti.
    • no soportas los tiroteos y las palizas repentinos a plena luz del día.

    Temas: la ambición · la corrupción · el narcotráfico

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  8. Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

    The sides of Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord

    • The life of Pablo Escobar from petty crime to cartel boss
    • A drug lord elected to Congress
    • Colombia under the Medellín cartel's war

    Good for you if

    • you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.
    • you like following how a cocaine empire was built, step by step.
    • you like watching money buy politics until the state fights back.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch bombings and murders that happened to real people.
    • a telenovela with daily-length episodes is too much for you.

    About: power · violence · memory

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  9. Cartel Land 2015

    Documentary

    In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.

    The sides of Cartel Land

    • A doctor leading an armed uprising in Michoacán
    • A vigilante patrol in the Arizona desert
    • Cartel violence filmed from inside it

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them.
    • you can take a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight.
    • you like watching who really governs when the state stops.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real bodies and real gunfire.
    • you need a story that ends with the problem solved.

    About: vigilantism · corruption · violence

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  10. Bus 174 2002

    Documentary

    On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

    The sides of Bus 174

    • A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
    • Live television footage of the standoff
    • The life of the young man holding the gun

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
    • you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
    • you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
    • you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.

    About: poverty · police violence · invisibility

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  11. A documentary that captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger's relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades.

    The sides of Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger

    • The 2013 trial of James 'Whitey' Bulger
    • A Boston gangster and his ties to the FBI
    • Families of his victims waiting for answers

    Good for you if

    • you want to follow a real trial and what it uncovered.
    • you're drawn to how a Boston gangster ruled for decades.
    • you want to know how far up the FBI's protection went.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grieving families describing real murders.
    • you lose track among agents, prosecutors and former associates.

    About: corruption · justice · truth

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  12. El Chapo 2017

    Series

    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.

    The sides of El Chapo

    • A Sinaloa farm boy who becomes a kingpin
    • Cartel deals and government deals
    • Two prison escapes and a last capture

    Good for you if

    • you want the three decades of a real cartel rise, year by year.
    • you like watching who owns the police and the politicians.
    • you can follow a man whose trade ruins lives and still want to know what he does next.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through the executions and the torture.

    About: power · impunity · the drug war

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  13. O.J.: Made in America 2016

    Documentary

    A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

    The sides of O.J.: Made in America

    • A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
    • Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
    • The 1995 murder trial and what came after

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
    • you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
    • you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly eight hours is too much for you.
    • you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.

    About: race · fame · justice · America

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  14. Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.

    The sides of Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer

    • Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
    • Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
    • Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw

    Good for you if

    • you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
    • you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
    • you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
    • you can't look at crime scene photos.

    About: fear · the hunt · justice

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  15. Narcos: Mexico 2018

    Series

    See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

    The sides of Narcos: Mexico

    • The rise of the Guadalajara cartel
    • A DEA agent working the Mexican border
    • Police chiefs and generals on the payroll

    Good for you if

    • you like watching an empire built out of marijuana fields and bribes.
    • you want real names and real events from 1980s Mexico.
    • you like every meeting feeling like it could end badly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through executions and torture.
    • you can't take the drug trade, the addiction and what it costs families.
    • you won't read subtitles, and much of the dialogue is in Spanish.

    About: power · corruption · loyalty

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  16. Black Mass 2015

    Film

    The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

    The sides of Black Mass

    • Whitey Bulger ruling South Boston
    • An FBI agent who grew up with him
    • A deal that protects a killer

    Good for you if

    • you want to watch Johnny Depp disappear into a cold, menacing gangster.
    • you like the Irish mob seen from the inside.
    • you want the true story of an informant the FBI shielded for years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand close, brutal killings on screen.
    • you want a gangster film with chases and shootouts, not slow menace.

    About: corruption · loyalty · betrayal

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  17. The Central Park Five 2012

    Documentary

    In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

    The sides of The Central Park Five

    • Five Harlem teenagers arrested in 1989
    • Confessions taken after hours of questioning
    • Years in prison before the real attacker confesses

    Good for you if

    • you want the Central Park case told carefully, with the facts.
    • you want to see how police, press and public rushed to judgment.
    • you want the five men to tell it in their own words.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with a rape case and teenagers sent to prison.
    • you need some hope, and stolen years are hard for you to watch.

    About: injustice · racism · the press

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  18. Rome, 1983. After leaving a music lesson, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanishes — embroiling the Vatican in a decades-long mystery.

    The sides of Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi

    • A 15-year-old girl who vanished in Rome in 1983
    • A brother who never stopped searching
    • Questions that reach the Vatican

    Good for you if

    • you want a careful account of a real family's long search.
    • you like following theories and leads across four decades.
    • you want to see how powerful institutions answer hard questions.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for an Italian documentary.
    • you need a case with a clear answer at the end.

    About: grief · secrecy · the Church · justice

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  19. After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.

    The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo

    • A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
    • A Mexican justice system that lets him go
    • Years of protest in Chihuahua

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
    • you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
    • you need a story where justice wins in the end.

    About: justice · grief · corruption

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  20. Go inside La Línea, the Spanish beach town turned into Europe's drug trafficking hub, and meet the law enforcement officials determined to change that.

    The sides of La Línea: Shadow of Narco

    • A Spanish beach town across the water from Gibraltar
    • Hashish smuggled in from Morocco
    • Police and customs officers trying to stop it

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing from the real officers and residents of La Línea.
    • you're curious how a small town became a gateway for drugs into Europe.
    • you want a short miniseries of half-hour episodes.

    Bad for you if

    • you want something light and safe for the evening.

    About: drug trafficking · law enforcement · poverty · a town's reputation

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