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Griselda Blanco: The Black Widow 2014
Series
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
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
Gomorrah 2014
Series
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.
The sides of Gomorrah
- The Camorra clans of Naples
- Ciro, the boss's loyal right hand
- Genny, the heir who wants his father's throne
Good for you if
- you want the drug trade of Naples seen from the inside.
- you like alliances where any meeting can end in a shooting.
- you like following Ciro and Genny though you shouldn't root for them.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cold, frequent killings.
- you won't read subtitles for a series in Neapolitan.
- five seasons of this darkness is too much for you.
About: loyalty · betrayal · power · fathers and sons

La Reina del Sur 2011
Series
After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...
The sides of La Reina del Sur
- A young Mexican woman on the run
- A drug empire built across Spain
- A narco boyfriend's murder
Good for you if
- you like the world of cartels, smugglers and dirty money.
- you like rooting for Teresa Mendoza as she becomes a drug queen.
- you like a woman climbing a world run by men.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through cartel killings.
About: survival · ambition · exile
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
Uno de los nuestros 1990
Película
Henry, un niño de trece años de Brooklyn, vive fascinado con el mundo de los gángsters. Su sueño se hace realidad cuando entra a formar parte de la familia Pauline, dueña absoluta de la zona, que lo educan como un miembro más de la banda convirtiéndole en un destacado mafioso.
Las caras de Uno de los nuestros
- Un chico que siempre quiso ser gánster
- Treinta años en la mafia
- Un plano secuencia por la cocina de un club nocturno
Buena para ti si
- te gusta la emoción de la vida de gánster, y luego su precio.
- te gusta una película que avanza al ritmo de sus canciones.
- te gusta un tipo gracioso que da miedo.
Mala para ti si
- los asesinatos repentinos y brutales te arruinan una película.
- dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
Temas: la lealtad · la codicia · la paranoia
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord 2012
Series
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

El Capo 2009
Series
El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.
The sides of El Capo
- The most wanted drug lord in the country
- A wife and a lover on the run with him
- A war declared on the government
Good for you if
- you like a narco saga told from the boss's side.
- you can root for a drug lord at war with the state.
- you like a manhunt that never lets him rest.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootouts and cartel killings.
About: power · loyalty · betrayal

The Cartel 2008
Series
The Cartel follows ten friends, all of them members of a dangerous drug cartel, whose ambition for power and money will cause them to eventually kill each other. For it is an undeniable truth that, in this business, you always lose.
The sides of The Cartel
- Ten friends inside a Colombian drug cartel
- A young man drawn into the trade for money
- Traffickers turning informant to US agents
Good for you if
- you like a story from inside the Colombian cocaine business.
- you can follow young men chasing money you know will ruin them.
- you like wondering which friend will betray the others first.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootings and murders on screen.
About: ambition · betrayal · money
Locked Up 2015
Series
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
The sides of Locked Up
- A young woman jailed for her boss's fraud
- A women's prison run by its inmates
- A cold, fearless inmate named Zulema
Good for you if
- you like a newcomer learning the rules of a prison where one mistake costs her.
- you like a story where everyone, guards included, is breaking the law.
- you can't look away from Zulema, the inmate you shouldn't root for.
Bad for you if
- you can't take brutal fights and killings between inmates.
About: survival · corruption · power behind bars
Ciudad de Dios 2002
Película
Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia del crecimiento del crimen organizado en los suburbios de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, desde finales de los años sesenta hasta el comienzo de los ochenta, cuando el tráfico de drogas y la violencia impusieron su ley entre la miseria de las favelas.“Buscapé” tiene 11 años y es sólo un niño más en Cidade de Deus, un suburbio de Río de Janeiro. Tímido y delicado, observa a los niños duros de su barrio, sus robos, sus peleas, sus enfrentamientos diarios con la policía. Ya sabe lo que quiere ser si consigue sobrevivir: fotógrafo. “Dadinho”, un niño de su misma edad, se traslada al barrio. Sueña con ser el criminal más peligroso de Río de Janeiro y empieza su aprendizaje haciendo recados para los delincuentes locales. Dos vidas paralelas en Cidade de Deus.
Las caras de Ciudad de Dios
- Un chico con una cámara en una favela de Río
- Niños que se vuelven jefes de banda
- Veinte años de un barrio
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película rodada con energía cruda e inquieta.
- te gustan las historias basadas en lugares y personas reales.
- te gusta ver cómo una banda de narcos se apodera de una favela de Río, de los pequeños atracos de los años 60 a la guerra abierta de los 70.
Mala para ti si
- los niños con armas y los asesinatos brutales son demasiado para ti.
- no lees subtítulos. Es en portugués (existe doblaje).
Temas: la violencia · la pobreza · la huida
Queen of the South 2016
Series
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
The sides of Queen of the South
- A woman fleeing Mexico after her boyfriend's murder
- A rise through the drug trade
- Cartels from Mexico to Dallas
Good for you if
- you like a cartel story told from the inside.
- you like a woman always one mistake away from death.
- you like rooting for Teresa as she becomes a drug queen.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand cartel killings on screen.
- five seasons is too much for you.
About: ambition · revenge · survival
El marginal 2016
Series
An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
The sides of El marginal
- An ex-cop jailed under a false name
- An Argentine prison run by its inmates
- A judge's kidnapped daughter
Good for you if
- you like an undercover man who could be found out any day in San Onofre.
- you want prison gangs and the Borges brothers up close.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand prison beatings and killings.
About: survival · identity · corruption
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
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
El irlandés 2019
Película
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, un veterano de guerra de origen irlandés que trabaja como camionero, conoce accidentalmente al mafioso Russell Bufalino. Una vez convertido en su hombre de confianza, Bufalino envía a Frank a Chicago con el encargo de ayudar a Jimmy Hoffa, un poderoso líder sindical relacionado con el crimen organizado, con quien Frank mantendrá una estrecha amistad durante casi veinte años.
Las caras de El irlandés
- Un sicario que recuerda desde un asilo
- Jimmy Hoffa
- Décadas de mafia
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia de gánsteres lenta y reflexiva.
- te gustan las leyendas actuando juntas una última vez.
- te gusta un final sobre la soledad y el arrepentimiento.
Mala para ti si
- tres horas y media te parecen demasiado.
- quieres una película de gánsteres rápida.
Temas: la lealtad · envejecer · el arrepentimiento
Tokyo Vice 2022
Series
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
The sides of Tokyo Vice
- An American reporter at a Tokyo newspaper
- Yakuza wars in 1990s Tokyo
- A veteran detective played by Ken Watanabe
Good for you if
- you like the yakuza underworld seen from a crime reporter's desk.
- you want neon Tokyo nights shot like a film.
- you like a story that takes its time across two seasons.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles, and much of it is in Japanese.
- you can't stand cruel gangland violence.
About: corruption · ambition · being an outsider
Blow 2001
Película
Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de George Jung, un hombre de familia humilde que consiguió hacerse multimillonario gracias a su propia versión del sueño americano. Durante su estancia en la cárcel se adentra en el mundo del narcotráfico en Colombia, y a través de un ingenioso sistema de importación llega a comerciar la mayor parte de la cocaína que entra en Estados Unidos durante los 70. Acompañado por Mirtha y Delgado, formarán un triángulo que compartirá situaciones límite dominadas por la pasión, el odio, la amistad y una desmedida ambición de poder.
Las caras de Blow
- George Jung traficando cocaína
- El cártel de Medellín de Pablo Escobar
- Un padre y su hija
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las historias reales sobre cómo llegó la cocaína a Estados Unidos.
- te gusta un ascenso y una caída a lo largo de los años 70 y 80.
- te gusta seguir a Johnny Depp como un traficante al que no deberías apoyar.
Mala para ti si
- no puedes ver cómo la adicción destroza a una familia.
- necesitas una historia que termine con algo de esperanza.
Temas: la codicia · el arrepentimiento · los padres y las hijas
El Chema 2016
Series
Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.
The sides of El Chema
- A young smuggler on the Mexican border
- A climb to the head of a cartel
- Rivals and betrayals inside the drug trade
Good for you if
- you like following the drug trade from the inside.
- you can root for a cartel boss you shouldn't like.
- you like watching a nobody climb to the top of a criminal empire.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand shootouts and cartel killings.
About: ambition · betrayal · power

The Great Heist 2020
Series
Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.
The sides of The Great Heist
- The 1994 robbery of Colombia's central bank
- A crew planning to empty a vault
- 33 million dollars in cash
Good for you if
- you like watching a heist being planned piece by piece.
- you like a story drawn from a real robbery that shook Colombia.
- you like waiting to see if the thieves get caught.
Bad for you if
- you can't root for thieves.
About: greed · loyalty · luck