Thriller, Drama, Crime
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
PLACEBO
The Long Goodbye
I Stand Alone
Copycat
No Code of Conduct
Max Dugan Returns
Loving Pablo
Crash
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
Freedom Writers
In Order of Disappearance
City of Hope
Oisys
The Big Sleep
La voleuse de Saint-Lubin
After the Wedding
Mildred Pierce
Blow
Three Seasons
Billy Boy
SIMILAR MOVIES
PLACEBO
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2021
This is the story of Leonardo and Federico, two students who have never accomplished anything in their lives... MaybeThe Long Goodbye
IMDB 7.4 | Mar , 1973
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.I Stand Alone
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 1999
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.Copycat
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1995
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.No Code of Conduct
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 1999
A cop, his partner, and his father uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.Max Dugan Returns
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1983
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.Loving Pablo
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2017
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.Crash
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2005
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.2 or 3 Things I Know About Him
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 2005
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)Freedom Writers
IMDB 7.9 | Jan , 2007
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.In Order of Disappearance
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2014
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”City of Hope
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1991
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.Oisys
IMDB 9 | Mar , 2022
An unemployed dry alcoholic and former smoker longs to escape his shadows in a small abandoned village. Triggered by a mysterious meeting with his neighbour, he must face temptation, hallucinations and nightmares as he searches for his own fulfillment (in form of a cake).The Big Sleep
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 1978
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.La voleuse de Saint-Lubin
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2001
Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was not in debt. She had always refused the degradation of excessive debt and charities, attempting to live in line with the rules laid down by society and the law. We follow her journey through the judicial institution. Here, two ideas of justice and law collide.After the Wedding
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2006
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.Mildred Pierce
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1945
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Blow
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2001
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.Three Seasons
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1999
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.Billy Boy
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2026
A former football star turned real estate broker meets with rich, spoiled young Billy to close a deal on a mansion, and nothing goes according to plan.