Highest-Rated Movies about 'Drug Trafficking', Sort by Popularity

Pusher 3 (2005), City of God (2002), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Gentlemen (2020), Cocaine Cowboys (2006), American Gangster (2007), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Training Day (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drug Trafficking movies.

#1. Pusher 3 (2005)

Storyline: Milo (Zlatko Buric) is a drug dealer and recovering addict who's slowly coming unraveled. While trying to prepare for his daughter Milena's (Marinela Dekic) birthday party, he discovers the shipment of heroin he was expecting is actually Ecstasy. Milo gives the pills to small-fry dealer Mohammed (Ilyas Agac) and, as the party begins, starts using narcotics again. Things go from bad to worse when Mohammad doesn't return, and Milo's Albanian connection demands payment for the Ecstasy.

Plot Keywords: drug lord, drug dealer, daughter, prostitute, henchman, intense, dark ...

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#3. No Country for Old Men (2007)

Storyline: In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.

Plot Keywords: hunter, serial killer, sheriff, wife, veteran, chilling, dark ...

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#4. The Gentlemen (2020)

Storyline: A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)

Plot Keywords: american, expatriate, drug czar, rival, thug, fiery, confident ...

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#5. Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

Storyline: In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.—rakontur

Plot Keywords: drug lord, drug enforcement agent, drug addict, drug dealer, gritty, miami, courtroom ...

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#6. American Gangster (2007)

Storyline: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Plot Keywords: detective, mobster, gangster, police officer, gritty, dark, new york city ...

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#8. Training Day (2001)

Storyline: In Los Angeles, a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D. detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.

Plot Keywords: rookie, detective, drug lord, drug dealer, narcotics officer, gang member, gritty ...

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#10. Blow (2001)

Storyline: 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.

Plot Keywords: drug lord, wife, friend, pablo escobar, father, cool, bleak ...

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#11. Midnight Express (1978)

Storyline: On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert ...

Plot Keywords: prison guard, prisoner, police officer, girlfriend, judge, bleak, gutsy ...

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#12. Traffic (2000)

Storyline: An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.

Plot Keywords: drug czar, cop, housewife, drug dealer, daughter, lawyer, thrilling ...

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#13. Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987)

Storyline: Fashion designer Marian (Melissa Gilbert) meets the man of her dreams, dashing lawyer Edward Moran (Joe Penny). Their attraction is instant, but after the lovebirds get married, Marian makes a shocking discovery about her in-laws: They're in the Mafia, and that includes her dear husband, Edward. To Marian's horror, she soon finds herself entangled in their drug-running activities. And now that she's part of the crime family, there's no way out -- except in a casket.

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, mafioso, lawyer, fbi agent, tense, emotional ...

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#14. Pusher (1996)

Storyline: Frank is a drug pusher on the roll until he makes a huge deal with dope that he hasn't paid for and he gets busted by the police. He manages to dump the dope in a nearby lake but he owes his supplier a lot of money (not a nice guy to owe money to). Now we follow Frank in his quest to raise money in the underworld of Copenhagen.

Plot Keywords: drug dealer, drug lord, friend, prostitute, cop, henchman, dark ...

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#15. Running Scared (2006)

Storyline: After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things go wrong for Joey after a neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find that kid and the gun before the police and the mob do.

Plot Keywords: mobster, police detective, son, wife, pimp, frenetic, thrilling ...

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