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1) The brave
Publisher
Unified North America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police in an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking, in this action thriller based on true life events.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price. Contains thirteen episodes, commentary, gag reel, and more.
4) Dredd
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After an unremarkable chemistry teacher learns he has terminal cancer, he turns to an exciting life of crime to provide for his loved ones. Includes all 7 episodes. Features bonus previews; commentaries; deleted and extended scenes.
6) Braven
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Joe and his father arrive at their remote hunting cabin, they're hoping for a quiet weekend. What they find is a stash of heroin, hidden in the cabin by drug traffickers. When the criminals suddenly descend upon the cabin, Joe and his father must make a kill-or-be-killed stand for survival.
7) Snitch
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
10) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season Three brings cocaine and the war on drugs closer to home as the Cali Cartel, emboldened by the fall of Pablo Escobar, looks to expand its operations inside America's borders. Cali Godfather Gilberto Rodriguez designs an exit strategy that will allow cartel leaders to live happily ever after, but his plans are threatened when someone within his organization teams up with DEA agent Peña in the thrilling third season of this acclaimed series....
12) The last stand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In his quest to build a drug empire in the 1980s, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo takes the helm of the Guadalajara Cartel, unifying traffickers. Meanwhile, DEA Agent Kiki Camarena moves his wife and young son from California to Guadalajara to take on a new post. As Camarena gathers intelligence on Félix and becomes more entangled in his mission, a tragic chain of events unfolds, affecting the drug trade, and the war against it, for years to come.
14) 25th hour
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
15) L4yer cake
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X is a successful West End drug dealer who has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hits of Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut off his head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Swedish
Description
JW, the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back to an honest life. When the former hit man Mrado Slovovic shows up, his presence changes everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to pull off a giant coke deal. Nevertheless, the deal fails terribly and now he has to flee the country with both the police and the Serbian mafia on his tail.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
David is a pot dealer in need of a fake family to use as a cover story in order to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. He is in major debt with his supplier and is desperate for the money to pay him back. He hires a stripper to be his fake wife, a runaway as his pretend daughter, and a goofy counterfeit son. Antics and madcap adventure ensue as this faux-family attempts to cross the border with the loot.
20) Borrego
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elly is a young botanist on a research mission gone awry. After witnessing a drug mule's plane crash in the Borrego desert, she is kidnapped and forced on a dangerous journey to a remote drop-off point. With limited essentials and alone in the desert with her captor, desperation for survival takes hold as Elly risks her life to escape from his clutches before the trip turns deadly.
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