| | No Country for Old Men (2007)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 91 | Earnings: $74.27M Lead Role: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, | Director: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. |
| | Trainspotting (1996)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $16.50M Lead Role: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, | Director: Danny Boyle, Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. |
| | Scarface (1983)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $44.70M Lead Role: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, | Director: Brian De Palma, In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. |
| | Cidade de Deus (2002)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $7.56M Lead Role: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, | Director: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. |
| | Requiem for a Dream (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $3.61M Lead Role: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, | Director: Darren Aronofsky, The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. |
| | American Gangster (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $130.13M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin, | Director: Ridley Scott, In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East. |
| | Bad Boys For Life (2020)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, | Director: Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on their city. |
| | Sicario (2015)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $46.88M Lead Role: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal, | Director: Denis Villeneuve, An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. |
| | Fast Five (2011)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $209.81M Lead Role: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, | Director: Justin Lin, Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent. |
| | The French Connection (1971)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, | Director: William Friedkin, A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. |
| | Lethal Weapon (1987)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $65.21M Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, | Director: Richard Donner, A veteran policeman, Murtaugh, is partnered with a younger, suicidal officer, Riggs. They both have one thing in common: hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers. |
| | Traffic (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $124.11M Lead Role: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, | Director: Steven Soderbergh, A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business. |
| | 21 Jump Street (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $138.45M Lead Role: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, | Director: A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring. |
| | Training Day (2001)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $76.26M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, | Director: Antoine Fuqua, On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be. |
| | Winter's Bone (2010)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $6.53M Lead Role: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone, | Director: Debra Granik, An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. |
| | Pájaros de verano (2018)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Greider Meza, | Director: During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture. |
| | Maria Full of Grace (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $6.52M Lead Role: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobón, Virgina Ariza, | Director: Joshua Marston, A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family. |
| | Layer Cake (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $2.34M Lead Role: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy, | Director: Matthew Vaughn, A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement. |
| | Awakenings (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $52.10M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, | Director: Penny Marshall, The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. |
| | Half Nelson (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $2.69M Lead Role: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima, | Director: Ryan Fleck, An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. |
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