Movies Like Cocaina: Vicio Mortal
If you liked Cocaina: Vicio Mortal (1989), a drama and crime movie directed by Jorge Noble, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Harsh Times (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and dramaJim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim…
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Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
★ 7/10Also dramaAlcoholic prostitute Gloria is in the middle of a business deal with gangsters when a fatal confrontation occurs. She flees Mexico City, returning to her native Madrid, where she's reunited with her comatose husband…
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Training Day (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and dramaOn his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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Layer Cake (2004)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crimeWhen a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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American Gangster (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crimeLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
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Traffic (2000)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and crimeAn 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…
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Alpha Dog (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and dramaJohnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things…
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also crime and dramaWhen an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeCarlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Clockers (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and dramaStrike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the…
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Menace II Society (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crimeA young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Emily the Criminal (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and dramaDesperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their…
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New Jack City (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and dramaA gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Klute (1971)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaA high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaInterweaving stories of four different women involved in the sex industry offers a glimpse into the dark underbelly of Los Angeles and the taboo lifestyle of a sex worker. A teen runaway, single mother and two career…
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The Mule (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and dramaEarl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a…
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Wonderland (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaOn the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the…
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Vice Squad (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaAn unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Foxes (1980)
★ 6/10Also dramaA group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.