Topic: Drugs

Direction David Simon · Joe Chappelle · Ernest R. Dickerson · Clark Johnson

Cast Dominic West · Lance Reddick · Sonja Sohn · Clarke Peters

Plot TV Series (2002-2008). 5 Seasons. 60 episodes. This unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of...

Direction Vince Gilligan · Michelle MacLaren · Adam Bernstein · Colin Bucksey

Cast Bryan Cranston · Aaron Paul · Anna Gunn · Dean Norris

Plot TV Series (2008-2013). 5 Seasons. 62 Episodes. Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn)...

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Stefano Sollima

Cast Francesco Montanari · Vinicio Marchioni · Alessandro Roja · Marco Bocci

Plot TV Series (2008-2010). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A criminal known as Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts...

Direction David Simon · Charles S. Dutton

Cast T.K. Carter · Khandi Alexander · Sean Nelson · Clarke Peters

Plot TV Miniseries (2000). 6 Episodes. HBO miniseries about a poor family from Baltimore who has to deal with conflicts related to drugs. The screenwriters, David Simon and Edward Burns, are...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Al Pacino · Steven Bauer · Michelle Pfeiffer · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Plot Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire...

Direction Danny Boyle

Cast Ewan McGregor · Robert Carlyle · Jonny Lee Miller · Ewen Bremner

Plot Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), an underdog from Edinburgh, and his pals are addicted to heroin. Drugs provide everything that their lives lack but hobble their prospects. Renton will try to...

Direction Jon Alpert

Cast Freddie Rodriguez · Deliris Vasquez · Robert Steffey

Plot A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.

Direction Roberto Saviano · Stefano Sollima · Claudio Cupellini · Francesca Comencini

Cast Marco D'Amore · Salvatore Esposito · Fortunato Cerlino · Maria Pia Calzone

Plot TV Series (2014-Present Day). 4 Seasons. 48 Episodes. Gomorrah takes the viewers to the dark and gritty streets of Naples, the inner sanctum of organized crime, the Camorra. When Pietro...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Al Pacino · Sean Penn · Penelope Ann Miller · James Rebhorn

Plot Puerto Rican Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding...

Direction Chris Brancato · Carlo Bernard · Doug Miro · Paul Eckstein

Cast Wagner Moura · Pedro Pascal · Boyd Holbrook · Damián Alcázar

Plot TV Series (2015-2017). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. Narcos is the true story of U.S. and Colombian efforts in the 1980s to battle the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar and the...

Direction Tom Fontana · Nick Gomez · Adam Bernstein · Alex Zakrzewski

Cast Ernie Hudson · Harold Perrineau · Lee Tergesen · J.K. Simmons

Plot TV Series (1997-2003). 6 Seasons. 56 Episodes. Oz is the name on the street for the Oswald State Penitentiary. Our wheelchair-bound narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.) takes us through...

Direction Shawn Ryan · Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Guy Ferland · Scott Brazil

Cast Michael Chiklis · Walton Goggins · Catherine Dent · Michael Jace

Plot TV Series (2002-2008). 7 Seasons. 88 Episodes. The Shield is an American police crime drama television series notable for its controversial portrayal of corrupt police officers. The first season gained...

Direction Darren Aronofsky

Cast Jared Leto · Jennifer Connelly · Ellen Burstyn · Marlon Wayans

Plot Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love--their...

Direction Hanna Polak · Andrzej Celinski

Plot Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, Short Subject, this 35-minute documentary, takes an unblinking look at the reality of homeless children living in Russia today - in particular...

Direction Edet Belzberg

Plot The film follows a group of abandoned adolescent street children who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily with commuter adults passing them by in...

Direction Tiller Russell

Plot In the Amazon Original The Last Narc, former cartel insiders divulge the bone-chilling details behind the notorious murder and kidnapping of DEA Agent “Kiki” Camarena. Through never before seen interviews,...

Direction Jack Amiel · Michael Begler · Steven Soderbergh

Cast Clive Owen · André Holland · Eve Hewson · Juliet Rylance

Plot TV Series (2014-2015). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth...

Direction David Simon · Michelle MacLaren · Ernest R. Dickerson · James Franco

Cast James Franco · Maggie Gyllenhaal · Margarita Levieva · Gbenga Akinnagbe

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 3 Seasons. 25 Episodes. 'The Deuce' follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early...

Direction Pedro Costa

Cast Vanda Duarte