لس آنجلس، سال 1997. «کارآگاه هریگان» (گلاور) و گروه ضربت ضد مواد مخدرش، در میانه‌ی زدوخورد شدید بین دارو دسته‌ی قاچاقچی‌های جاماییکایی و کلمبیایی گیر افتاده‌اند. هنگام درگیری با دارو دسته‌ی کلمبیایی‌ها، موجود مرموزی وارد صحنه می‌شود و قاچاقچی‌ها را قتل عام می‌کند. جاماییکایی‌ها با استفاده از این فرصت، به رئیس قاچاقچی‌های کلمبیایی حمله می‌کنند ولی آنان نیز به دست آن موجود نیمه نامرئی به قتل می‌رسند...
فرانک مارتین که متخصص در انتقال انواع محموله‌هاست، این بار باید یک پسربچه‌ی ۶ساله را به مدرسه ببرد و به خانه بیاورد. اما زمانی که این کودک به گروگان گرفته می‌شود، فرانک باید از مهارت‌های خاص خودش برای آزادی او استفاده کند...
«جیک هویت» (هوک) پلیس تازه کاری است که می خواهد به بخش ضد قاچاق مواد مخدر پلیس لس آنجلس به فرماندهی «سرگرد آلونزو هریس» (واشینگتن) بپیوندد. «هریس» قبول کرده که پیش از پیوستن «جیک» به واحدش، او را امتحان کند و یک روز هم راه هم سوار بر ماشین پلیس اش شهر را زیر پا بگذارند...
فیلم داستان واقعی نوجوانی بنام ریچارد است. او در سن 14 سالگی به عنوان نیروی مخفی اف بی آی انتخاب می‌شود اما بعدها به جرم حمل مواد مخدر به حبس ابد محکوم می‌شود…
کوکائین ضربه یا کوکائین فیلمی دربارهٔ زندگی نامهٔ جورج جانگ، قاچاقچی آمریکایی کوکائین است که بر اساس داستان‌های واقعی زندگی او در سال ۲۰۰۱ ساخته شده‌است. کارگردان این فیلم تد دم است. دیوید مک کنا و نیک کاساوتس داستان آن را از کتابی نوشتهٔ بروس پورترز اقتباس کردند. جانی دپ در این فیلم نقش جورج جانگ را ایفا کرده‌است.
An 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 daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his employers against each other.
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. As the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.
Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning documentary veteran Canadian director Ron Mann and narrator Woody Harrelson mix humour and historical footage together to recount how the United States has demonized a relatively harmless drug.
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration–are caught in the middle.
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.
Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that's ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the problem, filmmaker Justin Hunt reveals the damage being done by this rural drug of choice, as well as the steps being taken by communities across the nation to wipe out the scourge. From Wyoming to New Mexico, Montana and Oregon, American Meth paints a picture of both devastation and hope.