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Author
Description
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
2) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, but his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
3) Gringo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
While in Mexico, mild mannered businessman Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues, local drug lords, and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
4) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
5) Borderline
Description
Two agents both assigned to infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring on the Mexican border, fall in love. Each believes the other is a criminal and they are ultimately forced to make an escape together.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico's devastating drug wars; follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.
7) Close range
Publisher
Xlrator Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Colton MacReady is thrust into a relentless fight to save his family as the cartel descends upon his sister's home in search of it and their own brand of south-of-the-border justice, after making off with a mysterious flash drive during the rescue of his young niece from a powerful drug cartel.
8) La civil
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The film unfolds with documentary-like precision as it details the human impact of drug cartels in Northern Mexico. Cielo learns her daughter Laura has been kidnapped when a baby-faced teenager orders her to pay 150,000 pesos if she wants to see Laura again. With no police support, Cielo embarks on her own investigation, peeling back layers of Mexico's societal corruption in an increasingly desperate effort to save her child.
10) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
11) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug world, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
12) Fragmented
Publisher
Indie Rights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
While vacationing in Mexico, Natalie and Carsten Reynolds argue, causing Carsten to storm off. When he doesn't return, Natalie is forced to go a Police Station to report him missing. Detective Santiago is quick to inform her that Carsten has been working with a local Drug Dealer, Miguel Jimenez. In the Jungle, Carsten, Miguel and his Bodyguard hand-off the payload to their usual buyer, Ramon. When the money does not add up to the amount agreed upon,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Description
In "El mariachi", a would-be musician is mistaken for a criminal and must fight for his life. "Desperado" tells the story of a guitar player out for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. In "Bedhead", a young girl must use telekinetic powers to battle her brother.
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Explores how a conspiracy by Mexican officials enabled small time drug smugglers to become a billion dollar empire known as the Mexican Mafia. The explosive story of the kidnapping, torture and murder of US agent Enrique Camarena by officials of the Mexican government will be a highlight of this episode. Partnerships between government and the Chinese Triads, Jamaican gangs and Columbian drug cartels will also be explored.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Based on the true life of drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who went from nothing to become the most powerful drug lord in Mexico known as 'El Senor de los Cielos' when he got a fleet of airplanes to traffic drugs into the United States of America.
16) Tejano
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Desperate for money to afford the treatment that will save his grandfather's life, Texan Javi crosses into Mexico and meets with his girlfriend Lorena's brother, Adelio. Adelio leads Javi to Gloria, the head of a cartel, who agrees to let Javi be a drug mule, but there is a catch. Javi is to walk across the border wearing a cast made of cocaine. For the sake of his grandfather, Javi decides to go through with it. From there Javi's story becomes one...
17) El infierno
Series
Publisher
DistriMax, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Benjamín García, El Benny, es deportado de Estados Unidos y al regresar a su pueblo encuentra un panorama desolador. La violencia, la corrupción y la crisis económica que azotan al país han devastado por completo al lugar. El Benny, sin otras opciones y para ayudar a su familia a salir adelante, se involucra en el negocio del narco, en el que tiene, por primera vez en su vida, una fulgurante prosperidad llena de dinero, mujeres y violencia, pero...
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