Sara är änka och lever ett trist och innehållslöst liv tills hon plötsligt får möjligheten att vara med på TV. För att bli snygg och smal när hon får sina 15 minuter i rampljuset luras hon till en livsfarlig pillerdiet. Under tiden börjar sonen Harry och hans nya flickvän Marion sakta öppna sig för varandra. Ofta ligger de alldeles stilla på Marions golv medan de väver fantastiska drömmar kring sin ljusa framtid, som börjar med att de tillsammans med vännen Tyrone startar en karriär som knarkhandlare. Fast i sina missbruk försöker Sara, Harry, Marion och Tyrone övertyga sig själva om att de många bakslagen bara är en tillfällig svacka.
En operation mot en knarkkung i Thailand går helt fel och de som överlever operationen går separerade vägar i livet. Många år senare så samlas de igen för att denna gång revanschera sig från sina tidigare misstag.
En DEA-agent erbjuder en före detta marinsoldat ett sätt att slippa fängelse. Det han behöver göra är att utge sig för att vara maffiabossen Bobby Z, som egentligen nyss har avlidit. Anledningen är en av skurkarna Bobby Z gjorde affärer med har tagit en polis som gisslan och skurken pratar bara med Bobby Z, som han ändå aldrig har träffat. Saker och ting går dock inte riktigt som planerat...
John, en desillusionerad journalist från Vietnamkriget, börjar med att smuggla heroin. Han lurar Ray, en lika utbränd veteran, att leverera drogerna till sin fru. Allt faller snart samman och Ray hamnar på flykt med Johns fru som försöker undvika korrupta narkotikaagenter.
Platsen är Marseille. Året är 1975. Och temat är knark. Massvis med knark, som exporteras till hela världen utifrån den okända maffiaorganisationen "The French Connection". Ingen polisman har ännu lyckats stoppa dem. Men Pierre Michel drivs av ett hat så starkt mot knarksyndikatet att det överträffar alla andras. Han har gjort till sitt kall att stoppa dem. Med alla medel. Tillåtna som otillåtna.
Pengar, makt, politik, droger, skandaler och snabba bilar. Den otroliga historien om John DeLorean är varje manusförfattares dröm. Men vem var den riktiga John DeLorean? För somliga var han en visionär som revolutionerade bilindustrin. För andra var han en bedragare. Med hjälp av arkivmaterial och dramatiska klipp med Alec Baldwin i huvudrollen, får vi nu för första gången en inblick i den kontroversiella ingenjörens liv.
Colombia, 1970-talet. Hippiekulturen är stor bland amerikanska ungdomar och intresset för marijuana växer. Lokala småbönder ser en möjlighet och blir snabbt internationella affärsmän. I Guajira-öknen tar en wayuu-familj från urbefolkningen täten i den nya affärsverksamheten och får smaka frukterna i form av snabba pengar och makt. Men när girighet, passion och heder sammansmälter, blossar en familjefejd upp till våldsamma proportioner som sätter liv, familj och urgamla traditioner på spel.
After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the polarised society around him into chaos in which everyone is afraid of the future and their own survival.
This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
S.I.S., or Special Investigation Squad, is an elite branch of the LAPD. A new psychopath terrorizing Los Angeles proves to be their hardest case yet.
A powerful drama about a mother and her fourteen year old boy who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drug selling enterprise, a 'County Line', which exploits vulnerable children and traffics them across Britain.
Hisham, a drug dealer, finds himself stuck in a situation where he had to hand over his young son to a homeless woman. Hisham is caught and jailed. Mariam, who is a few cans short of a six pack raises the baby, now named after the famed legend “Indraputra”, in very meager circumstances, but full of love and art. They live in a squatter area and have neighbors named Bu Leha and Putra’s best friend, Johanna. They move to Kuala Lumpur in hopes of a better life, but Putra and Johanna inevitably grow up to be street kids, tough and full of conflict. They live hand to mouth, but at the same time their poverty does not stop them from having strong friendships and at times, to enjoy their youth.
After a sudden spike of supply into the drug ridden streets, staunch anti-narcotics cop hellbent on disrupting the flow of drugs beyond the Golden Triangle recruits the help of an attractive young ex-convict to infiltrate a major Thai based drug syndicate controlled by a ruthless drug lord who's expanded their operations into Hong Kong. As our seductive undercover heroine gets inside and rises the ranks to the top, skepticism also rises as the boss' jealous moll smells a plant.
A New York City couple decide to take a getaway trip to Texas, but unknowingly cross paths with the wrong kind of people.
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.
Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern world are influenced by his growing friendship with Bianca, Yankel's free spirited Brazilian roommate.
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Ex-drug dealer is forced to go back to business by a corrupt policeman. He must go to Colombia and bring back some cocaine, but discovers the whole thing is a set up. He then devises a suicidal plan for revenge.