Movies like Boca
If Boca's mix of slum, voodoo and carnival stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Boca's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Nightmare Alley
2021 · Directed by Guillermo del Toro · 151 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: carnival · Also drama and thriller
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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The Infiltrator
2016 · Directed by Brad Furman · 127 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · Also drama and thriller
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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Veronica Guerin
2003 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 98 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · Also drama and thriller
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible.
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Waist Deep
2006 · Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall · 97 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · Also drama and thriller
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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Coffy
1973 · Directed by Jack Hill · 90 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: illegal drugs · Also thriller and drama
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
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We're the Millers
2013 · Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber · 110 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: carnival, drug lord
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
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King of New York
1990 · Directed by Abel Ferrara · 103 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · From the same decade (1990s)
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on…
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
2013 · Directed by Isaac Florentine · 95 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence.
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Clockers
1995 · Directed by Spike Lee · 128 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · From the same decade (1990s)
Strike 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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The Principal
1987 · Directed by Christopher Cain · 109 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Rae Dawn Chong
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to.