Movies like Assignment
If Assignment's mix of drug dealer, drugs and found footage stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Assignment's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Thursday
1998 · Directed by Skip Woods · 87 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer, drugs · Also thriller and crime
A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime partner unexpectedly shows up with heroin and gangster business, attracting a…
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New Jack City
1991 · Directed by Mario Van Peebles · 101 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer, drugs · Also thriller and crime
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer · Also thriller and crime
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
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Trainspotting
1996 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 94 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer, drugs
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride.
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The Infiltrator
2016 · Directed by Brad Furman · 127 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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Rise of the Footsoldier
2007 · Directed by Julian Gilbey · 119 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and thriller
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · Directed by Scott Frank · 114 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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Clockers
1995 · Directed by Spike Lee · 128 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drugs
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…