American Gangster(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.



Half Nelson(2006)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 82

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.



Ray(2004)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.



Maria Full of Grace(2004)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.



Training Day(2001)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.



25th Hour(2002)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.



Layer Cake(2004)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.



Miami Vice(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.



Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



House of Sand and Fog(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.



Brick(2005)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.



Machete(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.



Narc(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.



Ong-bak(2003)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.



Out of Time(2003)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.



Hard Candy(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with pedophilia.



We Own the Night(2007)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.



Blow(2001)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The story of George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.




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