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1) True romance
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Elvis-worshipping comic book store employee Clarence Worley is minding his own business at a Sonny Chiba triple bill when Alabama Whitman walks into his life ₆ and from then on, the two are inseparable. Within 24 hours, they₂re married and on the run after Clarence is forced to kill Alabama₂s possessive, psychopathic pimp. Driving a Cadillac across the country from Detroit to Hollywood, the newlyweds plan to sell off a suitcase full of stolen...
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The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed the once sleepy retirement community and turned it into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots and the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin Cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder captial of the country.
3) Scarface
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Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, this time set in Miami, Florida, in the 1980s, after the Mariel boatlift brought thousands of Cuban refugees to the United States. Tony Montana is the new Scarface, finding wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams. He loved The American Dream, with a vengeance. In the spring of 1980, the port of Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American...
4) Next day air
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Leo works as a next day delivery driver who is delivering packages while being high on weed. He accidentally deliverers a package containing 10 bricks of high quality cocaine to the wrong apartment number. Two smalltime hoods, Brody and Guch open the box and find a gift from heaven. They immediately arrange to sell the coke to Brody's drug dealer cousin. But these two fools have no clue that their neighbors down the hall, the real gangster and his...
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"Beto y Rodrigo se encuentran viviendo una vida dura en Medellín, Colombia, donde la cocaína y la violencia son parte de la vida cotidiana. Cansados de sentir que no son deuños de su propio destino, deciden mudarse a México y empezar una nueva vida. Después de un año, logran establecer su propio cártel"--Container.
Beto and Rodrigo try to break away from the deadly streets of their homeland Medellin, Columbia where violence and cocaine are...
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The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka 'Florecita' who after the killing of Pablo Escobar finds himself in the impossible position of having to go undercover for the DEA or go to the very prison where him mortal enemies wait to kill him. Turning states evidence, Florecita, rising through the ranks of the Colombian Cartel finds himself working two sides of the most dangerous battle known to man.
8) El arriero
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In search of easy money in order to marry Virginia, Ancizar Lopez becomes a drug mule for his adoptive father, 'Tata' Humberto. After several successful trips from Baranquilla to Spain, he becomes an 'arriero' and meets Lucia, and sexual tension soon takes over. Keeping both relationships is easy as he climbs the ranks of the cartel, but when Ancizar gets enough money to leave the shady underworld, his infidelities start to take their toll.
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"3.068 kg de cocaína. Un excampeón de boxeo que tomó una decisión que le cambió la vida. Un narcosubmarino que llegó a España haciendo realidad la leyenda. Colombia fue el origen, el Amazonas el inicio del viaje, y Galicia el destino improvisado del primer narcosubmarino transoceánico interceptado en Europa. Esta es la historia real de la fascinante travesía de tres hombres que trasladaron a ras de agua más de 3.000 kg de cocaína durante...
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"La historia de este libro es completamente auténtica, contada desde las entrañas mismas de la mafia por Carmelo, uno de los hombres más cercanos a Diego Montoya, narcotraficante colombiano extraditado a los Estados Unidos. Hijo de un pistolero, Carmelo fue el fiel jefe de seguridad de Montoya, y testigo privilegiado y protagonista de la guerra que se vivió en el corazón del cartel del Norte del Valle. El libro relata cómo se manejaban los...
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"Ayda Levy, viuda de Roberto Suárez, de quien se separó al enterarse de que el acaudalado empresario, descendiente del imperio del caucho, estaba involucrado en el narcotráfico, narra en estas páginas sus vivencias y las revelaciones que el productor de la droga más pura del mundo compartió con ella."--Back cover.
Ayda Levy, widow of Roberto Suarez, who separated from him when she learned that the wealthy businessman was involved in drug trafficking,...
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Follows the story of three different families affected by the giant underground illegal economy that emerged and continues to grow since Puerto Rico became the main port of entry for cocaine into the U.S. east coast. Together, the three stories represent the struggle of all Puerto Ricans to survive the ever-rising wave of corruption and crime that has infiltrated every level of Puerto Rican society.