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1. Snowfall (2017–2023)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.
Stars: Damson Idris, Carter Hudson, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Isaiah John
Votes: 30,126
2. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,366 | Gross: $51.34M
3. Now & Later (2011)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
Angela an illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run.Through sex, conversation ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.
Director: Philippe Diaz | Stars: Keller Wortham, Shari Solanis, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Adrian Quiñonez
Votes: 2,204 | Gross: $0.00M
4. Stars at Noon (2022)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, however, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez
Votes: 3,697
5. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,764 | Gross: $2.45M
6. The Seventh Sign (1988)
R | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Abby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams where she suffers a miscarriage. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she realizes a chain of events that will unleash the end of humanity.
Director: Carl Schultz | Stars: Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman
Votes: 15,687 | Gross: $18.88M
7. Under Fire (1983)
R | 128 min | Drama, War
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 8,519 | Gross: $5.70M
8. The Mighty Quinn (1989)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 6,552 | Gross: $4.56M
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Set in 2025, new unmanned machines have been taken over by Nicaraguan terrorist, Raul Menendez, forcing the U.S.A. to take action.
Director: Dave Anthony | Stars: Sam Worthington, Michael Keaton, Michael Rooker, James C. Burns
Votes: 15,691
10. Bob Roberts (1992)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.
Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise
Votes: 15,638 | Gross: $4.48M
11. Jack Osbourne's Night of Terror (2023– )
Embark on a night of terror unlike any other with paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne as he explores the most spine-chilling destinations across America with his famous family and closest celebrity friends.
Stars: Brittany Barbieri, Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne
Votes: 35
12. Walker (1987)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka
Votes: 4,285 | Gross: $0.26M
13. Fay Grim (2006)
R | 118 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Liam Aiken, D.J. Mendel
Votes: 4,905 | Gross: $0.13M
14. Straight for the Heart (1988)
92 min | Drama, Romance, War
A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Matthias Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette
Votes: 256
15. Carla's Song (1996)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Salvador Espinoza
Votes: 3,495
16. War Photographer (2001)
96 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Director: Christian Frei | Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt
Votes: 4,304
17. Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
TV-MA | 89 min | Documentary, Crime, History
In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Elizabeth Hinton, Nelson George, Alan Charles, Felipe Luciano
Votes: 3,875
18. Striker (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandanista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, ... See full summary »
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Melonee Rodgers, John Steiner, Werner Pochath
Votes: 202
19. Doublecrossed (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 109 min | Action, Drama
Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Robert Carradine, Richard Jenkins, Adrienne Barbeau
Votes: 335
20. Freeway: Crack in the System (2015)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest... See full summary »
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Michael Levine, 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, Eric Sterling
Votes: 899
21. When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
103 min | Documentary
An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.
Directors: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel | Stars: Alberto Pizango, Alan García, Aruwihtu Pizanku, Ander Ordoñez
Votes: 561 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Blood Money (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Clinton is desperate to find his brother's murderer. To do so, he enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Clinton and Nadine get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard
Votes: 770
23. Daughter of Rage (2022)
87 min | Drama
An 11-year-old and her mother are separated as the try to eke out a life on Nicaragua's largest landfill.
Director: Laura Baumeister de Montis | Stars: Virginia Raquel Sevilla Garcia, Carlos Gutierrez, Noé Hernández, Ara Alejandra Medal
Votes: 184
24. Drunk Wedding (2015)
R | 81 min | Comedy
John and Elissa's perfect destination wedding is derailed when their college friends get drunk on tequila.
Director: Nick Weiss | Stars: Christian Cooke, Victoria Gold, Dan Gill, Anne Gregory
Votes: 929
25. The Legend of Rita (2000)
103 min | Drama, History, Romance
The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bibiana Beglau, Richard Kropf, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl
Votes: 2,469 | Gross: $0.67M
26. The Lost Platoon (1990)
R | 86 min | Action, Horror, War
An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own ... See full summary »
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: William Frederick Knight, David Parry, Stephen Quadros, Michael Wayne
Votes: 258
27. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
180 min | Documentary
The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Stars: John Nash, Robert Spitzer, Jerome Wakefield, Paul McHugh
Votes: 2,018
28. America's War on Drugs (2017)
TV-14 | 480 min | Documentary, History
"America's War on Drugs" is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communism, allied itself with the mafia and foreign drug traffickers.
Stars: Richard Stratton, Ty Hurley, Sam Shoubber, Alberto Maneiro
Votes: 222
29. Appointment in Honduras (1953)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
A wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta
Votes: 687 | Gross: $1.15M
30. Last Plane Out (1983)
PG | 92 min | Action, Thriller, War
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
Director: David Nelson | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman
Votes: 190 | Gross: $0.16M
31. Parachute Jumper (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Votes: 1,306
32. Latino (1985)
105 min | Drama, War
Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. ... See full summary »
Director: Haskell Wexler | Stars: Robert Beltran, Annette Charles, Américo González, Michael Goodwin
Votes: 207
33. The Ballad of Hugo Sánchez (2018)
TV-MA | 36 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Hugo Sanchez is tasked with leading the Cuervos into the Duel of the Birds tournament despite his personal life pulling him back toward the family business.
Stars: Jesús Zavala, Mauro Mauad, Ianis Guerrero, Raúl Briones
Votes: 888
34. Secrets of the Asylum (2023– )
Reality-TV
Abandoned for decades, America's most notorious asylum is being renovated. The new owners are plagued by troubled souls. A paranormal investigator and psychic medium unlock Eloise Asylum's history.
Stars: Scott Porter, Stephanie Burke, Ryan Sherwin, Rana Sobh
Votes: 25
35. Delta Force Commando (1987)
R | 89 min | Action
Latin American revolutionaries invade a military base on Puerto Rico, and steal a nuclear bomb, killing a pregnant woman in the process. Captain Beck (Fred Williamson) is assigned to track ... See full summary »
Director: Pierluigi Ciriaci | Stars: Brett Baxter Clark, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Bo Svenson
Votes: 405
36. Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
Not Rated | 46 min | Documentary, War
The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle | Stars: Werner Herzog, Denis Reichle
Votes: 1,019
37. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017 TV Movie)
68 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life.
Director: Santiago Diaz Oso | Stars: María Isabel Santos, Sebastian Marroquín, Alba Marina Escobar, Germán Castro Caycedo
Votes: 265
38. Alsino and the Condor (1982)
R | 89 min | Drama, War
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi
Votes: 359
39. American Eagle (1989)
R | 92 min | Action
Twenty years ago, Vietnam turned three American boys into men, but amidst the horror, Johnny Burke cracked. When his friends, Max and Rudy, stop him from torturing an innocent Cambodian ... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Smawley | Stars: Asher Brauner, Robert F. Lyons, Vernon Wells, Kai Baker
Votes: 121
40. Flight (1929)
Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 364
41. Sandino (1990)
135 min | Biography, Drama
The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina
Votes: 129
42. La Yuma (2009)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
This is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.
Director: Florence Jaugey | Stars: Alma Blanco, Rigoberto Mayorga, Gabriel Benavides, Juan Carlos García
Votes: 255
43. Night Waitress (1936)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Vinton Hayworth, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 223
44. Managua (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
A retired U.S. soldier is sent to Managua, the capital of war-torn Nicaragua, to recover the body of his friend, a U.S. journalist killed on the job. Once there, he becomes suspicious. A local woman helps him untangle the web of conspiracy.
Director: Michael Taverna | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Assumpta Serna, Robert Beltran, John Savage
Votes: 109
45. Hand Rolled (2019)
90 min | Documentary
As tensions rose between the United States and Cuba, Castro began to nationalize important industries within Cuba. The premium tobacco industry was among those nationalized and many ... See full summary »
Directors: Steve Gherebean, Jesse Mariut | Stars: Daniel Marshall, Marvin Shanken, Peter Weller, Jose Orlando Padron
Votes: 39
46. American Passport (1999)
82 min | Documentary, War
A riveting travel odyssey of a 23 year old Seattle native Reed Paget who set out to visit the Seven Wonders of the World, but instead found himself capturing the images of 12 war zones.
Director: Reed Paget
Votes: 102
47. Bananas!* (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
Director: Fredrik Gertten | Stars: Byron Rosales Romero, Juan J. Dominguez, Duane Miller, Rick McKnight
Votes: 961
48. Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
93 min | Documentary, History
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandinista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers | Star: Susan Meiselas
Votes: 65
49. The Houses Are Full of Smoke (1987)
183 min | Documentary, History, War
A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Francovich
Votes: 16
50. War Child (2001– )
Action
Three dramatic specials, based on true first person stories, about children growing up in war. Hosted by Paul McCartney, Glenn Close, and Aidan Quinn. Shot in Nicaragua, Sarajevo, and Uganda.
Votes: 8