Best Colombian crime movies

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

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

Pickpockets (2018)

An aspiring teen thieves learn what it takes to be successful pickpockets on the streets of Bogotá

The Initiated (2023)

Based on the novels by Colombian writer Mario Mendoza and on the character of detective Frank Molina, the filming of Los Initiados took place in Bogotá. In the saga of Frank Molina, which uses the books Lady Massacre, La melancolia de los feos, El diario del fin del mundo and Akelarre, the story of an alcoholic private investigator who unmasks sinister plots within the underworld of Bogotá is told.

Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist (2023)

When an up-and-coming stylist is found stabbed to death in his home, a young detective is given 20 days to solve the case. Inspired by true events.

Satanás - Profile of a Killer (2007)

Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.

Sex, Lies and Death (2011)

Viviana and Alicia have never met, but they're about to get intimately acquainted. One day, while tipping drinks back in a bar, the two women strike up a conversation that quickly turns personal, Viviana is locked in an abusive marriage, and Alicia's female lover, Lorena, has recently fallen for another woman. As the two women strangers find common ground in their lives, they enter into a secret pact to kill the people who have made their lives a living hell. Seductive, bloody and shocking events send them both plummeting down a destructive path from which there is no escape.

Kalibre 35 (2000)

Four young friends are obsessed with cinema: watching it, tasting it and, above all, making it. However, financial difficulties repeatedly truncate their great illusion. Desperate, they decide to make a cinematographic plot come true: to rob a bank to finance their film.

Bad Days (2015)

Emilia and her mother, Lucia, are forced into isolation after her stepfather, The Turk, steals a highly coveted cargo of emeralds. The unexpected arrival of two hired assassins to the cabin where mother and daughter are hiding unleashes an imminent danger.

Stridura (1980)

In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts played by victim and hangman defined as clearly as it seems? Ange Leccia offers a political reflection about the power of images and their manipulative force. —ubu.com

Rodrigo D. No Future (1990)

Rodrigo is a marginalized and lonely being who prefers to die before being forced to kill. He finds himself trapped in a city that oppresses him, calls him, marginalizes him.

Pure Blood (1982)

Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.

Idle Mist (1998)

When the darkness in a musician's dreams tears its way into his waking life, a series of brutal murders rocks the city and word spreads of a spectral form looming over the rooftops.

Paloquemao: the Vampire Market (2022)

Pedro is one of the vampires of underdevelopment who works amidst aisles full of garlic, fruits, herbs and crucifixes in the Paloquemao Market. However, on May 28, 2016, when the largest blood trafficking network in Bogota is dismantled, his dealer Harbey escapes and takes refuge in the market, threatening his relationship with Angie, the girl he is in love with.

Birds of Passage (2018)

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

The Snitch Cartel (2011)

The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"

The Rose Seller (1998)

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2010)

Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend Albeira and becomes a prostitute for drug dealers. In this way she will enjoy all the luxuries that she lacks. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend Albeira and her mother Hilda begin a relationship behind her back.

Karmma (2006)

In the plains of Latin America, Guaco, a humble landowner, witnesses a son's betrayal driven by greed, leading to the downfall of a respected family.

500 Days of Escobar (2023)

The 500-day manhunt for Colombia's Pablo Escobar is detailed through interviews and archival images in this crime documentary.

De sicario a Youtuber (2018)

Pablo Escobar's former hitman John Jairo Velásquez turns to YouTube to share his story and seek forgiveness for the hundreds of murders he committed.

El Intruso (1999)

Semáforo en rojo (1964)

A client arrives to a jewelry store in Bogotá, he choose a gem and pays it no matter the cost of it. He asks the manager to keep the gem in the store during the weekend. Meanwhile, a band of professional thieves plans the theft to the store without imagining that the fate of death surrounds them, and all beacuse of a red light.

Mujer de fuego (1989)

A humble woman must bear the death of her son at the hands of the police. Demanding justice and faced with the impossibility of obtaining it, she decides to join the powerful drug cartels and thus be able to avenge the death of her son.