15 Films & TV Shows Set In Colombia During The 1980s
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American Made
Arkansas Louisiana 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie — The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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Loving Pablo
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sA gangster. A princess. The true story of a most unlikely love affair. — The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
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Sobre ruedas - Rolling Elvis
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sIt's 1985 and while the country is focused in the victories of the national cyclists in the Tour of France, life changes in the blink of an eye for Elvis Antonio, a 12 year old boy passionate for pro cycling, and now he must take a painful but hilarious journey that leads him to discover the biggest secret his family keeps.
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Cocaine Godmother
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sAt the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.
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The Infiltrator
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sThe true story of one man against the biggest drug cartel in history. — A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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Siempreviva
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sThis is not a serious country — The economy is not doing well and in a few months Lucia will lose the mortgaged house where she lives with her two children, Mr. Carlos the owner of the Second-hand store, Sergio, Clown by day, waiter by night, and his wife Victoria. Julieta, the youngest child, is the family's salvation. She just graduated from law school when, on the morning of November 6, 1985, she leaves for her job at the Palace of Justice and never returns. There are witnesses that claim to have seen her alive after the Palace burned down after the Guerilla attack, the habitants lives of the house won't be the same. Based on true events and on a play in Colombia, 1985.
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Narcos: Season 1
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sSeason one chronicles the rise of drug lord Pablo Escobar, the ruthless boss of the Medellin Cartel and a known terrorist who was also a congressman, a family man and revered by the poor as a new Robin Hood.
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Lord of War
New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇸🇴 Somalia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhere there's a will, there's a weapon — Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
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Blow
New York Massachusetts California 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Story. — A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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The Specialist
Florida 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sThe government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld. — May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
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Clear and Present Danger
Virginia District of Columbia 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sThe war of drugs would lead him to the war of power. — CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
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Crocodile Dundee II
Northern Territory New York 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sThe world's favourite adventurer is back for more! much more! — Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Running Scared
Illinois 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sTwo of Chicago's Finest? — Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
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Romancing the Stone
🇨🇴 Colombia New York The 1980sShe's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive. — Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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Superman III
Kansas West Virginia Arizona 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1980sIf the world's most powerful computer can control even Superman...no one on earth is safe. — Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
