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Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage - a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed details of how U.S. operatives covertly led the sixteen-month manhunt." "Drawing on...
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Fernando, un hombre maduro, regresa a su ciudad natal, Medellín, después de 30 años de ausencia. Allí entabla una relació sentimental con un adolescente, Alexis del que pronto descubre que es un sicario de las comunas populares de Medellín. Fernando se encuentra entonces inmerso en la atmósfera de violencia y homicidio causada por las guerras urbanas del narcotráfico.
Fernando, a man in his fifties, returns to his hometown, Medellin, after...
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El mundo de afuera (The Outside World) takes place in Medellín. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest. It is 1971, and this girl's father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader...
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World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.--Container.
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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.
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Narcos: rise of the cartels is a brutal turn-based action strategy game based on the hit Netflix TV series. Explore the entire first season from two sides each with their own unique story. Join the narcos and expand the drug cartel empire or take up arms with the DEA and bring it crumbling down. Welcome to Colombia, 1980's - the fires of el patrón's empire have been lit, its influence spanning borders, and expansion unabated. Influence and corruption...
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13 year-old Mónica and her friends live on the streets of Medellín, Colombia, surviving by selling roses to couples in nightclubs and sniffing glue to escape their desperation and loneliness. Set in the two days before Christmas, the film is a modernization of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, starring a non-professional cast of Medellín street children.
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Fernando returns home after a prolonged absence to attend to his most beloved brother, Dario, an AIDS patient whose health is slowly deteriorating owing to his alcohol and marijuana use. Vallejo indulges in digressions into past memories that they both share, which include endless adolescent partying and homosexual love affairs. La Muerte (Death), the character around whom the narrative ultimately revolves, appears throughout, touching different members...
14) Boy kills man
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Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Colombian city.
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While rival drug cartels warred in the streets, the Columbian national soccer team took a rapid rise to glory, with Andres Escobar its inspirational captain. Meanwhile the infamous drug baron, Pablo Escobar, pioneered "Narco-soccer". After a mistake by Andres led to a loss at the 1994 World Cup, less than ten days later he was gunned down outside a bar, a tragedy documented in this thriller about the intersection of crime and sport.
17) City of dead men
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Michael (Diego Boneta), a young American tourist running away from his own demons as he journeys throughout South America. He has depleted his funds and must resolve his situation soon. He arrives in Medellin, Colombia and meets Melody (Maria Mesa), a strikingly attractive native who knows the ins-and-outs of the city, and connects him to a mob of mysterious misfits led by Jacob (Jackson Rathbone). They reside in an abandoned psychiatric hospital...
18) Cartel mortal
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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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Medellín, Colombia, 1984. Former cocaine-user Santiago is now a prosperous engineer and family man. Trying to raise money for a building project, he is introduced to Gerardo, a parking lot owner who invests in his business. Gerardo is also a dealer, with dreams of expanding his drug business to Miami, a dream that will tread on the toes of his brother-in-law, the notorious El Duende.
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