Movies about smugglers

Movies about smugglers
List of the best movies about smugglers selected by visitors to our site: Captain Clegg, Tequila Sunrise, Mr. Nice, The Mule, Contraband, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, The French Connection, Down and Dangerous, American Made, The Zookeeper's Wife.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:20

What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr. Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the village graveyard and can unravel the phenomenon of the curse of Captain Clegg.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
Duration02:01

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:56

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:49

    When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Hong Kong
    Duration02:09

    FBI agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the U.S. border.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for danger.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Japan, Colombia
    Duration02:32

      The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
      Duration02:23

      The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Elliot is going to the island of Eden to live out his submissive fantasies, but inadvertently photographs diamond smugglers at work. Smugglers, and detectives, follow him to the island, where they try to retrieve the film. Elliot begins falling in love with Lisa, the head mistress of the island, and Lisa must evaluate her feelings about Elliot and her own motivations.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA

      At 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.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, documentary, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, USA

      In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      A documentary crew accompany a group of illegal immigrants crossing the Border, but their plans run afoul when they are captured by a gang of sadistic radicals in New Mexico.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUSA

      Two space smuggles are caught by the government and told if they deliver a create to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the create is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryJapan

      To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryNorway, Germany, Iraq
      Duration01:45

      Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family reputation. The mission proves a dangerous one for the inexperienced Siyar. First stop is Istanbul, where he meets Elvin, a young girl who becomes his travel companion. On the way from east to west, through Europe and all the way to Norway, Siyar comes to realize his own need for respect, and for love.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:34

      A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, crime
      CountryIndia

      The film, set in the 1980s and 90s, chronicles the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai. The story is a cat and mouse game between a deadly don, Amartya Rao, who doesn’t think twice before killing, and there’s nobody who could stop him and a cop, who is dogging his every step.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredocumentary
      CountryAustria

      Wildlife activists and investigators put their lives on the line to battle the illegal African ivory trade, in this suspenseful on-the-ground documentary.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:46

      Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:47

      A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy
      CountryMexico
      Duration01:28

      When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dangerous world he was about to step into. Betrayed and set up, Matt finds himself on the run from the CIA and hired mercenaries, all looking for a package that he has supposedly smuggled through customs. Hunted on all sides, Matt is aided by Agent Adriana Vasquez, a femme fatale with orders of her own to follow.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy
      CountryItaly

      6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama
      CountryIraq, France, Germany, Iran

      Baran, a war hero, becomes sheriff of the capital and refuses to bow down to a tribal chief.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryMexico, France

      A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama
      CountryItaly
      Duration01:42

      Riko is an honest man, who can count on a group of real friends and a wife who, between highs and lows, he loves forever. But he is also a very angry man with his time, which seems to be punctuated only by backlashes and false starts.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy
      CountryFrance

      A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryPoland
      Duration01:54

      A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryChina
      Duration01:30

      When a mysterious visitor appears, the life of Yong Cheng, owner of a store that stocks aphrodisiac products, changes dramatically. He becomes the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. Not only does Yong Cheng see his profits skyrocket, but he is dubbed the god of medicine“ by his customers

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, adventure
      CountryFrance, Italy, Spain
      Duration02:15

      During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountrySoviet Union, France, Austria
      Duration01:43

      A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits – but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:45

      When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama, documentary, crime, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:30

      A docudrama series chronicling some of America's most notorious mobsters, each season dealing with a different city/region.




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