Top Ten Drug Trafficking Films 

10. American Made 

09. Above the Law 

08. Pineapple Express 

07. No Country For Old Men

06. The French Connection 

05. Traffic 

04. American Gangster 

03. Scarface 

02. Sicario 

 01. 

10. American Made 

I'm the gringo who always delivers. ~ Barry Seal 

Released 

2017 

Credits 

Director: Doug Liman 

Writer: Gary Spinelli 

Cast 

Tom Cruise (Barry Seal)

Domhnall Gleeson (Monty 'Schafer)

Sarah Wright (Lucy Seal)

Jesse Plemons (Sheriff Downing)

Caleb Landry Jones (JB)

Critical 

7.1/10 (IMDB)

86% (RT Critics)

78% (RT Audiences)

Box Office 

Domestic: $51,342,000 

Worldwide: $134,866,593

I tried watching this awhile back for the Tom Cruise list and couldn't finish it , tried to finish it and just didn't have the motivation or want to. Something about this movie that just couldn't hook me and took me completely out of it - maybe it was Cruise's need to have a wife played by an actress 30 years younger or something I don't know but it lost me.

Great film I love how he

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has endless luck almost the entire movie...then his luck STOPS in the end and contrasts the rest of it so well

I’ve never heard of this movie.

This movie was good fun and felt like it fit the category to a T.

The pool of films to pick from also ended up being very shallow.

But this was good fun.

Narcos on Netflix handled Barry Seal's story a little better IMO, but hey... This was fun.

Just snuck in on my list, it's solid, Cruise is Cruise, but pretty bog standard for the genre.

9. Above the Law 

If I find out you're lying, I'll come back and kill you in your own kitchen. ~ Nico Toscani 

Released 

1988 

Credits 

Director: Andrew Davis 

Writer: Andrew Davis 

Writer: Steven Seagal 

Cast 

Steven Seagal (Nico Toscani)

Pam Grier (Delores "Jacks" Jackson)

Henry Silva (Kurt Zagon)

Sharon Stone (Sara Toscani)

Ron Dean (Detective Lukich)

Critical 

Domestic:  $18,869,631

Really can't believe this ended up making the list , and you guys though the Keanu/Sandy list was bad. :nono:

Oh boy... I didn't know this category's pool was THAT shallow.

Shallow but top heavy.

I have wanted to do this for awhile;

0-2!

What

Let's reveal this list two films at a time!

You guys are nuts....Above the Law was awesome, easily IMO Seagal's best movie. I had it #2 on my list.

Oct 8, 2019 22:05:51 GMT PB said:

Let's reveal this list two films at a time!

I should but that puts a real time crunch on the Leo list. Maybe a few entries.

Let’s not do any crunching to the “Kid Presents:” list.

Also is Lionheart okay? Haven’t seen him in awhile.

Oct 9, 2019 10:38:08 GMT The Kid said:

Let’s not do any crunching to the “Kid Presents:” list.

Also is Lionheart okay? Haven’t seen him in awhile.

I think Emperor ate Lionheart and the cannibalism of Lionheart's pseudo intellectual brain meat caused Emperor to get perma high.

Oct 8, 2019 23:20:43 GMT UT said:

Oct 8, 2019 22:05:51 GMT PB said:

Let's reveal this list two films at a time!

I should but that puts a real time crunch on the Leo list. Maybe a few entries.

I was just yanking your chain - there's a few Leo films I want to try and squeeze in so no rush!


Also, maybe Lionheart was Shinobi's alter and they're both gone for good now?

8. Pineapple Express 

It's almost a shame to smoke it. It's like killing a unicorn... with, like, a bomb. ~ Saul 

Released 

7.0/10 

Credits 

Director: David Gordon Green 

Screenplay: Seth Rogen 

Screenplay: Evan Goldberg 

Cast 

Seth Rogen (Dale Denton)

James Franco (Saul Silver)

Danny McBride (Red)

Gary Cole (Ted Jones)

Rosie Perez (Carol)

Critical 

7.0/10 (IMDB)

68% (RT Critics)

73% (RT Audiences)

Box Office 

Domestic: $87,341,380 

Worldwide: $101,624,843

I love Pineapple Express , I seen it on a bunch of lists and ignored it because I didn't think it fit but the more I thought about it the more I guess it kind of does. It was really at the peak of Rogen's powers though and while I wouldn't put it up there with a few of his other landmark comedies I do think it's at the top of the tier right below and definitely memorable enough. He and Franco have great chemistry and obviously know how to do the stoner genre and Danny McBride comes in as a great wild card and brings a different style to the movie that it really needed. Just a great all around ensemble that I guess is deserving of being on the list.

I’ll never forget my first time watching this movie in theaters.

We literally smoked a fat blunt right before showing. We have an alley near our theater so we smoked in it, ran in and literally just missed the trailers. So it was all good. Plus, we snuck snacks inside because fuck movie prices. That first scene was everything to a beginning of a high. The explanation he was giving on how the weed made him feel was EXACTLY how I felt at that time. Syrup over pancakes or something like that.

I ended up watching that movie twice in theaters and a few more times after. A definite favorite of mine that even gets serious and remains good. Awesome movie.

I had it at 4, but my top 3 might not even be considered drug running movies so I don’t know where it ended up ranking on my list. 

I love these kind of movies so I'll have to check it out at some point. I was skeptical though because I'm not a huge fan of Seth Rogen. I do like James Franco though, so maybe it will still work.

Oct 9, 2019 15:01:31 GMT The Kid said:

I’ll never forget my first time watching this movie in theaters.

We literally smoked a fat blunt right before showing. We have an alley near our theater so we smoked in it, ran in and literally just missed the trailers. So it was all good. Plus, we snuck snacks inside because fuck movie prices. That first scene was everything to a beginning of a high. The explanation he was giving on how the weed made him feel was EXACTLY how I felt at that time. Syrup over pancakes or something like that.

I ended up watching that movie twice in theaters and a few more times after. A definite favorite of mine that even gets serious and remains good. Awesome movie.

I had it at 4, but my top 3 might not even be considered drug running movies so I don’t know where it ended up ranking on my list. 

This is exactly how I saw it in theatres. We hot boxed the fuck out of my friend’s car and I don’t think there was a single sober person in our theatre. It was a fucking blast.

Oct 9, 2019 15:27:02 GMT thereallt said:

I love these kind of movies so I'll have to check it out at some point. I was skeptical though because I'm not a huge fan of Seth Rogen. I do like James Franco though, so maybe it will still work.

Rogen is ok in this one and plays the straight man (mostly). Franco is hilarious and they really lean in to how absurd the story is, to the point that it starts as a harmless stoner comedy and then suddenly devolves into fucking Die Hard.

Seth Rogen did a Q&A on twitter on the 10th anniversary of the movie release and something interesting I learned: him and Evan Goldberg wrote the script with Rogen as the stoner drug dealer and Franco as the straight man sucked in to the story. Franco read the script and said it would be funnier if they switched roles and Rogen agreed. The movie was almost completely different and I’m glad Franco thought of that because I think it would have sucked the other way around.

Yeah. James Franco nailed his role. I’m 100% sure he was stoned through it too. His eyes were blood shot. That high smile hehad on. This was the perfect stoner movie. Probably the GOAT.

A couple comedies made my list, but Pineapple Express slipped my mind.

Pineapple was considered but didn't make my final cut. Not enough trafficking, I guess? No qualms with it though.

7. No Country for Old Men

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? ~ Anton Chigurh

Released

2007

Credits

Directors: The Coen Brothers

Screenplay: The Coen Brothers

Cast

Josh Brolin (Llewelyn Moss)

Javier Bardem (Anton Chigurh)

Tommy Lee Jones (Ed Tom Bell)

Woody Harrelson (Carson Wells)

Kelly Macdonald (Carla Jean Moss)

Critical

#157 Rated Movie of All Time (IMDB)

8.1/10 (IMDB)

93% (RT Critics)

86% (RT Audiences)

Box Office

Domestic: $74,283,625

Worldwide:  $171,627,166

At the Oscars

- Winner for Best Picture

- Winner for Best Supporting Actor

- Winner for Best Director

- Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay

- Nominated for Best Cinematography

- Nominated for Best Film Editing

- Nominated for Best Sound Mixing

- Nominated for Best Sound Editing

Cool, I guess.

Two disappointing lists in a row. Can't wait for this one to be over so we can all start collectively drooling over Leonardo DiCaprio.

Oct 10, 2019 14:25:46 GMT The Kid said:

Cool, I guess.

Two disappointing lists in a row. Can't wait for this one to be over so we can all start collectively drooling over Leonardo DiCaprio.

SO MELODRAMATIC. Lol