Banged Up Abroad (2007)

An ambitious DEA Agent goes after a notorious Mexican Cartel leader but gets sucked into a dark and treacherous world where the lines between good and evil are blurred. He’ll stop at nothing to get his man, but when tragedy strikes, vengeance takes hold, and he makes a fatal mistake that tears his world apart.

When a stunning swimwear model hits the big time, she moves to Hollywood to cash in. But life in the fast lane soon takes its toll on her finances and she decides the only way to keep the dream alive is to use her beauty brand as a ruse to ship drugs. By day she’s pulling poses on the beach, and by night she’s packing meth into gift sets, until one journey brings her whole world crashing down.

In this real life Goodfellas tale, New York teen John Alite (portrayed by Dean Goldblum) gets a job at his local Deli, a hangout for ‘wise guys’. He soon finds himself wanting to be a mobster, and starts running errands for them. Rising swiftly through the ranks, John buries his conscience to become a notorious Mafia hitman. But when the house of cards tumbles, John must choose between his family and his oath to the Mob.

In this real-life version of Baltimore drama The Wire, local drug dealer Davon Mayer has a knack for making money. But when he gets arrested by two cops, to his surprise, they don’t want him in jail, they want him to sell drugs for their profit. Davon soon finds himself enslaved by the corrupt cops’ greed. The only way out is to risk his life and go undercover for the FBI to take them down.

A broke young Londoner gets an exciting offer to work in his dad’s bar in Thailand. But when he arrives, he soon discovers a world of temptation that he can’t resist, breaking his father’s golden rule and driving them apart. But when life goes from bad to worse for the youngster and he lands himself in the world’s most notorious prison their relationship is tested to its limits.

A police informant is swept up in a biker gang murder.

A young mother addicted to crack cocaine takes her daughter on a risky drug smuggling job in Venezuela, but her world collapses when the two are torn apart.

An extended look at a gangster turned informer, Kenji Gallo.

A 70s hippie turns multimillionaire shipping tons of pot into the US, until one of the biggest busts in history forces him on the run to Bolivia.

A troubled young father learns a hard lesson chasing a gangster lifestyle when he is set up as a decoy on a smuggling trip from Peru.