Best Puerto Rican crime movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch crime films from Puerto Rico, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Long Gone Heroes

    Long Gone Heroes 2024

    Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, who is being held in South America. As the fight intensifies, Gunner and his team discover that her disappearance is part of a corrupt private operation that hits way too close to home.

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  • Poster for Straight from the Barrio

    Straight from the Barrio 2008

    A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.

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  • Poster for Back to the Beginning

    Back to the Beginning 2015

    After completing a 6 year conviction, Erick Montalvo gets rehabilitated into society and decides to start a family with his wife Michelle. Among many situations and economic problems, their lives become unbearable. Their child, born prematurely and with several conditions, requires a surgery costing more than $120,000. Out of desperation, Erick loses control and decides to do one last job that takes him “back to the beginning”.

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  • Poster for Under My Nails

    Under My Nails 2011

    A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.

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  • Operación Tiburón 1965

    A popular singer is suspected of being involved with a notorious drug dealer, el Tiburón (the Shark). Meanwhile, a friend of the singer is recruited by Interpol to find the criminal's real identity.

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  • Fray Dollar 1970

    The branch of a bank in a small town is in bankruptcy. To regain the trust of the people, they offer the town's priest the position of Bank Manager, who in turn, begins to carry out all kinds of loans and social aid to the people.

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  • La Palomilla 1970

    Narrates the exploits of notorious gangster José A. Gerena Lafontaine, most commonly known as La Palomilla for his ability to escape prisons where he was detained.

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