Best Colombian crime series

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

  • Poster for Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord

    Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord 2012

    Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

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  • Poster for The Great Heist

    The Great Heist 2020

    Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

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  • Poster for Green Frontier

    Green Frontier 2019

    When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

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  • Poster for Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ

    Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ 2017

    As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.

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  • Poster for Crime Diaries: Night Out

    Crime Diaries: Night Out 2019

    After going to a Halloween party, college student Luis Andrés Colmenares is found dead. Was it an accident or murder? Inspired by true events.

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  • Poster for Rosario Tijeras

    Rosario Tijeras 2010

    This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the dying Rosario Tijeras to a nearby hospital. The beautiful Rosario has been shot four times by a hitman. While he waits for his beloved Rosario to be saved from her wounds, Antonio recalls how Rosario, a beautiful teenager, became the murderer Rosario Tijeras. And how he, a dashing young man, makes her his obsession. The woman of his dreams.

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  • Poster for Without Breasts, There Is No Paradise

    Without Breasts, There Is No Paradise 2008

    Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso tells the tragic story of a young woman named Catalina Santana who's ambition is so strong she'll risk her life, because of her obsession with having larger breasts in order to attract drug lords and have all the luxuries in this world.

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  • Poster for The Snitch Cartel: Origins

    The Snitch Cartel: Origins 2021

    In Cali during the '60s and '70s, two brothers juggle family, romance and the joint pursuit of a burning ambition: to rule Colombia's drug industry.

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  • Poster for Cumbia Ninja

    Cumbia Ninja 2013

    In a major slum called La Colina, young idealist Hache and his friends will confront the drug dealers who control the neighborhood. They will succeed with the help of music, an old Chinese ninja master and a mythical character who also lives in La Colina. Simultaneously, Juana will find shelter there as she runs away from her family's assassins.

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  • Poster for La Viuda Negra

    La Viuda Negra 2014

    La viuda negra (The Black Widow) is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar of José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.

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  • Poster for El Capo

    El Capo 2009

    El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.

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  • Poster for Bloque de búsqueda

    Bloque de búsqueda 2016

    Group of policemen trained to capture Pablo Escobar. It tells the story of the family of some of its members and what they had to experience during the drug trafficking era in Colombia.

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  • Poster for The Mafia Dolls

    The Mafia Dolls 2009

    Based on the book "Las Fantásticas," this exciting telenovela follows the tumultuous lives of five women who get mixed up with the Mafia.

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  • Poster for To The Rhythm of Love, Rafael Orozco

    To The Rhythm of Love, Rafael Orozco 2012

    From a very young age, Rafa had a very special talent for “Vallenato” music, but he was also charming which made him irresistible to women. From the moment he saw Clara Cabello he was captivated and knew that love would make his songs immortal taking him to stardom.

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  • Poster for La saga: Negocio de Familia

    La saga: Negocio de Familia 2004

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  • Poster for The Dandy

    The Dandy 2015

    Inspired by the 1997 American drama Donnie Brasco, El Dandy tells the story of a law professor who has been hired by the Attorney General, to participate in a program of special operations, where you must infiltrate one of the most notorious drug cartels of Mexico City. Under the false name Daniel "El Dandy" Bracho, begins the task of identifying all the members of this clandestine network. However, he quickly finds that his acute ability to police work is only comparable with the exciting sense of danger that experiences living life to the fullest. Along the way, it avails itself of the help of a criminal's petty, loyal, even corrupt, called El Chueco, who quickly befriends Bracho and comes dangerously close to discover his true identity. Much deeper Bracho is involved in the mafia, more work tells him to get out, and the professor once incorruptible has to choose between returning to a normal life as a respectable citizen or fully embrace his criminal life.

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  • El Capo 2009

    Follows the story of the fictional drug lord Pedro Pablo León Jaramillo, a man who by necessity, chance and ambition has become the richest and most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia. Despite his immense wealth, Pedro Pablo has maintained a low profile over the course of his life and has kept his role as a drug cartel leader a secret from his friends and family. This strategy has allowed him to fly under the radar of the authorities for years, but has also inadvertently created a complex web of betrayals, loves and hates that grows beyond his control. As the truth is revealed, Pedro Pablo's world begins falling apart around him.

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  • Poster for Dr. Mata

    Dr. Mata 2014

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  • Poster for The Face of Analia

    The Face of Analia 2008

    El Rostro de Analía is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the American-based television network Telemundo. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Martin Karpan, Maritza Rodríguez and Gabriel Porras, with the special appearance of Gaby Espino.

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  • Poster for Lynch

    Lynch 2012

    There are people who need money, others need love or recognition…and there are those who need to die! When you are in real trouble and the only solution is to give up your own life, then funeral house El Descanso Eterno offers you complete service of death and resurrection; scenes of accidental or natural deaths, complete funeral process, video of coffin reaching ground bottom and consequently new identity in different country; and this all only that you can enjoy living your own death. No one is going to look for you; no one is going to ask for you, you have no attachments…at least not with anyone from your previous life.

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  • Poster for En la Boca del Lobo

    En la Boca del Lobo 2014

    Based on a true story and the book, At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel, En la Boca del Lobo follows the series of events that ultimately lead to the dramatic downfall of Colombia’s infamous Cali drug cartel. The story centers on Ricardo Salgado, an engineer and soldier who rises ranks and became in charge of the security of the godfather of the Cali Cartel, one of the largest criminal organizations in the world and rival of the Medellin Cartel.

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  • Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas 2015

    Lady Tabares declares herself innocent before she enters the trial that will define her future. From the police car, she regards the street vendors through the window. One of them is a girl selling roses, just like she did ten years ago.

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  • Poster for El General Naranjo

    El General Naranjo 2019

    This is the story of Oscar Naranjo and Colombia in recent decades, told from the point of view of those who have done everything possible to uphold law and order against Pablo Escobar, the paramilitaries, the drug cartels and the FARC.

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  • Poster for Un bandido honrado

    Un bandido honrado 2019

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  • Poster for Broken Promises

    Broken Promises 2013

    Persuaded by promises of a better life, three young women are sold into prostitution and must risk their lives and their families to escape.

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  • Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal (Netflix) 2012

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  • Poster for La Mariposa

    La Mariposa 2011

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  • Poster for Corazones Blindados

    Corazones Blindados 2012

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  • Poster for La Caponera

    La Caponera 1990

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  • Poster for Palabra De Ladrón

    Palabra De Ladrón 2014

    A white-gloved criminal, who has never used violence, has committed hundreds of crimes without ever being caught by law. Now he is in prison for a murder he did not commit. A prosecutor makes a unique proposal: for each case he helps her solve, she will have a year of her sentence forgiven.

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  • Three Miracles 2011

    Three girls named miracles are born the same day but in very different and distant homes, but united by a terrible fate that announces their death at the time that the three meet each other and find love

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  • Poster for Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso

    Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso 2016

    A young girl faces hard times ahead once she crosses the line her parents drew in order to keep her away from the outside world. In the past this child's mother had her children murdered and to get over this pain she had a baby and named her Catalina, the same name as her former daughter. The story begins to repeat its self as it seem that Catalina is following her older sisters examples in search for easy money through prostitution. Will the story end the same way...?A sequel series to the original Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso. This sequel follows the life of the last protagonists younger sister and how she has to deal with the repercussions of her late brother and sister's trouble with their lives of crime.

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