American Made
Why this pick
Like Blow, it follows a charismatic American operator pulled from hustling into international drug trafficking, balancing period detail, propulsion, and the accumulating personal cost of outlaw success.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like Blow, it follows a charismatic American operator pulled from hustling into international drug trafficking, balancing period detail, propulsion, and the accumulating personal cost of outlaw success.
Why this pick
Its grounded 1980s cocaine-world texture and true-story criminal scope echo Blow, while shifting the viewpoint to a man whose double life makes every escalation increasingly tense.
Why this pick
This shares Blow’s seductive rise-then-ruin shape and intimate first-person feeling: an ambitious outsider is intoxicated by access, wealth, and power before reality closes in.
Why this pick
Also anchored by a volatile true-crime performance from Johnny Depp, it has Blow’s sun-bleached Southern California criminal milieu and interest in the fragile people behind tabloid notoriety.
Why this pick
For Blow’s painful human side, this offers another first-person, fact-based descent in which youthful freedom and risky thrills steadily give way to addiction, fractured trust, and loss.
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01 / THE STORY
A young George Jung and his parents Fred and Ermine live in Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is ten years old, Fred files for bankruptcy, but tries to make George realize that money is not important.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

George Jung

Mirtha Jung

Ermine Jung

Derek Foreal

Pablo Escobar
Young George

Rada

Young Kristina Jung