Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

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Forget Scarface, Cocaine Cowboys is the insane true story of the mid-eighties drug rush that brought guns, goods, bullets, bitches and a shit load of money to Miami, transforming the entire city from a dilapidated backwater into a millionaires’ playground and gangsters’ paradise.

Interviewing key figures from cops to smugglers to underworld hitmen, director Billy Corben meticulously tells a tale of staggering violence and criminality.

Sure, there’s an element of man’s mag excitement in the montages of fast cars, smart nightclubs and bullet-riddled bodies, but this cheesy style perfectly suits a story of mind-boggling excess.