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Watch 'American Made,' Then Watch These Movies. Whether for additional context or to complete the Escobar Cinematic Universe, these picks will add to your appreciation of Doug Liman’s latest. Anytime a movie is based on major historical events, there are going to be a lot of other films to recommend as pieces in a cinematic universe of true stories. American Made depicts a biography set in the background of the cocaine trade and the CIA’s support of Nicaraguan contras. One of its characters being Pablo Escobar (played by Mauricio Mejia) means it can link to plenty of feature films, documentaries, and TV series such as Netflix’s Narcos.

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And its protagonist, Barry Seal (played by Tom Cruise), has already been the focus of the TV movie Doublecrossed, in which he’s portrayed by Dennis Hopper (I recommended this as a movie to watch beforehand), and was a minor character in last year’s The Infiltrator, played by Michael Paré. There are so many suggestions to make for post- American Made viewing, and so honorable mentions galore can be found among this week’s eight picks. Bedtime for Bonzo (1. Let’s begin with something silly but substantial.

When most people think of Ronald Reagan’s acting career, they think of the movie with the chimpanzee (many others think of his role as “the Gipper” in Knute Rockne, All American, but nothing’s more memorable than simian cinema). It’s the only one referenced by name among the Reagan movie clips in American Made, and it’s the one most representative of the disconnect between his performances in Hollywood and his performances in politics. While mostly recommended because it’s featured in the movie at hand, it is so featured for a reason as an introduction to the man whose presidency would change Barry Seal’s life for better and for worse. There aren’t many other Reagan- led films that are must- sees for the context of that earlier career (Dark Victory and The Killers are great films he appears in, however).

But I do encourage following it with more Reagan biopics and documentaries, including 2. The Reagans and 2. Reagan. Bananas (1. American Made has a lot more humor than I expected, calling to mind one of Woody Allen’s funniest early films. Bananas stars the filmmaker as an American who, like Seal, is unhappy with his job before winding up mixed up in too much Latin America- based adventure for his own good.

While Seal’s real- life track was focused on drug trafficking and gun running plus a bit of rebel group training, Allen’s protagonist is primarily involved with a rebel army in a fictionalized “banana republic.”Movies dealing with revolutionaries in Latin America go back much further than the era of CIA interference, with the 1. Harold Lloyd silent comedy Why Worry? and the 1. James Cagney vehicle Torrid Zone being two worthy examples. Watch The Cursed Online The Cursed Full Movie Online.

Later, about the time of  American Made‘s initial setting, there’s the 1. The In- Laws, which does deal with the CIA and a man brought in way over his head through Central American shenanigans. Nothing, though, tops the Howard Cosell- commentated coup at the start of Allen’s Bananas. Scarface (1. 98. 3)One of my favorite comparisons made in a review of American Made is Drew Mc.

Weeny’s description of the movie as “Forrest Gump if Oliver Stone directed it.” I guess I should have both Gump and maybe the Cruise- led Stone film Born on the Fourth of July on this list, but instead I’ll skip the former ingredient and skew the latter reference toward recommending a movie scripted by Stone instead. Not that Scarface is hard up for recognition these days.

Brian De. Palma’s remake of the 1. Cubans to America fleeing communist rule and leading into the topical issue of cocaine trafficking. We can imagine that Al Pacino’s Tony Montana is dealing drugs brought into Miami by the Contras who get the shipments from Colombia via Barry Seal. Had it not been a fiction, maybe Escobar would have been the movie’s South American kingpin character. Stone would of course go on to direct his own movies involving subject matter relevant to American Made, from the true story- based Salvador to JFK (conspiracy theorists believe Seal was involved with the assassination as a getaway pilot) to his documentaries on Latin American leaders. I also am one of the few critics who recommend the underrated near- masterpiece Savages, which deals with marijuana and a Mexican drug cartel but similarly involves initially smalltime characters in way over their head. Blow (2. 00. 1)I thought about including Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas on this list, partly because it’s been another major point of comparison for American Made reviews.

And it does have that fourth- wall- breaking true story with flair sensibility that likely influenced Doug Liman’s new movie, as it has most of these kinds of crime films. But you’ve all seen it already, right? Palo Alto Full Movie In English. Another Goodfellas- like (or Goodfellas light) feature that has more relevance is this final narrative effort from the late Ted Demme.

Blow stars Johnny Depp as George Jung, another notorious American who became extremely wealthy (similarly having too much cash to know what to do with) by penetrating the Medellin cartel and becoming one of its biggest cocaine smugglers. Jung and Seal’s stories never intertwined as far as I know — not between their two movies, at least — as the former worked with Escobar in the ’7. Their biopics have that overlap of Escobar, though, and Carlos Ledher, who is renamed “Diego Delgado” in Blow (played by Jordi Molla there, by Fredy Yate Escobar in American Made). Jung and Seal are basically individual antiheroes to Escobar’s Nick Fury in the Medellin Cinematic Universe.