After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Scarface. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Both films sit with all-consuming love, guilt, and paranoia. The world both films live in revolves around life under oppression, corrupt institutions, and class and money. Both move the same way too, bleak, brutal, escalating, and episodic.
Both films sit with rage and feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around corrupt institutions and class and money. The feel is the same: bleak, brutal, relentless, and escalating.
Like Scarface, this one is rooted in guilt and feeling powerless. Both circle the same ground: corrupt institutions and poverty. The feel is the same: brutal, cold and detached, relentless, and escalating.
Both films sit with rage, loss of innocence, and figuring out who you are. They share the same lens on class and money. Both move the same way too, bleak, cold and detached, and escalating.
Like Scarface, this one is rooted in loss of innocence, feeling powerless, and rage. The world both films live in revolves around poverty and class and money. Both move the same way too, bleak, brutal, and escalating.
