Production of narco peliculas started to peak during the late 1970s, when such films like La Banda del Carro Rojo (The Red Car Gang) were released.
This film starred brothers Fernando and Mario Almada and Pedro Infante, Jr.[1] It spanned two sequels.
The sub-genre then became popular with Mexican audiences in the United States but films were released elsewhere as well, like in Puerto Rico, for example.
[4] Usually, narco films are about drug cartels fighting each other for territory, and-or police organizations that want to break them.
Usually, the plot leads to an end-scene gang battle in which guns and sometimes knives and bombs are employed.