Cocaine Godmother

Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Griselda Blanco in Cocaine Godmother (2017), available to watch online on iFILM. Directed by Guillermo Navarro, the TV biopic traces Blanco from a seventeen-year-old Colombian immigrant with a forged passport to the woman who built one of Miami's most ruthless cocaine networks across the 1970s and '80s.

What set Blanco apart from the typical cartel story: she ran carriers who were women, children and the elderly, invented double-bottomed luggage for Colombian shipments, and reportedly ordered forty-plus kills. Zeta-Jones plays her without a trace of glamourisation — calculating, increasingly paranoid, cold to the end. For a TV movie, that kind of restraint is notable. Stream Cocaine Godmother (2017) on iFILM.