Cocaine Godmother

In a gritty, true-to-life depiction, this movie unravels the story of young Griselda Blanco, who at just 17 years old migrated to New York City with her husband Carlos in tow. Settling into Queens with their three sons, Griselda is soon drawn into the alluring world of wealth and power that surrounds the drug trade. Navigating a complex web of local dealers and smugglers, she uses her resourcefulness and intelligence to devise innovative methods for transporting cocaine from Colombia. With an uncanny ability to identify unexpected mules such as beautiful women, elderly individuals, and children, Griselda also ingeniously creates false-bottom suitcases to facilitate smuggling operations. As audiences bear witness to the rise of this unconventional drug queenpin, they are reminded that sometimes the most formidable forces emerge from the least likely circumstances.