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Stories Set in Miami
Pastel towers, Cuban coffee and humidity you can lean on: Miami looks like a vacation and behaves like a crime scene. Cocaine money in the 1980s built the skyline and the myth at the same time, and television never left. Scarface defined it; Bad Boys for Life keeps the engine running. Open Miami on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Miami on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Miami
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Browse 68 books, 173 movies, 24 TV shows and 24 games set in Miami.

Scarface
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…

Bad Boys for Life
Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats career changes and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas the vicious…

Bad Boys
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowry is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To…

Bad Boys II
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia who is…

Bad Boys: Ride or Die
After their late former Captain is framed Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name only to end up on the run themselves.

Moonlight
The tender heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy pain and beauty of falling in love while grappling with his own…

Donnie Brasco
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Dexter
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

War Dogs
Based on the true story of two young men David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

The Enforcer
A noir thriller set in Miami the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save…
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