Movie

Toxic

2026 · 192 min

A sprawling, brooding gangster saga that feels like a dark fairy tale, with brutal action and emotional devastation.

Tagline: A fairy tale for grown-ups.
Overview: A powerful drug cartel pulls the strings behind a facade of sun-soaked beaches as a gritty, violent underworld power struggle emerges during the crumbling of Portuguese colonial rule.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Betrayal, obsession, guilt, violence
Content: Strong violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: betrayal
obsession
guilt
violence
crime
Places: big city
countryside
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong