Amsterdam Narcos: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The fourth instalment of the critically acclaimed and BAFTA winning Narcos series – Amsterdam Narcos. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the Dutch city of Amsterdam transformed from a liberal countercultural haven into the drugs capital of Europe. What began as a government tolerating the hash trade soon opened the floodgates to organised crime, leaving the police playing catch up as ecstasy and cocaine smuggling followed. Amsterdam fuelled a pipeline of drugs and criminality through British ports, and right across Europe.  

As the Dutch underworld exploded and with the drugs trade spiralling out of control, law enforcement resorted to desperate measures in a bid to catch the gangsters. Told through the personal testimony of drug users, manufacturers, traffickers, and the detectives who tried to outsmart them, Amsterdam Narcos charts how underground rebellion escalated into an increasingly lethal, multi-billion-pound industry.

Series details

• Title: Amsterdam Narcos
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 2025-08-13
• Final broadcast date listed: 2025-08-13
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Now
• Typical episode runtime: 48 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 83580
• IMDb ID: tt37579634
• TVDB ID: 466380

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2025-08-13; final listed air date 2025-08-13; episode order: 3.

Source and licence

Adapted from Amsterdam Narcos on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.