Smuggling in fiction
This list of smuggling in fiction includes works of fiction where smuggling is a prominent theme. Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen to the James Bond novel Diamonds are Forever.Movies
- Contraband, 2012
- The Line, 2017
Novels
- Eric Ambler: The Light of Day
- Eric Ambler: Passage of Arms
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett: The Raiders – a novel about smugglers in Galloway
- George Payne Rainsford James: The Smuggler: A tale
- Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in Cornwall
- J. Meade Falkner: Moonfleet
- Ian Fleming: Diamonds Are Forever
- Raelynn Hillhouse: Rift Zone
- Mollie Hunter: The Lothian Run – a novel for young readers about Jacobite smugglers.
- Prosper Mérimée: Carmen
- Charlotte Turner Smith: The Old Manor House
- Barbara Smucker: Underground to Canada'' – children's novel about the Underground Railroad which smuggled escaped slaves from the American South into Canada.
- Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944
Poetry
- Rudyard Kipling: A Smuggler's Song – this poem appears in "'Hal o' the Draft", one of the stories in Puck of Pook's Hill
- James Sheridan Knowles: The Smuggler
Plays and operas
- Georges Bizet: Carmen – In act 3 of the opera, Carmen and her lover join a camp of gypsy smugglers
- Winsome Pinnock: Mules – a play about Jamaican women working as mules for cocaine smugglers
- Bedřich Smetana: The Kiss – an opera based on a novel by Karolina Světlá
- Michael Wall: Amongst Barbarians – a play based on a true story of two English drug-traffickers executed in Malaysia
