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Eva Marie Saint
Though her film appearances were sporadic at best – less than 20 movies between 1955 and 2006 –...
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Karl Urban
A sturdy lead and character actor with a natural affinity for physical roles, Karl Urban was a New...
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Traffic (2000)
While a judge's (Michael Douglas) anti-drug campaign leads him to his own daughter, a DEA agent (Don...
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Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
An addict (Matt Dillon), his wife (Kelly Lynch) and another couple steal the drugs they live for in...
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Candy (2006)
A fatherly chemistry professor (Geoffrey Rush) indulges two young lovers (Heath Ledger, Abbie...
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Barfly (1987)
Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the...
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Even Money (2007)
Gambling destroys the lives of various people (Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker) who are either...
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Crime pays for the drug addiction of a high-school hoopster (Leonardo DiCaprio) and three teammates...
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Dumped by his wife (Phoebe Cates) and aided by his buddy (Kiefer Sutherland), a young Manhattan...
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Blow (2001)
In the 1970s a man (Johnny Depp) works with Colombian smugglers to establish the cocaine business in...
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Ironweed (1987)
A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time...
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Two heroin addicts (Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur) seek rehabilitation, but police, gangsters and...
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A boozing PR man's (Jack Lemmon) wife (Lee Remick) joins him in drinking but not in Alcoholics...
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Trainspotting (1996)
Eccentric friends and on-and-off heroin addiction mark the life of a young Edinburgh Scot (Ewan...
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Requiem for A Dream (2000)
A middle-aged woman (Ellen Burstyn) gets an invitation to be on her favorite game show, as her son...
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When A Man Loves A Woman (1994)
Alcoholism and recovery test the marriage of a San Francisco couple (Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan) with two...
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Wonderland (2003)
In debt and addicted to drugs, porn star John Holmes (Val Kilmer) becomes implicated in a quadruple...
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
Sitcom writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller) recalls heroin addiction, his mother's suicide, his failed...
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Born to Win (1971)
New York police arrest and then release a heroin addict (George Segal) to be their informer.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Intent on drinking himself to death, a man (Nicolas Cage) who lost all finds solace with a Las Vegas...
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28 Days (2000)
When a court order sends a New York journalist (Sandra Bullock) to a rehabilitation center for...
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle against...
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Sweet Nothing (1996)
A man gets caught in the vicious circle of drug abuse, when he decides to celebrate the birth of his...
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Rush (1991)
Two undercover narcotics officers (Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh) become lovers hooked on drugs...
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The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
A woman from Indiana becomes addicted to heroin when she falls in love with a larcenous New York...
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The Country Girl (1954)
An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a...
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The Boost (1988)
A hustler (James Woods) and his wife (Sean Young) move to Los Angeles, where he sells tax shelters...
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The Narcotic
Exploitation auteur Dwain Esper directed this hare-brained exposé on the perils of drug addiction....
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People
Ilkka Koivula
Though his name might not be a household word in American film circles, Scandinavian actor Ilkka...
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Circuit (2002)
After leaving the police force, a homosexual (Jonathan Wade-Drahos) moves to Hollywood, meets a...
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Mensaka (1998)
David is the leader of a band about to sign a record contract. However, he is unhappy with his group...
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Around the Fire (1998)
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton...
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Remedy
A NYC artist is witness to his best friend's murder - or was he? Due to a drug problem, he can't...
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Fragment of Fear (1971)
Reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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High Art (1998)
A young woman (Radha Mitchell) falls in love with her neighbor (Ally Sheedy), a lesbian with a...
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True Friends (1998)
The story of three lifelong Italian-American friends in the Bronx who, as adults, try to raise...
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Light Sleeper (1992)
With the woman (Susan Sarandon) he works for about to quit, a drug dealer (Willem Dafoe) meditates...
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Naked Lunch (1991)
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally...
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illtown (1998)
Two young lovers are torn between their part-time criminal activity and the enticement of family and...
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Bailame el Agua
Twenty-somethings David and Maria meet on the subway and fall in love. But money troubles and...
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The Blackout
Residents of Brooklyn, N.Y., deal with a citywide blackout for two days in the summer of 2003.
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Dangerous Ground (1997)
An exiled freedom fighter (Ice Cube) returns to South Africa for his father's funeral after 12 years...
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Beneath the Surface
The story of 23-year-old Sandra, a Stockholm junkie forced by a dealer roomate Roffe to turn tricks...
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Down To the Bone (2005)
A working-class wife (Vera Farmiga) tries to stay clean and sober after checking into a rehab clinic...
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Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Drugs and crime bond an aging drug dealer (James Woods) and his maternal girlfriend (Melanie...
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The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
A dried-out heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) returns to his wife (Eleanor Parker) and card dealing in...
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California Split (1974)
Compulsive gamblers (George Segal, Elliott Gould), both mugged, team up in pursuit of a lucky break.
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The Fire Within (1966)
An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.
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Iowa (2006)
A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who...
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