Drug Addiction
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    Movies

    Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

    After her husband dies, a woman (Halle Berry) invites his drug-addicted friend (Benicio Del Toro) to...

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    Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

    A Southern matriarch (Tyler Perry) deals with a host of personal and family issues while planning...

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    Modigliani (2005)

    Penniless artist Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) maintains a bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso and...

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    Movies

    Valley of the Dolls (1967)

    Three young women (Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate) turn to pills because of their lives in...

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    Walk the Line (2005)

    Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) forms an enduring bond with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) and...

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    Ray (2004)

    Blind since childhood, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) overcomes poverty, hardship and addiction and...

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    Colors (1988)

    A veteran policeman (Robert Duvall) and his rookie partner (Sean Penn) fight Los Angeles street...

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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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    Movies

    Rachel Getting Married (2008)

    Long-simmering tensions bubble to the surface when a young woman (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and...

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    Movies

    Boogie Nights (1997)

    A producer (Burt Reynolds) guides a young man (Mark Wahlberg) to success in the 1970s porn industry,...

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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    24 Hour Party People (2002)

    An Englishman (Steve Coogan) founds a record label in the 1970s and encounters wild music, sex and...

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    Lorna's Silence (2009)

    Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her...

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    Candy (2006)

    A fatherly chemistry professor (Geoffrey Rush) indulges two young lovers (Heath Ledger, Abbie...

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    Movies

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

    Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating...

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    Movies

    The Basketball Diaries (1995)

    Crime pays for the drug addiction of a high-school hoopster (Leonardo DiCaprio) and three teammates...

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    Movies

    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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    El Cantante (2007)

    Puerto Rican singer Héctor Lavoe (Marc Anthony) becomes a pioneer of salsa music in the United...

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    Movies

    La Vie En Rose (2007)

    French singer Édith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) becomes a national icon but tries to overcome personal...

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    Movies

    Last Days (2005)

    Addicted to drugs, a Seattle rock star (Michael Pitt) continues on a path of self-destruction.

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    Movies

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    In town for a motorcycle race, a sportswriter (Johnny Depp) and his attorney (Benicio Del Toro)...

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    Movies

    Narc (2002)

    A policeman (Jason Patric) and a tough veteran (Ray Liotta) try to solve the murder of the latter's...

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    Movies

    The Brother From Another Planet (1984)

    A gentle extraterrestrial with mystical healing powers lands in New York Harbor and embarks on an...

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    Crack House (1989)

    A gang member goes undercover for the police to nail a drug lord (Jim Brown) who has corrupted his...

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    Movies

    City of Hope (1991)

    A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the...

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    Movies

    Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

    Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) goes from Harlem brothel maid to heroin-addicted singing star, losing...

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    Movies

    Jar City (2008)

    A worn-out cop investigates a murder that is strangely similar to one 30 years earlier.

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    Mirrors (2008)

    A former cop (Kiefer Sutherland) must protect his family from an evil force that uses mirrors to...

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    Movies

    Gridlock'd (1997)

    Two heroin addicts (Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur) seek rehabilitation, but police, gangsters and...

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    Movies

    Half Nelson (2006)

    A Brooklyn teacher (Ryan Gosling) struggles with drug addiction while trying to serve as a father...

  • The People vs. Larry Flynt picture
    Movies

    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

    Arrested on obscenity charges, the publisher (Woody Harrelson) of Hustler magazine, with the help of...

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    Movies

    Trainspotting (1996)

    Eccentric friends and on-and-off heroin addiction mark the life of a young Edinburgh Scot (Ewan...

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    Movies

    Jungle Fever (1991)

    Trouble follows an architect's (Wesley Snipes) biracial affair with a woman (Annabella Sciorra) in...

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    Movies

    Porgy and Bess (1959)

    Adaptation of the famous play/opera about life in a black neighborhood known as "Catfish Row" in...

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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    North Dallas Forty (1979)

    The fast life begins to take its toll on two fun-loving but aging football players. Based on Peter...

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    Movies

    Brain Damage (1988)

    Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter explores another bizarre symbiotic human-monster relationship...

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    Movies

    Wonderland (2003)

    In debt and addicted to drugs, porn star John Holmes (Val Kilmer) becomes implicated in a quadruple...

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    Movies

    Factory Girl (2006)

    Wealthy Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) lands at artist Andy Warhol's (Guy Pearce) Factory and becomes...

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    Movies

    City by the Sea (2002)

    A New York homicide detective (Robert De Niro) searches for his son (James Franco), the prime...

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    Movies

    Twist (2004)

    A smitten runaway (Joshua Close) follows a handsome drug addict (Nick Stahl) into the world of...

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    Movies

    Permanent Midnight (1998)

    Sitcom writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller) recalls heroin addiction, his mother's suicide, his failed...

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    Movies

    Lenny (1974)

    1950s comic Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) spurs controversy with his drug use, graphic language and...

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    Movies

    Born to Win (1971)

    New York police arrest and then release a heroin addict (George Segal) to be their informer.

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    Movies

    Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

    A woman (Kimberly Elise) must put her life back together after her husband (Steve Harris) of 18...

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    Movies

    28 Days (2000)

    When a court order sends a New York journalist (Sandra Bullock) to a rehabilitation center for...

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    Let's Get Lost (1989)

    Filmmaker Bruce Weber interviews jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and his family, and shows Baker in old...

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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    Rush (1991)

    Two undercover narcotics officers (Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh) become lovers hooked on drugs...

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    Movies

    Foxes (1980)

    A San Fernando Valley Girl (Jodie Foster) tries to keep her friends out of trouble and away from sex...