Drug Addiction
  • 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...

  • Trainspotting picture
    Movies

    Trainspotting (1996)

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

  • Jungle Fever picture
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    Jungle Fever (1991)

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

  • Porgy and Bess picture
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    Porgy and Bess (1959)

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

  • Requiem for A Dream picture
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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...

  • North Dallas Forty picture
    Movies

    North Dallas Forty (1979)

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

  • Brain Damage picture
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    Brain Damage (1988)

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

  • Wonderland picture
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    Wonderland (2003)

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

  • Factory Girl picture
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    Factory Girl (2006)

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

  • City by the Sea picture
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    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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    Twist (2004)

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

  • Permanent Midnight picture
    Movies

    Permanent Midnight (1998)

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

  • Lenny picture
    Movies

    Lenny (1974)

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

  • Born to Win picture
    Movies

    Born to Win (1971)

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

  • Diary of a Mad Black Woman picture
    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...

  • Sweet Nothing picture
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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...

  • Rush picture
    Movies

    Rush (1991)

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

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    Foxes (1980)

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

  • Magnolia picture
    Movies

    Magnolia (1999)

    Coincidence, divine intervention and fate link several people (Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom...

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    Body Shots (1999)

    The possible date rape of an acquaintance frames this look at several L.A. friends and their views...

  • Less Than Zero picture
    Movies

    Less Than Zero (1987)

    Beverly Hills rich kids (Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz) help their friend (Robert Downey Jr.) who is...

  • Shy People picture
    Movies

    Shy People (1988)

    A New York journalist fed up with city life and concerned for the welfare of her trendy daughter,...

  • The Rose picture
    Movies

    The Rose (1979)

    An exhausted rock star (Bette Midler) turns to drugs, alcohol and a lover (Frederic Forrest) when...

  • Postcards From the Edge picture
    Movies

    Postcards From the Edge (1990)

    A drug-detoxed Hollywood actress (Meryl Streep) moves in with her boozing actress mother (Shirley...

  • Fierce People picture
    Movies

    Fierce People (2007)

    A drug addict (Diane Lane) and her teenage son (Anton Yelchin) spend a fateful summer at a...

  • St. Elmo's Fire picture
    Movies

    St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

    A sax player (Rob Lowe), a party girl (Demi Moore), a writer (Andrew McCarthy) and other aimless...

  • The Panic in Needle Park picture
    Movies

    The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

    A woman from Indiana becomes addicted to heroin when she falls in love with a larcenous New York...

  • James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction picture
    Movies

    James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction (1998)

    A tour through contemporary American crime fiction novelist James Ellroy's Los Angeles--guided by...