alcoholism
  • A Christmas Tale picture
    Movies

    A Christmas Tale (2008)

    Illness, grief and complicated relationships darken a family's yuletide reunion.

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    A Star Is Born (1976)

    A boozing rock star's (Kris Kristofferson) career falls as fast as his unknown lover's (Barbra...

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    Bad Santa (2003)

    Two criminals (Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox) disguise themselves as St. Nick and an elf to rob...

  • Big Bad Love picture
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    Big Bad Love (2002)

    A troubled Vietnam veteran (Arliss Howard) turns to alcohol over the frustration of writing woes and...

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    10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)

    An alcoholic (Melina Mercouri), her philandering husband (Peter Finch) and a friend (Romy Schneider)...

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    Chains of Gold (1991)

    The story of a teenage drug courier in Miami and the social worker who tries to save him.

  • Die Hard With A Vengeance picture
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    Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995)

    Suspended from the police force, John McClane (Bruce Willis) enlists a Harlem shopkeeper (Samuel L....

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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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    Private Fears In Public Places (2007)

    Six Parisians, including a real estate agent and his religious co-worker, face a sad search for real...

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    Devdas (2003)

    Unable to marry his true love (Aishwarya Rai), the son (Shahrukh Khan) of a wealthy landlord meets a...

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    City of Hope (1991)

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

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    Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

    A professor (Richard Burton) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) drink and verbally assault each other...

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    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    A likable Southern loner (Paul Newman) on a chain gang resists the captain and keeps trying to...

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    The Wild One (1953)

    A motorcycle outlaw (Marlon Brando) in a black leather jacket takes over a town with his gang.

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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    A poor couple's (Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn) daughter (Peggy Ann Garner) dreams of a better life in...

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    Valentine (2001)

    A killer seeks bloody revenge against four women who played a humiliating joke on him many years...

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    The Electric Horseman (1979)

    A newswoman (Jane Fonda) and a rodeo star (Robert Redford) flee to Utah with a $12 million horse...

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    Factotum (2006)

    A writer (Matt Dillon) drifts through a series of dead-end jobs in an attempt to fuel his passions...

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    Harper (1966)

    A rich woman (Lauren Bacall) hires gum-chewing Los Angeles private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to...

  • Danny Roane: First Time Director picture
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    Danny Roane: First Time Director

    A down-and-out actor (Andy Dick) struggles with alcoholism while directing his first movie.

  • Days of Wine and Roses picture
    Movies

    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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    Happy Anniversary

    A tipsy man (David Niven) reveals he and his wife's (Mitzi Gaynor) premarital secret, and his...

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    Beat

    William S. Burroughs and his wife Joan (Courtney Love) live wildly, as do friends Allen Ginsberg...

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    Treeless Mountain (2009)

    Two young sisters (Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim) must learn how to take care of themselves after their...

  • When A Man Loves A Woman picture
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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...

  • One True Thing picture
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    One True Thing (1998)

    At her father's (William Hurt) request, a reluctant woman (Renée Zellweger) postpones her career to...

  • Angela's Ashes picture
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    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    An impoverished family (Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen) decides to return to Ireland from...

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    August (1996)

    A wastrel (Anthony Hopkins) adores the young wife (Kate Burton) of his professor brother-in-law...

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    Movies

    By Love Possessed (1961)

    A Massachusetts lawyer (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has an affair with his crippled partner's (Jason...

  • Heaven's Prisoners picture
    Movies

    Heaven's Prisoners (1996)

    A recovering alcoholic (Alec Baldwin) returns to New Orleans police work to investigate a suspicious...