alcoholism
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    Drunken Angel (1948)

    Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster...

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    A Free Soul (1931)

    A boozing lawyer's (Lionel Barrymore) flapper daughter (Norma Shearer) falls tragically in love with...

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    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

    A bank clerk (Eddie Bracken) gets in trouble after posing as the unknown GI father of his...

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    A Star Is Born (1937)

    A matinee idol turns to alcohol in response to his wife's heightened popularity in this...

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    Circe the Enchantress

    Mae Murray's pictures were the ultimate in jazz-era extravagance. This one is based on the novel by...

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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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    The Depraved

    A man's (Antonio Garcia Guzman) penchant for kinky sex and his partner's (Seidy Lopez) willingness...

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    The Price of Love

    In turn of the century Greece, a young girl falls for a dashing young man in their island village,...

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    Love On A Pillow (1962)

    A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to...

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    Ride the High Country (1962)

    Two old ex-lawmen (Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea) and their sidekick guard a gold shipment and rescue...

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    Tender Is the Night (1962)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic Dick and Nicole Diver (Jason Robards Jr., Jennifer Jones) mix with...

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    A Monkey In Winter (1961)

    A middle-aged alcoholic with a wife and child swears off drinking if they survive the famous...

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    Heartbreak Hotel (1988)

    A young boy kidnapps Elvis so that he can meet his mom, and help her with her tough times

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    High Tide (1987)

    Stranded on the Australian coast, a singer (Judy Davis) befriends a tomboy (Claudia Karvan) who...

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    Homeboy (1988)

    A boxer gets into the ring with a little help from the mob.

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    Stuart Saves His Family (1995)

    New Age therapist Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) tries to rid his family of substance abuse and...

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    The Jimmy Show (2002)

    An aspiring comedian (Frank Whaley) works in a grocery store and performs his stand-up routine at a...

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    800 Bullets (2004)

    Carlos, a fiesty boy fueled by seeing pictures of his dead father, takes off to Almeria, Spain to...

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    Get Your Stuff

    A gay couple (Cameron Watson, Anthony Meindl), waiting to adopt, care for a troubled teen and his...

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    The Blue Villa (1995)

    The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by...

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    Little Vera (1989)

    Much to her parents discontent, a young girl from a small town quits school, and begins a...

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    When Saturday Comes (1997)

    A working class drama about a young would-be soccer player trying to better himself and break his...

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    L' Amour viole

    Nicole is a nurse, with a boyfriend in the military, who lives at home with her mother. One night,...

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    Pollock (2000)

    Poor critical response, alcoholism and a rocky relationship with his wife (Marcia Gay Harden) plague...

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    Flap (1970)

    Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

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    Pohjanmaa

    Four brothers gather with their families one Sunday at the home of their dying grandmother in this...

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    Floating (1999)

    A former high school swimming champion drifts into an aimless life of fast times and petty crimes in...

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    Don's Party (1976)

    Don and his wife throw a party to watch the televised returns of Australia's general election. As...

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    Models

    Controversial documentary filmmaker Ulrich Seidl follows the sex lives and careers of a trio of...

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    Second-Hand Hearts

    A drifter (Robert Blake), his new wife (Barbara Harris) and her awful kids head to California in...