Marvin & Tige

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?

Shakes the Clown

1991

English

5.6

♡ 13

43%

Bobcat Goldthwait Director

Johnny Silver as Clown Tailor

Adam Sandler as Dink the Clown

Robin Williams as Mime Class Instructor

Paul Dooley as Owen Cheese

Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.

My Favorite Year

1982

English

7.3

♡ 15

97%

Richard Benjamin Director

Anne De Salvo as Alice Miller

Lainie Kazan as Belle Carroca

Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone

Cameron Mitchell as Karl Rojeck

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

King of Hearts

2019

Finnish

6.2

♡ 4

Aleksi Mäkelä Director

Anssi Lindström as Joona Jalkanen

Matti Ristinen as Kari Tapio

Sakari Kuosmanen as roudari Pussinen

Mikko Kouki as Veikko Samuli

The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.

Drunks

1995

English

6.4

♡ 6

63%

Peter Cohn Director

Faye Dunaway as Becky

Dianne Wiest as Rachel

Amanda Plummer as Shelley

Sam Rockwell as Tony

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting

Bounce

2000

English

5.8

♡ 4

52%

Don Roos Director

Ben Affleck as Buddy Amaral

Michael Laskin as Frank Steadman

Andy Umberger as Pilot

Erik Aude as Prom Boy

Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a pretty Dallas businesswoman. When the plane goes down, killing all aboard, Buddy's guilt soon turns into an alcohol problem. As part of his 12-step program, Buddy seeks atonement and decides to seek out the woman he thinks he's left a widow.

Tammy

2014

English

4.9

♡ 41

24%

Ben Falcone Director

Sarah Baker as Becky

Gary Cole as Earl

Toni Collette as Missi

Susan Sarandon as Pearl

For Tammy, a burger-joint employee, a bad day keeps getting worse. She wrecks her car, loses her job, and finds that her husband has been unfaithful. It's time for Tammy to hit the road, but without money or transportation, her options are limited. Her only choice is a road trip with her hard-drinking grandmother, Pearl, who has a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. It's not the escape Tammy had in mind, but it may be what she needs.

Over Drive

2018

Japanese

5.9

♡ 20

95%

Eiichirô Hasumi Director

Takumi Kitamura as

Keita Machida as

Masahiro Higashide as

Jun Kaname as Hisatoshi Kagawa

At the SCRS (Seiko Cup Rally Series), talented young drivers hope to advance to the WRC (World Rally Championship). Atsuhiro Hiyama is the chief mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. He is well regarded by his peers. His younger brother is Naozumi. He is an extremely gifted driver for Supika Racing Factory, but he is also a troublemaker. They continually argue because of Naozumi's reckless racing style. One day, Hikaru Endo becomes his manager.

Secret Santa

2018

English

5.1

♡ 14

43%

Adam Marcus Director

A Leslie Kies as April

Nathan Hedrick as Jackson

Joe Howard as Jon

Michael Rady as Ty

An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.

Trust Me

2013

English

6.1

♡ 4

50%

Clark Gregg Director

Sam Rockwell as Aldo

William H. Macy as Gary

Amanda Peet as Marcy

Allison Janney as Meg

In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.

Only When I Laugh

1981

English

6.4

♡ 5

63%

parent child relationship

socialite

Glenn Jordan Director

David Dukes as David

Kevin Bacon as Don

Guy Boyd as Man in Bar

Joan Hackett as Toby

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962

English

7.5

♡ 11

95%

based on play or musical

connecticut

Drama

family relationships

Sidney Lumet Director

Dean Stockwell as Edmund Tyrone

Ralph Richardson as James Tyrone

Jason Robards as Jamie Tyrone

Katharine Hepburn as Mary Tyrone

An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.

American Heart

1992

English

6.7

♡ 8

86%

68%

Action

alcoholism

based on novel or book

Martin Bell Director

Jeff Bridges as Jack Kelson

Edward Furlong as Nick Kelson

Marcus Chong as Terry Cosmos

Loyd Catlett as Vernon the Bartender

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Fragmentary

2019

English

4.3

♡ 7

Jace Pickard Director

Sandy Winton as Glenn Sanderson

Rebecca Clay as Kathy Lutz

Lynden Jones as Mark Lutz

Renee Lim as Rita Mackenzie

Ben Sanderson believes he can travel to an alternate reality when he drinks alcohol, to see the love of his life, who was brutally murdered in a home invasion two years prior. As Ben starts to get a hold of his new found ability, a new threat surfaces that may kill him before he can seek the truth.

Lie Exposed

2019

English

4.4

♡ 1

Jerry Ciccoritti Director

Grace Lynn Kung as Betsy

David Hewlett as Brian

Bruce Greenwood as Frank

Tony Nappo as Perry

Melanie (Leslie Hope) has a good, solid life, but when she’s diagnosed with cancer, her world spirals out of control. Instead of confronting her disease, she leaves her husband (Bruce Greenwood) and heads out for a bender while searching for the meaning of life. During her trip she meets a mysterious, erotic photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to throw caution to the wind and pose for him. This opens up dangerous choices revealed in a surprising show that ignites passionate, provocative emotions and incendiary repercussions through not only her life, but her friends and family.

White Lightnin'

2009

English

7.0

♡ 1

81%

Dominic Murphy Director

Carrie Fisher as Cilla

Kirk Bovill as Long

Steve Nicolson as Vernon

Owen Campbell as Young Jesco

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

A Star Is Born

1954

English

7.5

♡ 29

98%

81%

academy awards

academy awards (oscars)

husband wife relationship

musical

Musical

Romance

George Cukor Director

Irving Bacon as Graves

Louis Jean Heydt as Ocean Scene Director

Ron Nyman as Stage Manager

Don Beddoe as Studio Executive at Premiere

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Alki Alki

6.8

Axel Ranisch Director

Teresa Harder as Elke Grunau

Iris Berben as Galina Ivanowna Schnurkinowa

Thorsten Merten as Thomas Bakowski

Robert Gwisdek as Troubadour

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should focus on his family and career. Everything changes when Tobias tells this to Flasche.

Sanmon yakusha

7.2

Kaneto Shindô Director

Rinko Kikuchi as

Mitsuko Baishô as

Maiko Kawakami as

Nobuko Otowa as Okaji

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

Lotte

2016

German

5.6

♡ 2

Julius Schultheiß Director

Zita Aretz as Greta

Karin Hanczewski as Lotte

Christine Knispel as Sabine

Marc Benjamin Puch as Wim

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man, flat to flat and bar to bar. A brief encounter with a young girl, Greta, turns her life upside down. Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.

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American Heart

Fragmentary

Lie Exposed

White Lightnin'

A Star Is Born

Alki Alki

Sanmon yakusha

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