Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction.

Performance

1970

English

6.7

♡ 15

81%

Nicolas Roeg Director

James Fox as Chas

Ian McShane as Noel - Black Musican

Billy Murray as Thug 1

Kenneth Colley as Tony Farrell

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

The Basketball Diaries

1995

English

7.3

♡ 139

46%

Scott Kalvert Director

John Hoyt as Billy the Bartender

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll

Mark Wahlberg as Mickey

Michael Rapaport as Skinhead

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Cherry

2021

English

6.6

♡ 135

37%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

war veteran

Anthony Russo Director

Tom Holland as Cherry

Bobby Schofield as Clover

Jose Pablo Cantillo as Drill Sgt Deco

Joe Russo as Restaurant Owner

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

1975

Italian

6.4

♡ 8

41%

Steno Director

Edoardo Faieta as (as Emidio Edward Faieta)

Francesco De Rosa as Goldhand

Bud Spencer as Inspector 'Flatfoot' Rizzo

Francesco D'Adda as (uncredited)

Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

Sweet Sixteen

2002

English

7.4

♡ 11

97%

Ken Loach Director

Scott Dymond as Davi-Vampire

Jon Morrison as Douglas

Martin Compston as Liam

Gary McCormack as Stan

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

1971

English

4.7

♡ 2

Romain Gary Director

James Mason as Alan Hamilton

Jean Seberg as Emily Hamilton

Curd Jürgens as Grueningen

Daniel Emilfork as Mejid

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

English

6.7

♡ 31

24%

81%

Action

american dream

based on novel or book

Ron Howard Director

Amy Adams as Bev

Mary Kraft as Intake Receptionist

Gabriel Basso as J.D. Vance

Haley Bennett as Lindsay

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Heroin: Cape Cod, USA

2015

English

7.1

♡ 1

52%

Steven Okazaki Director

An unvarnished look at the heroin epidemic sweeping America's small towns and communities, focusing on on eight young addicts in idyllic Cape Cod, Mass.

Animal Kingdom

2010

English

♡ 27

94%

David Michôd Director

Joel Edgerton as Barry 'Baz' Brown

Anthony Hayes as Detective Justin Norris

Guy Pearce as Detective Senior Sgt Nathan Leckie

David Michôd as Reporter

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

Pink Flamingos

1972

English

6.0

♡ 22

84%

John Waters Director

Mink Stole as Connie Marble Divine

Divine as Divine / Babs Johnson

John Waters as Mr. J

George Stoll as Onlooker

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Cecil B. Demented

2000

English

6.3

♡ 19

53%

John Waters Director

Alicia Witt as Cherish

Eric Roberts as Honey's Ex

Kevin Nealon as Kevin

Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Lewis

A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.

New Jack City

1991

English

6.6

♡ 54

81%

Mario Van Peebles Director

Christopher Michael as Bailiff

Vin Diesel as Bouncer

Tina Lifford as Recovering Addict Ice-T

Ice-T as Scotty Appleton

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

Candy

2006

English

7.2

♡ 47

47%

based on novel or book

Neil Armfield Director

Abbie Cornish as Candy

Geoffrey Rush as Casper

Heath Ledger as Dan

Tony Martin as Mr. Wyatt

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Perfect High

2015

English

5.9

♡ 9

68%

Vanessa Parise Director

Jasmine Sky Sarin as Alexis

Bella Thorne as Amanda

Lucia Walters as Coach Yost

Michael Bean as Dr. Taheri

Sweet suburban teen Amanda is introduced by her new friends to prescription drug-sharing, but the recreational fun soon leads her to a life-altering heroin addiction.

French Connection II

1975

English

6.7

♡ 32

82%

John Frankenheimer Director

Fernando Rey as Alain Charnier

Bernard Fresson as Barthélémy

Gene Hackman as Doyle

Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Raoul

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Go Ask Alice

1973

English

6.0

♡ 6

53%

based on novel or book

John Korty Director

Robert Carradine as Bill

Mackenzie Phillips as Doris

Charles Martin Smith as Jim

William Shatner as Sam

A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

Mixed Blood

1984

English

5.9

♡ 5

Paul Morrissey Director

Rodney Harvey as Jose

Angel David as Juan the Bullet

John Leguizamo as Macetero

Marília Pêra as Rita La Punta

On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.