The Chronology of Water
Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
Shelter
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Dublin Oldschool
Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.
Shifty
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall.
Crossing the Bridge
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; instead of smuggling weed from Canada to Detroit, which they'd expected, the threesome's forced to traffic a huge stash of heroin.
Acute Misfortune
The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
Dope Sick Love
Two heroin-addicted couples lead hard and stressful lives on the streets of New York.
Permanent Midnight
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
The Psychedelic Priest
A priest sheds his habit, tunes in, turns on and drops out for a road trip that will change his life and bring him sorrow. Filmed in 1971 but not released until 2001.
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.
City of Fear
An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is threating the lives of everyone in the city.
Girl Gang
A gangster hooks gangs of young women on drugs and has them commit robberies and prostitution.
Fried Barry
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
Life of Crime 2
This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.
Out of the Blue
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
The Heroin Busters
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Christiane F.
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Out of Bounds
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
Things We Lost in the Fire
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
The Connection
A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.
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Paul Bettany
Director
Gameela Wright
as
Advisor
Andrew Polk
as
Doctor
Jennifer Connelly
as
Hannah
Anthony Mackie
as
Tahir
Dave Tynan
Director
Aaron Heffernan
as
Aaron
Tim Plester
as
Blair
Daniel Mays
as
Chris
Jason Flemyng
as
Glen
Riz Ahmed
as
Shifty
Tom McCarthy
as
Chris
Stephen Baldwin
as
Danny Morgan
David Schwimmer
as
John Anderson
Rita Taggart
as
Kate Golden
Daniel Henshall
as
Adam Cullen
Toby Wallace
as
Erik Jensen
Max Cullen
as
Kevin Cullen
Charles Fleischer
as
Allen from Mr. Chompers
Connie Nielsen
as
Dagmar
Ben Stiller
as
Jerry Stahl
Maria Bello
as
Kitty
Charles Bail
Director
Han Chiang
as
Bobby Canavarro
as
Lin Ma Chen
Albert Popwell
as
Matthew Johnson
Norman Fell
as
Stanley Nagel
Irving Lerner
Director
Patricia Blair
as
June Marlowe
John Archer
as
Lt. Mark Richards
Vic Perrin
as
Radio Announcer
Colin Moss
as
Jack
Steve Wall
as
Little Beast
Joey Cramer
as
Self
Emily Child
as
Supermarket Cashier
Dennis Hopper
Director
Ron Chartier
as
Boy at Car
Don Gordon
as
Charlie
Sharon Farrell
as
Kathy
Leonardo Scavino
as
Cannabis Dealer
Benito Pacifico
as
Genoese Assassin
Emilio Messina
as
(uncredited)
Stefania Spugnini
as
Young Woman
David Bowie
as
David Bowie
Thomas Haustein
as
Detlev
Raymond J. Barry
as
Hurley
Glynn Turman
as
Lieutenant Delgado
Jerry Levine
as
Marshall
Jeff Kober
as
Roy Gaddis
Susanne Bier
Director
Halle Berry
as
Audrey Burke
Robin Weigert
as
Brenda
Paula Newsome
as
Diane
Benicio Del Toro
as
Jerry Sunborne
Garry Goodrow
as
Ernie
William Redfield
as
Jim Dunn
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