Morphine

2008

Russian

7.2

♡ 5

Aleksey Balabanov Director

Ingeborga Dapkunaite as Anna Nikolayevna

Katarina Radivojevic as Ekaterina Karlovna

Oleg Korytin as Firefighter

Sergey Garmash as Vasiliy Osipovich

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.

Our American Family

2021

English

7.0

♡ 3

100%

Sean King O'Grady Director

Chris Caltabiano Jr. as

Nicole Caltabiano as

Stephen Caltabiano as

Bryan Geraghty as

Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. Our American Family provides an honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.

The Children of Leningradsky

2005

Polish

7.7

♡ 3

85%

Andrzej Celinski Director

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...

Kamikaze Hearts

1986

English

6.3

♡ 8

san francisco, california

Juliet Bashore Director

Jon Martin as Jon Martin

Sharon Mitchell as Mitch

Phaery Burd as Script Girl Tigr

Tigr as Tigr

Porn stars Sharon Mitchell and Tigr navigate the ups and downs of being in love while working in the sex industry.

A Million Little Pieces

2018

English

6.3

♡ 21

27%

51%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

based on novel or book

Sam Taylor-Johnson Director

Charlie Hunnam as Bob Frey Jr.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey

Billy Bob Thornton as Leonard

Andy Mackenzie as Thug

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

The Barcelona Vampiress

2020

Catalan

5.8

♡ 4

Lluís Danés Director

Pablo Derqui as Fuster

Alejandra Howard as Laura

Albert Pérez as Periodista 2

Francesca Piñón as Sor Engracia

Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.

Girl in Room 13

2022

English

5.5

♡ 2

Elisabeth Röhm Director

Matt Hamilton as Burt

Harrison Sima as Dan

Larissa Albuquerque as Grace

Anne Heche as Janie

A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.

Rocker

2012

Romanian

6.4

♡ 1

Drama

drug addiction

parent child relationship

rocker

Marian Crisan Director

Ofelia Popii as

Alexandru Aron as Horea

Razvan Corneci as Levi

Paul Popovici as Paul

The story of Victor, a 45-year-old rocker, whose love for his son Florin go beyond what is socially and morally acceptable. The father's everyday life is orbiting around his son, a drug addict.

Blow

2001

English

7.5

♡ 98

56%

Ted Demme Director

Johnny Depp as George Jung

Penélope Cruz as Mirtha Jung

Tony Amendola as Sanchez

Emma Roberts as Young Kristina Jung

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

28 Days

2000

English

6.1

♡ 49

33%

Betty Thomas Director

Steve Buscemi as Cornell

Viggo Mortensen as Eddie Boone

Susan Krebs as Evelyn

Sandra Bullock as Gwen Cummings

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.

August: Osage County

2013

English

7.2

♡ 45

67%

65%

Action

based on play or musical

John Wells Director

Julia Roberts as Barbara Weston

Abigail Breslin as Jean Fordham

Benedict Cumberbatch as Little Charles Aiken

Dermot Mulroney as Steve Huberbrecht

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

Amy

2015

English

7.8

♡ 48

96%

jazz singer or musician

Music

overdose

rehabilitation

Asif Kapadia Director

Tony Bennett as Himself Jay Z

Jay Z as Himself

Dave Grohl as Himself

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson as Himself

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

Hostile

2017

English

5.3

♡ 28

60%

post-apocalyptic future

Romance

Sci-Fi

walkie talkie

Mathieu Turi Director

Grégory Fitoussi as Jack

Brittany Ashworth as Juliet

Javier Botet as The Reaper

Jay Benedict as Wounded Man

Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976

English

6.6

♡ 4

78%

69%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Herbert Ross Director

John Bird as Berger

Robert Duvall as Dr. John H. Watson

Harry Fielder as Drunk Man

Anna Quayle as Freda

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

Flickering Lights

2000

Danish

7.5

♡ 11

70%

Anders Thomas Jensen Director

Mads Mikkelsen as Arne

Peter Andersson as Færingen

Ulrich Thomsen as Peter

Laura Drasbæk as Susanne

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Let's Get Lost

1988

English

7.7

♡ 5

97%

jazz singer or musician

Music

musical

Bruce Weber Director Flea

Flea as Self

Viggo Mortensen as Self

Lisa Marie as Self

Carey Lowell as Self

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

6 Balloons

2018

English

5.9

♡ 23

Marja-Lewis Ryan Director

Tahmus Rounds as Dealer

Tim Matheson as Gary

Abbi Jacobson as Katie

Dave Franco as Seth

Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.

Narcotic

1933

English

3.9

♡ 5

17%

Dwain Esper Director

Hildegarde Stadie as Blonde Waiting Outside Davies' Office

Herman Hack as Burger

Harry Cording as Dr. William G. Davis

Patricia Farley as Mae

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

Burnt

2015

English

♡ 111

29%

John Wells Director

Emma Thompson as Dr Rosshilde

Matthew Rhys as Reece

Lily James as Sara

Uma Thurman as Simone Forth

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

Easy Rider

1969

English

7.2

♡ 59

84%

Dennis Hopper Director

Dennis Hopper as Billy

Bridget Fonda as Child in Commune

Jack Nicholson as George Hanson

Michael Pataki as Mime #4

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

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