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Gone Baby Gone(2007)

R
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 1,614 votes)

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

Directed by Ben Affleck - With Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Amy Ryan, John Ashton, ...
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Moonlight(2016)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 3,217 votes)

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Directed by Barry Jenkins - With Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, ...
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Amy(2015)

R
| 2h 8min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 546 votes)

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.

Directed by Asif Kapadia - With Amy Winehouse, Jonathan Ross, Janis Seaton, Mitch Winehouse, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, ...
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Middle Men(2009)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 132 votes)

Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

Directed by George Gallo - With Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, Laura Ramsey, Jacinda Barrett, ...
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Luna(1979)

2h 22min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazăr, Tomas Milian, Renato Salvatori, Fred Gwynne, ...

Light Sleeper(1992)

R
| 1h 43min | Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 52 votes)

A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Victor Garber, Jane Adams, ...
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I(2013)

NR
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 1,496 votes)

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Directed by Lars von Trier - With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clark, ...
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6 Balloons(2018)

1h 15min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 111 votes)

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.

Directed by Marja-Lewis Ryan - With Abbi Jacobson, Dave Franco, Maya Erskine, Tim Matheson, Jane Kaczmarek, Charlotte Carel, ...
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High Life(2009)

1h 20min | Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.

Directed by Gary Yates - With Timothy Olyphant, Rossif Sutherland
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Another Day in Paradise(1998)

R
| 1h 41min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 54 votes)

A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner), inviting them to join him and his long-suffering girlfriend Sid (Melanie Griffith) on a drug robbery which should set them up for life. The seemingly simple robbery is a great success, but the sale of the drugs afterward fails badly, and Mel and Bobbie are shot.The four take refuge with the Reverend, who charges them half of their haul from the robbery to care for them. In a desperate attempt to recover their losses, Mel involves the crew in a disastrous, ill-advised jewellery robbery, and they become caught up in a web of violence that rapidly spirals out of control.

Directed by Larry Clark - With James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Peter Sarsgaardd, James Otis, ...

Resolution(2013)

1h 33min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 156 votes)

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead - With Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst, Jr.
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Inner Demons(2014)

1h 25min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 32 votes)

INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

Directed by Seth Grossman
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love(1998)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.

Directed by Gregory Nava - With Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky
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The Battle of Shaker Heights(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 19min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 22 votes)

A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where his father is a recovering drug addict. Kelly's life gets even more complicated when he falls for Tabby, Bart's pretty and soon-to-be-wed older sister.

Directed by Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin - With Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Shiri Appleby, Kathleen Quinlan, William Sadler, ...
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Pups(1999)

R
| 1h 39min | Thriller, Action, Drama, Crime
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.

Directed by Ash Baron-Cohen - With Mischa Barton, Burt Reynolds, Cameron Van Hoy

Prey for Rock & Roll(2003)

1h 44min | Drama, Music
2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Prey for Rock & Roll is set in the Los Angeles club scene of the late 1980s and follows the story of Jacki (Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom. Along the way, the women are rocked by personal tragedies that threaten to break up the band before they can get their last shot at success.

Directed by Alex Steyermark - With Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Gina Gershon, Benjamín Benítez, Marc Blucas, ...

Save Me(2007)

1h 36min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.

Directed by Robert Cary - With Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Greg Serano, Robert Baker, ...
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Blood(2004)

1h 30min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other.

Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti

Eastern Plays(2009)

1h 23min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.

Directed by Kamen Kalev - With Saadet Aksoy, Ivan Nalbantov, Hatice Aslan, Kerem Atabeyoglu, Anjela Nedyalkova, Ovanes Torosyan, ...

Bath Salt Zombies(2013)

R
| 1h 10min | Horror
1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

In a punk-rock homage to "Reefer Madness," two plot threads intertwine: a hapless junkie falls victim to "Bath Salts" addiction, while a police detective attempts to uncover and stamp out a new strain of designer drug products.

Directed by Dustin Mills

Dublin Oldschool(2018)

1h 35min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

Directed by Dave Tynan - With Ian Lloyd Anderson, Sarah Greene, Seána Kerslake, Emmet Kirwan

A Dose of Happiness(2019)

1h 40min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.

Wasted(2002)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.

Cold Turkey(2001)

54min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Leo Regan follows his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he tries to go cold turkey (detox) from heroin in his council flat and without medication.

The Perfect Selfie(2017)

1h 7min | Documentary
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Teenager Olivia Oras has 20,000 Instagram followers. The documentary follows a year of her life.

Spiritual Agony(2014)

1h 30min | Horror, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Eric is in his mid twenties and suffers from severe anxiety. He spends his days trying to get rid of his inner demons , this is by consuming lots of alcohol and the drugs he comes across . Why does Eric feel and act like this, and will his behavior never end? That's the question his film friend Jeppe wants to find an answer to, but rarely get any response when Eric mostly keeps to himself or with his drug buddy Jonas . Eric also has a sister who he is trying to strengthen its relationship with now and then , but that's easier said than done when she is busy to fit up his DJ Genius for boyfriend, Johannes.

Subject: Narcotics(1951)

21min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Educational film about drug addiction.

Addict(2013)

1h 32min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Disillusioned sales manager David Pettigrew is a man with an addictive personality. Addicted to smoking. Addicted to drinking. And increasingly addicted to darker vices. Haunted by his unrequited feelings for a married employee, he seeks distraction elsewhere and sets off down a destructive path that can only end badly … for everyone.