Opium Movies

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier...

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only...

China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys...

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers. The hotel, which has only one room,...

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu...

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for...

Customs of the mountain people has always been strict and respectful to themselves. Doing something wrong will be considered as being disrespect to...

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Jonathan, a well-fed ship's cook, and his friend Michael go ashore in an oriental port city after a long sea voyage. They cannot resist the lure of...

Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Man in the World

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

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British...

At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

During the 1960s there was a group of writers in Buenos Aires who, influenced by the North American Beatnik movement, called themselves Opium....

When five gentlemen humiliate a merchant in a Tunisian bazaar, the latter curses them, telling them the order of their deaths within a given time...

Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to...

The Thai government sends a man in undercover to a guerrilla compound to bring down Thailand's biggest drug lord, who supplies opium to most of the...

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost hanged, was granted the rank of Major by Abraham...