Addiction Movies

It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary...

A gritty, emotional, and culturally explosive crime drama rooted in the Vietnamese and Black communities of East Oakland, California.

In New York City, a young writer's resolute belief in true love is put to the test by a beautiful girl and her struggle with addiction. This original...

Solace is an interactive animated film based on celebrated science fiction writer Jeff Noon's short story about a near future in which marketing and...

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

The bleak outskirts of San Francisco act as the backdrop for this view into a jaded generation. Floating through their mid-twenties, four strangers...

Teenager Jennifer Phillips loses her father in a long battle with cancer. She's devastated and one night, after heavy drinking, she crashes her car...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her...

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

Plagued by visions of what her future could look like, Marcy becomes addicted to a pill that gives her vivid dreams and changes her appearance.

In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical...

Norwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that...

The film tells the story of three friends and their long years of drug addiction in a small village of East Germany.

After the difficult birth of their first child, Anneke becomes addicted to pills. After an attempted suicide, she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic.

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera...

Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable...