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Cast

Robbie Williams

Jonno Davies

Steve Pemberton

Alison Steadman

Better Man (2024)

7.6 871 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.

Plot: depression, drug addiction, musical, biography, based on true story, family abandonment, drugs, monkey, ...

Time: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Cast

Steve Carell

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Maura Tierney

Amy Ryan

Beautiful Boy (2018)

7.6 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

Plot: based on novel or book, san francisco, california, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, drug rehabilitation, based on memoir or autobiography, ...

Cast

Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love

Krist Novoselic

Dave Grohl

Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

7.6 754 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

Style: intimate

Plot: drug abuse, musician, rock star, lifestyle, drug addiction, seattle, washington, biography, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

David Duchovny

Natascha McElhone

Evan Handler

Pamela Adlon

Californication (2007) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 84

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Plot: self-destruction, change, addiction, writer, willpower

Place: california

Cast

Denzel Washington

Russell Crowe

Josh Brolin

Chiwetel Ejiofor

American Gangster (2007)

7.6 6.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Style: provocative, suspenseful, intense

Plot: new york city, drug smuggling, society, gangster, drug trafficking, heroin, junkie, ghetto, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: vietnam

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall

John Ridgely

Martha Vickers

The Big Sleep (1946)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Plot: based on novel or book, gambling, poison, blackmail, detective, drug addiction, sister, film noir, ...

Cast

John Lone

Joan Chen

Peter O'Toole

Ruocheng Ying

The Last Emperor (1987)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: China, France

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Plot: suicide, experiment, isolation, buddhism, becoming an adult, war crimes, suicide attempt, war on drugs, ...

Time: world war ii, 1920s, 1940s, ...

Place: china

Cast

Amy Winehouse

Mark Ronson

Tony Bennett

Pete Doherty

Amy (2015)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: jazz, drug addiction, rehabilitation, overdose, jazz singer or musician, biography, addiction, drug rehabilitation, ...

Cast

Hamish Linklater

Zach Gilford

Kate Siegel

Henry Thomas

Midnight Mass (2021) TV Show

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

Style: shocking, intense

Plot: sheriff, island, drug dealer, vampire, addiction, alcoholism, priest, mysterious man, ...

Cast

Al Pacino

Justin Kirk

Ben Shenkman

Mary-Louise Parker

Angels in America (2003) TV Show

7.6 257 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but as disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

Plot: new york city, angel, aids, drag queen, drug addiction, heaven, terminal illness, ronald reagan, ...

Time: 1980s

Patrick Melrose (2018) TV Show

7.5 321 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Plot: based on novel or book, drug addiction, alcoholism, miniseries

Cast

Billy Crudup

Frances McDormand

Kate Hudson

Jason Lee

Almost Famous (2000)

7.5 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

Plot: concert, rock 'n' roll, drug addiction, groupie, music journalist, based on true story, coming of age, promiscuity, ...

Cast

Narongdet Rungarun

Thakrit Chaiwut

Palat Chayutnitiroj

KaowOat Supasin Singhapan

Playboyy (2023) TV Show

7.5 13 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: Three friends dive into the dark side of the sex industry to find a missing person, facing their own fears and desires along the way.

Style: erotic

Plot: homophobia, infidelity, drug addiction, kidnapping, revenge, unrequited love, social commentary, prostitution, ...

A Star Is Born (2018)

7.5 12.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

Style: romantic

Plot: concert, country music, waitress, pop star, self-destruction, show business, talent, addiction, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Martin Landau

Sarah Jessica Parker

Patricia Arquette

Ed Wood (1994)

7.5 2.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

Plot: individual, taxi, fortune teller, transsexuality, transvestite, movie business, drug addiction, boxer, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Josh Brolin

Miles Teller

Jeff Bridges

Jennifer Connelly

Only the Brave (2017)

7.5 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

Plot: fire, bravery, arizona, natural disaster, heroism, addiction, based on true story, tragedy, ...

Cast

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Douglas Booth

Daniel Webber

Iwan Rheon

The Dirt (2019)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.

Plot: drug addiction, hair metal, metal band

Time: 1980s

Cast

Brooklynn Prince

Bria Vinaite

Willem Dafoe

Christopher Rivera

The Florida Project (2017)

7.4 3.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Plot: friendship, parent child relationship, drug addiction, innocence, motel, drug use, coming of age, summer, ...

Place: florida

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

7.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Plot: new york city, sports, heroin, addiction, basketball, friends, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Trevante Rhodes

Andru00e9 Holland

Janelle Monu00e1e

Ashton Sanders

Moonlight (2016)

7.4 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: drug dealer, high school, drug abuse, miami, florida, parent child relationship, fight, homophobia, ...

Place: florida

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