Movies Like

Cast

Johnny Depp

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Franka Potente

Rachel Griffiths

Blow (2001)

7.4 4.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: drug smuggling, war on drugs, drug trafficking, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, rise and fall, docudrama, ...

Time: 1970s

Shantaram (2022) TV Show

7.4 190 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.

Plot: slum, corruption, based on novel or book, police, love, prison escape, doctor, felon, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: india

Cast

Norman Reedus

Udo Kier

Christopher Redman

Chris Gauthier

Cigarette Burns (2005)

7.4 140 votes

Genre: Horror, TV Movie

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 59 min.

Story: With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Plot: new york city, paris, france, angel, junkie, collector, flashback, debt, ...

The North Water (2021) TV Show

7.4 177 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Canada, Luxembourg

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

Plot: based on novel or book, opium, drug addiction, psychopath, murder, marooned, whaling, north pole, ...

Time: 19th century, 1850s

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Bridget Moynahan

Jared Leto

Ethan Hawke

Lord of War (2005)

7.3 5.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

Plot: hotel, new york city, civil war, dictator, drug addiction, cocaine, warlord, car bomb, ...

Time: cold war

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

7.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: robbery, corruption, based on novel or book, police, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, blackmail, ...

Cast

Natja Brunckhorst

Thomas Haustein

Jens Kuphal

Rainer Woelk

Christiane F. (1981)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Style: intense

Plot: berlin, germany, heroin, junkie, prostitution, illegal drugs, dramatic, critical, ...

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Valerie Perrine

Jan Miner

Stanley Beck

Lenny (1974)

7.3 314 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.

Plot: adultery, husband wife relationship, court case, court, drug addiction, freedom of speech, comedian, civil rights, ...

Cast

Julia Garner

Josh Brolin

Alden Ehrenreich

Austin Abrams

Weapons (2025)

7.3 3.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Plot: witch, small town, pennsylvania, ritual, junkie, teacher, trance, witchcraft, ...

Place: usa

Cast

David Jonsson

Tom Blyth

Alex Hassell

Neil Linpow

Wasteman (2026)

7.2 61 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own chances at freedom.

Plot: prison, male friendship, addiction, drug dealing, parole, parolee, estranged son, british prison, ...

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Eleanor Parker

Kim Novak

Arnold Stang

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

7.2 254 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Plot: prison, drug dealer, underground world, jazz, poker, sense of guilt, gambling, insanity, ...

Cast

Mickey Rourke

Robert De Niro

Lisa Bonet

Charlotte Rampling

Angel Heart (1987)

7.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

Plot: new york city, amnesia, heart, southern usa, voodoo, detective, drug addiction, new orleans, ...

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ethan Hawke

Albert Finney

Marisa Tomei

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

7.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Plot: daughter, career, sibling relationship, office, drug addiction, greed, investigation, hold-up robbery, ...

Nurse Jackie (2009) TV Show

7.1 247 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 80

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.

Plot: nurse, parent child relationship, drug addiction, addiction, hospital, drugs

Cast

Gillian Jacobs

Paul Rust

Chris Witaske

Claudia O'Doherty

Love (2016) TV Show

7.1 337 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 34

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.

Style: irreverent, witty, romantic

Plot: love, romcom, romance, hollywood, los angeles, california, couple, addict, ...

Cast

Sophie Wilde

Alexandra Jensen

Joe Bird

Otis Dhanji

Talk to Me (2023)

7.1 3.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

Plot: suicide, trauma, possession, female friendship, addiction, grief, female protagonist, death of mother, ...

Cast

Val Kilmer

Meg Ryan

Kyle MacLachlan

Frank Whaley

The Doors (1991)

7.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Plot: rock 'n' roll, airplane, hippie, joint, poetry, lsd, hallucination, wilderness, ...

Cast

Lim Soo-jung

Moon Geun-young

Yum Jung-ah

Kim Kap-soo

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

7.1 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

Plot: amnesia, drug abuse, loss of loved one, homicide, drug addiction, stepmother, menstruation, sister, ...

Cast

Tobey Maguire

Charlize Theron

Michael Caine

Delroy Lindo

The Cider House Rules (1999)

7.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?

Plot: based on novel or book, orphanage, pregnancy, drug addiction, cigarette, cider, maine, orphan, ...

Time: 1940s