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Donna Akersten

Stuart Devenie

Mark Hadlow

Brian Sergent

Meet the Feebles (1989)

6.3 321 votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Country: New Zealand

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.

Style: absurd, whimsical

Plot: pornography, sexual abuse, drug addiction, musical, celebrity, coercion, revenge, murder, ...

Shaitan (2011)

6.3 53 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 126 min.

Story: Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.

Plot: drug abuse, drug addiction

Cast

Yekaterina Golubeva

Richard Courcet

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Vincent Dupont

Laurent Gru00e9vill

I Can't Sleep (1994)

6.3 21 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.

Plot: husband wife relationship, paris, france, drag queen, transvestite, drug addiction, immigration, language barrier, ...

Cast

Jill Clayburgh

Matthew Barry

Veronica Lazu0103r

Renato Salvatori

Luna (1979)

6.3 120 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy, United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: parent child relationship, widow, heroin, son, diva, singer, drugs, desire, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Thomas Jane

Luke Kleintank

Josh Hopkins

David Krumholtz

Crown Vic (2019)

6.2 224 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Taiwan, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

Plot: police brutality, drug addiction, los angeles, california, rookie cop, one night, night patrol, ride along, ...

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Skip Hinnant

Rosetta LeNoire

John McCurry

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Phil Seuling

Fritz the Cat (1972)

6.2 390 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees NYC, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz participates in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers.

Style: grindhouse

Plot: new york city, students' movement, underground, cat, orgy, sexual revolution, addiction, violence against women, ...

Cast

Radha Mitchell

Ally Sheedy

Gabriel Mann

Patricia Clarkson

High Art (1998)

6.2 147 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

Style: exploitation

Plot: career, new york city, drug abuse, photographer, photography, heroin, drug addiction, addiction, ...

Cast

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Billy Bob Thornton

Odessa Young

Giovanni Ribisi

A Million Little Pieces (2019)

6.2 114 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Plot: based on novel or book, drug addiction, rehabilitation, male homosexuality, drug rehabilitation, based on memoir or autobiography, woman director, gay theme

Cast

Eric Stoltz

Julie Delpy

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Tai Thai

Killing Zoe (1993)

6.2 375 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

Plot: friendship, prostitute, robbery, drug abuse, paris, france, jazz, aids, ...

Cast

Julianne Moore

Mia Wasikowska

Robert Pattinson

John Cusack

Maps to the Stars (2014)

6.2 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival of Agatha, the scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter.

Plot: suicide, fire, schizophrenia, child murder, rehabilitation, narcissism, menage a trois, satire, ...

Cast

Gwyneth Paltrow

Garrett Hedlund

Tim McGraw

Leighton Meester

Country Strong (2010)

6.1 265 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty queen-turned-singer Chiles Stanton. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

Plot: adultery, infidelity, van, country music, alcohol, musician, paparazzi, musical, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Brad Pitt

Scoot McNairy

Ben Mendelsohn

James Gandolfini

Killing Them Softly (2012)

6.0 2.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

Plot: hotel, robbery, based on novel or book, poker, hitman, gambling, gangster, junkie, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Mark Ruffalo

Amanda Peet

Donnie Wahlberg

What Doesn't Kill You (2008)

6.0 226 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Plot: infidelity, drug addiction, heist, friends

Cast

Michael Moriarty

Andrea Marcovicci

Garrett Morris

Paul Sorvino

The Stuff (1985)

6.0 531 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

Plot: fbi, cult, addiction, junk food, spoof, sensation, zombie, explosion, ...

Cast

Carmelo Gu00f3mez

Ruth Gabriel

Javier Bardem

Karra Elejalde

Running Out of Time (1994)

5.9 40 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Spain

Duration: 93 min.

Story: Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.

Plot: madrid, spain, drug addiction, eta terrorist group, terrorism, prostitution

Winchester (2018)

5.9 1.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

Plot: drug addiction, haunted house, earthquake, based on true story, rifle, architecture, doctor, ghost, ...

Cast

Joe Dallesandro

Holly Woodlawn

Geri Miller

Andrea Feldman

Trash (1970)

5.8 39 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend. During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.

Plot: infidelity, pregnancy, drug addiction, male prostitution, drugs, pregnant woman, welfare, gay theme

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Jonathan Wade-Drahos

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Andre Khabbazi

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Brian Lane Green

Kiersten Warren

Circuit (2001)

5.7 24 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the gay life of workouts and dusk-to-dawn parties. With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, the pulsating Circuit is bound to get your juices flowing.

Plot: prostitute, drug abuse, drug addiction, hustler, illinois, gay club, cop, sexual promiscuity, ...

Cast

Amy Sedaris

Stephen Colbert

Paul Dinello

Greg Hollimon

Strangers with Candy (2006)

5.7 98 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Style: campy, absurdist

Plot: high school, junkie, dark comedy, satire, teacher, prequel, alcoholic teacher, teacher student relationship, ...