🏷 Discover The Best Alcoholic Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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When it comes to exploring the complexities of addiction, movies and TV shows about alcohol offer a unique lens into the struggles and triumphs of those affected. From heart-wrenching dramas to enlightening documentaries, this genre captivates and educates. Join us as we uncover some of the best films and series that tackle the topic of alcoholism, revealing both poignant stories and compelling characters.

Cast

Chris Parnell

Spencer Grammer

Sarah Chalke

Ian Cardoni

Rick and Morty (2013) TV Show

8.7 11.1K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.

Plot: time travel, grandfather, alcoholism, alien, dysfunctional family, mad scientist, scientist, adult animation, ...

Cast

Will Arnett

Aaron Paul

Alison Brie

Amy Sedaris

BoJack Horseman (2014) TV Show

8.5 2.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 76

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

Plot: drug abuse, show business, depression, nihilism, horse, cynicism, alcoholism, satire, ...

Cast

Regina Duarte

Antu00f4nio Fagundes

Lu00eddia Brondi

Cu00e1ssio Gabus Mendes

Vale Tudo (1988) TV Show

8.3 31 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 204

Story: Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever.

Style: cynical

Plot: rags to riches, fame, telenovela, alcohol problems, political debate, critical, hopeful

Cast

Choi Min-sik

Yoo Ji-tae

Kang Hye-jung

Kim Byeong-ok

Oldboy (2003)

8.2 10.0K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Plot: daughter, martial arts, rage and hate, hostility, transformation, imprisonment, dark comedy, hypnosis, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Jack Nicholson

Shelley Duvall

Danny Lloyd

Scatman Crothers

The Shining (1980)

8.2 19.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, telepathy, delusion, halloween, ...

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

8.2 15.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: R

Story: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Plot: hero, abusive father, pacifism, bible, gore, vegetarian, biography, based on true story, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: japan

Cast

Kate Winslet

Jean Smart

Julianne Nicholson

Angourie Rice

Mare of Easttown (2021) TV Show

8.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

Style: tense

Plot: detective, drug abuse, pennsylvania, usa, small town, therapist, investigation, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro

Vinu00edcius de Oliveira

Maru00edlia Pu00eara

Othon Bastos

Central Station (1998)

8.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil, France

Duration: 111 min.

Story: An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Plot: letter, wilderness, teacher, orphan, railroad, alcoholic, missing parent, long lost relative, ...

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Pedro Infante

Rosario Granados

Domingo Soler

Magda Guzmu00e1n

La Vida No Vale Nada (1955)

8.1 50 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.

Plot: prostitute, widow, emigration, peasant, illiteracy, compassion, alcoholic, labor, ...

Place: mexico

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis

Paul Dano

Kevin J. O'Connor

Ciaru00e1n Hinds

There Will Be Blood (2007)

8.1 7.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 158 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Style: shocking

Plot: petrol, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, capitalism, pastor, deaf-mute, greed, american dream, ...

Time: 19th century, 1900s, 20th century, ...

Place: california

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Cast

Frances McDormand

Woody Harrelson

Sam Rockwell

Abbie Cornish

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

8.1 11.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Plot: small town, police brutality, missouri, alcoholism, murder, cancer, teenage girl, police corruption, ...

Cast

Mihu00e1ly Vu00edg

Putyi Horvu00e1th

Szu00e9kely B. Miklu00f3s

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Erika Bu00f3k

Satantango (1994)

8.0 310 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, Hungary

Duration: 432 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Plot: farm, countryside, based on novel or book, cat, rain, loneliness, art house, poverty, ...

Place: hungary

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Cast

Evan Peters

Richard Jenkins

Molly Ringwald

Michael Learned

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) TV Show

8.0 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

Style: intense

Plot: deaf-mute, pedophilia, court case, necrophilia, alcoholism, based on true story, murder, serial killer, ...

Cast

Harrison Ford

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

Edward James Olmos

Blade Runner (1982)

7.9 15.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: android, flying car, bounty hunter, artificial intelligence (a.i.), genetics, based on novel or book, dystopia, futuristic, ...

Time: 2010s

Cast

Adrian Edmondson

Rik Mayall

Bottom (1991) TV Show

7.9 140 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

Style: surreal

Plot: alcohol, bachelor, fight, virgin, boredom, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, sexual humor, ...

Cast

Aya Okamoto

Yoshiaki Umegaki

Tohru Emori

Satomi Korogi

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Plot: baby, drag queen, holiday, tokyo, japan, alcoholic, blunt, adult animation, ...

Warrior (2011)

7.8 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

Style: intense

Plot: bank, training, beating, mixed martial arts (mma), teacher, muscleman, combat, alcoholic, ...

Prime Suspect (1991) TV Show

7.8 99 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 15

Story: Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

Plot: london, england, sexism, murder, criminal, police detective, alcoholic, criminal investigation, ...

Place: england

Cast

John Wayne

Dean Martin

Ricky Nelson

Angie Dickinson

Rio Bravo (1959)

7.8 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Story: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Plot: small town, sheriff, gun, marshal, deputy, murder, jail, alcoholic, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Gaspard Schlatter

Sixtine Murat

Paulin Jaccoud

Michel Vuillermoz

My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

7.8 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Switzerland

Duration: 66 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

Plot: orphanage, thief, stop motion, police officer, alcoholic, adult animation, 3d animation

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Top Movies About Alcoholism

Film has a powerful way of depicting the intricacies of addiction. Here are some of the most impactful movies that explore the theme of alcoholism:

Leaving Las Vegas - A raw portrayal of a man who decides to drink himself to death in Las Vegas.
Flight - This gripping drama follows an airline pilot whose alcoholism leads to a life-changing incident.
28 Days - A comedic yet heartfelt story about a woman’s journey through rehab.
The Lost Weekend - An Oscar-winning film that captures the despair of a struggling writer battling alcoholism.

Must-Watch TV Shows Featuring Alcoholism

TV shows often delve deeper into character development, making them perfect for exploring the nuances of addiction. Here are some noteworthy series:

Mad Men - Set in the 1960s, this series offers a critical look at the culture of drinking in the advertising industry.
BoJack Horseman - An animated series that presents a darkly comedic take on addiction and recovery.
Mom - A sitcom that addresses the challenges of sobriety and family dynamics through humor.
Alcohol: The Science of Addiction - A documentary series exploring the impact of alcohol on society and individuals.

Why These Films and Shows Matter

Movies and TV shows about alcoholism serve more than just entertainment; they provide insights into the realities of addiction. They:

Raise awareness about the struggles faced by those suffering from addiction.
Encourage discussions around mental health and recovery.
Offer a sense of solidarity for those in similar situations.
Help to destigmatize alcoholism and promote understanding.

Conclusion

From heartwarming tales of recovery to cautionary narratives, the world of cinema and television presents a diverse array of stories related to alcoholism. Whether you seek inspiration or knowledge, these films and shows are essential viewing for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of this multifaceted issue.