Top Alcoholic Movies & TV Shows

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

Denzel Washington

Dakota Fanning

Christopher Walken

Radha Mitchell

Man on Fire (2004)

7.5 5.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Switzerland, United Kingdom

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: mexico city, mexico, based on novel or book, kidnapping, bodyguard, diary, bible, remake, ...

Place: mexico

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Lauren Bacall

Walter Brennan

Dolores Moran

To Have and Have Not (1945)

7.5 578 votes

Genre: Adventure, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Plot: island, based on novel or book, nazi, fishing, singer, film noir, french resistance, alcoholic, ...

Time: world war ii

Inspector Koo (2021) TV Show

7.4 160 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.

Plot: detective, murder, private investigator, alcoholic, tragic past, suspense

Cast

Elliott Gould

Nina van Pallandt

Sterling Hayden

Mark Rydell

The Long Goodbye (1973)

7.4 777 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Plot: infidelity, suicide, corruption, police, cat, detective, greed, mission of murder, ...

Cast

Rena Owen

Temuera Morrison

Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell

Julian Arahanga

Once Were Warriors (1994)

7.4 499 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: New Zealand

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

Plot: individual, suicide, rape, strong woman, tattoo, slum, funeral, alcohol, ...

Place: new zealand

La Doña (2016) TV Show

7.4 640 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 200

Audience: TV-14

Story: A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by faceless men who are protected by impunity. But Altagracia, transformed into a strong-willed, ruthless man-eater known as La Doña, will seek out each and every one of these men to bring them to justice.

Plot: corruption, business woman, violence against women, alcoholism, femme fatale, revenge, murder, romance, ...

Cast

Ben Mendelsohn

Bill Camp

Jeremy Bobb

Julianne Nicholson

The Outsider (2020) TV Show

7.4 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, child murder, georgia, strip club, investigation, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Jason Clarke

Jason Mitchell

Mary J. Blige

Mudbound (2017)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Plot: farm, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, war veteran, ku klux klan, mississippi river, air force, alcoholism, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Johnny Depp

Robert Englund

Amanda Wyss

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

7.3 5.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Style: shocking, suspenseful

Plot: dreams, nightmare, psychopath, sleep, child murder, supernatural, ohio, murder, ...

Cast

Emma Thompson

Tom Hanks

Colin Farrell

Paul Giamatti

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

7.3 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Plot: biography, based on true story, death of father, alcoholism, author, writer, aftercreditsstinger, disneyland, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Taron Egerton

Jamie Bell

Richard Madden

Bryce Dallas Howard

Rocketman (2019)

7.3 5.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

Plot: london, england, drug abuse, pop star, musical, biography, based on true story, alcoholism, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Cast

Jeremy Irvine

Peter Mullan

Emily Watson

Niels Arestrup

War Horse (2011)

7.3 3.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Plot: horse, farm life, execution, trapped, alcoholic, cavalry, plowing, artillery, ...

Time: world war i

Cast

Jeff Bridges

7.3 5.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Plot: bounty hunter, based on novel or book, father murder, loss of loved one, texas ranger, arkansas, alcoholism, remake, ...

Cast

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Leslie Nielsen

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Airplane! (1980)

7.3 5.1K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Plot: chicago, illinois, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, cataclysm, nun, guitar, alcohol, ...

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

Diego Calva

Margot Robbie

Brad Pitt

Jovan Adepo

Babylon (2022)

7.3 3.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Style: melancholy, absurd

Plot: elephant, gambling, gambling debt, movie business, orgy, cocaine, champagne, alcoholism, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Bruno S.

Eva Mattes

Clemens Scheitz

Wilhelm von Homburg

Stroszek (1977)

7.3 301 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Plot: new york city, van, prostitute, unexpected happiness, release from prison, wisconsin, american dream, accordion, ...

Cast

Paul Bettany

Sophia Lillis

Peter Macdissi

Steve Zahn

Uncle Frank (2020)

7.3 445 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

Plot: coming out, new york city, suicide, funeral, homophobia, uncle, alcoholism, road trip, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Paul McGann

Richard Griffiths

Ralph Brown

Withnail & I (1987)

7.2 631 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Plot: drug dealer, london, england, northern england, countryside, alcohol, darkness, flat, ...

Time: 1960s

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