Top Substance Abuse Movies & TV Shows

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Abraham Attah

Idris Elba

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Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye

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Opeyemi Fagbohungbe

Beasts of No Nation (2015)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Brazil, United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: R

Story: Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

Plot: guerrilla warfare, civil war, based on novel or book, africa, refugee, machete, drug use, jungle, ...

Place: west africa

Cast

James Franco

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Chris Bauer

Chris Coy

The Deuce (2017) TV Show

7.6 423 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

Plot: new york city, sex shop, pornography, brothel, peep show, times square, drug use, prostitution, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Donald Pleasence

Jamie Lee Curtis

Nancy Kyes

P. J. Soles

Halloween (1978)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Plot: mask, police, halloween, babysitter, marijuana, stalking, serial killer, maniac, ...

Cast

Richie Havens

Joan Baez

Roger Daltrey

John Entwistle

Woodstock (1970)

7.5 298 votes

Genre: Documentary, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 184 min.

Audience: R

Story: An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

Style: romantic

Plot: hippie, free love, music festival, marijuana, rock music, drugs, archive footage, music history, ...

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, ...

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Rose Byrne

Allyn Rachel

Isabela Merced

Instant Family (2018)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Plot: court case, social worker, adoption, based on true story, parenting, foster family, amusement park, lgbt, ...

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Sibel Kekilli

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Meltem Cumbul

Head-On (2004)

7.5 632 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany, Turkey

Duration: 122 min.

Story: With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

Plot: drug abuse, religious education, alcohol, fictitious marriage, homicide, roommates, religion and supernatural, love, ...

Place: turkey

Cast

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Sydney Pollack

Marie Richardson

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

7.5 7.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: R

Story: After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, prostitute, based on novel or book, sexual obsession, sacrifice, christmas party, eroticism, orgy, ...

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

Cast

Brad Davis

Irene Miracle

Bo Hopkins

Paolo Bonacelli

Midnight Express (1978)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Style: suspenseful

Plot: prison, airport, drug smuggling, escape, court, attempt to escape, based on true story, prison guard, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Antonio Banderas

Asier Etxeandia

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Nora Navas

Pain and Glory (2019)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Plot: drug abuse, madrid, spain, cinema on cinema, movie business, creative crisis, lgbt, sexual awakening, ...

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

Cast

Andy Samberg

Cristin Milioti

J.K. Simmons

Peter Gallagher

Palm Springs (2020)

7.3 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

Plot: alcohol, cave, time travel, earthquake, swimming pool, drug use, palm springs, time loop, ...

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

Jason London

Matthew McConaughey

Joey Lauren Adams

Rory Cochrane

Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

Plot: high school, coming of age, marijuana, summer, period drama, teen comedy, teenager, stoner comedy, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

Suriya

Simran

Divya Spandana

Sameera Reddy

Vaaranam Aayiram (2008)

7.3 77 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 169 min.

Story: A son deals with the death of his father and examines how their relationship influences him through growing up, romance, tragedy and adventure.

Plot: drug abuse, tragic love

Cast

Morjana Alaoui

Mylu00e8ne Jampanou00ef

Catherine Bu00e9gin

Robert Toupin

Martyrs (2008)

7.3 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Plot: child abuse, suffering, nihilism, degradation, ecstasy, woman martyr, cult, hysteria, ...

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Mo Chara

DJ Pru00f3vau00ed

Josie Walker

Kneecap (2024)

7.3 289 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Plot: hip-hop, based on true story, northern ireland, drug use, drugs, belfast, north ireland, irish music, ...

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Erkan Can

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Haldun Boysan

On Board (1998)

7.3 102 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Turkey

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Sailors want to remain in their small world, which is warm and cozy and full of lies, but their routine life turns upside down when one of them gets mugged and badly beaten.

Plot: joint, authority, marijuana, metaphor

Cast

Franu00e7ois Cluzet

Marie-Josu00e9e Croze

Andru00e9 Dussollier

Kristin Scott Thomas

Tell No One (2006)

7.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

Plot: dying and death, drug abuse, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, falsely accused, sadness, e-mail, cover-up, ...

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