Top Substance Abuse Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Rooney Mara

Jude Law

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Channing Tatum

Side Effects (2013)

6.6 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Plot: depression, new york city, fraud, insomnia, deception, cover-up, murder, lawyer, ...

Cast

Kristen Bell

Christian Campbell

Neve Campbell

Alan Cumming

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)

6.6 88 votes

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.

Plot: high school, angel, hell, heaven, musical, satire, sodomy, based on play or musical, ...

Time: 1930s

Cast

Naomi Scott

Rosemarie DeWitt

Lukas Gage

Miles Gutierrez-Riley

Smile 2 (2024)

6.6 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Music, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

Style: creepy, disturbing

Plot: drug dealer, depression, new york city, dancing, suicide, concert, nightmare, escape, ...

Time: 2020s

Cast

John Cho

Kal Penn

Paula Garcu00e9s

Neil Patrick Harris

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

6.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for White Castle. Convinced there must be one nearby, the two set out on a late-night odyssey that takes them deep into New Jersey. Somehow, the boys manage to run afoul of rednecks, cops and even a car-stealing Neil Patrick Harris before getting anywhere near their beloved sliders.

Plot: sibling relationship, new jersey, amsterdam, netherlands, road trip, cannabis, pot smoking, marijuana, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Zoe Saldau00f1a

Woody Harrelson

Sam Shepard

Out of the Furnace (2013)

6.6 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

Plot: prison, drug dealer, sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), bare knuckle boxing, brother, psychopath, iraq war veteran, ...

Cast

Peter Finch

Glenda Jackson

Murray Head

Peggy Ashcroft

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

6.6 138 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Plot: london, england, love triangle, sexuality, bisexuality, artist, romance, wealth, ...

Cast

Jay Chandrasekhar

Kevin Heffernan

Steve Lemme

Paul Soter

Super Troopers (2001)

6.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.

Plot: alcohol, police chief, highway, radio, cop, broken lizard, drug humor, marijuana, ...

Inherent Vice (2014)

6.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Style: surreal

Plot: based on novel or book, boat, detective, ex-girlfriend, vice, hippie lifestyle, pot smoking, marijuana, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Place: california

Cast

Deborah Secco

Cu00e1ssio Gabus Mendes

Drica Moraes

Fabiula Nascimento

Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)

6.5 509 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

Plot: daughter, call girl, rehabilitation, affectation, based on true story, sao paulo, brazil, family relationships, ...

Place: brazil

Cast

Christian Bale

Freddy Rodru00edguez

Eva Longoria

Chaka Forman

Harsh Times (2005)

6.4 787 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Plot: prostitute, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), drug use, friends, los angeles, california, theft, drinking, ...

Cast

James McAvoy

Alice Eve

Rebecca Hall

Catherine Tate

Starter for 10 (2006)

6.4 453 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Plot: scholarship, fight, politics, protest, quiz, love, marijuana, university, ...

Cast

Seth Rogen

Katherine Heigl

Paul Rudd

Leslie Mann

Knocked Up (2007)

6.3 4.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle and maturity.

Plot: alcohol, pregnancy, bed, one-night stand, condom, paternity, drug use, beard, ...

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

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

Jennifer Lawrence

Selma Blair

Bokeem Woodbine

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

The Poker House (2008)

6.2 146 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Plot: rape, drug abuse, woman director

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

Adrien Brody

Glenn Fleshler

Richie Merritt

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Chandler DuPont

Clean (2022)

6.2 454 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

Plot: new york city, garbageman, gangster, abandoned house, drug use, revenge, garbage truck, pawnshop, ...

Cast

Sergey Borisov

Olga Dihovichnaya

Sergei Golyudov

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Roman Merinov

Twilight Portrait (2011)

6.1 55 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Russia

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.

Plot: rape, vodka, birthday party, marijuana, woman director

Cast

Robert Englund

Ken Kirzinger

Monica Keena

Jason Ritter

Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

6.1

Genre: Horror

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

Cast

Harris Dickinson

Madeline Weinstein

Kate Hodge

Neal Huff

Beach Rats (2017)

6.1 594 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men.

Style: melancholy

Plot: coming out, bisexuality, family relationships, coney island, marijuana, male homosexuality, drugs, lgbt, ...

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