Top Substance Abuse Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sandra Peabody

Lucy Grantham

David Hess

Fred J. Lincoln

The Last House on the Left (1972)

6.0 794 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: R

Story: On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.

Plot: concert, rape, birthday, loss of loved one, gun, kidnapping, revenge, marijuana, ...

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Wayne Virgo

Marc Laurent

Tom Bott

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Alice Payne

Shank (2009)

6.0 51 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Story: Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with Olivier, a student he rescues from a pointless beating, he encounters a lifestyle that presents as many new experiences as it does obstacles.

Plot: rape, homophobia, cocaine, hooligan, drug use, youth gang, lgbt, online hookup, ...

Cast

George Clooney

Ewan McGregor

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Spacey

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

6.0 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

Plot: vietnam veteran, kuwait, new age, paranoid fantasy, hippie lifestyle, drug use, psychedelic drug

Cast

Adam Scott

Taylor Schilling

Jason Schwartzman

Judith Godru00e8che

The Overnight (2015)

6.0 362 votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 79 min.

Audience: R

Story: Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.

Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, alcohol, orgy, marijuana, massage parlor, skinny dipping, drugs, ...

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980)

6.0 268 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.

Plot: marijuana

Cast

Ajay Devgn

Tabu

Deepak Dobriyal

Amala Paul

Bholaa (2023)

5.9 36 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: India

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: 15

Story: An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

Plot: fight, orphanage, siege, gore, truck, remake, murder, betrayal, ...

Cast

Ana de Armas

Adrien Brody

Bobby Cannavale

Sara Paxton

Blonde (2022)

5.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 167 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Style: exploitation

Plot: suicide, rape, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, overdose, psychological stress, biography, ...

Time: 1950s, 1960s

Cast

Miles Szanto

Daniel Webber

Anni Finsterer

Shari Sebbens

Teenage Kicks (2016)

5.8 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.

Plot: friendship, jealousy, drug abuse, sexuality, runaway, male friendship, loss, crack, ...

Place: australia

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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

Jade Sakori

Sivan Noam Shimon

Dvir Benedek

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Einav Levi

Blush (2015)

5.6 50 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Israel

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.

Plot: coming out, adolescence, sibling relationship, sexuality, dysfunctional family, coming of age, lesbian relationship, family, ...

Cast

Sharon Stone

William Baldwin

Tom Berenger

Polly Walker

Sliver (1993)

5.6 820 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

Plot: new york city, telescope, based on novel or book, psychopath, eroticism, video surveillance, hidden camera, drug use, ...

Cast

William Shatner

Ruth Roman

Wendell Burton

Julie Adams

Go Ask Alice (1973)

5.5 25 votes

Genre: Drama, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 74 min.

Story: A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

Plot: high school, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, heroin, runaway, drug addiction, cocaine, ...

Cast

Dan Stevens

Alison Brie

Sheila Vand

Jeremy Allen White

The Rental (2020)

5.5 1.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.

Plot: portland, oregon, camera, ecstasy, stalker, murder, serial killer, voyeurism, ...

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

Luke Kirby

Ruth Negga

Tom Wilkinson

The Samaritan (2012)

5.5 225 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.

Plot: prison, drug use, revenge, incest, grifter, paternity revealed, parole officer

Cast

Anna Thomson

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Felicia Maguire

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Alyssa Mulhern

Anna Grace

Fiona (1999)

5.4 21 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Story: Fiona is abandoned at six months of age, raised in foster and adoptive homes, abused, and, still a teen, hustles on the streets of New York. We watch her use heroine, fall in love with other women, be pursued by men, engage in murderous violence, hide out in a crack house, and decide to leave the city. We see her mother, also a streetwalker and drug user, occasionally talk about her lost daughter. Fiona has a necklace she was clutching when a foundling. Will mother and daughter meet? Is there a silver lining?

Plot: prostitute, drug use

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

5.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets to the Bahamas, Julie finds this a perfect opportunity to finally relax. But someone is waiting for her. Someone who she thought was dead. Someone who is out again for revenge.

Plot: island, competition, fisherman, bahamas, college, radio, knife, vacation, ...

Cast

Vincent Gallo

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Cheryl Tiegs

Elizabeth Blake

The Brown Bunny (2003)

5.4 277 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Japan

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.

Plot: prostitute, rape, drug abuse, ambulance, ex-girlfriend, road trip, loneliness, memory, ...

Cast

Anne Hathaway

Bijou Phillips

Shiri Appleby

Michael Biehn

Havoc (2005)

5.3 360 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.

Plot: high school, hip-hop, street gang, upper class, fight, gun, gangster, underage drinking, ...

Cast

Devon Sawa

Jaime King

Jason Segel

Jason Schwartzman

Slackers (2002)

5.2 219 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.

Style: cynical

Plot: infidelity, drug abuse, roommates, job interview, college, eavesdropping, graduation, final exam, ...