Substance Abuse Movies

A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood...

A young social worker goes on a mission to save a little girl from her mom's underworld but instead she falls into the girl's imaginary reality.

A compelling portrait of New Yorkers living on the streets as they struggle with mental health, addiction, and the onset of a global pandemic. This...

A quiet coming-of-age story about friendship, uncertainty, and the moments that change everything. As three young men navigate love, loss, and the...

Ali and Alia are childhood neighbors that fell in love with each other, but bigger events occur in their lives which gets them separated. Ali seeks...

Two musical stars from the golden age of Hollywood get a second chance at rekindling their love in the modern world.

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time recognizable to others. A husband and wife are...

Because of the big housing problem in the US many people move into cheap, run down hotels, the so-called Flophouse hotels. Twelve-year-old Mikal was...

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....

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons...

When fourteen-year-old Naomi reunites with her estranged cousin, innocent curiosities lead to a night of drinking, debauchery, and betrayal in the...

An aging artist confronts his traumatic past as he paints a portrait of the beachside home he grew up in.

Miles is a busy television director and loving father with a controlling nature motivated by good intentions, who discovers his 17-year-old daughter...

An exhausted teenager releases the anger caused by her bother's battle with substance abuse.

A young and obsessive bodybuilder contends with the cost of his sport as well as the temptation of steroids.

When his mother relapses, Oliver is forced to go look for his younger brother in the world of crime throughout the night.

Alters and substance abuse

Joey, an image-conscious 22 year-old student swept up in a new city begins to fall into an addiction of drugs to repress his inner demons. A...

Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to...

About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks...