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Genre "Addiction Drama" Movies
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| 1. 28 Days (year: 2000) |
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In this romantic comedy, a journalist who's become too much the life of the party finds a new lease on life in a drug and alcohol treatment center. Ne ...
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| 2. Blow (year: 2001) |
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| 3. Born to Win (year: 1971) |
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Born to Win is the grimly ironic title of this jet-black comedy about heroin addicts. George Segal plays Jay Jay, an ex-hairdresser who struggles to s ...
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| 4. California Split (year: 1974) |
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The most narratively loose of Robert Altman's '70s films, California Split details the haphazard lives of two compulsive gamblers searching for that e ...
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| 5. Clean (year: 2004) |
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A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston ...
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| 6. Drugstore Cowboy (year: 1989) |
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The operative word in Drugstore Cowboy is "drug". Matt Dillon plays the leader of a group of dopeheads who wander around the country robbing ...
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| 7. Em 4 Jay (year: 2006) |
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A couple living in Melbourne's bayside inner-city and hooked on heroin resorts to drastic measures in order to fend off sobriety in director and co-sc ...
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| 8. Leaving Las Vegas (year: 1995) |
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Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-wi ...
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| 9. Little Red (year: 2000) |
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This gritty street drama concerns a group of young people in Baltimore who are struggling to fight their way out of the ghetto and on to a better life ...
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| 10. Quitting (year: 2001) |
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Following up on his award-winning opus Shower, Zhang Yang directs this biographical film concerning and starring Chinese film icon Jia Hong-Sheng, wh ...
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| 11. Reefer Madness (year: 1936) |
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| 12. Requiem for a Dream (year: 2000) |
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Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Ty ...
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| 13. Sid and Nancy (year: 1986) |
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Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already establi ...
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| 14. The Basketball Diaries (year: 1995) |
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Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some un ...
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| 15. The Lost Weekend (year: 1945) |
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer whose lust for booze cons ...
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| 16. Trainspotting (year: 1996) |
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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, ...
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| 17. Under Ytan (year: 1997) |
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In this fact-based Swedish movie, 23-year-old Stockholm junkie Sandra (Johanna Sallstrom) nearly dies from an overdose and checks into a rehab home, u ...
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| 18. When a Man Loves a Woman (year: 1994) |
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A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alic ...
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