Drug Addiction Movies

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for h...

Two wild and rebellious teenagers in love find that their eager wedding plans are being complicated by family members and roughneck gangsters.

Examines the widespread use of drugs in American society and presents experts discussing different reasons for increased drug abuse by youth. Focuses...

After a two-year absence Valentin returns home and finds his sister Alisa in a deranged state. It turns out that the girl has long been on the needle....

Misunderstood by his family, abandoned by the system, and desperate for respect, a dyslexic teenager becomes a drug dealer struggling to balance his a...

An in-depth portrait of British composer, pianist and singer Elton John, pop star and myth of modern culture.

Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt.

The crazy story of two fancy boys, a French and a German, models and dancers, who won a Grammy award in 1990 just by moving their lips: the rise and f...

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug us...

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

Join Louis Theroux as he investigates the affect crystal meth addiction is having on the local community of Fresno in California's Central Valley.

Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine ar...

Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.

From the sultry streets of Hunts Point in the South Bronx, comes the rawest, realest and truest documentation of the world's oldest profession ever ca...

A drug addict checks into rehab.

17-year-old track star, John Owens, has never used any drug stronger than pot, until he meets an older woman who introduces him to crack cocaine. He q...

The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips t...

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a ro...

An alien sent to Earth to retrieve a drug that was sent here on a black disc has to fight her race's enemies, who are also on Earth to search for the...