My Name is Bill W. (1989) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring James Garner, James Woods

My Name Is Bill W reunited the stars of the highly acclaimed 1986 TV movie The Promise: James Garner and James Woods. This time Woods has the bigger role as the real-life Bill Wilson, who comes marching home from World War One with a "little" liquor problem. He drinks steadily throughout the Prohibition Era, but Wilson's habit doesn't catch up ...

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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) more movies like this

directed by Luis Mandoki
featuring Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino

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 Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted and loving, Alice is often reckless and, when drunk, ...

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Traffic (2000) more movies like this

directed by Steven Soderbergh
featuring Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a miniseries originally aired on Britain's Channel 4, ...

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Requiem for a Dream (2000) more movies like this

directed by Darren Aronofsky
featuring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald

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 Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy ...

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28 Days (2000) more movies like this

directed by Betty Thomas
featuring Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi

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. New York newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) has a fondness for liquor, a boyfriend (Dominic West) with a similar taste for the bottle, and a party girl image that camouflages plenty of ...

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Blow (2001) more movies like this

directed by Ted Demme
featuring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths

Following the life of cocaine-trafficking pioneer George Jung in a way that recalls Martin Scorsese's Casino, Blow recounts the man's days from his 1950s childhood in Boston to his downfall in the 1980s. George (played by Johnny Depp) begins his life as the son of Fred (Ray Liotta), an earnest breadwinner, and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths), who ...

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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt

In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed alcoholics. After several frightening episodes, Joe is ...

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The Basketball Diaries (1995) more movies like this

directed by Scott Kalvert
featuring Jimmy Papiris, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Nick Gaetani, Alexander Gaberman, Lorraine Bracco, Ben Jorgensen, Ernie Hudson, Akiko Ashley, Patrick McGaw

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 unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself. Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Catholic school chums are on ...

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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) more movies like this

directed by Mike Figgis
featuring Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino

Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself. Arriving in Las Vegas with the intention of drinking himself to death, Ben meets Sera, and they ...

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The Lost Weekend (1945) more movies like this

directed by Billy Wilder
featuring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling

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 consumes his career, his life, and his loves. The story begins as Don and his brother Wick (Philip Terry) are packing their bags in their New York apartment, preparing for a weekend in the country. ...

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Trainspotting (1996) more movies like this

directed by Danny Boyle
featuring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life otherwise lacks. Renton's two best friends are also ...

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Naked Lunch (1991) more movies like this

directed by David Cronenberg
featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) wants to write, but he exterminates bugs ...

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Clean and Sober (1988) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate Donovan

The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), this intense, gritty drama was received as one of the best-ever cinematic treatments of substance abuse. Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate agent who has become addicted to cocaine. He's ...

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Drugstore Cowboy (1989) more movies like this

directed by Gus Van Sant
featuring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, James Remar

The operative word in Drugstore Cowboy is "drug". Matt Dillon plays the leader of a group of dopeheads who wander around the country robbing pharmacies to feed their habits. Dillon's chums include doltish James Le Gros and teen-age junkie Heather Graham; also along for the ride is Dillon's wife Kelly Lynch. Their nemesis is cop James Remar, whom ...

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Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912 New England, the story takes place in the summer ...

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The Country Girl (1954) more movies like this

directed by George Seaton
featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross, Gene Reynolds

Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a deglamorized Grace Kelly, who won the Oscar for her performance in The Country Girl. This adaptation of Clifford Odets' play stars Crosby as Frank Elgin, a once-famous Broadway star who's hit the skids. Hotshot young director ...

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The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) more movies like this

directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin

When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a Production Code seal, it proved to be yet another nail in the coffin of that censorial dinosaur. Based on the novel by Nelson Algren, the film stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, expert card dealer (hence the title). Recently ...

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Rush (1991) more movies like this

directed by Lili Fini Zanuck
featuring Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Max Perlich, Gregg Allman

Based on a gritty, semi-autobiographical novel by author Kim Wozencraft, this crime thriller was adapted for the screen by noir novelist Pete Dexter and marked the directorial debut of producer Lili Fini Zanuck. Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Kristen Cates, a rookie police officer recruited to partner with Jim Raynor (Jason Patric), an undercover ...

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Barfly (1987) more movies like this

directed by Barbet Schroeder
featuring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn

Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based. The film concentrates on alcoholic writer Mickey Rourke (the Bukowski alter ego) who carries on a hate-hate relationship with bartender Frank Stallone. Rourke makes the acquaintance of another of society's ...

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Sid and Nancy (1986) more movies like this

directed by Alex Cox
featuring Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop

Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to chaos, and possessed a dangerous thirst for booze, ...

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Candy (2006) more movies like this

directed by Neil Armfield
featuring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin, Noni Hazelhurst

A free-spirited art student and a roguish poet find their addiction to each other taking a back seat to their taste for heroin in director Neil Armfield's intensely personal tale of recreational drug use gone bad. When Candy (Abbie Cornish) and Dan (Heath Ledger) first fell in love, they both thought they had found all they ever needed in life. ...

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High Art (1998) more movies like this

directed by Lisa Cholodenko
featuring Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Gabriel Mann

Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she enters the apartment of her neighbor, retired ...

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Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) more movies like this

directed by Michael Schultz
featuring Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell

One woman's odyssey through a hellish life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, and crime is resolved in faith in this tough but inspiring drama based on a true story documented by evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes. Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise) was raised by a single mother, Cassie (Loretta Devine), who became involved with a cruel and opportunistic ...

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Drunks (1997) more movies like this

directed by Peter Cohn
featuring Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Calista Flockhart, Spalding Gray, George Martin

An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's prodded into speaking in front of the group for the ...

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Reefer Madness (1936) more movies like this

directed by Louis J. Gasnier

This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of comically bad cinema due to its dated, alarmist views on the dangers of "marijuana addiction" and the exaggerated symptoms thereof. After the onscreen prologue that declares "Something must be done to wipe out this ghastly ...

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