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Kanopy
89
8.4
/68966/
84
/1431/
83
/1052/
4.6
/179215/
97
/69/
95
/554/
90
/17/

High and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
poster
85
7.7
/148233/
74
/3237/
75
/2039/
4.0
/185867/
97
/93/
87
/2340/
94
/18/
cc age 16+

The French Connection (1971)
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
poster
83
8.1
/760890/
80
/17143/
80
/10112/
4.2
/1057262/
90
/98/
93
/16411/
83
/28/
cc age 18+

Trainspotting (1996)
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
poster
82
7.7
/36022/
76
/669/
73
/569/
3.9
/36953/
96
/27/
91
/1247/
81
/9/

Wait Until Dark (1967)
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
poster
Starz
82
7.8
/479330/
78
/10960/
76
/5799/
3.9
/294977/
81
/213/
90
/82/
76
/38/
cc age 17+

American Gangster (2007)
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.3
/959638/
81
/18212/
80
/10617/
4.1
/1408638/
80
/182/
93
/28637/
71
/32/
cc age 18+

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.4
/16324/
71
/234/
70
/236/
3.8
/9401/
97
/87/
88
/297/
86
/25/

Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.5
/3217/
75
/90/
74
/56/
3.7
/3882/
93
/27/
87
/116/

Hype! (1996)
This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock, heavy metal, and innovation. Building from the grass roots, self-promoted and self-recorded until break-out success of bands like Nirvana brought the record industry to the Pacific Northwest, a phenomenon was born.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.2
/4757/
70
/102/
69
/88/
4.0
/21618/
95
/39/
79
/59/
78
/8/

Out of the Blue (1981)
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
poster
78
6.5
/628/
74
/13/
69
/11/
3.4
/9602/
93
/44/
78
/19/

The Chronology of Water (2025)
Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.5
/33747/
73
/1125/
73
/1399/
3.9
/181510/
80
/10/
85
/303/

Christiane F. (1981)
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.2
/62765/
71
/1622/
68
/868/
3.8
/35706/
94
/160/
83
/2101/
83
/33/

Animal Kingdom (2010)
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
poster
77
7.0
/1553/
78
/26/
68
/21/
3.5
/720/
100
/7/
84
/97/

Highway 61 (1991)
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
poster
76
7.3
/10853/
69
/172/
68
/140/
3.8
/7537/
79
/34/
87
/482/
76
/20/
cc age 17+

Nil by Mouth (1997)
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/51607/
68
/1208/
70
/922/
3.8
/68727/
77
/52/
74
/1056/
70
/19/

Bad Lieutenant (1992)
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
poster
75
7.1
/14216/
70
/265/
68
/341/
3.6
/10286/
81
/26/
79
/232/
78
/14/
cc age 15+

Bird (1988)
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
poster
Kanopy
79
73
7.7
/6977/
76
/140/
67
/66/
4.0
/11024/
89
/74/
90
/633/
76
/28/

Dig! (2004)
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
73
7.0
/151174/
69
/7673/
67
/2846/
3.6
/339977/
90
/249/
75
/1037/
79
/42/
cc age 18+

Green Room (2016)
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
poster
72
6.7
/41563/
72
/1415/
66
/565/
3.4
/32505/
81
/37/
80
/1186/
61
/13/

New Jack City (1991)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
poster
71
6.6
/11480/
62
/252/
61
/143/
3.3
/8772/
78
/49/
77
/323/
73
/17/

High Art (1998)
When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.
poster
70
7.1
/139752/
72
/7639/
69
/3251/
3.6
/182528/
81
/250/
78
/562/
67
/42/
cc age 18+

T2 Trainspotting (2017)
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
poster
70
6.5
/3465/
59
/53/
57
/46/
3.4
/2109/
81
/27/
66
/42/
81
/18/

Georgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
poster
70
6.8
/5073/
62
/61/
64
/73/
3.5
/3957/
73
/66/
66
/243/
75
/28/

Clean (2004)
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
poster
70
6.7
/12023/
67
/243/
67
/192/
3.6
/18513/
81
/36/
78
/359/
69
/14/

Performance (1970)
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
poster
MGM Plus
69
6.7
/3703/
67
/71/
65
/70/
3.4
/2104/
81
/16/
63
/24/
73
/7/

Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
poster
69
6.8
/10088/
68
/419/
65
/183/
3.7
/43549/
89
/70/
66
/60/
75
/22/

Heaven Knows What (2015)
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
poster
AMC+
69
7.3
/159817/
70
/4178/
72
/3142/
3.7
/283093/
59
/128/
80
/3943/
51
/38/

Irreversible (2002)
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
poster
68
6.8
/2878/
67
/58/
61
/49/
3.4
/674/
72
/144/
70
/11/

Pure (2002)
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
poster
MGM Plus
68
6.7
/10842/
67
/257/
66
/147/
3.3
/6058/
72
/29/
71
/249/
66
/20/

Rush (1991)
Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
6.7
/22844/
68
/497/
67
/446/
3.4
/14198/
82
/39/
62
/307/
68
/9/

French Connection II (1975)
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
poster
68
7.1
/30456/
69
/566/
66
/374/
3.4
/6335/
65
/127/
73
/2900/
63
/30/
cc age 17+

Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.7
/26203/
67
/521/
62
/340/
3.3
/6769/
73
/115/
72
/546/
56
/35/

Buffalo Soldiers (2002)
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
7.2
/49412/
72
/774/
71
/622/
3.8
/65904/
47
/74/
77
/2031/
57
/24/

Candy (2006)
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
poster
Hoopla
65
6.2
/5223/
61
/288/
58
/81/
3.2
/8219/
91
/43/
64
/32/
70
/8/
cc age 16+

What Josiah Saw (2021)
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
poster
Netflix
65
5.9
/4655/
63
/330/
60
/253/
2.9
/8662/
86
/28/
56
/36/
66
/7/
cc age 17+

6 Balloons (2018)
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.
poster
68
65
6.0
/7414/
60
/249/
58
/129/
3.5
/17020/
93
/30/
70
/247/
66
/7/

Liquid Sky (1982)
An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.
poster
65
6.0
/30337/
62
/786/
61
/535/
3.5
/111183/
84
/49/
72
/1662/
47
/10/

Pink Flamingos (1972)
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
7.1
/152108/
71
/3805/
68
/1925/
3.3
/44018/
56
/77/
69
/2175/
46
/24/

Payback (1999)
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
poster
MGM Plus
64
6.7
/122133/
68
/4453/
65
/2185/
3.2
/85981/
67
/54/
64
/2632/
55
/9/
cc age 14+

Live and Let Die (1973)
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
poster
64
7.3
/130014/
73
/2868/
74
/2115/
3.8
/234529/
46
/41/
76
/2213/
46
/19/
cc age 16+

The Basketball Diaries (1995)
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
poster
Kanopy
78
62
7.5
/2176/
76
/78/
74
/27/
3.7
/1967/
86
/22/
89
/45/
71
/9/

Last Days Here (2011)
Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life back.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
61
6.1
/9588/
61
/143/
57
/121/
3.2
/4060/
89
/28/
57
/485/
77
/9/

Little Fish (2005)
Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.2
/8334/
65
/184/
59
/118/
3.1
/4805/
60
/53/
54
/190/
57
/22/

Permanent Midnight (1998)
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
poster
62
61
6.8
/19397/
66
/375/
68
/459/
3.5
/17136/
55
/20/
53
/272/
58
/14/

Year of the Dragon (1985)
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
poster
Netflix
75
60
6.8
/3553/
70
/277/
69
/128/
3.5
/7327/
100
/10/
75
/3/

Heroin(e) (2017)
This documentary follows three women — a fire chief, a judge, and a street missionary — as they battle West Virginia's devastating opioid epidemic.
poster
Kanopy
60
6.1
/2308/
60
/82/
55
/60/
3.1
/1281/
50
/50/
49
/21/
58
/21/
cc age 17+

Low Down (2014)
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
poster
Hoopla
59
5.6
/3429/
61
/267/
51
/87/
2.9
/8642/
80
/56/
58
/30/

Fried Barry (2020)
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
poster
59
6.4
/5836/
62
/131/
62
/112/
3.3
/3683/
46
/13/
68
/69/

Luna (1979)
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.


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