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Spun (2002)
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Spun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
Style: psychedelic, disturbing, surreal, psychological, stylized, independent film, dark comedy, depressing, harsh, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, drug addict, drug addiction, addiction, junkie, masturbation, drug, drug trip, drug use, strong sexual content, methamphetamine, crazy, bondage, mental illness, self destructing, drugged, stripper, older woman younger woman relationship, heroin, violence, profanity, striptease, sexual fantasy, manic, bad trip ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
Keyword: partners, playstation, dope, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, cult classic and dark comedy films with plots about drug abuse, drug, drugs/alcohol, junkie, drug addiction, drug addict and drug dealer mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Spun: Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Doom Generation (1995), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Party Monster (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Doom Generation (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
Style: erotic, disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lovers on the run, on the road, sex, lgbt, satanist, sex slave, surrealism, road trip, dark humor, forced sex, golden retriever, mistaken identity ...
Time: near future, 90s
Place: seattle, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 6.2
 17K
Party Monster (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose ...
Style: stylized, serious, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: gay, drug addiction, addiction, gays and lesbians, drug, celebrity culture, life is a bitch, drug addict, friends, social misfits, artists and showbiz, drug dealing ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 2003
Place: new york, usa, indiana, grand central station manhattan new york city, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, road movie, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, addiction, psychedelia, trippy, surrealism, american dream, hallucination, drug, journalist ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 281K
Boogie Nights (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style: stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, drug abuse, rise and fall, porn industry, addiction, multiple storylines, disco, drug, cocaine, character study, drug addiction, adult filmmaking ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 27K
Human Traffic (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, independent film, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: clubbing, party, nightlife, weed, music, drug, rave, lifestyle, society, paranoia, friendship, addiction ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: england, britain, wales, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.5
 274K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style: realistic, tense, talky, controversial, suspense ...
Plot: drug, addiction, drug addiction, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, heroin, death, brutality ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 20K
River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 32K
The Salton Sea (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her ...
Style: neo noir, tense, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug abuse, drug addiction, death of wife, drug lord, drug, revenge, violence, drug addict, double life, working undercover, undercover, rivalry ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: sex, college, virginity, drug, drug abuse, youth, lesbian, suicide, virgin, gay, love triangle, party ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, italy, dublin ireland, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Snow White and Russian Red (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
Style: surreal, semi serious, realistic, disturbing, fast ...
Plot: life is a bitch, obsession, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, addiction, violence, love, drug, fight scenes, nudity, sexual content ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 19K
Made (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, clever ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, crime gone awry, dark humor, boxing, nothing goes right, partner, buddies, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, mafia ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 33K
SLC Punk! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style: realistic, philosophical, harsh, teen, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, subculture, rebelliousness, rock, self destructing, coming of age, drug overdose, rebellion, friendship, drug, punk rock, rock and roll ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: utah, north dakota, seattle, england, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 17K
Gridlock'd (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style: dark comedy, hood, stylized, harsh, talky ...
Plot: addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, urban, drug abuse, murder, heroin, gangster, justice, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 7.2
 75K
Go (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Told from three perspectives, a story of a bunch of young Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and generally experience the rush of life.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: clubbing, supermarket, christmas, multiple storylines, stripper, drug dealer, drug, teenage girl, hit and run, rave, undercover cop, ecstasy ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 22K
Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 47K
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: neo noir, independent film, disturbing, detective, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, redemption, police, rape, corruption, drug addiction, masturbation, baseball, police corruption, heroin, police lieutenant, nun ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Style: exciting, intense, stylized, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: drug addiction, junkie, heroin, addiction, blackmail, old friends reunited, friendship, sex scene, redemption, betrayal, violence, extortion ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, year 1974, year 1979 ...
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, amsterdam, slovenia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.3
 909K
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to ...
Style: surreal, stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, drug lord, organized crime, drug abuse, corruption, drug, redemption, police, police brutality, brutality, hallucination, gangster ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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