Death by overdose movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant death by overdose movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, cult film and weird films and TV shows about / with death by overdose, drug overdose, death, drug use, drugs, friendship, life is a bitch, cigarette smoking, sex and male nudity plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
death by overdose
TOP 10 movies tagged as death by overdose: Christiane F. (1981), Tideland (2005), Smile (2022), Thirteen at Dinner (1985), More (1969), 54 (1998), The Souvenir (2019), Walking on Water (2002), The Comedian (2016), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010).
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
serious, rough, bleak, disturbing, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, heroin, drugs, downfall, drug addict, drug overdose, drug abuse, junkie, teenage life, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, poland, europe ...
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34K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, child neglect, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, abandoned house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style:
psychological, scary, disturbing, mysterious, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
curse, supernatural power, murder, female protagonist, supernatural, going insane, suspense, demon, evil wins, fear, psychiatric ward, unhappy ending ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will ...
Style:
talky, clever, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
whodunit, murder, serial killer, mysticism, private detective, dead woman, actress, actor, murder investigation, dead man, alibi, hoax ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
scotland yard, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A German student, Stefan, who has finished his studies, then decides to have an adventure. After hitch-hiking to Paris, he commits crimes to get money. He then meets a free-spirited American girl, Estelle, who he follows to Ibiza, and then begins a ...
Style:
art house, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
addiction, blonde, drugs, drug addiction, erotica, counterculture, hippie, island, gambling, friendship, threesome, peeping tom ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ibiza, spain, europe, germany, france ...
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34K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, addiction, nightlife, father son relationship, lifestyle, lesbian, clubbing, lgbt, art ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, bahamas
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Style:
disturbing, sweet, captivating, romantic, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, student, mother daughter relationship, destiny, filmmaker, women, fall in love, hopes, love affair, love and romance, youth, couples ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, year 1973, year 1974, year 1960 ...
Place:
london, venice, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, terminal illness, lgbt, family problems, couples, tragic love, dysfunctional family, death in the family, youth, love and romance, introspection, addiction ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Style:
captivating, light, melancholic, entertaining, experimental ...
Plot:
aging, comedian, insult, comeback, jewish, comedy club, brother brother relationship, jail, judaism, lesbian daughter, casanova, swamp ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
long island, florida, new york, alabama, somalia ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
suspense, mad scientist, exploitation, behavior control, captivity, power relations, confined, hospital, human experiment, telepathy, trippy, existentialism ...
Time:
80s, year 1966, 20th century, year 1983, 60s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three teenagers, brought together from bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them ...
Style:
tense, touching, psychological, lgbt cinema, queer cinema ...
Plot:
theft, bullying, revenge, adolescence, sociopathy, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, attempted murder, suspense, teen suicide, closeted gay, suicidal tendency ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They ...
Style:
non-linear, semi serious, realistic, sincere, witty ...
Plot:
deaf, coming of age, hospital, memory, high school, friendship, friends, overdose, dealing with death, best friends, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot:
friendship, aging, elderly, midlife crisis, career change, anxiety, depression, nervous breakdown, musician, illegal alien, bittersweet, retiring ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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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, dark, thought provoking, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, drugs, heroin, addiction, drug addiction, junkie, dark humor, friendship, criminal, coming of age, drug addict, redemption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
usa, portland oregon
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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, talky, tense, road movie, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drugs, addiction, junkie, drug addiction, murder, heist, drug addict, death, brutality, heroin, violence, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style:
psychological, tense, ambiguous ending, depressing, sad ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
strong female character, double life, organized crime, suspense, drug use, secret life, paranoia, secret, social realism, friendship between men, doctor patient relationship, social problems ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, midwest, usa, cincinnati ohio, ohio ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ghost, dead child, forest, supernatural, secret place, dealing with death, youth, teenage life, twists and turns, suburbs, haunted by the past, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sociopath gathers and drugs groups of college students to bring out their existing suicidal tendencies to the surface then walks among them to enjoy and record their deaths.
Plot:
therapy, beer, student, drugs, college, death by overdose, burned alive, sociopath, collage, death by fire, death by electrocution
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Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The sequel to a popular teenage crime comedy Kamarád do deste (1988). The same tandem of friends (Lukás Vaculík and Sagvan Tofi) now operates disco 'Brooklyn'. The crook they cleverly put behind bars (Karel Augusta) is ...
Plot:
flashback, father daughter relationship, revenge, hotel, waiter, friend, drunkenness, hotel room, elevator, friendship between men, prostitute, friendship ...
Place:
prague
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
Style:
sexy, erotic, talky, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
exhibitionist, erotica, voyeur, filmmaking, sex, hollywood, porn actress, heroin, cult, necrophilia, agoraphobia, alcoholic ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
Style:
serious, realistic, campy, controversial
Plot:
showbiz, drug addiction, ghost, drug abuse, misfit, desire for fame, life is a bitch, ambition, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, stoners, couples ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals and inmates in their attempts to become a loving couple.
Style:
disturbing, serious, tense, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, prison, gay relationship, male rape, interracial relations, male masturbation, lgbt, rape, prison life, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, ocean, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction, vengeance, supernatural, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret, exploitation, curse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, malibu california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious
Plot:
spanish civil war, prison, hopes, political unrest, idealism, confined, society, doctor, artist, love story, couples, love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
spain, galicia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style:
intense, realistic, tense, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
journalism, gangsters, investigation, strong female character, murder, justice, corruption, suspense, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam, new jersey ...
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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, harsh, intense, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, subculture, rebelliousness, self destructing, coming of age, rock, rebellion, breaking the fourth wall, drug overdose, friendship, drugs, antisocial behavior ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
north dakota, california, utah, england, woodstock ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style:
intense, bad ending, entertaining, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gang, gangsters, street gang, prison, prison gang, drug abuse, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ecuador, guatemala ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, unrequited love, bisexual man, transsexual, prostitute, lgbt, love triangle, nightlife, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The plot revolves around two hipster friends who pretend to be a writer with a troubled past in their quest for fame.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
drug abuse, satire, tragic hero, prodigy, writer's life, best friends, mentally unstable, love and romance, misfit, social misfits, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, intrigue, dishonesty, lifestyle, nightlife, police corruption, betrayal, gangsters, friendship, suspense, police officer, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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