| Human Traffic (1999) | 7.1 | |
| The Deuce (2017) | 8.1 | |
| Spun (2002) | 6.7 | |
| Queen of the South (2016) | 8.0 | |
| American Gods (2017) | 7.6 |
Drugs/alcohol movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant drugs/alcohol movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, thought provoking, weird, serious, sexy and dark films and TV shows about / with drugs/alcohol, female nudity, drug, friendship, male nudity, sex, storytelling, drug abuse, dialogue and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as drugs/alcohol: Clip (2012), Project X (2012), Prozac Nation (2001), Maria Full of Grace (2004), Skins (2007), 21 & Over (2013), Sweetbitter (2018), Skins (2011), Spun (2002), Big Time Adolescence (2019).
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8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Jasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.
Style:
realistic, sexy, sexual, controversial, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
explicit sex, masturbation, innocence lost, sexual relations, teenage sex, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, destructive relationship, strong sexual content, partying, youth, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, europe, eastern europe
Is relevant?
255K
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Style:
teen, teen sex comedy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, party, adolescence, youth, when the parents are away, teenage life, student, popularity, buddies, friends, birthday party ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, sexy, teen, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, coming of age, college, teenage girl, suicide attempt, university, therapy, female nudity, borderline personality disorder, drug, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, independent film, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, drug, illegal immigration, women, drug abuse, addiction, character study ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, south america, new jersey, latin america ...
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100K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style:
sexy, captivating, cynical, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, underage drinking, drug, friends, friendship, high school life, crush, looking for sex, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, canada
Is relevant?
80K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.
Style:
humorous, not serious, teen sex comedy, teen, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
college, youth, friends, college life, college student, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, cell phone, three friends, homoerotic friendship, high school, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, she learns to navigate the chaotically alluring, ...
Style:
light, colorful, scenic, entertaining
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
waitress, sex, big city, youth, adaptation, love, friendship, chef, workplace romance, sauna, women, lesbian ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
6K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage sexuality, teenage sex, troubled teen, teen drug use, love and romance, teenager, high school, friendship, youth, teenage life, social relations, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, baltimore
Is relevant?
43K
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 ...
Style:
psychedelic, psychological, surreal, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addict, drug, drug addiction, masturbation, drug trip, methamphetamine, bondage, drug use, drugged, manic ...
Time:
year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, bleak, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, debauchery, nihilism, teenage boy, drug, friendship, drug dealing, sarcasm, friend, slacker, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
122K
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:
cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, sexual ...
Plot:
addiction, insanity, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, dark humor, losing-it hero, corruption, manipulation, self destructing, drug, cocaine, corrupt cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
scotland, hamburg germany, edinburgh scotland, britain, new orleans
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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:
rough, emotional, teen, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug overdose, teenager, high school, drug addiction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, 60s, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new york, seattle, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
porn industry, prostitution, sex, female nudity, closeted homosexual, porn actor, bare breasts, sleaze, society, sex scene, rivalry, porn ...
Time:
70s, year 1984, year 1985, year 1971, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, new york
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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, cynical, captivating, motivational, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
money, corruption, wall street, business, rise and fall, addiction, stock market, stock broker, success, wealth, greed, rags to riches ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 90s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, geneva switzerland, big ben london, italy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the Patrick Molrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Style:
ironic, suspense, captivating, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
father son relationship, child abuse, childhood trauma, drug addiction, depression, mental illness, dialogue, traumatic childhood, violence, loneliness, millionaire, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 80s, 90s, 60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
Style:
sexy, erotic, witty, cynical, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
womanizer, lifestyle, dark humor, writer's life, writers, lust, addiction, sexual relations, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, alcoholism ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, canada
Is relevant?
91K
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, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood, and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
brutality, drug, destructive relationship, degradation, addiction, friendship, life philosophy, suffering, chase, violence, drug traffic, drug abuse ...
Place:
usa, oklahoma city, los angeles, columbus ohio
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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, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Style:
sexy, stylized, teen, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
heist, youth, burglary, teenage life, celebrity, teenage girl, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, high school, mansion, high society, greed ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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:
cult classic, road movie, independent film, depressing, grim ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, heroin, dark humor, drug addiction, drug, junkie, friendship, on the road, drug addict, beat generation, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
usa, portland oregon
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs ...
Style:
touching, realistic, intense, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, wedding, rehabilitation, drug addict, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, going straight, doctors and patients, siblings relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" ...
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime family, criminal, danger, escapades, heist, family conflict, gay brother, twists and turns, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, friendship, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, southern california, new zealand
Is relevant?
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2.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cancer, criminal, peril, drug lord, master criminal, drug dealing, drug, unlikely partners, drug cartel, life turned upside down, meth lab, family problems ...
Time:
y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, south america, usa, north america
Is relevant?
765K
Genre: Crime, 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, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
Is relevant?
123K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style:
road movie, psychedelic, independent film, cult classic, avant garde ...
Plot:
road trip, hippie, on the road, existentialism, motorcycle, marijuana, rebelliousness, friendship, biker, self discovery, rock music, stoner ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
california, new mexico, alabama, arizona, louisiana ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
spooky, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, rapist, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, confinement indoors, strong violent content, rape, vengeance, male nudity, gang bang, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
balkan, europe
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, gang, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, italian mafia, gangster, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy, new mexico
Is relevant?
626K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place:
shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
Is relevant?
441K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, entertaining, teen sex comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage life, notoriety, classmate, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, xian, usa, florida, seattle
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