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, serious, captivating, humorous, rough and bleak films and TV shows about / with drugs/alcohol, drugs, male nudity, profanity, nudity (full frontal - brief), violence, sex, dialogue, crimes and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
drugs/alcohol
TOP 10 movies tagged as drugs/alcohol: Project X (2012), Skins (2007), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Breaking Bad (2008), The Bling Ring (2013), Patrick Melrose (2018), Californication (2007), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Queen of the South (2016).
Best films
List of drugs/alcohol movies
187K
Genre: Comedy
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:
not serious, humorous, ridiculous, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, teen comedy, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
party, teenager, when the parents are away, drugs/alcohol, popularity, youth, buddies, student, looking for sex, friends, teenage life, high school life ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california, new jersey
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74K
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:
captivating, cynical, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, sexual relations, drugs/alcohol, looking for sex, youth, siblings relations, underage drinking, high school life, party, high school, classmates, homosexual ...
Time:
contemporary, 2000s, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
england
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Genre: Biography, 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:
dark humor, clever, realistic, motivational, biting ...
Plot:
money, rise and fall, corruption, success, ambition, greed, wall street, stock broker, cons and scams, american dream, rags to riches, yuppie ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, switzerland, italy ...
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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, bleak, disturbing, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot:
heroin, addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, drug addiction, depression, downfall, drug use, destructive relationship, degradation, drugs/alcohol, insanity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
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1.4M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 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:
captivating, tense, clever, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
drug dealing, drug lord, crimes, master criminal, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, unlikely partners, family problems, teacher, peril, desperation, drugs/alcohol ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, 2010s
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico
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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, captivating, serious, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, drugs/alcohol, juvenile delinquency, youth, high society, heist, burglary, celebrity, crime, crimes, thief, robbery ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills, israel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the Patrick Molrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Style:
ironic, psychological, suspense, captivating, surreal
Plot:
dialogue, drugs/alcohol, drug addiction, depression, loneliness, ambition, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, mental illness, violence, lifestyle, misfit ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 90s, 1990s, 2000s ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 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, dark humor, witty, cynical, humorous ...
Plot:
womanizer, writer's life, sexual relations, lust, lifestyle, drugs/alcohol, writers, sexual activity, strong sexual content, addiction, family life, family problems ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s, 2000s
Place:
california, usa, new york
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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:
emotional, disturbing, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, teenage life, downfall, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drugs/alcohol, basketball, antisocial behavior, anguish, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1960s, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Spain, Malta
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
Style:
twists and turns, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
drug cartel, crimes, drugs/alcohol, shooting, cartel, murder, adventure, danger, vengeance, destiny, chase, captivity ...
Place:
mexico, usa
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15K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, realistic, cynical, captivating ...
Plot:
drugs/alcohol, family problems, dysfunctional family, working class, gay teenager, siblings relations, parents and children, single father, life is a bitch, grownups, everyday life, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
england, northern england, europe, manchester
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72K
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, ridiculous, funny, dark humor ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
friends, college, young people, college life, youth, nothing goes right, drugs/alcohol, birthday, buddies, plan gone awry, profanity, disorder ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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130K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
strip club, nightclub, stripper, dancing, dancer, nightlife, friendship, drugs/alcohol, clubbing, friends, male nudity, ambition ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 90s
Place:
florida, usa, new jersey
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1.8M
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:
dark humor, exciting, interesting, witty, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crimes, twists & turns, gunfight, hitman, cocaine, drugs, crime, drugs/alcohol, boxing, criminal heroes, heroin, stylish ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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72K
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:
rough, serious, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
underage sex, coming of age, puberty, virginity, strong sexual content, first sex, innocence lost, urban ghetto life, street kid, youth, rape, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.
Style:
serious, tense, psychedelic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural ability, legends and myths, mysterious character, drugs/alcohol, supernatural, ex convict, mythology, danger, mystery, travel, death, deception ...
Time:
21st century
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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:
exciting, captivating, tense, twists and turns
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, mother son relationship, criminal, crime family, crimes, dysfunctional family, danger, escapades, drugs/alcohol, gay brother, family conflict, friendship ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
southern california, usa, california
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571
Genre: Drama
Country: See more
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each ...
Style:
realistic, sexual, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, male masturbation, teenage life, casual sex, sexual abuse, youth, school, life is a bitch, drugs/alcohol, sexual relations, sexual promiscuity, manipulative woman ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east
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709K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style:
humorous, funny, not serious, absurd, twists and turns ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
party, comedy of errors, friends, buddies, hung over, disorder, bachelor party, nothing goes right, friendship between men, memory loss, weirdo, escapades ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, september 11 2001
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, california
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100K
Genre: 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 humor, surreal, cynical, sexual, bleak ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, self destructing, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, insanity, life is a bitch, anti heroes, strong sexual content, cocaine, graphic violence, drugs/alcohol ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
scotland, hamburg germany, edinburgh scotland, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to ...
Style:
tragicomedy, cynical, semi serious, realistic, dark humor ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, nurse, hospital, drugs/alcohol, doctors and patients, friendship, workplace situations, drug abuse, conflict, staff, against the rules, dysfunctional character ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, sexual, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
virginity, looking for sex, teenage sexuality, first sex, masturbation, strong sexual content, teenage love, sex, loss of virginity, teenage life, college life, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, 20th century, year 1993, 80s
Place:
usa, idaho, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Style:
clever, realistic, humorous, cynical, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, prison life, lgbt, prison, life turned upside down, women's prison, women in prison, gender, perversion, fish out of water, first lesbian experience ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
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6K
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:
rough, realistic, serious, sexual, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
innocence lost, destructive relationship, explicit sex, teenage life, youth, sexual relations, parents and children, drugs/alcohol, teenage sex, family problems, strong sexual content, family relations ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
serbia, europe
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6K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the groundbreaking, cult classic anime, KITE tells the story of Sawa, a young woman living in a corrupt society where crime and gangs terrorize the streets. When Sawa's mother and policeman father are found victims of a grisly double ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, drugs/alcohol, vigilantism, vengeance, young heroes, girls with guns, haunted by the past, organized crime, betrayal, blood, kidnapping, mentor ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, organized crime, gang war, determination, power struggle, crimes, society, rivalry, mafia, cruelty, rise to the top ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 20s
Place:
england, ireland
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93K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an ...
Style:
serious, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
old west, crimes, sheriff, prostitute, power struggle, gold rush, shooting, brothel, rivalry, small town life, cowboy, violence ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1880s
Place:
usa, south dakota
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that ...
Style:
touching, serious, tense, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, losing-it hero, social decay, babies and infants, life is a bitch, drugs/alcohol, moral dilemma, injustice, law enforcement, society, family tragedy, domestic violence ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's ...
Style:
cynical, realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, workplace situations, police investigation, crimes, law enforcement, drugs/alcohol, workplace, crime, gay friend, self destruction, police procedural, french accent
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
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33K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
suspenseful, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, psychosis, conspiracy theory, obsession, couples, delusion, losing-it hero, drugs/alcohol, insanity, self mutilation, isolated place, motel ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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