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 5.8
 265
9 Days Awake (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: “9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted to the one drug that makes him feel invincible- "like Jesus and the terminator at the same ...
Style: thrilling, semi serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: drug addiction, junkie, changing lives, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, heroin addict, tragic love, life is a bitch
Place: germany
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 4.8
 501
Stray Dolls (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
Style: bleak, tense, suspense, dark, social ...
Plot: gay interest, male nudity, theft, kidnapping, drug, immigrant, junkie, emigrant, stolen money, heist, american dream, cleaning lady ...
Place: usa
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 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 ...
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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 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
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 6.4
 19K
Resolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what ...
Style: scary, surreal, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore ...
Plot: friendship, drug addict, supernatural, cosmic horror, buddies, danger, wilderness, isolation, woods, time, addiction, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Amityville in the Hood (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: An Eastside gang uses the Amityville property to grow marijuana when they are attacked by a rival gang and their drugs stolen. Soon, it's unleashed on the Westside streets of Compton, where anyone who smokes it suffers one KILLER buzz.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: drug, gang, drug dealer, marijuana, drug dealing, drug addiction, drug addict, addiction, self destructing, demon, junkie, chaos ...
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The Interplanetary Surplus Male and Amazon Women of Outer Space (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Science professor Harvey Kirk is a sex addict and his marriage is falling apart. One night, sexy alien amazons kidnap him. They need him to repopulate their hot species. His wife hides in their spaceship and tries to save him.
Style: captivating
Plot: spaceship, alien abduction, space, junkie, sexploitation, alien life-form, problem, alien, space travel, human alien relationship, alien encounter, alien contact ...
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Pardoned by Grace (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The life of Scott Highberger, a Michigan City, Indiana pastor. Before he practiced religion he was strung out. Once an Drug addict, alcoholic, and recidivist. Now doing gods work. This is the story how Scott Highberger overcame his demons and found ...
Style: uplifting, exciting, inspirational, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: junkie, belief in god, alcoholic, alcohol abuse, faith, drug addiction, recovering alcoholic, christianity, religion, pastor, religious, christian ...
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Our Wonderful Lives (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Margot, Jeremy, Salome, Caesar, Sonia - They are between 18 and 50 years old. Everything separates them except the urgency to rebuild and restore the relationship to the other that the addiction has destroyed. Solidary, they have as rules, sharing, ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: rehabilitation center, drug rehab, drug abuse, relationships, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, treatment, junkie, problem, male female relationship, cure ...
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Turn of the Tide (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 47 min.
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Story: When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.
Style: captivating, thrilling, tense, suspenseful, epic
Plot: cocaine, friendship, friend, drug traffic, drug, drug use, changing lives, friends, junkie, drug dealer, village, fight ...
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 3.6
 323
Heavy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drug-dealer Sev and his equally broken girlfriend Maddie accept a risky deal from an old childhood friend, setting off an irreversible chain of events.
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense
Plot: revenge, white trash, life is a bitch, junkie, social issues, royalty, lifestyle, drug, social decay, drug abuse, organized crime, social misfits ...
Place: new york
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Flesh and Blood (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber tells the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood.
Style: realistic, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family problems, junkie, confronting the past, father son relationship, politician, parents and children, political activism, dysfunctional family, social problems, family relations, tragic past, mother son relationship ...
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The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: drug addiction, heroin addict, drug, drug addict, family relations, social problems, social issues, life is a bitch, drug abuse, junkie, drug use, mother son relationship ...
Place: germany
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 5.5
 516
Junction (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: heist gone wrong, junkie, bandit, gang, burglary, criminal gang, heist, drug, robbery, escapades, attempted robbery, nightmare ...
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 4.4
 257
Lost Solace (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After taking a new form of ecstasy, a psychopath goes through a mind bending trip causing him to feel and question his morality for the first time.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Plot: drug trip, self discovery, drug use, drug, psychopath, self awareness, drug abuse, junkie, mentally unstable, love
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 5.2
 457
The Bosses (2015)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Poncho is a student at a prestigious college in northern Mexico who is immersed along a single day on a whirlwind adventure through the various levels of the narc world after accepting the help of "Greñas", a guy working in the parking ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: gang, drug, drug addict, outlaw gang, life is a bitch, student, drug abuse, crime gone awry, drug addiction, social problems, illegal drugs, junkie ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: mexico
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Los Traficantes (2012)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While serving a 33-year sentence, a spiritual awakening led drug lord Esteban Mendoza Cruz to form a church in Mexico's most corrupt prison. With a congregation of more than 600, Cruz sows hope both among inmates and in the community at large.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: redemption, drug, prison, jail, drug smuggling, cartel, changing lives, drug rehab, new life, change of heart, drug dealer, junkie ...
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4224
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287
 6.6
 541
Heat Wave (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man sex, infidelity, social worker, mistress, love story, relationships, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, family relations, recovering drug addict ...
Time: 2000s
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Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Anonymous Zombie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A motley group of addicts attend a rehabilitation program at an isolated farm to get sun, relax and consume the drugs and alcohol they smuggled in. Unfortunately and unbeknownst to them, the farm is infested with zombies and these aren't your ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: zombie, experiment, farm, murder, drug, fear, revenge, violence, chase, friendship, death, insanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.2
 4K
Body Brokers (2021)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: drug, destructive relationship, degradation, brutality, addiction, friendship, life philosophy, violence, chase, drug traffic, junkie, downfall ...
Place: usa, los angeles, columbus ohio
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 6.2
 1K
French Blood (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, tense, disturbing
Plot: skinhead, subculture, degradation, depression, downfall, personality change, drug addiction, desperation, lifestyle change, loneliness, insanity, addiction ...
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style: feel good, talky, teen, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, weed, party, bullying, drug, summer ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: texas, seattle, midwest, austin texas, usa
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place: california, texas, usa, san diego california
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Angels in Fast Motion (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The unflinching tale of Maria, Allan and Steso, who are struggling for survival. Maria is a pusher frau, wandering restlessly among addicts, abusers and bikers in a relentless search for love. Allan has just returned from an ill-fated trip across ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense
Plot: drug, starting over, drug abuse, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, male nudity, friendship, mental illness, organized crime, overdose, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
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 7.4
 609K
Limitless (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style: clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: intelligence, success, drug, drug abuse, creativity, ambition, rags to riches, rise to the top, life turned upside down, prodigy, experimental drug, overnight success ...
Time: year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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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
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 6.6
 110K
Inherent Vice (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private investigator, investigation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, drug trade, private detective, obsession, investigator, stoner, hippie, paranoia, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, 90s ...
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
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