| Flight (2012) | 7.3 | |
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| Under the Volcano (1984) | 6.8 | |
| The Servant (1963) | 7.7 | |
| 28 Days (2000) | 6.1 |
Alcoholism movies and TV shows – page 2
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42K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.
Style:
detective, dark
Plot:
male homosexuality, puppet, son, puppeteer, corrupt cop, racism, alcoholism, corruption, nightclub, father son relationship, aids, homelessness ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, non-linear, teen
Plot:
rape, suicide, alcoholism, teenage rape, suicide by hanging, female protagonist, social problems, tragic past, confronting the past, life is a bitch, troubled past, problem ...
Place:
belgium, flanders
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime ...
Style:
neo noir, feel good, detective, surreal, parody ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot:
private detective, rabbit, false accusation, falsely accused, satire, femme fatale, sexy woman, childhood, chase, looney tunes, singer, frame up ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1947, year 1988 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, violence against women, slutty wife, slutty attitude, horny woman, addiction, housewife, alcoholism, knocked up, depressed woman, coitus, no bra ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style:
cynical, erotic, cult classic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, price of fame, singer, actress, sex, showbiz, drinking, psychiatric nurse, swimming pool, lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new england, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, controversial, factual, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
child abuse, dysfunctional family, abusive mother, adoption, mansion, bad mother, single mother, abusive parent, domineering mother, single parent, mother daughter relationship, borderline personality disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york
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33K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Style:
talky, tense, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
old west, sheriff, redemption, wild west, alcoholic, friendship, shootout, lone hero, vengeance, cowboy, showdown, tough guy ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1966, year 1967, 60s
Place:
texas, usa, sonora, mexico, california
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52K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, weeping, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, love triangle, alcoholic, losing-it hero, true love, love, unrequited love, prostitution, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
india, london, kolkata, asia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
jazz, talent agent, musician, alcoholism, racism, prejudice, civil rights, trumpet player, blaxploitation, black, racial discrimination, music and dance ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
new york, cincinnati ohio
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian couple, poetry, writer's life, lesbian love, love and romance, love, lgbt, poet, alcoholism, american abroad, writers ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, nebraska, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economical situation. The film disappears. He suspects it is stolen and starts a hunt after a perpetrator.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, cult classic, art house
Plot:
alcoholism, nostalgia, loneliness, outsider, addiction, obsession, mother daughter relationship, redemption, eviction, second chance, intimate, personal growth ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
Style:
tragicomedy, psychotronic
Plot:
boxing, alcoholism, addiction, regret, tragic hero, character study, loss, redemption, machismo, melancholy, realism, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Hans Fallada.
Style:
psychological, bleak, melancholic, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
alcoholism, addiction, character study, literary, isolation, adaptation, desperation, alienation, financial ruin, post war, family conflict, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Scott Baio plays a high school hockey player. He is well liked and well respected among his coach and teammates. What they don't know is that he is an alcoholic. His background comes from his father, who is also an alcoholic. Baio must work to ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, inspirational, educational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
troubled teen, hockey, alcoholism, father son relationship, addiction, friendship, family drama, recovery, high school, coming of age, abstinence, ice hockey ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa.
Style:
road movie, emotional, reflective, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
alcoholism, pilgrimage, coming of age, terminal illness, religion, spiritual journey, running, teenage protagonist, road trip, faith, grief, loss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.
Style:
twisted, scary, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, manhunt, husband wife relationship, gas station, target practice, drug deal, drug dealer, sheriff, running, small town, alcoholism, revenge ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left his husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an ...
Style:
compassionate, emotional, independent film, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
vietnam veteran, alcoholism, father daughter relationship, family conflict, healing, empathy, reconciliation, domestic drama, redemption, second chance, character study, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Remy attempts to balance her relationship with her alcoholic mother and her longtime best friend, Arletta. While Remy leans on her best friend as a coping mechanism, she learns that their co-dependent friendship is more than she realized.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, queer cinema
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
alcoholism, coming of age, friendship, grownups, youth, substance abuse, mother and daughter, female friendship, personal growth, family conflict, slice of life, identity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Native American country singer Birdie Blackwater is court ordered to attend 180 days of wellness therapy after 10 years of reckless alcoholic abuse.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
alcoholism, native american, addiction, singer, country music, second chance, female protagonist, rehabilitation, character study, resilience, mature, self destructing ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy are forced to spend a week together at a high-end hotel. The only thing these two have in common is that they are both difficult to like. The hotel serves as their shared escape ...
Style:
dark comedy
Plot:
hotel, alcoholism, luxury hotel, unlikely friendships, character study, addiction, mature, bittersweet, empathy, misfit, escape, companionship ...
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A rock star with memory issues due to his alcoholism goes on a wild search to find his missing son.
Style:
dark, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
redemption, alcoholism, rock star, secret, missing child, addiction, father son relationship, musician, life is a bitch, mental health, memory loss, parenthood ...
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style:
sentimental, gloomy, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, music, addiction, alcoholism, art, friendship, saxophonist, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic ...
Time:
year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959, 60s ...
Place:
france, paris france, usa, europe, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
music, addiction, drug addiction, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, musician's life, sisters, redemption, female singer, sister sister conflict, eccentricity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, oregon, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style:
talky, touching, witty, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
working class, troubled marriage, teacher student relationship, teacher, literature, teaching, mentor, professor, self discovery, university, infidelity, social differences ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, emotional, romantic, anamorphic ...
Plot:
country music, musician, marriage, biopic, country singer, alcoholism, husband wife relationship, singer, songwriter, infidelity, drinking, divorce ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1944
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, intense, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, redemption, character study, justice, alcoholic, legal action, court, legal, corruption, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style:
humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, drug abuse, domineering mother, women, female protagonist, depression, drug ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's ...
Style:
independent film, black comedy, disturbing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
misfit, satire, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, abortion, loser, housewife, playboy, transvestite, lgbtq, surrealism, middle class ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, boston, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
husband wife reunion, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, obsession, fall in love, college graduate, couples, love and romance, family problems, couple relations, world war one ...
Time:
future, 1930s, year 1951, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
vermont, europe, washington d.c., canada, brooklyn new york city ...
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11K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Style:
realistic, neo noir, serious, captivating, cynical ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
boxing, friendship, comeback, boxer, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, introspection, unfulfillment, alcoholism, drug addiction, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
california, usa, northern california, north america
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