Rehabilitation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant rehabilitation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, touching, psychological and independent film films and TV shows about / with rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, redemption, recovery, addiction, drug, friendship, society and illness plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rehabilitation: 1000 to 1 (2014), A Million Little Pieces (2018), Stronger (2017), Regarding Henry (1991), To Write Love on Her Arms (2012), Smashed (2012), Pure (2002), 28 Days (2000), Euphoria (2019), Boy A (2007).
Best films
New films
| Beginnings (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Salvador (2026) | 6.1 | |
| Inside (2024) | 6.4 | |
| TREMEMBÉ (2025) | 6.6 | |
| Eenie Meanie (2025) | 5.9 |
List of rehabilitation movies
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importantly, off the court.
Style:
captivating, emotional, serious, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, therapist, fraternity, telephone call, ambition, basketball player, recovery, hopes, against the odds, disability, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, social
Plot:
rehabilitation, drug addiction, male nudity, male pubic hair, drug, addiction, roommate, alcohol abuse, self destructing, fall in love, clinic, introspection ...
Time:
year 1993
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, usa
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53K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, touching, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
physical therapy, rehabilitation, running, hospital, terrorist bombing, disability, sex scene, conspiracy, terrorism, terrorist, husband wife relationship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2013, year 2016, year 2014 ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
amnesia, rehabilitation, lawyer, memory loss, redemption, disability, brain damage, family relations, maid, parents and children, hopes, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction, depression and self-injury. In a ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, sincere, serious, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
redemption, self harm, depression, life is a bitch, addiction, youth, rehabilitation, coming of age, music, hopes, biopic, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa, orlando florida
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18K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, alcoholic, support group, alcohol abuse, teacher, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
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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
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Style:
touching, ironic, compassionate, retro, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disability, drawing, cartoonist, alcoholism, therapy, rehabilitation, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, paralysis, car accident, biopic, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
oregon, long beach california, portland oregon
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290K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, realistic, depressing, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, teenager, coming of age, drug addict, high school, mental illness, lgbt, youth, sex, sexuality, school, teenage life ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, brooklyn new york city, italy, california, singapore ...
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40K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, juvenile delinquency, childhood, haunted by the past, going straight, bullying, melancholy, released from prison, teen angst, rehabilitation, violent, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drug addict checks into rehab.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, thrilling, therapeutic ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, drug addiction, group therapy, car crash, therapy, clinic, car accident, recovery, life is a bitch, character study, mature, redemption ...
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Genre: Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
J.T. Hope, a former police officer and marine, owner of a ranch called "Circle Hope Ranch" decides to start a program for troubled teens on his ranch to help rehabilitate them and help them get out of the life of crime, drugs and other bad ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, sentimental, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
rehabilitation, hopes, redemption, juvenile delinquency, teaching the ways of the world, kids in trouble, going straight, youth, society, farm, second chance, life lesson ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
alcoholic, family in crisis, family values, rehabilitation, alcoholism, addiction, alcohol abuse, love story, husband wife relationship, recovery, tragedy, single father ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, fish out of water, society, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, unemployment, misfit, wrongfully committed, mental health, recovery, social realism, branding iron ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style:
emotional, touching, talky, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, paraplegic, sex scene, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human nature, society, hopes, human spirit, physical disability ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
santa monica california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There may be one thing worse than being a sex offender sent to prison: Being a sex offender released from prison. RSO tells the story of one offender's unlikely rehabilitation.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, mumblecore, controversial ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, society, dark humor, down on your luck, fictional reality show, existentialism, taboo subject, branding iron, character study, parole ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An eclectic group of people drawn from all walks of life find themselves under one roof for twenty-eight days with one thing in common, addiction.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, tension, intense ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, love triangle, introspection, drug, couples, rivalry, couple relations, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Style:
neo noir, intense, harsh, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
plastic surgery, prison, murder, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, robbery, rehabilitation, disfigured, revenge, money, doctor ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
new orleans, usa, new jersey, texas, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
introspection, rehabilitation, accident, starting over, family relations, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment, couples, trauma, recovery, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
death penalty, lethal injection, mental institution, death sentence, chainsaw, uncover truth, crime gone awry, rehabilitation, psychiatrist, desperation, husband wife relationship, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, dallas texas, texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, rehabilitation, family drama, bittersweet, hopes, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family relations, holiday, family life, parents and children, human nature, surgical operation ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Style:
realistic, emotional, christian film, captivating, motivational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
baseball, homecoming, rehabilitation, addiction, christian, support group, sport team, life is a bitch, hopes, redemption, starting over, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma city, oklahoma
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style:
serious, emotional, rough, sitcom, hood ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, urban, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, going straight, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
baltimore
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Awakening from a near fatal overdose, Chris embraces a second chance at life. Required to enroll into a 12-Step Program, and mandated to state psychiatrist appointments, Chris is forced to revisit his chaotic past; a history that revolves around his ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, emotional, independent film, intense ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, second chance, obsessive compulsive disorder, recovery, troubled past, dealing with the past, new life, confronting the past, trauma, mental illness, overdose ...
Place:
new haven connecticut, connecticut
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, addiction, introspection, alcoholics anonymous, drug abuse, recovery, yuppie, rehabilitation, drug, drinking, recovering drug addict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, new jersey, california
Is relevant?
125K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style:
disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, social ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, boy, teenage boy, father son relationship, divorce, coming of age, rehabilitation, methamphetamine, drug use, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
addiction, recovery, rehabilitation, coping, alcoholics anonymous, support group, family problems, self discovery, human spirit, hopes, against the odds, friendship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1929
Place:
usa
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