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, touching, emotional, sincere and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, addiction, friendship, drugs, female nudity, redemption, mental illness and love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rehabilitation: Regarding Henry (1991), Stronger (2017), Pure (2002), 1000 to 1 (2014), A Million Little Pieces (2018), Prey (2019), Smashed (2012), Honey Boy (2019), Peaceful Warrior (2006), The Corner (2000).

List of rehabilitation movies

Regarding Henry (1991)
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: touching, intense, emotional, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: amnesia, rehabilitation, memory loss, lawyer, redemption, disability, starting over, family relations, maid, parents and children, brain damage, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 46K
Stronger (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
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: inspirational, emotional, touching, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: physical therapy, rehabilitation, hospital, terrorist bombing, conspiracy, terrorism, investigation, friendship, husband wife relationship, saving a life, brother brother relationship, medication ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston
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 6.8
 3K
Pure (2002)
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, emotional, touching, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, youth, drug abuse, life is a bitch, prostitute, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, parents and children, teenage life, going straight, friendship ...
Place: london, england, europe
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 6.9
 1K
1000 to 1 (2014)
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, uplifting, motivational ...
Plot: rehabilitation, college, basketball player, ambition, sport, hopes, against the odds, recovery, therapist, gym, disability, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Million Little Pieces (2018)
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: psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental
Plot: drug addiction, rehabilitation, addiction, drugs, male nudity, alcohol abuse, fall in love, self destructing, clinic, introspection, downfall, society ...
Time: year 1993
Place: usa, minneapolis minnesota
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 4.6
 3K
Prey (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.
Style: dark, bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological
Plot: rehabilitation, lighthouse, survival, monster, murder, island, demon, childhood trauma, murder of father, teenager, father son relationship, stranded ...
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 6.7
 17K
Smashed (2012)
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, sentimental ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, support group, drugs, teacher, depression, psychology, twists and turns, introspection, irresponsible ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.2
 39K
Honey Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Style: inspirational, sincere, captivating, touching, psychological ...
Audience: kids
Plot: rehabilitation, absent mother, father son relationship, abusive father, child protagonist, alcoholic father, child, forgiveness, group therapy, motel, boyhood, coming of age ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 1995, 90s, year 2015
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Peaceful Warrior (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
Style: inspirational, philosophical, spiritual, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mentor, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, wisdom of life, life philosophy, wise man, human spirit, philosophy, enlightenment, gymnastics, athlete and trainer, rehabilitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, california, usa
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 8.6
 5K
The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 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, realistic ...
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, drug dealing, heroin, drug abuse, african american, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, life is a bitch, going straight, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
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 6.1
 52K
28 Days (2000)
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, compassionate, emotional, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: alcohol abuse, addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, wedding, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, going straight, drugs, siblings relations, doctors and patients, drug abuse ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
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: emotional, sentimental, romantic, intense, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot: alcohol abuse, alcoholic, family values, rehabilitation, family in crisis, addiction, love story, tragedy, single father, love, life is a bitch, weakness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A teen movie star attempts to overcome her addition to alcohol and salvage what's left of her career after passing out on the red carpet at her big Hollywood premiere and being sent to recover with her upbeat aunt in Indiana. Morgan Carter (Jo ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, realistic
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: starlet, rehabilitation, fame, love and romance, teenage life, actor's life, small town life, showbiz, teenager, paparazzi, famous, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.4
 196K
Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 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, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, teenager, drugs, drug addict, high school, sex, lgbt, youth, teenage life, sexuality, friends, coming of age ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 38K
Boy A (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 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, disturbing, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, childhood, going straight, haunted by the past, released from prison, redemption, rehabilitation, starting over, dysfunctional family, child abuse, murder, melancholy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, manchester
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Finding Amanda (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: niece, rehabilitation, prostitution, gambling, couples, obsessive quest, couple relations, redemption, love and romance, rescue, uncle niece relationship, disorder ...
Place: nevada, usa, las vegas
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The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: 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: realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional, talky ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, human nature, society, hopes, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: 90s
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Down to the Bone (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style: serious, sincere, emotional, touching, scary ...
Plot: addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, family life, drug abuse, working class, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place: new york, new york state, usa
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 7.2
 15K
Berlin Calling (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Style: serious, realistic, humorous, rough, sincere ...
Plot: techno music, drug abuse, mentally unstable, rehabilitation, mental institution, drugs, overdose, musician's life, lifestyle, cocaine, party, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: legal investigation, rehabilitation, injustice, family problems, courtroom, legal, estrangement, dishonesty, law enforcement, false accusation, courtroom drama, police corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, seattle, washington d.c.
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Around the Fire (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, boarding school, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, friends, love and romance, society, social differences, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 28K
Speak (2004)
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, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, school, rape, depression, teenage girl, teenage life, youth, innocence lost, family problems, bullying, unsupportive friend, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 3.6
 1K
Darkroom (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, starting over, family relations, torture, siblings relations, held captive, survival, suspense, escape, violence, bondage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
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: touching, realistic, thought provoking, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rehabilitation, alcohol abuse, support group, family problems, human spirit, self discovery, hopes, against the odds, friendship, drug abuse, coping ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
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To Write Love on Her Arms (2012)
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, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: depression, life is a bitch, youth, redemption, addiction, rehabilitation, drugs, coming of age, music, hopes, love, disability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, florida, usa, orlando florida
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 47K
Gia (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, fashion, addiction, drug abuse, mental illness, heroin, drug addiction, aids, supermodel, model, lesbian romance, lesbianism ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york
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Why Stop Now? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, family relations, dealer, lifestyle, drug dealing, disorder, student life, eccentric family, partners, nothing goes right, prodigy, pianist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 666
Starfish (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. While her husband was in coma, Nicola gave birth to their second child on the other side of the same ...
Style: inspirational, touching
Audience: kids
Plot: disabled person, coma, true love, cripple, rehabilitation, compassion, disfigured face, public health, infection, writers, food poisoning, baby boy ...
Time: 90s
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This Is Martin Bonner (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two men, at opposite ends of the social spectrum, find themselves starting new lives in the same, small town and form an unlikely friendship.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: estrangement, rehabilitation, friendship, one more chance, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, betrayal, dishonesty, society, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
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The Night Clerk (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disappears one evening and is later found dead, Frédéric suspects he may have been killed by the ...
Style: mind bending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: rehabilitation, missing person, social misfits, isolation, boss and employee, confined, workplace, misfit, dishonesty, intern, father son relationship, mountain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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