Drug rehab movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant drug rehab movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, independent film, psychological, touching and sincere films and TV shows about / with drug rehab, drug addict, addiction, drug addiction, drug, family relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse, rehabilitation and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as drug rehab: Being Charlie (2015), Ben Is Back (2018), Wasted (2002), The Cleaner (2008), Rachel Getting Married (2008), Inner Demons (2014), Oslo, August 31st (2011), On the Corner (2003), Clean and Sober (1988), A Perfect Son (2000).

List of drug rehab movies

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Being Charlie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but ...
Style: touching, melancholic, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug addict, teenager, drug rehab, drug addiction, drug, coming of age, rehabilitation, hitchhiking, escape, love, intervention, heroin ...
Place: los angeles
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 6.7
 24K
Ben Is Back (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 19 year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, ...
Style: social, tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug addict, drug rehab, teenager, addiction, drug dealing, mother son relationship, christmas, dog, lgbt, brother sister relationship, lie, money ...
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 6.4
 656
Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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 7.1
 2K
The Cleaner (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William BanksĀ strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: addiction, belief, rescue, hopes, going straight, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style: independent film, emotional, serious, talky, intellectual ...
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, addiction, favoritism among siblings, marriage, sisters, wedding preparations and rituals, sister sister relationship, character study, family problems, self destructing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa, hawaii
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 5.2
 3K
Inner Demons (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic ...
Style: mockumentary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, demonic ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, possession, demonic possession, kids in trouble, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, intervention, hopes, troubled past, secret ...
Time: 21st century
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a dayā€™s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
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 6.9
 272
On the Corner (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and ...
Style: touching, serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: drug addiction, missing person, dysfunctional family, homelessness, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, confrontation, drug dealer, drug rehab, criminality, drug addict, addiction ...
Place: vancouver
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Clean and Sober (1988)
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, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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 6.4
 362
A Perfect Son (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, aids, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time: 90s
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 6.1
 54K
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, intense, compassionate, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, drug addict, alcoholism, wedding, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, going straight, doctors and patients, siblings relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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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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 5.7
 7K
Repeaters (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.
Style: psychological, mind bending, surreal, tense, clever ...
Plot: time loop, time travel, addiction, time warp, introspection, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, redemption, time, imaginary ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: canada
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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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 6.4
 2K
The Oath (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: investigation, father daughter conflict, husband wife relationship, drug addict, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, young woman, family in danger, police detective, blackmail, drug, murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
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 6.2
 6K
I Smile Back (2015)
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, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, female nudity, female orgasm, addiction, slut, violence against women, unfaithful wife, slutty attitude, sex with friend's wife, whore, slutty wife, horny woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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 7.5
 29K
Christiane F. (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
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 6.6
 12K
Four Good Days (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: heroin, mother, drug, drug addict, massage, recovering drug addict, family relations, rehabilitation, problem, parents and children, coping, mother and daughter ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 4.2
 3K
Family Blood (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. ...
Style: suspense, dark, neurotic, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot: vampire, support group, single mother, teenager, drug rehab, starting over, stranger, job seeking, blood, gory, fear, addiction ...
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
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, cult classic, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, showbiz, price of fame, rise and fall, terminal illness, singer, porn actress, actress, psychiatric nurse, drinking ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new york, new england ...
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 7.6
 335K
Lord of War (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, France, Zambia, Italy, Denmark, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most ...
Style: clever, suspense, realistic, thought provoking, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: business, greed, corruption, arms dealer, cold war, arms dealing, millionaire, gunrunner, rags to riches, smuggling, human nature, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, year 2001 ...
Place: africa, bolivia, new york, odessa ukraine, sierra leone ...
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to ...
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: werewolf, beast, female werewolf, masturbation, supernatural, murder, gory, hospital, teenage life, creature feature, on the run, danger ...
Time: year 2004
Place: canada
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Augusta, Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, rise and fall, single parent, hopes, alcohol abuse, uncontrollable, intrigue, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, san francisco
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 7.4
 97K
Beautiful Boy (2018)
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, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 820
Earth Mama (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, dramatic, crying ...
Plot: single mother, foster home, pregnancy, pregnant woman, single parent, motherhood, pregnancy and birth, pregnant girlfriend, kids and family, family life, family relations, adoption ...
Time: 2020s
Place: northern california, oakland california, bay area, california
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 38K
Smoke (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, intellectual, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: writers, multiple storylines, photography, smoking, photographer, photograph, melancholy, friendship, redemption, dark humor, summer, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, year 1990
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 9K
Little Fish (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: junkie, oral sex, heroin, support group, life is a bitch, starting over, hopes, addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, tragedy, drug dealer ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, vietnam, sydney australia
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 67K
Half Baked (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
Style: funny, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood ...
Plot: weed, marijuana, stoner, drug, stupidity, drug dealer, satire, drug addict, urban, voice over narration, breaking the fourth wall, rottweiler ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 6K
The Ardennes (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, twist ending ...
Plot: brother vs brother, murder, police, cell mate, love triangle, brother brother relationship, violence, disposing of a dead body, prison, car wash, techno music, ostrich ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 22K
Thumbsucker (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, addiction, youth, teenager, depression, debate, teenage life, self discovery, lifestyle, drug, mental illness ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
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