Tobacco movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant tobacco movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out interesting, realistic, serious, suspense, intense and cult classic films and TV shows about / with tobacco, mentor, cigarette smoking, dialogue, smoking tobacco, cigarette, smoking, storytelling, death and greed plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
tobacco movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tobacco: Thank You for Smoking (2005), The Insider (1999), Dhoomam (2023), Nicotina (2003), Parrish (1961), Barbarians at the Gate (1993), Albert Nobbs (2011), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Blue in the Face (1995), Black Christmas (1974).

List of tobacco movies

Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on ...
Style: satirical, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: marketing, advertising, business, lobbyist, satire, social satire, tobacco, reporter, lung cancer, politics, journalism, political satire ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., vermont, usa, los angeles, japan ...
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 7.8
 191K
The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: cerebral, political, sexy, suspense, clever ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, courtroom, politics, corruption, reporter, corporate crime, journalist, conspiracy, terrorist, tobacco, lawyer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, washington d.c., kentucky, south carolina, mississippi ...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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 5.8
 2K
Dhoomam (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Avinash wants to quit his marketing job at a top cigarette company, but it comes with consequences
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: tobacco, marketing, advertising, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, lifestyle change, job, problem, changing lives, manipulation, corruption, social commentary ...
Place: india
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 6.5
 4K
Nicotina (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A real-time dark comedy about a science geek who tangles with a clutch of Russian gangsters after he delivers them the wrong computer disk.
Style: stylized, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: hacker, computer genius, crime gone awry, murder, love and romance, addiction, stalking, voyeurism, coincidence, robbery, caper, tobacco ...
Time: year 2003
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
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 6.5
 1K
Parrish (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that ...
Style: retro, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: working conditions, adultery, submarine, tobacco, plantation, trippy, family relations, arson, love triangle, tough heroes, couples, family problems ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: connecticut, usa
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Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A television movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco.
Style: inspirational, realistic, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot: stock market, wall street, business, satire, finance, money, ceo, corporation, greed, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, business and finance ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlanta georgia, manhattan new york city, new york, california
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 6.7
 26K
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, loneliness, cross dressing, lesbian, lgbtq, master and servant, woman dressed as man, relationships, society, death, maid, gender disguise ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place: ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, anthology, clever, black and white ...
Plot: musician, conversation, addiction, dialogue, actor, art, smoking, dark humor, coffee, sarcasm, cafe, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 1920s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, america, paris france, new york ...
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Blue in the Face (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he ...
Style: independent film, talky, witty, colorful, mumblecore ...
Plot: smoking, culture clash, friendship, screwball, rock, tobacco, friends, family relations, couples, social relations, urban, city life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
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Black Christmas (1974)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time: 70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, psychological, cynical ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, lawyer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, marriage, divorce lawyer, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, death, greed, married couple ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., harvard university
Is relevant?
 7.9
 380K
Boyhood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, cerebral, touching, depressing ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, childhood, teenager, high school, adolescence, domestic abuse, family drama, youth, divorced parents, stepsister stepsister relationship, relationships, marriage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 90s, near future ...
Place: texas, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas, usa
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Style: cerebral, inspirational, psychological, heartbreaking, clever ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, casual sex, treatment, hiv positive, life is a bitch, gay slur, drug ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: texas, usa, idaho, midwest, nebraska ...
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
Is relevant?
 7.2
 270K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, trapped, survival, creature, fear, expedition, claustrophobia, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
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 7.0
 404K
Constantine (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, dark ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, demon, devil, angel, occult, good versus evil, demonic possession, exorcism, heaven and hell, hell, one man army, god or devil ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 201 min.
Story: Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark ...
Style: epic, breathtaking, atmospheric, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, manly, chick flick ...
Plot: sword fight, magic, wizard, magical, battles, good versus evil, courage, monster, creature, friendship, sword and sorcery, ancient ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran, new zealand
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 5.9
 151K
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On a remote former submarine refueling facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Susan McAlester genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, perverse, intense, natural horror ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, survival, shark attack, laboratory, creature feature, dangerous animal, killer shark, killer animal, genetic engineering, experiment gone awry, giant animal, monster ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: los angeles, pacific ocean
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 8.1
 765K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 241K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, detective, neo noir ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, nudity, manipulation, seduction, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, fatal attraction, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, oakland california, california ...
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 7.6
 135K
Barton Fink (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style: surreal, psychological, neo noir, black comedy, cerebral ...
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, hollywood, screenwriter, showbiz, murder, neighbor, surrealism, nightmare, serial killer, insanity, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
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 8.0
 197K
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, rough, depressing, intense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: prison, escape, prisoner, prison break, death, prison life, runaway, convict, prison escape, egg, freedom, fugitive ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s, 50s
Place: florida, southern usa
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: witch, found footage, folk horror, urban legend, supernatural, fear, survival, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, panic, forest, wilderness ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1999
Place: maryland, usa, north america
Is relevant?
 8.6
 955K
Spirited Away (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Style: anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: friendship, magic, supernatural, surrealism, witch, parallel world, imaginary, fantasy world, ghost, japanese mythology, creature, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, seattle
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 8.0
 1.4M
Titanic (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style: romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place: atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, whodunit, manipulation, organized crime, murder mystery, criminal, bank robber, killer, dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1995, year 1981
Place: los angeles, new york, hungary, turkey, north america ...
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style: suspense, political thriller, political, exciting, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, cold war, navy, espionage, spy, nuclear threat, politics, cold war era, water, cia, nuclear submarine, torpedo ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c., usa, atlantic ocean, maine ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 2K
The Nest (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Samuel is a paraplegic young boy living with his mother Elena in "Lake manor," an isolated mansion surrounded by woods. With the strict prohibition to walk away from the mansion, stuck in a family routine, Samuel grows serene but ...
Style: gothic horror, suspense, gothic, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: disabled child, boy girl relationship, overprotective mother, family secret, isolated house, doctor, runaway, mansion, teenage girl, evil mother, twists and turns, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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We of the Never Never (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, bride and groom, countryside, aborigine, strong female lead, sexism, australian outback, animal cruelty, killing an animal, racism, feminist, profanity ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 1900s
Place: australia, melbourne
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