Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "opioid-addiction"

1. Dopesick (2021)

TV-MA | 62 min | Drama

The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.

Stars: Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter

Votes: 77,553

2. Painkiller (2023)

TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama

The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

Stars: Uzo Aduba, Matthew Broderick, Taylor Kitsch, Dina Shihabi

Votes: 30,268

3. Crisis (I) (2021)

R | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, stories of an undercover cop, a professor and a grieving mother collide.

Director: Nicholas Jarecki | Stars: Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 13,791

4. August: Osage County (2013)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Director: John Wells | Stars: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 95,328 | Gross: $37.74M

5. Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

R | 116 min | Drama

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett

Votes: 46,449

6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Unrated | 113 min | Documentary

Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio

Votes: 7,783

7. Ben Is Back (2018)

R | 103 min | Drama

A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.

Director: Peter Hedges | Stars: Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton

Votes: 24,141 | Gross: $3.70M

8. Castle in the Ground (2019)

TV-MA | 105 min | Drama

After the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.

Director: Joey Klein | Stars: Imogen Poots, Neve Campbell, Alex Wolff, Keir Gilchrist

Votes: 1,009

9. Street Legal (2019)

60 min | Drama

Olivia Novak returns with a new generation of lawyers in "Street Legal," a character-driven legal drama that follows the professional and personal lives of ambitious law partners at a start-up Toronto law firm.

Stars: Cynthia Dale, Cara Ricketts, Steve Lund, Yvonne Chapman

Votes: 127

10. Heroin(e) (2017)

39 min | Documentary, Short

Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon | Stars: Jan Rader, Patricia Keller, Necia Freeman, Najah Menapace

Votes: 3,325

11. The Needle (1988)

81 min | Drama, Thriller

Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He ... See full summary »

Director: Rashid Nugmanov | Stars: Viktor Tsoy, Marina Smirnova, Pyotr Mamonov, Aleksandr Bashirov

Votes: 2,935

12. Recovery Boys (2018)

89 min | Documentary

In the heart of America's opioid epidemic, four men attempt to reinvent their lives and reenter society sober after years of drug abuse. Recovery Boys, from Academy Award nominated director... See full summary »

Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Votes: 825

13. The Other Story (2018)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama

Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.

Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Joy Rieger, Yuval Segal, Maya Dagan

Votes: 417 | Gross: $0.13M

14. Better Than Love (2019)

85 min | Drama, Romance

A reluctant drug dealer strives to elevate his friend's lives while the addictive forces of an ignorant OxyContin prescription corrodes his own.

Director: Ted Carney | Stars: Andrew Lawrence, Alexandra Rodriguez, Matthew Lawrence, DeRon Brigdon

Votes: 193

15. Nasty (2018)

22 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

Mild-mannered Archie Glass receives a midnight call warning him of an imminent home invasion. If Archie is to survive, he's to do everything the caller suggests - no matter how strange or abhorrent to his gentle nature .

Director: Paul Chart | Stars: Belinda Balaski, Tim Blackwell, Cali DiCapo, Robert Forster

16. Boiling Point: Road to Hell (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

First person shooter with RPG elements about a tough quippy expat American mercenary Saul Myers, a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, who arrives in a fictional war-torn South American country to track down his missing daughter.

Stars: Arnold Vosloo, Matthew Géczy

Votes: 78

17. Lambent Dark (2020)

24 min | Short, Drama, Horror

As she struggles to reconnect with her mother, a young woman begins to see both her recently deceased sister and a menacing figure with a Gothic lantern for a head, and is unsure whether ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Haskin | Stars: Ariel Wright, Charla Bocchicchio, Kelsey Edwards, Garret Rushforth

18. White Gold: War in Paradise (2008 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Crime

First person shooter with RPG elements about Saul Myers, a tough mercenary hired to investigate which of the factions in a war-torn Caribbean region is producing poisoned cocaine that's been killing celebrities around the world.

19. Profit (1996–1997)
Episode: Cupid (1997)

45 min | Crime, Drama

Problems with a merger open new opportunities for Profit, but reveal secrets that may cause trouble. Bobby plot get herself a rich man causes problems for Profit at Gracen & Gracen.

Director: Scott Paulin | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr

Votes: 68

20. The Good Doctor (2017–2024)
Episode: Fractured (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

Shaun opens up with Aaron about his feelings towards Lea.

Director: Gary Hawes | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Fiona Gubelmann

Votes: 1,019

21. Transplant (2020–2024)
Episode: Relapse (2020)

TV-14 | Drama

When an opioid addict is injured, Bash races to discover if her deadly symptoms are caused by drugs or a mystery ailment.

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Hamza Haq, Laurence Leboeuf, Ayisha Issa, Jim Watson

Votes: 167

22. Horizon (1964– )
Episode: Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis (2020)

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Director: Dan Murdoch | Star: Michael Mosley

Votes: 13

23. Ross Kemp Living with... (2019– )
Episode: Painkiller Addiction (2020)

23 min | Documentary

Ross investigates opioids used in powerful prescription painkillers. He meets a woman who became addicted, a drug-dealer who cuts heroin with fentanyl to make it more addictive and a man whose daughter died from taking the lethal cocktail.

Director: Charlie Mole | Star: Ross Kemp

24. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Money Changes Everything (2021)

Documentary, History

The story of how in the 1970s those in power set out to create a world free of the dangerous big ideas of the past. They banished the grand dreams of changing the world. And replaced them ... See full summary »

Stars: Lin Biao, Reid Bryson, Harry Caudill, Adam Curtis

Votes: 112

25. Aperture (2017– )
Episode: How you're going to die.. (2021)

15 min | Action

Statistically you are more likely to die of suicide than murder. If you are murdered it's more likely by someone you know. If you're shot with a gun you most likely shot yourself. Then ... See full summary »

Star: Michael McEwen

26. Transplant (2020–2024)
Episode: And So It Goes (2022)

TV-14 | Drama

Bash's life is scrutinized during his citizenship interview; when treating survivors of a building fire, Theo needs Bash's help with a scared young boy; Mags helps a recovering addict who swallowed her keys.

Director: Éric Tessier | Stars: Hamza Haq, Laurence Leboeuf, Rekha Sharma, Jim Watson

Votes: 96

27. Intervention (2005– )
Episode: Christina (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Drama

Growing up, Christina had to shuttle back and forth between her drug-addicted mother and neglectful father. Having never received the support she desperately craved, Christina turned to ... See full summary »

Star: Jeff VanVonderen

Votes: 17

28. Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan (1954– )
Episode: Episode #71.25 (2024)

TV-PG | News, Talk-Show

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va), U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman; Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Penn); Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee; David Sanger, CBS News national security correspondent;

Stars: Margaret Brennan, Mark Warner, Dan Sullivan, Josh Shapiro

29. The Affair (2014–2019)
Episode: Episode #3.7 (2017)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama

Helen gives Noah the help he needs - but at what cost? At his absolute weakest, Noah's world has never seemed more hostile or bewildering. A vital moment of release turns suddenly into something that can't be undone.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, Joshua Jackson

Votes: 518

30. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: The Anti-Terror Squad (2016)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The BAU investigates the case of two murdered families where the oldest siblings are the sole survivors.

Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness

Votes: 1,649

31. S.W.A.T. (2017– )
Episode: Crews (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The job becomes personal for Hondo when a friend is killed during a joint FBI/S.W.A.T. mission to stop a robbery crew. Jessica worries the erratic behavior of the FBI task force leader will endanger the team in the field.

Director: Hanelle M. Culpepper | Stars: Shemar Moore, Stephanie Sigman, Alex Russell, Lina Esco

Votes: 529

32. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Fentanyl, Flake, Canada and Other Stuff (2018 Podcast Episode)

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Star: Scott Adams