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51. Creepy (2016)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino
Votes: 5,995
52. Wired (1989)
R | 112 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville
Votes: 950 | Gross: $1.09M
53. Puppet on a Chain (1970)
PG | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do ... See full summary »
Director: Geoffrey Reeve | Stars: Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen
Votes: 1,278 | Gross: $0.77M
54. Nico, 1988 (2017)
R | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek
Votes: 2,067 | Gross: $0.07M
55. Pure (I) (2002)
R | 96 min | Drama
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Harry Eden, Vinnie Hunter, Molly Parker, David Wenham
Votes: 2,787 | Gross: $0.10M
56. 6 Balloons (2018)
TV-MA | 74 min | Drama
A woman (Jacobson) learns her brother (Franco) has relapsed on heroin.
Director: Marja-Lewis Ryan | Stars: Abbi Jacobson, Dave Franco, Charlotte Carel, Madeline Carel
Votes: 4,499
57. Emmanuelle on Taboo Island (1976)
R | 88 min | Drama
A shipwrecked sailor falls in love with a beautiful island woman.
Director: Enzo D'Ambrosio | Stars: Laura Gemser, Paolo Giusti, Arthur Kennedy, Estrella Castellanos
Votes: 368
58. A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,497
59. I Come with the Rain (2009)
Not Rated | 114 min | Thriller
Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Lee Byung-hun, Takuya Kimura
Votes: 3,296
60. Hit! (1973)
R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles
Votes: 867 | Gross: $0.08M
61. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono
Votes: 2,409 | Gross: $0.07M
62. London Kills Me (1991)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull ... See full summary »
Director: Hanif Kureishi | Stars: Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif
Votes: 651 | Gross: $0.17M
63. Saathi (1991)
175 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Suraj and Aman are best friends who would die for each other.Suraj's father is brutally killed by a cop for stealing a bread to feed him.Suraj and Aman then take the life of crime to con ... See full summary »
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Aditya Pancholi, Mohsin Khan, Varsha Usgaonkar, Paresh Rawal
Votes: 240
64. Lorna's Silence (2008)
R | 105 min | Drama
Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj
Votes: 9,175 | Gross: $0.34M
65. Surrender Dorothy (1998)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lahn is a heroin addict who will do anything for his dose. He robs a dealer and bumps into Trevor, who works at a restaurant. He gives him shelter, but for that turns him into his slave, makes him dress in drag, and names him Dorothy.
Director: Kevin DiNovis | Stars: Peter Pryor, Kevin DiNovis, Jason Centeno, Elizabeth Banks
Votes: 399
66. A Bad Son (1980)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert
Votes: 1,421
67. The Harvesters (2018)
TV-MA | 102 min | Drama
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is ... See full summary »
Director: Etienne Kallos | Stars: Brent Vermeulen, Alex van Dyk, Juliana Venter, Morné Visser
Votes: 966
68. Janbaaz (1986)
Not Rated | 175 min | Action, Drama
Rana Vikram Singh (Amrish Puri) has two sons, police officer Rajesh (Feroz Khan) and fun-loving playboy Amar (Anil Kapoor). Rajesh has gone through the traumatic experience of losing the ... See full summary »
Director: Feroz Khan | Stars: Feroz Khan, Anil Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Amrish Puri
Votes: 782
69. Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake, when he meets Molly, a carefree young woman who gets him to start using heroin, his world slowly falls apart.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, JoBeth Williams, Carly Pope, Robin Dunne
Votes: 587
70. The Pace That Kills (1935)
PG | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: Lois January, Noel Madison, Sheila Bromley, Dean Benton
Votes: 701
71. Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux, Liliane Bert
Votes: 1,696
72. Razzia (1955)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Lino Ventura, Albert Rémy
Votes: 1,313
73. Syndrome (2004)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
With only a few months left to live, a terminally ill man desperately tries to infuse his addict girlfriend with a new love for life in Liberto Rabal's psychological thriller.
Director: Liberto Rabal | Stars: Javier Albalá, Adriana Davidova, William Miller, Carolina Bona
Votes: 165
74. Clubbed to Death (Lola) (1996)
90 min | Drama
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict.
Director: Yolande Zauberman | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Béatrice Dalle, Richard Courcet
Votes: 562
75. L.627 (1992)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Relentless struggle of the Parisian police against the drug trade.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Jean-Roger Milo
Votes: 2,169
76. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 60
77. Blonde in Bondage (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
American reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer.
Director: Robert Brandt | Stars: Mark Miller, Lars Ekborg, Anita Thallaug, Birgitta Ander
Votes: 118
78. 150 Milligrams (2016)
128 min | Biography, Drama
Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh
Votes: 1,513
79. Lemonheads (2020)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Blinded by the urgency of addiction, two junkies embark on a desperate odyssey to get their next fix.
Directors: Ryder Doupe, Dawson Doupé, Todd Tapper | Stars: George Jonson, Samuel Wyatt, Jeffery Dean, William Shockley
Votes: 265
80. The Hard Road (1973)
R | 85 min | Drama
The cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Connie Nelson, John Alderman, Catherine Howard, Gary Kent
Votes: 157
81. Brighton Wok: The Legend of Ganja Boxing (2008)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Vafan Cuolo the Italian Ninja takes over Brighton with his milita of kung-fu fighters. Ryu, a young man just out of a care home, is surprised to discover that he is Brighton's last hope. ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Howard | Stars: Richard Forsyth, Samson Byford-Winter, Randolph Barrington, Laura Byford-Winter
Votes: 193
82. Killer Kid (1994)
90 min | Drama, War
A Lebanese kid is sent to France on a terrorist mission for "Allah's Army". An Lebanese French kid becomes involved unwittingly. A bond develops between the two, while they become alienated... See full summary »
Director: Gilles de Maistre | Stars: Tewfik Jallab, Younesse Boudache, Salah Teskouk, Fatiha Cheriguene
Votes: 237
83. The Night Affair (1958)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A vice inspector for the Paris police takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur
Votes: 751
84. Jack's Apocalypse (2015)
80 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An addict ex-politician whose life has spiraled out of control finds redemption when challenged with keeping his sister-in-law and niece alive during the apocalypse.
Director: Will James Moore | Stars: David Maldonado, Jamie Tisdale, Tishuan Scott, Matthew James
Votes: 756
85. Iscariot (2008)
80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.
Director: Miko Lazic | Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Michael Nyqvist, Helena Af Sandeberg, Jacob Ericksson
Votes: 421
86. The Healing (1983 Video)
TV-PG | 79 min | Drama
A young Family Practice physician is broken by the sudden, unexpected death of his pregnant wife and their unborn son. He drowns his grief with alcohol until the Lord shows him a way to sobriety and back into the practice of medicine.
Director: Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Brian Jones, Jon Lormer, Erin Blunt, James Andelin
Votes: 21
87. The Blood of God (2019)
127 min | Drama
The distinction between faith and religion is explored amid an assortment of frayed relationships when a devout Christian man contracts a life-altering illness, forms a drug dependency and becomes the key suspect in a murder investigation.
Director: Davo Hardy | Stars: Richard Littlehales, Matias Klaver, Vicki Gard, Meili Bookluck
Votes: 123
88. Pigalle (1994)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Music
In the seedy neon-lit underworld of the Pigalle district of Paris, animalistic survival obscures all moral codes. Rival drug dealers use three minor figures as pawns in their murderous ... See full summary »
Director: Karim Dridi | Stars: Véra Briole, Francis Renaud, Raymond Gil, Bobby Pacha
Votes: 191
89. Acts of Worship (2001)
R | 94 min | Drama
Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez | Stars: Ana Reeder, Michael Hyatt, Christopher Kadish, Nestor Rodriguez
Votes: 318 | Gross: $0.01M
90. Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967) (1967)
29 min | Short, Drama
In this dark vision of drug use, a former classmate turned dealer seduces a high-school student into drug addiction.
Director: Mel Marshall | Stars: Kevin Tighe, Gerald LeRoy, Julie Conners, Patrick Miller
Votes: 318
91. EM Embalming (1999)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After the head of the corpse of a teenager she's restoring is stolen, an embalmer encounters the organ black market and a necrotomic religious cult.
Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige, Hitomi Miwa
Votes: 261
92. Cold Turkey (2001 TV Movie)
Documentary
Leo Regan follows his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he tries to go cold turkey (detox) from heroin in his council flat and without medication.
Director: Leo Regan | Stars: Errol, Lanre Fehintola, Neil McCormick, Leo Regan
Votes: 100
93. Droga sterco di Dio (1987)
79 min | Documentary
This film deals with an atrocious and inhuman truth of various worldwide drug problems, according to the text which scrolls in the opening sequence. Some of the problems include: Drug ... See full summary »
Director: Stelvio Massi
Votes: 36
94. Burnhouse Lane (2022 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Story about death, friendship and everlasting hope that no matter how bad things get there is always a reason to go on.
Director: Remigiusz Michalski | Stars: Elizabeth Nightingale, Madison Mitts, Ian Russell, Aarno Malin
Votes: 63
95. White Night (1995)
92 min | Drama
Charlie tries to clean himself off drugs, with the help of his prison cell mate Shlomo. Althou coming from different background they manage to build a true friendship.
Director: Arnon Zadok | Stars: Shalom Shmuelov, Sharon Alexander, Idan Alterman, Liora Rivlin
Votes: 27
96. The Real Untouchables (2001 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
The three-part documentary examines Eliot Ness, Melvin Purvis and Thomas Dewey: three real-life heroes who battled organized crime between the two world wars.
Director: John Fothergill | Stars: James Woods, Bob Kaliebe, Dominic Capone III, Tom Clarke Hill
Votes: 23
97. Riflessi in un cielo scuro (1991)
Drama
Director: Salvatore Maira | Stars: Françoise Fabian, Anna Kanakis, Valerie Perrine, Peter Stormare
Votes: 21
98. Seduction of the Innocent (1961)
9 min | Drama, Short
Pretty high school student Jeanette starts hanging with a wild crowd, popping "bennies, uppers" and other pills. She graduates to (gasp!) marijuana, which of course means that she is immediately becomes a heroin addict and a streetwalker.
Votes: 39
99. Psychology of Human Behavior (2006 Video)
1,080 min | Documentary
The engineering psychologist, Professor David W. Martin, provides a basic introduction to the complex discipline of psychology, looking back to its history and forward to where it might lead us.
Votes: 12
100. I taràssachi (1990)
65 min | Drama
Directors: Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Rocco Mortelliti, Fulvio Ottaviano | Stars: Athina Cenci, Sergio Castellitto, Laurentina Guidotti, Nini Salerno
Votes: 13