Drug Addiction Movies

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s,...

A haunting, visceral exploration of addiction and one contemporary man's fearless and determined quest for healing and redemption through the ancient...

Sammy is a teenage cutter living with her meth addicted mother in a trailer on the Indian Ridge Reservation. Her mother's boyfriend is a drug dealer...

Spider-man teaches how to say no to drugs and why, including negative effects they have on the body.

The Business of Recovery examines the untold billions that are being made off of families in crisis. With little regulation or science, addiction...

Junior, a young father trying to turn his life around after years of heroin addiction, joins forces with a group of fellow hepatitis-C-infected...

In this film titled “From Candy to Cocaine” from 1986, the “Teens Kick-Off” performance group, a performance group recovering...

Chris Herren, former professional basketball player, author and wellness advocate, has shared his story of recovery with over 1 million people...

In the 1980s and 1990s, an epidemic of crack cocaine addiction ravaged African American communities across the United States. Crack is extremely...

After the difficult birth of their first child, Anneke becomes addicted to pills. After an attempted suicide, she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic.

Maggie lives with chronic pain and is having a crisis of faith. To cope, she abuses her elderly mother’s opioid prescription. When unexpected...

Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness,...

A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Milan.

Life has not been kind to Giacobbe Fragomeni. He spent his childhood in the bleak outskirts of Milan, in a cruel environment. An alcoholic father who...

A quarter of a million drug addicts —one of the most serious consequences of the Vietnam War. These addicts were the citizens of the South, and...

Shocking, devastating and unflinchingly real. KOMO News' Eric Johnson looks at the heroin crisis in Seattle.

A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.

Lindstrom’s powerful documentary takes an unflinching look at the daunting difficulties in overcoming addictions and the dynamic within...