Trainspotting

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 23 Feb 1996 · English

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Kids

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 21 Jul 1995 · English

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Above the Rim

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 23 Mar 1994 · English

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

Heaven Knows What

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 29 May 2015 · English

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

A Million Little Pieces

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 30 Aug 2019 · English

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Requiem for a Dream

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 6 Oct 2000 · English

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Less Than Zero

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 6 Nov 1987 · English

A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

American Gangster

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 2 Nov 2007 · English

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Beautiful Boy

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 12 Oct 2018 · English

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

My Friend Dahmer

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 3 Nov 2017 · English

Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.

Bully

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 15 Jun 2001 · English

A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

Once Upon a Time in America

Movie · 8.4 / 10 · 23 May 1984 · English

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.