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1. Trainspotting (1996)

R | 93 min | Drama

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd

Votes: 729,447 | Gross: $16.50M

2. The Glass Castle (2017)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson

Votes: 38,688 | Gross: $17.27M

3. The Basketball Diaries (1995)

R | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Director: Scott Kalvert | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio

Votes: 121,674 | Gross: $2.42M

4. Christiane F. (1981)

R | 138 min | Biography, Drama

A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski

Votes: 29,526

5. Candy (2006)

R | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge

Votes: 47,993 | Gross: $0.04M

6. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 111,269 | Gross: $13.79M

7. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Passed | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang

Votes: 12,288

8. French Connection II (1975)

R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard

Votes: 21,007 | Gross: $12.48M

9. Prince of the City (1981)

R | 167 min | Crime, Drama

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett

Votes: 9,566 | Gross: $8.12M

10. Elephant White (2011)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An assassin is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand.

Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Vithaya Pansringarm, Sahajak Boonthanakit

Votes: 11,197

11. Inner Demons (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A reality television crew, whose show features stories about drug addicts, finds that their 16-year-old junkie for their latest episode might actually not be fighting addiction, but a demonic force gripping her soul.

Director: Seth Grossman | Stars: Lara Vosburgh, Kevan McClellan, Kate Whitney, Brian Flaherty

Votes: 2,699

12. 23 (1998)

99 min | Drama, Thriller

When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp

Votes: 7,337

13. Cold Turkey (1971)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy

Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

Director: Norman Lear | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 2,455 | Gross: $11.99M

14. 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: 3,311

15. 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: 2,947

16. Once in the Life (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama

Street hustler Mike cooks up a drug rip-off with his estranged half-brother Torch. Simple robbery turns fatal bloodbath, so they hide out in a claustrophobic rat hole waiting for Mike's buddy Tony, who's "out of the life," or so he says.

Director: Laurence Fishburne | Stars: Eamonn Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Gregory Hines, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 811 | Gross: $0.05M

17. Train Station Pickups (1979)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows the experiences of Petra and her friends as they reach the final year at high school.

Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Marco Kröger, Katja Bienert, Ingeborg Steinbach, Wolfgang Plumhoff

Votes: 210

18. Bump in the Night (1991 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

An ex-New York reporter fights alcoholism as she and her ex- husband search for their kidnapped son.

Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Christopher Reeve, Wings Hauser, Richard Bradford

Votes: 340

19. Happy Hunting (2017)

91 min | Horror, Western

An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.

Directors: Joe Dietsch, Louie Gibson | Stars: Martin Dingle Wall, Ken Lally, Kenny Wormald, Connor Williams

Votes: 2,886

20. 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: 156

21. Cornered! (2009)

R | 87 min | Horror

During their nightly poker game, a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer.

Director: Daniel Maze | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, James Duval, Liz Nicole Abrams, Peter Story

Votes: 1,377

22. Down in Paris (2021)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama

A filmmaker conquered by an anxiety attack, lets go of his shoot and wanders through nocturnal Paris, in search of solace. During this night, Richard will face his fears and question his desires.

Director: Antony Hickling | Stars: Antony Hickling, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Dominique Frot, Manuel Blanc

Votes: 153

23. The Wisdom to Know the Difference (2014)

114 min | Drama

This story is remarkable and in my humble opinion is about Love and Compassion and a belief in a power greater than ourselves.

Director: Daniel Baldwin | Stars: William Baldwin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Daniel Baldwin, Mayra Leal

Votes: 213

24. Chocolate (1980)

Drama

Two adolescent drug dealers smuggle marijuana from Morocco and start selling it in Madrid. Reinvesting profits in harder drugs, their criminal activities escalate as one becomes a heroin addict. Relationships strained amid the turmoil.

Director: Gil Carretero | Stars: Manuel de Benito, Ángel Alcázar, Paloma Gil, Agustín González

Votes: 58

25. H (1990)

94 min | Drama

Two junkies lock themselves in an underground apartment in a desperate attempt to wean themselves off heroin.

Director: Darrell Wasyk | Stars: Martin Neufeld, Pascale Montpetit, Ingrid Veninger, Bruce Beaton

Votes: 174

26. The Conduit (2016)

TV-14 | 101 min | Horror, Thriller

Wounded by a recent divorce and haunted by a tragic event in his childhood, Eddie returns to his hometown hoping to pick up the pieces of his broken life. Unable to cope, he attempts ... See full summary »

Director: Sixto Melendez | Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Maria Olsen, Carrie Fee, Tyler Osterkamp

Votes: 265

27. 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

28. Hellthy (2019)

95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A psychopath kidnaps addicts and forces them through torturous rehabilitation.

Director: Stephen Willis | Stars: Paul Andrew Goldsmith, Talitha Willsea, Ian Alldis, Sara Daniella Versi

Votes: 168

29. Another Lonely Hitman (1995)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ... See full summary »

Director: Rokuro Mochizuki | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada

Votes: 209

30. Nostrum (2010)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror

A group of friends head out to an abandon farmhouse to kick a nasty habit. Little do they know that they are in for the night of their lives.

Director: Jonathan Wright | Stars: Megan Hutchings, Mike Webster, Aimee Feler, Shamier Anderson

Votes: 267

31. 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: 99

32. HairKutt (2005)

77 min | Documentary

"Man, I'm hurtin'! I'm bleeding inside," moans Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson, as he writhes in agony on his bed, going cold turkey from a 15-year heroin addiction. There's no pusher standing by... See full summary »

Directors: Curtis Elliott, Ben Scholle | Stars: Maurice Bradley, Anthony Dorsey, Curtis Elliott, Bryant Johnson

Votes: 27

33. Mein eigen Fleisch und Blut (2011 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

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Director: Vivian Naefe | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Kostja Ullmann, Thomas Sarbacher, August Zirner

Votes: 40

34. Rollercoaster to Hell (1982)

15 min | Short

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Director: Phillip R. Ford | Stars: Matthew Barton, Rico Schwartzberg, Alexis Scott, Gene Block

Votes: 7

35. Mouth to Mouth: Interview with Director John Duigan & Cast and Crew (2012 Video)

27 min | Short, Biography, History

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Stars: John Duigan, Tom Cowan, Ian Gilmour, Sonia Peat

36. Stop-Smoking Technique (1998 Video)

35 min | Short, Adventure

Queenie wants to kick her smoking habit, so her roommate, C.J., agrees to help. Her plan is to tie up her curly-haired roommate so she kicks the nicotine cravings by going cold turkey. ... See full summary »

Director: Chelsea Pfeiffer | Stars: Queenie Avalon, C.J. Taylor

37. The Agony of Jimmy Quinlan (1978)

28 min | Documentary, Short

A documentation of a Montreal vagrant's attempts to overcome alcoholism.

Star: Earl Pennington

Votes: 9

38. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: High Anxiety (1989)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Rose tries to overcome her addiction to painkillers. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia are hired to appear in a TV commercial for a pizzeria.

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 446

39. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Detox (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A girl crashes a Porsche after her boyfriend starts coughing up blood and continues to have unexplained bleeds. Clinic Cases: Cuddy gives House a month off clinic duties if he can spend a week off his pain meds.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,938

40. Peep Show (2003–2015)
Episode: Quantocking (2005)

TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy

Mark takes Sophie away for the weekend with the idea of proposing, but finds things don't go as well as he hoped as he and Sophie don't have that chemistry. In the same hotel, Jeremy has ... See full summary »

Director: Tristram Shapeero | Stars: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, Matt King

Votes: 750

41. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: Night on a Rainbow (1960)

Approved | 30 min | Western

Yuma arrives a year after being summoned by Ted Evans, a drummer from his Confederate regiment, to find the man addicted to pain medication and acts to help Evans break the habit while experiencing interference from an unscrupulous druggist.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Gail Kobe, Perry Cook, Jon Lormer

Votes: 44

42. Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011)
Episode: 36 Hours (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama

Rebecca reveals Justin's painkiller addiction to the family, and they stage an intervention. Robert is on the campaign trail, but is under pressure privately and professionally. Saul reveals a secret that astonishes his sister.

Director: David Paymer | Stars: Dave Annable, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Kerris Dorsey, Sally Field

Votes: 145

43. Shantaram (2022)
Episode: Down and Out (2022)

TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A desperate Lin needs new documents as his friendship with Prabhu grows. Karla reveals Lisa's secret and wrestles with her feelings for Lin.

Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Fayssal Bazzi, Sujaya Dasgupta, Antonia Desplat

Votes: 654

44. Ghost Whisperer (2005–2010)
Episode: Unhappy Medium (2007)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy

Melinda meets a celebrity medium at a show and book signing, but has to tell him about the ghost, which he is completely unaware of, that's screaming for his attention.

Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Jay Mohr, Camryn Manheim

Votes: 248

45. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: When the Levee Breaks (2009)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dean and Bobby have something frightening locked in Bobby's panic room: Sam, contaminated by demon blood. But as the apocalypse draws nearer, Bobby wants to free Sam to battle on their side.

Director: Robert Singer | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Genevieve Padalecki

Votes: 5,132

46. Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023)
Episode: Cindy Hawkins (2021)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

June and Dorie's routine in Teddy's fallout shelter is disrupted when they discover the origins of their home and its sinister connections to Teddy's past.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia

Votes: 2,082

47. Crash (2008–2009)
Episode: Master of Puppets (2009)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama

Roxanne is hiding something about Cassie's final days, so Ben forces her into rehabilitation at his home. Bo meets his girlfriend's friend, with surprising results. Seth's campaign needs a miracle to succeed.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Dana Ashbrook, Moran Atias, Ross McCall

Votes: 33

48. White Heat (2012)
Episode: The Eye of the Needle (2012)

Not Rated | 55 min | Drama

Sinking more and more into self pity, Jack has become a heroin addict though he refuses to go into rehab so Orla organizes the others into acting as a roster of minders to force him to go ... See full summary »

Director: John Alexander | Stars: Will Bliss, MyAnna Buring, Sam Claflin, Paul Copley

Votes: 24

49. Health Nutz (2011–2013)
Episode: The Dinner (2013)

Comedy

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Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Wesley French, Lucie Guest, Chad Krowchuk, Ken Lawson

50. Chicago Med (2015– )
Episode: Winning the Battle, but Still Losing the War (2021)

TV-14 | Drama

Charles and Cuevas clash over the treatment of a paranoid patient. Choi treats a pregnant woman from Asher's past. Marcel and Taylor help a man who needs a risk neurosurgery.

Director: Charles S. Carroll | Stars: Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee, Dominic Rains, Marlyne Barrett

Votes: 187