The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries 1995

7.40

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

1995

Irreversible

Irreversible 2002

7.23

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

2002

American Gangster

American Gangster 2007

7.59

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

2007

Trainspotting

Trainspotting 1996

7.97

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 when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

1996

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die 1973

6.50

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

1973

Green Room

Green Room 2016

6.72

A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

2016

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream 2000

8.00

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

2000

Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy 2020

6.72

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.

2020

Cherry

Cherry 2021

7.35

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.

2021

New Jack City

New Jack City 1991

6.60

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

1991

T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting 2017

6.90

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

2017

Dark Angel

Dark Angel 1990

5.91

Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...

1990

Christiane F.

Christiane F. 1981

7.30

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

1981

Payback

Payback 1999

6.80

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

1999

The French Connection

The French Connection 1971

7.52

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

1971

Pink Flamingos

Pink Flamingos 1972

6.20

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

1972

Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant 1992

7.00

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

1992

Luna

Luna 1979

6.40

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

1979

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire 2007

6.62

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

2007

Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom 2010

6.81

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

2010

This Is England '90

This Is England '90 2015

7.80

Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.

2015

The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult?

The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult? 2024

7.50

Explore the rise and fall of the Synanon organization — through the eyes of the members who lived it — from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.

2024

The Trade

The Trade 2018

7.20

A visceral, rarely-seen look into the personal stories of those most affected by ongoing national emergencies.

2018

Huume-Suomen historia

Huume-Suomen historia 2015

4.50

The four-part documentary series explores how substances that are now considered illegal drugs came to Finland. The concept of illegal drugs was only born in the 1960s. Before that, cannabis, opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine and amphetamine were mainly medicinal substances that were also occasionally abused.

2015

Liverpool Narcos

Liverpool Narcos 2021

8.00

In the 1980s, Liverpool became the epicentre of a drugs boom that was to change Britain forever. With unprecedented access to some of the biggest players, this is the story of how drugs went mainstream and dealing became a multi-billion pound business

2021

Shanghai Vice

Shanghai Vice 1999

1

In a city where heroin dealing can bring the death sentence, drug rings mean business…and so do the police. The activities of the city’s vice squad – including high-level sting operations and the interrogations of murder suspects and drug runners - are at the heart of the stories.

1999