Drug Addiction Movies

In this feature-length documentary, photographer Nance Ackerman describes the havoc prescription painkiller OxyContin wreaked in the already weakened...

An urban tale combined with the mythology of Alice in Wonderland. It is the story of Janis, a teenage girl and her one night journey into the...

Intoxicants offered Pinja a connection to her mother. What will their lives be based on when they both decide to get sober?

A sister shares an apartment with her heroin-addicted brother. Over the course of twelve years, she records the constant struggle and the constant...

After running away from her emotionally abusive mother, 16 year old addict Ivy takes refuge at her older friend Joey's apartment, who is a recovered...

A 5 minute animation on the nature of addiction.

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...

A young girl lost in life and all she wants is to drown in the deep sea with all her thoughts and feelings.

Shuhaadh is a fourteen year old boy whose parents are drug addicts. When the movie begins Shuhaadh's father Ahamma, who is also involved in petty...

Hilmano van Velzen, the "Homeless Poet" wants nothing more than to become famous with his poetry. But his addiction and character get in the way.

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

The lives of a group of sex-workers.

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, in the Dybenko basements, drug addict children survive by taking drugs. This is an attempt to look into this...

Why do we all get a little “rush” when we open our doors to see a shiny new package on our door step? Dopamine, and we’re all...

A glimpse into the junkie scene at Dortmund Central Station.

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

A stressed young drug addicted person who is home alone trapped in a loop ride after taking drugs and shocked to the incidents happening in the...

After serving time in a New Hampshire jail, a freed inmate faces the pull of addiction.

Geri is a serious drug addict, using designer drugs intravenously. Between two flashes, he lives an active social life on the streets of Budapest, in...

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