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1) Pray
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) have the perfect plan. They decide to kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school, until their demands are met. Everything is going according to plan, until they realize they have made one gross miscalculation. Their hostage died a year ago today and now it's their turn.
2) Ex drummer
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Dutch
Description
Three drug-addled, misfit punk rock musicians are looking for a drummer. They approach Dries, a well known writer whose arrogant self assurance and yuppie lifestyle make him an unlikely candidate, but the fact that he can't play the drums appeals to the band's punk sensibility. Fascinated by these dysfunctional characters, Dries joins the group. His arrival awakens the personal disputes and family feuds latent in the band. A shocking, hardcore, blood-spattered...
3) Crisis
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market....
4) Limitless
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall Street power broker who wants everything Eddie has, and more....
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Season 1 of this intense HBO drama focuses on 17-year-old Rue Bennett (multimedia star Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab who's struggling to stay clean. Ahead of the second season, the Emmy-winning series returns with two special episodes set over the Christmas holiday. Season 2 continues to follow Rue's dynamic group of friends as they enter a new year and question their choices.
6) Taurus
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rising but troubled musician spends his days and nights searching endlessly for the inspiration to record his next song. His assistant wants to save him, his collaborators want him in the studio, and his dealer and his ex push him deeper into the void.
7) Filth
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in drugs, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships, and "the games": cruel plots and systematic bullying of his coworkers and friends. While working on the murder case of a Japanese student, he starts coming unhinged, slowly losing his grip on reality and suffering from a series of increasingly severe hallucinations as he desperately tries...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about a bored 14-year-old girl who seeks excitement in the steamy drug scene of '70s Berlin. A powerful, unforgettable look at youth and innocence seduced, and ultimately destroyed, by life's compelling dark side.
10) Her smell
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Forced to get sober and reckon with the past, a self-destructive punk rock superstar retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
11) Woodshock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kirsten Dunst (*Melancholia*) stars as a haunted young woman spiraling into confusion and chaos after she falls under the spell of a potent reality-altering drug. Official Selection at the **Venice International Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
12) Rush
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Undercover narcotics officers Jim Raynor and Kristen Cates are partners who become lovers and addicts as they infiltrate the local drug scene in order to bring down a suspected drug lord.
13) Punished
Publisher
Indomina
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
中文
Description
While sheltered in the luxurious trappings afforded by his wealth and power, real estate tycoon Wong Ho-Chiu suffers an unbearable loss when his daughter Daisy is kidnapped and killed: a victim of her decadent lifestyle and cocaine addiction. Wong Ho-Chiu turns to his trusted bodyguard Chor to seek out the perpetrators and exact revenge. Chor does his employer's bidding with an unflinching determination and scarcely contained rage thinly hidden beneath...
14) Go ask Alice
Publisher
Wham! USA
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a teenage girl's downhill spiral into drug addiction and her painful struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
15) Ciao Manhattan
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The slow but sure decline of a young woman who was once a protegee of Andy Warhol.
16) The trip
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When TV director Paul Groves suffers a crisis due to a crumbling marriage and stagnating career, he begins to experiment with LSD to free himself artistically.
17) Scarlet diva
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Italian
Description
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
18) Donkey punch
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After meeting at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort, seven young adults decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies accidentally, the others argue about what to do, which leads to a ruthless fight for survival.
19) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four individuals living near Coney Island in Brooklyn suffer from their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and speed. The drugs are very easily obtained and keep each in its cycle of dependence. Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of 'Getting off hard knocks, ' with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. In the mean time, his widowed mother is obsessed with the glamor of television...
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