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Addiction Movies

Name: Addiction Movies
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Dramatic films about addiction — the spiral, the struggle, and the fight for recovery.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese	8	Crime, Drama, Comedy	United States of America	180	A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Requiem for a Dream	2000	Darren Aronofsky	8	Crime, Drama	United States of America	102	The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle	8	Drama, Crime	United Kingdom	94	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 l...
A Street Cat Named Bob	2016	Roger Spottiswoode	7.9	Family, Drama	United Kingdom	103	James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.
Sound of Metal	2020	Darius Marder	7.7	Drama, Music	United States of America	121	Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed...
Another Round	2020	Thomas Vinterberg	7.6	Comedy, Drama	Denmark	117	Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
A Star Is Born	2018	Bradley Cooper	7.5	Music, Drama, Romance	United States of America	136	Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking dow...
Beautiful Boy	2018	Felix van Groeningen	7.5	Drama	United States of America	121	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.
Blow	2001	Ted Demme	7.4	Crime, Drama	United States of America	124	A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to hi...
Babylon	2022	Damien Chazelle	7.4	Drama, Comedy	United States of America	189	A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
The Basketball Diaries	1995	Scott Kalvert	7.4	Drama, Crime	United States of America	102	A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Rocketman	2019	Dexter Fletcher	7.3	Music, Drama	United Kingdom	121	The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Cherry	2021	Joe Russo	7.3	Drama, Crime	United States of America	142	Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one 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.
Leaving Las Vegas	1995	Mike Figgis	7.2	Drama, Romance	France	111	Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Traffic	2000	Steven Soderbergh	7.1	Thriller, Drama, Crime	United States of America	147	An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a f...
The Doors	1991	Oliver Stone	7.1	Music, Drama, History	United States of America	140	The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Flight	2012	Robert Zemeckis	6.9	Drama	United States of America	138	Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in ...
Shame	2011	Steve McQueen	6.9	Drama	Canada	102	Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile...
T2 Trainspotting	2017	Danny Boyle	6.9	Drama, Comedy, Crime	United Kingdom	117	After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
August: Osage County	2013	John Wells	6.9	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	121	An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
Crazy Heart	2009	Scott Cooper	6.9	Drama, Music, Romance	United States of America	112	When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.
Thirteen	2003	Catherine Hardwicke	6.7	Drama	United Kingdom	100	When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
Judy	2019	Rupert Goold	6.7	Drama, History, Music	United Kingdom	118	Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fif...
Hillbilly Elegy	2020	Ron Howard	6.7	Drama	United States of America	117	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.
The Way Back	2020	Gavin O'Connor	6.6	Drama	United States of America	108	A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
Burnt	2015	John Wells	6.5	Drama	United States of America	100	Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
28 Days	2000	Betty Thomas	6.2	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	103	After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an a...
Don Jon	2013	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	6	Romance, Comedy, Drama	United States of America	90	A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

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