Movies: Drug addict

Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction....

The story of six young people addicted to heroin in Sofia, Bulgaria....

A psychedelic journey across Los Angeles to find his stolen motorbike leads antihero Todd Tarantula through a time-bending experience where he must uncover the secrets of his past....

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A recently sober drug addict falls back into a relapse and is stalked by a terrifying entity....

After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee famil...

Documentary on the penetration of drugs in Milan in the 70s. Filomena is only 24 years old and recounts with a lucidity that takes her breath away her journey as a child locked up in boarding school, ran away from home, taken back by her family and t...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend th...

Jeanette, a pretty high school student, is looking for “kicks”. She starts hanging out with a wild crowd, and begins popping bennies, uppers and other pills. Soon she graduates from barbiturates to marijuana…...

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In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six pe...

A drug addicted husband finds himself locked in his own bathroom, but the only way to get out is to look within himself....

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever....

A Palestinian sneaks into the U.S. to reconnect with his sister, and he plans to have a company, which built a bomb that killed his brother in Gaza, make a part for a rocket that he will launch into Israel....

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A privileged young man is content with his life and is on track for a bright future, until a measly year thrusts him into a much different situation....

Steven Dillon, 18 years old and homeless, desperately tries to escape poverty by getting a job. When his older brother Anthony, a drug addict, offers him a "freelance job", Steven is manipulated into robbing a convenience store. Steven is now left wi...

A young man, severely addicted to drugs due to childhood abuse, has his life impacted even further after a meeting with his dealer goes horribly wrong....

A short film about how a drug addict copes with the COVID-19 lockdown....