Highest-Rated Movies about 'Drunk', Sort by Popularity

Oldboy (2003), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Mirage (2004), Rio Bravo (1959), Girl With Green Eyes (1964), Georgia (1995), Barton Fink (1991), Destry Rides Again (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drunk movies.

#1. Oldboy (2003)

Storyline: Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him, and sedate him to avert a desperate suicide--and as his only companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell--the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. Then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. However, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: drunk, kidnapper, friend, police officer, prisoner, suspenseful, thrilling ...

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#2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Storyline: Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular.

Plot Keywords: young girl, young boy, lawyer, neighbor, defendant, drunk, emotional ...

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#3. Mirage (2004)

Storyline: In a Macedonian town, a schoolboy (Marko Kovacevic) named Marko finds refuge from a terrible home life and attacks from bullies by keeping a low profile and hanging around the railyard. A teacher (Mustafa Nadarevic) discovers Marko's hidden talent for poetry and encourages him to enter a contest, but then a soldier (Nikola Djuricko) arrives on the scene and teaches him a more violent set of skills.

Plot Keywords: teen boy, father, mother, teacher, drunk, soldier, endearing ...

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#4. Rio Bravo (1959)

Storyline: Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette's brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance's good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude - once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober - and a young hand, Colorado, who used to work for Wheeler. Nathan Burdette meanwhile has a couple of dozen men at his disposal. Chance does his best to prepare all the while romancing a pretty gambler who goes by the name of Feathers.

Plot Keywords: sheriff, drunk, crippled man, rancher, gunslinger, gambler, amusing ...

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#5. Girl With Green Eyes (1964)

Storyline: Innocent Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her family farm and heads for Dublin, where she lives with her former convent friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She soon meets older man Eugene (Peter Finch), who is a writer and intellectual. Kate and Eugene fall in love. However, when Kate's father finds out about their romance, he is determined to break it up. Kate remains devoted to Eugene, but their love disintegrates when Eugene realizes that he really has nothing in common with Kate.

Plot Keywords: young girl, writer, father, girlfriend, drunk, melodramatic, brooding ...

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#6. Georgia (1995)

Storyline: Georgia Flood (Mare Winningham) is a well-to-do folk-singer with a stable family and a loving husband. Her younger sister, Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is the lead singer in a rowdy punk-rock band. Living in Georgia's shadow causes Sadie to become obsessed with her, and she tries everything she can to live up to her big sister's achievements. Unfortunately it is this very obsession --coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse-- that keep her spiraling down the drain.

Plot Keywords: singer, sister, drunk, mother, bleak, disturbing, bar ...

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#7. Barton Fink (1991)

Storyline: In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.

Plot Keywords: playwright, neighbor, insurance salesman, producer, drunk, detective, dark ...

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#8. Destry Rides Again (1939)

Storyline: Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie, which could well have been the inspiration for Madeline Kahn's "Blazing Saddles" character, Lili Von Schtupp.—Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: sheriff, boss, drunk, singer, amusing, lighthearted, small town ...

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#9. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Storyline: After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma. Once the two are holed up in the hotel to wait it becomes apparent the secret is out, and a battle of wills starts.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: rancher, murderer, henchman, brother, marshal, drunk, gripping ...

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#10. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)

Storyline: Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), a British spy, is sent to East Germany, supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story.

Plot Keywords: spy, drunk, intelligence officer, interrogator, jew, communist, bleak ...

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#12. The Invitation (1973)

Storyline: Mild-mannered office worker Remy (Michel Robin) invites a group of work colleagues to a gathering at his new country home, hiring refined butler Emile (François Simon) to oversee the festivities. Though the party begins innocently enough, as the alcohol flows it disintegrates into a drunken bacchanal, with revelers -- including office lothario Maurice (Jean-Luc Bideau) and spinster Emma (Neige Dolsky) -- revealing the most intimate details of their lives.

Plot Keywords: playboy, spinster, office worker, butler, guest, drunk, amusing ...

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#13. The Informer (1935)

Storyline: Dublin, 1920. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. When he finds that his equally destitute sweetheart Katie has been reduced to prostitution, he succumbs to temptation and betrays his former comrade Frankie to the British authorities for a 20 pound reward. In the course of one gloomy, foggy night, guilt and retribution inexorably close in...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: drunk, soldier, terrorist, prostitute, bleak, disheartening, intense ...

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