Prince of the City (1981), La Femme Nikita (1990), Pure (2017), Menace II Society (1993), Evenhand (2002), Lorna's Silence (2008), Adam & Paul (2004), The Panic in Needle Park (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Junkie movies.
Storyline: New York police officer Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) is not a perfect cop. When Rick Cappalino (Norman Parker) from the U.S. Justice Department approaches him with a personal request to investigate police corruption, Ciello agrees -- provided he is not forced to turn in his fellow crooked cops. But as he delves deeper into the underbelly of drug crime, he realizes that it may be impossible to keep his promises. He will have to bring his friends down, or he'll end up going down himself.
Plot Keywords: detective, cop, junkie, drug dealer, wife, investigator, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A French government agent (Tcheky Karyo) turns a Paris drug punk (Anne Parillaud) into a chic assassin whose skill is cued by her code name.
Plot Keywords: convict, junkie, assassin, man, love interest, thrilling, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Mennonite pastor battles drug trafficking issues within his community.
Plot Keywords: young boy, junkie, mother, waitress, pregnant woman, pimp, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Plot Keywords: gang member, girlfriend, teacher, junkie, bleak, gritty, los angeles ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in a dirt-poor neighborhood in the fictional city of San Lovisa, Texas, EvenHand tells the story of two very different cops, working together for the first time. Rob Francis, recently divorced, finds the adjustment from his previous assignment in "Sleepytown" difficult. With his new partner, the volatile Ted Morning, he spends his days breaking up domestic disputes and attempting to make sense of a parade of lowlifes, firebugs and junkies. Morning is the original Texas cowboy, all muscle and bravado: arrest 'em first, ask questions later. The characters and events in EvenHand subtly intertwine until Francis and Morning must both face the consequences of their very different approaches to the job. Filmed on location in San Antonio, Texas, EvenHand is a police story, but it's not about car chases or shoot-outs. It's about two cops struggling to survive in a world where, without warning, numbing routine can give way to primal fear.—george lacey
Plot Keywords: police officer, tough guy, criminal, arsonist, junkie, police chief, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.—Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
Plot Keywords: mobster, boyfriend, cab driver, junkie, immigrant, bleak, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
Plot Keywords: junkie, friend, criminal, drug dealer, disturbing, bleak, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in "Needle Park" in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves. She becomes addicted too, and life goes downhill for them both as their addiction deepens, eventually leading to a series of betrayals. But, in spite of it all, the relationship between Bobby and Helen endures.
Plot Keywords: junkie, girlfriend, brother, police officer, hustler, dark, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, expanding perception, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, childhood friend, evangelist, junkie, newlywed, gambler, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
Plot Keywords: algerian, teen boy, sister, prostitute, single mother, junkie, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours. The serene setting with miles upon miles of old semi-detached housing is suddenly cleaved apart by two young lads tearing through the neighbourhood in a two tone BMW 525. Julian and Jeremy are in deep trouble. Their dysfunctional family scrapes together a living from their dole money and odd-jobs offered to their father. The boys have long since turned to drug abuse and car theft leading a happy-go-lucky life in downtown no-hoper city. In due course the plot thickens as the boys are out for revenge against wealthy club owner Bryn who is not particularly helpful in providing compensation when their father is hit by an accident when working on his premises. The boys are fairly imaginative when it comes to planning their strike, culminating in scenes which all dog-haters and karaoke loathers will love.—Alexander Weidt <demos@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Plot Keywords: brother, grandfather, grandson, junkie, drug dealer, contractor, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nurse "Coffy" Coffin leads a double life. During the day, she's a nurse at work. At night, she's an avenging angel on a personal vendetta, tracking down the drug pushers who hooked her younger sister on drugs. Along the way, she meets a honest police detective who also is leading a double life.—blazesnakes9
Plot Keywords: nurse, sister, junkie, council member, pimp, mobster, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: How far would decent human beings be willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? With "A Second Chance", Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted another startling yet moving drama about how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when confronted with the unthinkable, and life as we know it is hanging by a thread.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: partner, baby, junkie, brutal, closet, apartment, second chance ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes,the ambience a boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and beans, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out New York, unlovely and violent.—Bruce Cameron <dumarest@midcoast.com>
Plot Keywords: hustler, girlfriend, pretty woman, junkie, gritty, bleak, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, girlfriend, prostitute, homeless person, boyfriend, junkie, dark ...
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