Highest-Rated Movies about 'Drugs'
Sleepless Night (2011), Traffic (1971), Mariachi (1992), Pusher 3 (2005), Gia (1998), City of God (2002), Go (1999), The Harder They Come (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drugs movies.
#16. Go (2001)
Storyline: Sugihara (Yôsuke Kubozuka) feels more like a misfit than most high school students, being the son of a Japanese mother (Shinobu Ôtake) and a North Korean father (Tsutomu Yamazaki). Changing schools does not help much, as he is simply taunted by a different group of kids. Fortunately, his father has given him boxing lessons to keep the bullies at bay. When Sugihara falls for the popular Sakurai (Kou Shibasaki) and she seems interested in him, he sees the possibility of being accepted.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, crime, thriller, mystery, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !#17. Monday (2000)
Storyline: Salaryman Koichi (Shinichi Tsutsumi) awakens one Monday morning with a terrible hangover and no memory of how he got where he is. He struggles to piece together the events of the previous weekend, first discovering evidence that he was at a funeral, which ended very badly. He remembers that things started to get really strange after he met Shingo (Hideki Noda), a barroom fortuneteller, and they became downright dangerous after he befriended Yuko (Yasuko Matsuyuki), a gangster's beautiful moll.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, mystery, gangster, violence, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !#18. Leon - The Professional (1994)
Storyline: After her father, mother, older sister and little brother are killed by her father's employers, the 12-year-old daughter of an abject drug dealer is forced to take refuge in the apartment of a professional hitman who at her request teaches her the methods of his job so she can take her revenge on the corrupt DEA agent who ruined her life by killing her beloved brother.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, drama, assassin, loneliness, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !#19. Black Tide (2018)
Storyline: An alcoholic police officer investigating the case of a missing teenager meets the boy's teacher, who is strangely eager to help.
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, drama, adventure, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !#20. Chaos (2001)
Storyline: Malika, a young prostitute, is badly molested in the street by her pimp in front of Paul and Hélène, a well-off couple, carefully hidden in their car. Against all odds, Hélène leaves her husband and family behind to go to the hospital and take care of Malika, who lies in a coma. The mission Hélène assigned herself: to help Malika have a new life and, above all, to take her out of her molesters' claws...
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, crime, mystery, violence, gangster, shootout ...
Movie Details Click Here !#21. The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
Storyline: The sons (Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon) of two drug-addled hookers must fend for themselves after one's mother goes missing and the other (Jennifer Hudson) is arrested.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, independent film, social issues, poverty, urban life, mother-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !#22. Bird (1988)
Storyline: Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker) lives fast and self-destructs, dead at 34 in 1955.
Plot Keywords: biography, music, drama, jazz, musician, drugs, addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !#23. The Seven Five (2014)
Storyline: Former NYPD officer Michael Dowd tells how he and his partner committed a long list of crimes, including running their own cocaine ring, while on the job in the 1980s and early '90s.
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, corruption, police, new york, scandal, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !#24. The Barrel of a Gun (2010)
Storyline: In 1981, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and was convicted of it in 1982. More than 25 years later, the case continues to spark controversy around the world, inspiring documentaries, books and intense debate. as the world's most celebrated death row inmate keeps his silence on his version of what actually happened in the middle of cold December night on a dark Philadelphia street.—Jennifer Treichler
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, gunfight, violence, gangster, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !#25. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Storyline: Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.
Plot Keywords: drugs, addiction, hallucination, despair, downfall, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !#26. Scarface (1983)
Storyline: Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down.
Plot Keywords: crime, violence, gangster, drugs, miami, immigration, power ...
Movie Details Click Here !#27. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Storyline: Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, black comedy, finance, wall street, greed ...
Movie Details Click Here !#28. L.A. Confidential (1997)
Storyline: 1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, mystery, thriller, police, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !#29. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Storyline: Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, gangster, british, violence, thriller, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !#30. White Lightnin' (2009)
Storyline: Dancer Jesco White (Edward Hogg) struggles with poverty, drug abuse and other ills as he strives to follow in his famous father's footsteps.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, crime, usa, independent film, based on true story, dark ...
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