Casino (1995), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Hustler (1961), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Lost Weekend (1945), Walk the Line (2005), Veronika Voss (1982), Gimme Shelter (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Intoxication movies.
Storyline: Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.—Mike Campanelli <mjc@rubinbaum.com>
Plot Keywords: drummer, dysfunctional marriage, drug pusher, chicago illinois, husband wife relationship, falling to death, card game ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: businessman, golf, golf course, cooking, general store, writer, breakfast in bed ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.—Dan Goldwasser <dang+@cmu.edu>
Plot Keywords: pot smoking, drug humor, hippie, 1970s, marijuana, missing daughter, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
Plot Keywords: surprise ending, scantily clad female, pregnant wife, prostitution, female frontal nudity, female removes her clothes, cleavage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Plot Keywords: celebrity, movie director, star, racetrack, fame, screen test, cinderella story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, veteran of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed "Dumbo". After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Plot Keywords: circus, thunderstorm, spanking, drunkenness, anthropomorphism, 2d animation, elephant ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the passing of her mother, and the entry of a step-mother, Amrita Jayshankar retreats into herself. Her father is summoned to her school and is told that his daughter may require counseling, but he refuses to believe and instead makes a donation to the school. Then Amrita meets with three males and a female, namely Zuben, Dushant Sahu, Karan Chaudhary; and Tanya Sharma respectively. Together they live it up with drugs and alcohol until things get out of control when they accidentally kill a couple. A corrupt police constable demands Rs.25 Lakhs to eliminate their involvement. Unable to come up with so much cash, the five decide to fake a kidnapping, demand the cash from Amrita's father, and clear their respective names. Amrita accordingly goes 'missing', and her father involves the police, who assign this case to once-suspended police inspector, Arvind Mathur. With the media getting involved, Arvind begins his investigation, but will soon find it hampered - complicating not only his assignment - but also his personal life.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: flashback, female corpse, african, slum, foot chase, chase, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kym Buchman has been in drug rehab for nine months, during which time she has been clean. She is released temporarily from the facility to attend her sister Rachel Buchman's wedding. During her release, Kym is staying at the family home, where the wedding is taking place. As such, it is like Grand Central Station for the duration of Kym's stay, which may not be the most conducive situation for her in constantly being exposed to the watching eyes of those who know and don't yet know her, but know of her situation. The reunion with her family members starts off well enough, but issues around Kym's release from rehab quickly surface. Kym and Rachel's father, Paul Buchman, wants to make sure that Kym is all right at all times, which to Kym feels instead like he doesn't trust her. Rachel slowly begins to resent Kym's situation taking over what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life, some of which is directed by Kym, some of which isn't. One person present but largely not included ...
Plot Keywords: divorce, dysfunctional family, wedding reception, divorced parents, dancer, sex, french kiss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: based on novel, despair, deception, vindication, bartender, racial stereotype, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Candy" Johnson, a great crook of the Wild West, decides to find a town where he could become a big boss. To achieve this, he will need to conceal his true identity and not only pretend to be an honest man, but lead the struggle against the corrupt sheriff. No one in town realizes that the anti-corruption hero is just a greater crook himself. And there is only one person who is stronger than Johnson - a girl he is in love with.—Alexey (Moscow)
Plot Keywords: regret, hustler, poker player, poker game, lynch mob, funeral, gambler ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: brooklyn new york city, horse, carrot, fired from the job, clothes ripped off, mob of reporters, black eye ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself.
Plot Keywords: greek, culture clash, wedding reception, baptism, prejudice, college student, makeover ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.
Plot Keywords: one night stand, interracial relationship, online dating, woman undressing for a man, talking about sex, new york city, new year's eve party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: English rock star Aldous Snow relapses into drugs and booze after a break up and a disastrous record. In L.A., Aaron Green works for a record company stuck in recession. Aaron's boss gives him a career making task - to bring Aldous from London to L.A. for a concert in 72 hours. That day, Aaron's girlfriend Daphne tells him she wants to finish her medical residency in Seattle. Aaron's sure this ends their relationship. In London, things aren't much better: Aldous delays their departure several times, plies Aaron with vices, and alternates between bad behavior and trenchant observations. Can Aaron moderate Aldous's substance abuse and get him to the Greek? What about Daphne?
Plot Keywords: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, string quartet, f word, depravity, intoxication, imperative in title, promiscuity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.
Plot Keywords: painting, jealousy, orgy, sadomasochism, masquerade, intoxication, corruption ...
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