Tag: heroin

  • Georgia

    Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.

  • The Basketball Diaries

    A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

  • Hookers at the Point

    From the sultry streets of Hunts Point in the South Bronx, comes the rawest, realest and truest documentation of the world’s oldest profession ever captured on video. From Brent Owens, the director of Pimps Up, Ho’s Down, comes the first two in a series of five films. Hookers At The Point focuses on the business of sex and the people involved in it. As a special bonus we have included Hookers At The Point: Going Out Again, where we follow up on the personalities from the first film and see where “The Life” has led them.

  • Trainspotting

    Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.

  • Requiem for a Dream

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  • Nil by Mouth

    The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy’s mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

  • High Art

    When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

  • Permanent Midnight

    Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

  • Buffalo Soldiers

    A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

  • Little Fish

    Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.