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  • Christiane F.

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    This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She’s fascinated by the ‘Sound’, a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she’s legally too young, she asks…

  • Liquid Sky

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    An alien creature invades New York’s punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

  • El Pico 2

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    Following the events of El pico, the heroin-addicted Paco faces jail time due to his involvement in a double murder.

  • Year of the Dragon

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    In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures — even as his concerned wife, Connie, and…

  • Out of Bounds

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    Farm boy Daryl Cage’s parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl’s brother and the…

  • Bird

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    Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

  • Dark Angel

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    Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who’s forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene…

  • New Jack City

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    A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

  • Bad Lieutenant

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    While investigating a young nun’s rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

  • Killing Zoe

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    Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse,…

  • Georgia

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    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

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

  • Hookers at the Point

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    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…

  • Trainspotting

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    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

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

  • Nil by Mouth

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    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…

  • High Art

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    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

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

  • Buffalo Soldiers

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

  • Little Fish

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

  • Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story

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    Documentary on the life of late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood.