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66 films tagged addiction, showing 50
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2025 · Comedy
Happy Gilmore has been out of golf for eleven years and drinking, and takes it up again to pay for his daughter's ballet school in Paris. Same swing, same shouting, plus a rival league.
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2025 · Crime
A New York bartender agrees to look after his neighbour's cat in 1998, and within days Russian gangsters have put him in hospital over a key he knows nothing about. It moves fast and gets bloody.
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2025 · Drama
An Irish financier hiding in Macau under a borrowed title lives between hotels and baccarat tables, drinking, running out of money and waiting for his luck to turn. Slow, sweaty and mostly one man.
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2025 · Thriller
A horse trainer grieving her wife and barely keeping her farm going has a daughter who is an addict, in and out of rehab. One night the daughter turns up in a state that asks far more of her than money.
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2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
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2025 · Drama
A rodeo rider comes to in the snow of a Nevada meadow with his horse gone and his foot freezing, and starts working his way towards shelter. It cuts between that walk and the life that got him there.
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2025 · Comedy
Two sisters known as the best sahti brewers in town are asked to make a hundred litres for their sister's wedding, and drink all of it the night before. The rest is a hungover scramble to replace it in time.
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2025 · Drama
A washed-up tennis pro coaching tourists at a Fuerteventura resort spends his nights drinking, and then a guest asks him to teach her son. Slow, sunlit, and it stays inside his aimless routine.
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2025 · Drama
Writing and swimming are a girl's way out of a house where her father abuses her, and she takes both to college in Texas. What follows is years of drinking, a bad marriage and real loss.
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2025 · Drama
A homeless young man in London, in and out of trouble and struggling with addiction, comes out of prison and tries to put a life together with a social worker's help. It stays right with him, and slips now and then into something stranger.
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2016 · Drama
Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.
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2026 · Comedy
An A-list actor back from five years of getting sober learns someone has a damaging video of him, and he has no idea what is on it. He goes round making amends with everyone he has wronged, one awkward visit at a time.
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2026 · Drama
A woman comes out of rehab and back to the family beach house, without the career that used to tell her who she was. Quiet and close in, mostly her and the people around her.
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2026 · Comedy
Two people who have hit rock bottom take a job with a shady transport outfit, driving a rich, troubled teenager to rehab. A comedy built on the three of them being stuck with each other.
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2026 · Drama
Garance is a French actress whose drinking is running her life, and the film follows the eight years she spends trying to change that. It stays with her the whole way.
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2026 · Drama
A girl raised by cult parents and beaten by her father runs away and lands in Tokyo's Kabukicho, where she falls in with the kids living around the square. Rough and loud, and hard in places.
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2026 · Drama
Seven people in Prague between thirty and fifty take stock of their careers and their marriages: a self-promoting painter, his more talented wife, a lawyer on drugs. The stories run side by side.
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2016 · Science fiction
A woman loses her job and her boyfriend, moves back to her hometown, and works out that a giant creature stomping around Seoul copies whatever she does in one particular playground. A small-town drinking story with a monster movie bolted on.
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2025 · Drama
Over one day, a married couple and their two grown sons circle the mother's morphine habit and pick over everything else. It is taken from a stage play and it is almost entirely people talking.
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2019 · Horror
The boy from the Overlook Hotel is now a drinker in his forties working at a hospice, when a girl with the same gift starts writing to him about the people who hunt children like her. Long, and slow to get going.
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2022 · Drama
The life of Elvis Presley, from a Memphis boyhood to the Las Vegas years, told by the manager who ran his career. Loud, fast-cut and packed with songs from start to finish.
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2023 · Comedy
Two lonely people in Helsinki, both scraping by on bad jobs, meet at a karaoke bar and keep losing track of each other. Short, very quiet, deadpan, and in Finnish.
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2017 · Drama
The minister of a small, nearly empty church in upstate New York starts keeping a journal and agrees to counsel a young man who is frightened about the climate. Slow, quiet, mostly one man alone.
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2007 · Mystery
Two private investigators from a working-class Boston neighbourhood are hired to look for a missing four-year-old in the places the police cannot reach. A detective story that keeps turning into an argument about what is right.
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2019 · Drama
A young television actor lives in a motel with the father who manages him, a former rodeo clown out on parole. Written by the actor it is based on, and it cuts between him as a boy and as a wrecked adult.
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2019 · Drama
Judy Garland arrives in London in 1968 for a run of sold-out shows, broke, worn out and thirty years past The Wizard of Oz. Mostly hotel rooms, dressing rooms and the stage.
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2024 · Crime
A gym manager in a dusty New Mexico town falls hard for a bodybuilder passing through on her way to a contest, and her own father's business gets in the way. Grimy, violent, and it gets stranger.
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2019 · Drama
An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.
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2000 · Drama
Four people in Brooklyn, three of them young and one a widowed mother waiting on a call from a TV game show, each get hooked on something over the course of a year. Cut fast and hard, and it gets grimmer the longer it runs.
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2019 · Musical
Elton John walks into a rehab meeting in a stage costume and tells the room his life from a Pinner childhood onwards, with the songs staged as fantasy numbers. People sing, and nothing is played straight.
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2011 · Drama
A man with a good job in New York builds his whole life around sex, and then his sister turns up with nowhere else to stay. Cold and slow, holding on shots for a long time.
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2004 · Comedy
Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.
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2019 · Drama
The drummer in a two-person metal band starts losing his hearing on tour and is sent to a sober house for deaf people while he works out what to do. The sound puts you inside his ears for much of it.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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2010 · Drama
A journeyman boxer in a Massachusetts mill town is trained by his half-brother, a former local hero now on crack, and managed by their mother. More about the family shouting at each other than about the fights.
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2019 · Horror
Two keepers are left alone on a rock off the New England coast in the 1890s, and the boat that should collect them does not come. Black and white, a boxy old frame, two men and a lot of drink.
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2014 · Horror
In an Iranian ghost town, a lonely young man with a nice car crosses paths with a skateboarding vampire in a chador. Black and white, very slow, and more mood than plot.
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2012 · Drama
A drifting navy veteran with a bad drinking problem attaches himself to the leader of a new movement in post-war America. Slow and loose, mostly the two of them circling each other.
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2021 · Drama
In 1925 Montana two brothers run a cattle ranch until one marries a widow and brings her and her grown son home, which the other takes badly. Very slow, and most of the threat is in what nobody says.
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2013 · Crime
A young stockbroker sets up his own firm selling worthless shares over the phone, and spends the money as fast as it arrives. Three hours of shouting, drugs and parties, played for laughs.
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2013 · Comedy
A man in his forties drags four old schoolfriends back to their hometown to finish the twelve-pub crawl they failed as teenagers, and the town is not quite as they left it. Fast, very English, jokes stacked on jokes, and it turns into a fight.
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2001 · Crime
A rookie's first day with the LAPD narcotics unit is spent in a car with a detective who has his own way of doing things. One day, mostly two men talking, and the ground keeps shifting under the new guy.
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2005 · Drama
Johnny Cash goes from an Arkansas cotton farm to a first record in Memphis, then years on the road with pills, a marriage coming apart, and June Carter. The songs are sung live by the actors and there are a lot of them.
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2011 · Action
Two brothers who have not spoken in years both enter the same winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament, one to save his house and one for reasons he keeps to himself. Half family drama, half fight film.
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2019 · Drama
A high school wrestler in south Florida is holding together a bad shoulder, a girlfriend, and a father who expects a great deal. It changes shape halfway, and the camera and music never sit still.
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2006 · Science fiction
An undercover narcotics officer in a surveilled near-future America is assigned to spy on himself, while the drug he takes pulls his mind apart. Animated over live action, and hard to follow on purpose.
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2015 · Documentary
The life of Amy Winehouse told through home video, voicemail and archive footage, from teenage demos to the last years. Built entirely from material shot at the time.
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2005 · Mystery
A high school loner investigates his ex-girlfriend's disappearance among the cliques and dealers of a Californian suburb, talking like a 1930s detective. The slang takes a while to tune into.
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1995 · Crime
A bookmaker is installed to run a mob-financed Las Vegas casino, and his enforcer friend and his wife pull the operation apart. Three hours of narration, money and paranoia.
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2012 · Science fiction
Two judges answer a triple homicide in a two-hundred-storey tower block and the gang that runs it seals the building. One building, straight up, ninety minutes.
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