Best Drug Abuse movies of 1980s

Actors : Corey Haim, Teri Garr, Christopher Collet, Peter Weller,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A teen must protect his family, when his mother's sinister new boyfriend begins exerting his authority in their house.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, Merritt Butrick,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.

Actors : Ned Manning, Wilbur Wilde, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

In the near future, a teenage couple are trapped in a drive-in theater which has become a concentration camp for social outcasts. The inmates are treated to drugs, exploitation films, junk food, and new wave music.

Actors : Helle Beck Figenschow, Henning Syverud, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

Actors : Mary McDonnell, Lee Richardson, Piper Laurie, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Amin Q. Chaudhri,

Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness

Actors : Eskender Umarov, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Irina Sokolova, Aleksei Ananishnov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Actors : Jaime Garza, José Luis Manzano, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Javier García, José Luis Manzano, Luis Iriondo, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco's best friend and the ...

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Jesse Aragon, Rene Auberjonois, Deborah Foreman,
Directors : Larry Gross,

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln ...

Actors : Uma Thurman, Paul Richards, Steve Buscemi, Paul Dillon,
Directors : Peter Ily Huemer,

At night, baby-face Laura dresses up as a vamp and lets random guys at bars pick her up, just to drug and rob them later. But then someone starts stalking her, and a person close to her is ...

Actors : Alice Garner, Harold Hopkins, Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels,
Directors : Ken Cameron,

A frank portrayal of a year in the life of a divorced mother living in Melbourne, trying to cope with her daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict while trying to get into the music business.

Actors : Te-Lo Mai, Leanne Lau, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti,
Directors : Chia Tang,

A Kung Fu master finds out that an opium den is destroying the lives of the town he lives in, and vows to put an end to the den, but first he must try to defeat the strongest enemy he has ever faced: his addiction to the drug itself.

Actors : Martin Hewitt, Andrew J. Lederer, Betsy Russell, Claudia Udy,
Directors : Allan Holzman,

Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a ...

Actors : Cher Butler, Richard Roundtree, Anthony Geary, Jim Brown,
Directors : Michael Fischa,

Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an...

Actors : Dyan Cannon, John Heard, Lola Mason, George Coe,
Directors : Dyan Cannon,

Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. ...

Actors : Sonia Curtis, Tim Owen, Estee Chandler, Luke Perry,
Directors : Jordan Alan,

Two adolescent children of wealthy parents deal with the emotional travails of spoiled youth by indulging in self destructive behaviour including but not limited to drugs, parties and teen ...

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Elliott Gould, Mark Moses, Mabel King,
Directors : Malcolm Marmorstein,

A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.