Best Drug Abuse movies of 1990s

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 : Rachael Crawford, Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Callum Keith Rennie, Maurice Dean Wint,
Directors : John L'Ecuyer,

This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become paranoid, thinking that his wife's mother ...

Actors : Keivyn McNeill Grayes, Elise Ballard, Ray Aranha, Sharlene Brown,
Directors : Seth Michael Donsky,

A retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist set in a New York City contemporary underground populated by drag queens, drug abuse and prostitution.

Actors : Michelle Johnson, Jeff Wincott, Richard Fitzpatrick, Douglas O'Keeffe,
Directors : Damian Lee,

Thirteen Years in the emergency room, seeing people die from drugs and drug-related crime, have made Dr. Jack Davies angry and desperate. One day he stumbles drunken through the back ...

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.

Actors : María Pujalte, Daniel Guzmán, Maria Conchita Alonso, Loles León,

TV host Miranda Vega heads a variety talk-show format. Confronted with plummeting ratings, she is forced to try a different approach that brings singing hookers, drug addicts, and other ...

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada,
Directors : Rokuro Mochizuki,

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ...

Actors : Viktor Taus, Mikulás Kren, Vanda Hybnerová, Mejla Hlavsa,
Directors : Viktor Taus,

Viktor Taus's debut came out of the filmmaker's own experience with drug addiction. The film convincingly retells the story of a Prague Film Academy student (whom Taus himself plays under ...

Actors : Madiha Kamel, Fifi Abdo, Nada Basyouni, Ahmad Beder,
Directors : Ali Abdel-Khalek,

The hard life of new prisoner behind the prison's walls,and drug trafficking that led many of them to fall addicts

Actors : Mario Almada, Raúl Buenfil, Rojo Grau, Andrés Bonfiglio,
Directors : Ismael Rodríguez Jr.,

Two students want to interview young drug addicts. A gang member robs his equipment, cameras and recorders; to reclaim them, they must become acquainted with the band of "Los Chuchos". The ...

Actors : Sang-suk Song, Se-hyeok Jeong, Dae-kun Lee, Bi-a So,
Directors : Yeong-han Kim,

When old Guk-gwang dies suddenly, his fortune passes to his son Chang-shik. Unaccostumed to the sudden freedom, Chang-shik becomes a drug addict. Control of the land and wealth is soon ...

Actors : Kendra Jaymes, Brett Tabor, Jo Marr, Shannah Laumeister,
Directors : Elvis Restaino,

The story has many twists and turns among its four main characters. Karen wants to leave her husband for "another woman". The other woman, Monica, is a former drug addict rescued from an ...

Actors : Jason Bortz, John Klein, Raphael Carlo, Damien P. Daley,
Directors : Brion Rockwell,

Thirty-year-old Emmett LeClere, a former logger and recovering drug addict, returns from school in New York to make a film in his Olympic Peninsula hometown. To finance the project, he ...

Actors : Jaime Keller, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alfonso Arau,
Directors : Luis Estrada,

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers ...

Actors : Marek Bukowski, Myriam David, Anna Ciepielewska, Jerzy Binczycki,
Directors : Lukasz Karwowski,

A young girl is both schizophrenic and abuses drugs. She has many fantasies involving fire. A medical student sends her to a senior doctor and especially instructs her to tell that he sent ...

Actors : Ryan Alosio, Nicole Brier, A.J. Benza, Danielle Carin,
Directors : Nacho Arenas,

A model gets caught up in the world of drugs, and only her close friend and former lover can turn her life around.

Actors : Karen Cogan, Patrick Curran, Linda Donoghue, Fiona Doyle,
Directors : Jessie Kirby,

A dark and brooding hallucinatory exploration of contemporary Ireland teenage sub-culture in which a group of nihilistic friends hang-out in seedy bedsits and clubs, and where drugs, sex ...

Actors : Helle Fagralid, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Laura Drasbæk, Peter Hesse Overgaard,
Directors : Jørn Faurschou,

Marika meets Mads and their two hearts beat as one, but Marika is still oddly stand-offish. She is planning a trip abroad with her friend Helle, but restless Helle's increasing drug habit ...

Actors : Marla Gibbs, Ron O'Neal, Stoney Jackson, L. Scott Caldwell,
Directors : Ron O'Neal,

A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.