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 : 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, Mark Moses, Elliott Gould, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Sam Ball, Lisa Marie, Jesse Woodrow, Hilit Pace,
Directors : Alexander Samaan,

Life is a drug induced haze for Claire Oberon; living in her remote mansion, addicted to heroin, surrounding herself with her drug addicted friends, letting her life slowly fade away. ...

Actors : Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, Raymond Cloutier, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : John L'Ecuyer,

Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jude's father kicks her out of the house ...

Actors : Serge Riaboukine, Mathieu Demy, Marina Golovine, Patrick Lizana,
Directors : Pierre Salvadori,

Paris today, a working-class neighbourhood, a square. Two bars stand facing each other as they would in the main street of a town in the Far West. Marie is 25 years old and has come back to...

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Adam Ferency, Michal Banach, Iwona Bielska,
Directors : Konrad Szolajski,

Tragedy of the family and the son who is addicted to drugs.

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 : Howard Anderson, Johanna Brownstein, Jonathan Isgar, Sorapong Chatree,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

One half of the movie follows a guy named Sam and his friend Gus. Sam gets scratched by a radioactive cat in a fight with some wacky drug addicts and achieves amazing super powers. He then ...

Actors : Larry Gamell Jr., Hassan Jamal, Marsha L. Carter, Garrett Henry,
Directors : Riffat A. Khan,

Three black teens try to get rid of the local drug dealer while picking up white girls, hookers and learning to rap.

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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 ...