Critically acclaimed Drugs movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Henry Czerny, Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen,
Directors : Ang Lee,

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Ryan Simpkins, Michelle Hurst, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.

Actors : Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Actors : Anne Archer, Willem Dafoe, Harrison Ford, Joaquim de Almeida,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Actors : Mitchell Ryan, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A veteran policeman, Murtaugh, is partnered with a younger, suicidal officer, Riggs. They both have one thing in common: hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

Actors : Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma,
Directors : Mira Nair,

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ...

Actors : Ted Levine, Mare Winningham, Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her ...

Actors : Diane Venora, Forest Whitaker, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.

Actors : Bob Balaban, William Hurt, Charles Haid, Blair Brown,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

Actors : Roger Moore, Clifton James, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Robert Towne,

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.

Actors : Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Bette Midler,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Actors : Isaiah Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Garret Dillahunt, John Hawkes,
Directors : Debra Granik,

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Oliver Clark, Gary Busey,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Fernando Rey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.