Dallas Buyers Club(2013)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.



American Gangster(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.



Flight(2012)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.



Goodfellas(1990)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.



Ray(2004)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.



The French Connection(1971)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.



Training Day(2001)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.



25th Hour(2002)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.



Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



House of Sand and Fog(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.



Boogie Nights(1997)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.



Easy Rider(1969)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.



Scarface(1983)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

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



The Ice Storm(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

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



Veronica Guerin(2003)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.



Sherrybaby(2006)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 62

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



Winter's Bone(2010)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 45

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.



Altered States(1980)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 54

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



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

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.




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