Best Drugs Movies List

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 272 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 91 | Earnings: $74.27M

Lead Role: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, | Director:

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Trainspotting (1996)

Aggregate Rating: 265 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $16.50M

Lead Role: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, | Director: Danny Boyle,

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Scarface (1983)

Aggregate Rating: 226 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $44.70M

Lead Role: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, | Director: Brian De Palma,

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

Cidade de Deus (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 214 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $7.56M

Lead Role: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, | Director:

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 209 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $3.61M

Lead Role: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, | Director: Darren Aronofsky,

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

American Gangster (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 205 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $130.13M

Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin, | Director: Ridley Scott,

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.

Sicario (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $46.88M

Lead Role: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Fast Five (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 190 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $209.81M

Lead Role: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, | Director: Justin Lin,

Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.

The French Connection (1971)

Aggregate Rating: 189 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, | Director: William Friedkin,

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

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Aggregate Rating: 181 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $65.21M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, | Director: 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.

Traffic (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 178 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $124.11M

Lead Role: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, | Director: 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.

21 Jump Street (2012)

Aggregate Rating: 176 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $138.45M

Lead Role: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, | Director:

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

Training Day (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 170 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $76.26M

Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, | Director: Antoine Fuqua,

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.

Winter's Bone (2010)

Aggregate Rating: 169 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $6.53M

Lead Role: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone, | Director: 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.

Pájaros de verano (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Greider Meza, | Director:

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $6.52M

Lead Role: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobón, Virgina Ariza, | Director: Joshua Marston,

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Layer Cake (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $2.34M

Lead Role: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy, | Director: Matthew Vaughn,

A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

Awakenings (1990)

Aggregate Rating: 165 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $52.10M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, | Director: 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.

Half Nelson (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 165 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $2.69M

Lead Role: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima, | Director: Ryan Fleck,

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Side Effects (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 164 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $32.15M

Lead Role: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, | Director: Steven Soderbergh,

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.