Alcohol (1920)

アリーの夢は歌手になることだった。しかし、なかなか芽が出ず諦めかけていたある日、世界的シンガーのジャクソンと出会う。彼女の歌にほれ込んだジャクソンに導かれるように華々しいデビューを飾り、アリーは瞬く間にスターダムを駆け上っていく。激しく恋に落ちて、更に固い絆で結ばれる2人だったが、アリーとは反対に、全盛期を過ぎたジャクソンの栄光は陰り始めていく。

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

落ち目になった元スター歌手のバッドが、シングル・マザーの女性記者とその息子と出会う。彼らと触れ合ううち、バッドの心に希望が湧き上がっていく。落ちぶれ男の再生をジェフ・ブリッジス主演で描いた感動作。

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.

The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.

Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright is a house painter hired to work on a Beverly Hills mansion where he becomes involved in the life of the resident family. The owner Elaine left her husband J.P. while he was serving in Vietnam, causing him to become an alcoholic hobo living in downtown Los Angeles. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to continue her relationship with her father, even though Elaine is strongly against it.

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

ライアン・ゴズリングとラッセル・クロウが共演し、「アイアンマン3」のシェーン・ブラック監督がメガホンをとったバディムービー。シングルファーザーで酒浸りの私立探偵マーチは、腕っ節の強い示談屋ヒーリーとコンビを組み、失踪した少女の捜索をすることに。そこへマーチの13歳の娘ホリーも加わることになり、3人で捜索を続ける。しかし、簡単に終わるはずだったその仕事は、やがて1本の映画にまつわる連続不審死事件、さらには国家を揺るがす巨大な陰謀へとつながっていく。3人は襲い来る殺し屋に命を狙われながら、事件解決にひた走るが……。

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval of that time, in which rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behavior. In Morley’s search for her lost self, conflicting memories and viewpoints weave in and out, revealing a portrait of the city, its pop culture, and the people who lived it.

フリーでイタリア語の翻訳をしている香山笑子は親の勧めで見合いをすることになった。相手は30歳の医師・岸田睦月。笑子は情緒不安定でアルコール依存症、睦月は同性愛者だったが、それを納得して2人は結婚する。新婚生活がしばらく過ぎた頃、笑子は睦月の恋人・藤島紺に接触しようとする。最初は警戒した紺だったが、ある夜、睦月が帰宅すると紺がやって来ていた。3人の間には、友情とも愛情ともつかぬ不思議な関係ができあがりつつあった。睦月は笑子を好きになっていたが、彼女を抱くことはできず、彼女の親友・瑞穂に笑子に恋人を紹介してやってほしいと言う。それを知った笑子はショックを受けた。紺もまた笑子の方に同情的だった。やがて笑子の両親に、瑞穂を通して睦月が同性愛者であることが知れ渡り、離婚騒ぎになる。笑子は睦月と別れないためにも、人口受精で子供を作ることを考えるが、睦月は猛反対する。関係のバランスの崩れた笑子、睦月、紺の3人は気まずい気持ちのまま夜の街を車で走っていく。途中、笑子がひとり車を降りて夜の闇の中に走り去る。睦月を責める紺。夜明けが来た。倒れるまで走り続けた笑子の前に、睦月と紺の優しい笑顔があった。

ヴァージニア州の町で生まれ育ったデズモンド・ドスは、第２次世界大戦が激化し周囲の人々が次々出征する中、彼は人を殺さず助けるならと衛生兵として陸軍に志願する。厳しい訓練には耐えていたが、銃に触れることを断固拒絶し上官と兵士たちの嫌がらせが始まる。恋人ドロシーとの結婚式の日、銃の訓練を終了せねば休暇は許可しないと言われ、命令拒否として軍法会議にかけられるが最終的に主張は認められる。1945年、沖縄。「ハクソー・リッジ」に到着した第77師団の兵士たちだったが武器を持たない彼はには過酷な戦いが待ち受けていた。