Cold Turkey (2001)

Ainda adolescente, Amy Winehouse já demonstrava para a família o talento vocal que possuía. Aos 18 anos ela já fazia shows na Inglaterra e, com o tempo, passou a ganhar fama. O sucesso do álbum "Back to Black" a tornou uma celebridade mundial, mas também fez com que seus problemas com álcool e drogas aumentassem exponencialmente.

Jim Carrol sonha em ser um astro do basquete, mas as pressões e angústias típicas da adolescência o levam a experimentar heroína. Viciado, é expulso do colégio e se une a um grupo de drogados descobrindo o inferno do submundo.

Uma jornada selvagem ao obscuro submundo das drogas de Edimburgo, onde Mark Renton tenta largar a heroína. Ele e os seus amigos mergulham no vício para fugir das banalidades da existência mas logo começam a sentir as consequências do seu vício e a descobrir que não existem soluções fáceis para a solidão e a dor da vida. Sem moralismos e falsas mensagens, o filme acompanha a rotina alucinante dos jovens e traça um retrato da geração desesperançada dos anos 90.

Candy é uma pintora jovem e talentosa e Dan, um poeta promissor. Ambos são viciados em drogas. Quando se encontram, é amor à primeira vista. No início, sentem como se tivessem encontrado o paraíso. Mas, como em todos os paraísos, também neste há um pecado original: a heroína. Ambos acreditam que a felicidade não tem limites. Com o decorrer do tempo, percebem que não têm como sobreviver. Candy precisa se prostituir, e Dan não a impede. Eles decidem fortalecer o amor que os une e se casam.

O dedicado jornalista Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) assina as matérias de sua coluna como "Jane Doe". Ele já causou problemas a diversas pessoas devido as suas bombásticas revelações divulgadas. Certa vez, ele se disfarça de mendigo a fim de recolher informações para uma matéria sobre tráfico de drogas. Assim, ele é abordado por um milionário que lhe oferece US$ 50 mil para matar um homem.

Primeiro foi a oportunidade, depois a traição. Vinte anos se passaram e muita coisa mudou, mas outras tantas não. Mark Renton volta para o único lugar que ele consegue chamar de casa. Spud, Sick Boy e Begbie estão esperando por ele.

Jovem estagiária de uma revista se envolve com uma fotógrafa lésbica e viciada em drogas. Elas exploram uma a outra na tentativa de avançar em suas carreiras. Contudo, as duas vão aos poucos se apaixonando.

Viciada em heroína e moradora de rua, Harley (Arielle Holmes) tenta, mas não consegue se livrar do vício e do namorado abusivo Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones). Entre euforias químicas, brigas e surtos violentos, ela busca grandes momentos, aquela arrebatadora beleza econtrada em lugares inesperados.

O saxofonista Charlie Parker chega a Nova York em 1940. Ele é rapidamente notado por sua maneira notável de tocar. Ele se torna viciado em drogas, mas sua amada esposa Chan tenta ajudá-lo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman), um detetive de Nova York, vai até Marselha, França, na tentativa de capturar Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), um traficante de drogas que escapou entre seus dedos quando foi fazer um "negócio" em Nova York. Para complicar a missão, Doyle não fala francês e o detetive Henri Barthelemy (Bernard Fresson) não fica muito feliz com a presença de Jimmy, dizendo que Marselha não é Nova York. Doyle logo sente isto na pele quando a quadrilha de Charnier o captura, lhe deixando confinado no quarto de um decadente hotel. Lá o detetive, segundo Alain, é drogado várias vezes, com o objetivo de deixá-lo viciado. Desta forma nem seria precisa matá-lo, pois um detetive viciado seria expulso da polícia.

Uma cantora de ópera é acompanhada por seu filho durante uma turnê na Itália. Ao descobrir que ele é viciado em heroína, ela tenta salvá-lo e os dois se envolvem em uma relação incestuosa que pode revelar o segredo do verdadeiro pai do menino.

Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Uma jovem entra para um grupo de alunos populares na escola e passa a compartilhar analgésicos só vendidos sob prescrição médica. Os remédios acabam e eles passam a comprá-los de um colega traficante até descobrirem algo que muda suas vidas: estavam comprando heroína ao invés do forte analgésico mexicano que pensavam.

INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book ("Charlie Says: Don't Get High On Your Own Supply"). It shows Lanre as he becomes a character in his own book through his heroin addiction.

Na esperança de encontrar sucesso como cantora, Hope vai morar em Los Angeles. Lá ela conhece Will e se apaixona, mas a relação dos dois se torna cada vez mais complicada e apoiada em vícios. Após o término e enquanto tenta refazer sua vida, Hope é encontrada por Will, que está determinado a impedir que isso aconteça.

It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.

The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.