The Basketball Diaries

1995-04-21

new york city, heroin, sports, basketball, addiction, friends, based on memoir or autobiography, drugs, 1960s, school suspension

Heaven Knows What

2015-05-29

suicide, new york city, based on novel or book, infidelity, drug addiction, drug dealer, heroin, addiction, love, heroin addict, razor blade, homeless, homeless girl, new york

A Day in the Death of Donny B.

1969-06-10

drug addiction, junkie, drug addict, heroin addict, drug habit

The Connection

1961-05-03

new york city, drug addiction, heroin, independent film, loft, woman director

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008-10-02

new york city, journalist, failure, magazine, based on memoir or autobiography, starlet

Coming Out of the Ice

1982-12-31

biography, based on memoir or autobiography

Perfect High

2015-07-05

heroin, high school, addiction, teenager, drugs, woman director

A Million Little Pieces

2019-08-30

based on novel or book, drug addiction, rehabilitation, male homosexuality, drug rehabilitation, based on memoir or autobiography, woman director

Wolves

2016-10-25

new york city, sports, coach, teenager, manhattan, new york city, gambling addiction, student athlete

Cherry

2021-02-26

post traumatic stress  disorder, based on novel or book, drug addiction, bank robber, iraq war veteran, based on memoir or autobiography, iraq war

Heroin(e)

2017-09-03

drug addiction, heroin, drugs, heroine

Don't Get High on Your Own Supply

1998-01-01

drug addiction, narration, heroin, friendship, addiction, friends, drugs, drug addict, interracial friendship, heroin addiction

Pure

2002-09-13

waitress, baby, birthday, drug addiction, drug dealer, rehabilitation, heroin, vomit, friends, football (soccer)

Beautiful Boy

2018-10-12

san francisco, california, based on novel or book, drug addiction, biography, based on a true story, drug rehabilitation, methamphetamine, based on memoir or autobiography, father son relationship, 2018, domenica

The Hurricane

1999-09-17

prison, new jersey, 1970s, boxer, boxing school, biography, based on memoir or autobiography, 1960s, boxing, legal thriller

Toxic Love

1983-09-01

drug addiction, heroin, delinquency, social issues

Jumpin' Johnny

2019-01-24

sports team, drug addiction, civil rights, sports, basketball, detroit, michigan, sports documentary, nba, documentary filmmaking, heroin addiction, basketball team, harlem globtrotters, globetrotters

Toast

2010-12-30

adolescence, cooking, nostalgia, autobiography, based on memoir or autobiography, cookies, woman director, 1960s, mother son relationship, gay

Wild Innocence

2001-12-19

heroin addiction

Τα ντερέκια

1987-01-01

sports, basketball

Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC

2012-06-17

new york city, playground, basketball, sports documentary, street ball

The Unraveling

2015-04-11

drug abuse, bachelor, drug addiction, drug dealer, heroin, friends, drugs, drug addict, heroin addict, heroin addiction, heroin withdrawl, bachelor party

Swansea Love Story

2010-10-01

heroin, addiction, drugs, heroin addiction

Strike Force

1975-04-12

fbi, basketball, junkyard, drugs, surveillance

Dear Basketball

2017-04-23

poem, basketball, autobiography, art

'R Xmas

2001-10-04

new york city, ransom, kidnapping, drug dealer, christmas

The C-Word

2015-05-03

cancer, based on memoir or autobiography, blogger

Basquiat

1996-08-09

new york city, drug abuse, homeless person, new love, drug addiction, overdose, artist, graffiti, street art, vernissage, exhibit, friendship, independent film, drugs, celebration, price of fame

Jumpin' at the Boneyard

1992-01-01

sibling relationship, drug addiction, heroin

Stakeout on Dope Street

1958-05-03

heroin, drugs

Dusty and Sweets McGee

1971-07-14

Hillbilly Elegy

2020-11-11

child abuse, based on novel or book, drug addiction, american dream, ohio, overdose, heroin, kentucky, yale university, drug rehabilitation, hillbilly, based on memoir or autobiography, single mother, law student, appalachian, appalachian mountains, mother son relationship, mother son estrangement

Paper Lion

1968-10-23

american football, sports, writer, based on memoir or autobiography

French Connection II

1975-05-18

france, detective, marseille, france, drug addiction, heroin, cold turkey, investigation, policeman, illegal drugs

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956-07-04

new york city, parent child relationship, biography, marriage, army, convertible, based on memoir or autobiography, juvenile delinquent, fighting, policeman, boxing, abusive father

Lady Yakuza

2007-11-25

Alphabet City

1984-03-04

new york city, neo-noir

Wasted

2002-03-17

small town, texas, experiment, heroin, friendship, high school, party, drugs, addict

Story of a Junkie

1985-11-25

heroin, nyc

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013-12-25

corruption, drug addiction, anti hero, con man, fraud, wall street, rise and fall, based on a true story, thriller, con artist, stockbroker, wealthy, drugs, stripping, hedonism, decadence, corrupt, 1980s, sharemarket fraud, financial market, black monday, thrilling

The Paradise

2019-11-08

Dandelions

1974-10-11

alcohol, drug addiction, motorcycle

Sunset Park

1996-04-26

sports, basketball, high school sports

Behind the Walls

2008-04-30

approved school , orphan, based on memoir or autobiography, 1930s

Requiem for a Dream

2000-10-06

drug addiction, junkie, heroin, speed, diet, unsociability, illegal prostitution

A Dose of Happiness

2019-11-08

journalist, heroin, biography, bulgaria, addiction, drugs, addict

New Jack City

1991-03-08

new york city, street gang, drug dealer, ghetto, nudity, heroin, undercover agent, gang leader, crack, cop, drugs

Sucht

drug abuse, addiction

H: The Story of a Teen-Age Drug Addict

1951-01-01

drug addiction, teenage boy, boxing

City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal

1998-03-24

new york city, sports, basketball, history, ccny

Cracked Up

1987-05-26

drug addiction, high school, crack, high school sports, crack cocaine, drugs, star athlete

A Sense of Freedom

1979-10-19

scotland, glasgow, scotland, based on memoir or autobiography, prison brutality

The Diary Of Anne Frank

2016-03-03

diary, based on memoir or autobiography, nazi occupation, 1940s, children in wartime

Gejagt bis zum Morgen

1957-12-06

based on memoir or autobiography

Jesus' Son

1999-09-05

drug abuse, magic mushroom, dark comedy, independent film, drugs, psychedelics, heroin addict, woman director

Rock Bottom: From Hell to Redemption

2007-05-17

drug addiction, heroin

Lady Sings the Blues

1972-10-12

biography, racist, based on memoir or autobiography, nightclub owner, withdrawal, blues music, harlem, 1940s, 1930s

Above the Rim

1994-03-23

sports

84 Charing Cross Road

1987-02-13

london, england, bookshop, based on play or musical, based on memoir or autobiography, correspondence, 1950s, 1960s

The Chronology of Water

sexual abuse, suicide attempt, violent father, heroin, swimmer, based on memoir or autobiography, divorce, molestation, lgbt, alcoholic father, child molestation, flunking out of school, childhood sexual abuse, woman director, father daughter conflict, abusive father

Believe in Me

2006-09-07

sports, basketball, high school sports

Postcards from the Edge

1990-09-14

drug rehabilitation, hollywood, based on memoir or autobiography, drug addict, actress, mother daughter relationship

The Diary of Anne Frank

1959-03-18

amsterdam, netherlands, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, diary, biography, black and white, based on memoir or autobiography, family, attic, nazi occupation, hiding in attic, children in wartime

Tart

2001-04-23

jealousy, uniform, party, friends, wealth, school, drugs, drunk, schoolgirl, boyfriend, manhattan, new york city, woman director, rich kids, expelled

Go Ask Alice

1973-01-24

prostitute, rape, runaway, based on novel or book, drug addiction, cocaine, heroin, lsd, high school, marijuana, drugs, mother daughter relationship

5up 2down

2006-06-11

Cicuta

2002-12-01

drug addiction, fake documentary

Amateur

2018-04-06

sports, basketball, sport competition

Valley of the Dolls

1967-12-27

new york city, based on novel or book, drug addiction, musical, singer, drugs, law firm

Trainspotting

1996-02-23

london, england, scotland, based on novel or book, drug addiction, drug dealer, nightclub, junkie, heroin, cold turkey, edinburgh, scotland, modern society, hallucination, friendship, monologue, surrealism, dark comedy, stealing, drug rehabilitation, drug dealing, drugs, cult film, recovering addict, illegal drugs, drug culture, antihero

Cold Turkey

2001-01-01

journalist, heroin, cold turkey, addiction, photojournalism, addict, heroin addict, interracial friendship, heroin addiction, methadone, heroin withdrawl

Game

2017-05-03

sports, high school, basketball, woman director, tryout, short

Half Nelson

2006-08-11

new york city, date, prison, ex-girlfriend, ghetto, bicycle, class, sports, basketball, crack, teacher, student, theft, alcoholic, liberal, junior high school, drug habit, freebasing

High Art

1998-06-12

new york city, photographer, heroin, exploitation, career, magazine, photography, addiction, love, lesbian relationship, drugs, lgbt, intern, woman director, lesbian romance, lesbian

Clean

2017-08-11

drug addiction

Addicted in Afghanistan

2009-11-24

afghanistan, drugs

Drugged Youth

1977-01-01

cocaine, drug dealing, drugs, heroine, criminal gang, pharmaceutical lab

Deuces Wild

2002-05-03

new york city, gang, drug overdose

6 Balloons

2018-03-12

drug addiction, heroin, woman director, brother sister relationship

Shaitan

2011-06-01

drug abuse, drug addiction

Helbra

2004-09-14

drug abuse, addiction