Heroin Addiction Movies

In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it's visible on the city's streets. Early one morning we meet a young,...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson....

Naturalistic and almost documentary account of the heroin addicts in Belgrade, in the form of a sad life story of young girl and her wasted life.

Three teens get into the drug business when they discover two pounds of uncut heroin in a briefcase that was lost during a botched drug bust.

Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapidly—and how, sometimes, the conditions in...

Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legend Marian Anderson, whose hypnotic beauty,...

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids...

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level...

A haunting, visceral exploration of addiction and one contemporary man's fearless and determined quest for healing and redemption through the ancient...

Two heroin-addicted couples lead hard and stressful lives on the streets of New York.

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

Dave is a stockbroker with an expensive heroin habit. Even though he earns thousands of dollars per week, it never seems to be enough for him and his...

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, in the Dybenko basements, drug addict children survive by taking drugs. This is an attempt to look into this...

Junior Rios started using heroin when he was 15. At age 29, Junior is a father of three. To support his $200-a-day heroin habit, he scours the...

Documentary on the life of Harlem Globetrotters legend, Jumpin' Johnny Kline, who barnstormed in the tumultuous Civil Rights era of the 1950s. From a...

A heroin addict encounters a warrior fighting for her soul.

This documentary, set in the Lower East End of Vancouver's downtown core, is a pretty honest account of life on the streets in urban Canada. It is...

The story centers around a homeless man struggling with his addiction which brings him to desperate measures to satisfy his compulsion.