Movies: Substance abuse

Ali and Alia are childhood neighbors that fell in love with each other, but bigger events occur in their lives which gets them separated. Ali seeks to maintain Alia's heart even if it is through substance abuse....

Set to a vibrant landscape, 'April' follows the emotional up-and-down journey of a full-of-life high school girl, named April (played by Celine Alva), as she navigates change, friendships, and ultimately a decision that could permanently alter her li...

In this film titled “From Candy to Cocaine” from 1986, the “Teens Kick-Off” performance group, a performance group recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, perform a modern theater piece on their personal stories of addiction and recoveries. The film ...

On New Year's Day, two boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world....

Because of the big housing problem in the US many people move into cheap, run down hotels, the so-called Flophouse hotels. Twelve-year-old Mikal was born and raised in a hotel room he shares with his parents, who struggle with substance abuse. Driven...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the...

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders an...

Told through the eyes of a mom whose son is struggling with Substance Use Disorder, PEOPLE LIKE YOU is an unblinking, emotional feature documentary on the opioid epidemic....

Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families....

When fourteen-year-old Naomi reunites with her estranged cousin, innocent curiosities lead to a night of drinking, debauchery, and betrayal in the shadows of a small Ohio factory town....

Chris Herren, former professional basketball player, author and wellness advocate, has shared his story of recovery with over 1 million people nationwide. The First Day film chronicles this journey revealing Herren’s vulnerability and his profound co...

A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abus...

A hustler named Oscar encounters both the light and dark of humanity in an alcohol fueled odyssey of sex, love, and death....

About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks have their own philosophy and their own outlook on life.......

Three women in a re-entry house experience the reality of reintegration and attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battling addiction....

An unfiltered journey into the most intimate sides of friendship. Teenagers Aruna and Chiara navigate love, betrayal, and their descent into womanhood. As the summer winds down, Aruna falls for a troubled boy, Julian, who lives on his own in an RV. A...

When his mother relapses, Oliver is forced to go look for his younger brother in the world of crime throughout the night....

A mysterious figure pulls time backward and a suicide is undone. What was broken is made whole, what was wounded is healed, and lives are restored. Having been pulled backward through time and made a witness to their own death along with all it cause...

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house....

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time recognizable to others. A husband and wife are fighting and drinking, their eldest son lives on his parents-in-law's money, the middle daughter is a pro...