Best Alcoholism movies of 1980s

Actors : Maureen Lipman, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Michael Caine,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...

Actors : Jack Nance, Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Michael O'Keefe, Carroll Baker, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.

Actors : Dexter Gordon, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, François Cluzet,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan, Kathy Baker,
Directors : Glenn Gordon Caron,

A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehab to escape trouble with the law, and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.

Actors : Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.

Actors : Deanna Lund, Jerry Lewis, Roger C. Carmel, Susan Oliver,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis ...

Actors : Tanya Lopert, Ornella Muti, Ben Gazzara, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye, Alain Delon,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance.

Actors : Milo O'Shea, Frank Converse, Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker,
Directors : Cliff Robertson,

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.

Actors : Kari Väänänen, Sanna Fransman, Siiri Nordin, Matti Pellonpää,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Classic lifestyle swaps to get the inheritance, via (kick) alcoholism with classic Finnish angst lifestyle take. Note: Very (very) marginal dance reference.

Actors : Michael Madsen, Cecil Moe, Rex Flores, Maureen McCarthy,
Directors : Edward T. McDougal,

A man struggling with alcoholism turns to a reverend for help

Actors : Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Shakti Kapoor,
Directors : Sunil Hingorani,

Ram and Avtar are both childhood best friends. The difference between the two friends is that Ram would willingly make priceless sacrifice for his friend; the time when both are separated ...

Actors : Carol Burnett, Alan Arkin, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello,
Directors : David Lowell Rich,

Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, ...

Actors : Anatoliy Romashin, Galina Polskikh, Viktor Uralskiy, Sergey Shakurov,
Directors : Leonid Kvinikhidze,

Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to ...

Actors : Jaya Prada, Aruna Irani, Vinod Mehra, Jeetendra,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

Bombay-bred Narain goes to a village, where he meets and falls in love with a village belle, Yashodra. She also is attracted to him, and both get married. After their marriage, both go to ...

Actors : Nana Patekar, Savita Bajaj, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : T.S. Ranga,

In a remote rural town in India, live a young woman named Ahnami and her husband, Bhashya. Bhashya is a laborer who earns a daily wage, drinks alcohol with part of it, and gives the rest to...

Actors : John Stanton, Ivar Kants, Rebecca Gilling, Tommy Lewis,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A rancher comes in conflict with a gang of renegade Aborigines on the run from their tribe's posse. They try to kill him, but he gets away and hides in the woods. His posh wife and her lover, a local alcoholic cop, go to rescue him.