Half Nelson(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.



Ray(2004)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.



Maria Full of Grace(2004)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.



Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



Thirteen(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.



House of Sand and Fog(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.



Brick(2005)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.



Hard Candy(2005)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with pedophilia.



Alpha Dog(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list.



Enter the Void(2009)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A French drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.



Things We Lost in the Fire(2007)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.



Melinda and Melinda(2004)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.



Veronica Guerin(2003)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.



Candy(2006)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.



Middle Men(2009)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.



Riding in Cars with Boys(2001)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.



Big Trouble(2002)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 60

The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.



Spun(2002)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.



Wonderland(2003)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 57

In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.



It's All Gone Pete Tong(2004)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle...




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