Best Drug Abuse movies of 1970s

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Mireille Darc, Fiore Altoviti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

Actors : Emanuele Cannarsa, Giuseppe Alotta, George Hilton, Annarita Grapputo,
Directors : Carlo Ausino,

Drugs, murders, robberies. In Turin, violence is an everyday fact of life, but a mysterious vigilante starts cleaning up the streets. In fact, the killer is a cop, Moretti, who went ...

Actors : Alfiero Vincenti, Carmelo Bene, Donyale Luna, Lydia Mancinelli,
Directors : Carmelo Bene,

A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The ...

Actors : Frankie Crocker, Philip Michael Thomas, Rosalind Cash, Vernee Watson,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

A young man in Los Angeles dreams of striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction to the drug PCP.

Actors : Connie Strickland, William Smith, Carol Speed, Rockne Tarkington,
Directors : Charles Bail,

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Actors : Betty Ting Pei, George Lazenby, Ing-Sik Whang, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Stoner, an Australian cop, has been investigating the spread of a mysterious addictive drug that acts like an aphrodisiac and a hallucenogen on anyone who takes it. When his own sister ...

Actors : Eli Wallach, Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Julie Harris,
Directors : David Greene,

Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year old daughter, Maxie has been tripping on LSD. Arthur, a smug, bullying ...

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : Kit Ryder, Billy Gray, Bob Graham, Clifton Tip Fredell,
Directors : Floyd Mutrux,

A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Umberto Raho, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti,

A couple who vacationing in Haiti happens to stumble upon an old doctor friend. Dr Steffen has cooked up a powerful new hallucinogenic drug and there are quite a few different parties interesting in acquiring the formula.

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Jaime Garza, Verónica Castro, Isela Vega,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

José Manuel Gómez Perales alias "El Jaro" lives with his band, also teenagers and their girlfriends. One day he meets Mercedes, a prostitute who want him away from the bad way. Then appears Toñi, a drug addict from which he falls .

Actors : Steve Vinovich, Michael Brandon, Lou Gilbert, Tippy Walker,
Directors : Noel Black,

Marcus (Michael Brandon), a nice, rich, Jewish boy from New York, meets and falls in love with Jennifer (Tippy Walker), a girl from Oyster Bay, while they are both in Venice. He follows her...

Actors : Dora Doll, Louis Julien, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Giovanni,

Under the influence of drugs, a teenager, Eddy, kills a policeman. His father, Jacques, pleads extenuating circumstances and nearly succeeds in gaining the confidence of the policeman's widow. But the press reveals that Jacques is an ex-gangster who has spent time in prison.

Actors : Reena Roy, Danny Denzongpa, Shatrughan Sinha, Manmohan Krishna,
Directors : B.R. Ishara,

Ravi lives a very wealthy lifestyle in India, and since he is the only child his parents grant his every wish. This leads him to every possible bad habit including drugs, alcohol and women....

Actors : Soxy Topacio, Jay Ilagan, Laurice Guillen, Perla Bautista,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

(Tagalog with English subtitles) Filipino cinema lenged, Lino Brocka, directs this compilation of three intimate stories about the perseverance of hope featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Stuart Hagmann,

Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. ...

Actors : Carlos Cruz, Laura Figueroa, Alex Colon, Julio Colon,
Directors : Frany Sardou,

The film centers around the struggles of drug addiction and the arduous process of withdrawal.

Actors : Carol Case, Christine Souder, Paul Pompian, Art Burke,
Directors : Michael Miller,

When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Angel has become a dancer in a ...

Actors : Bud Cort, Marcel Bozzuffi, Guido Alberti, Ennio Balbo,
Directors : Lucio Marcaccini,

A psychedelic trip with a social commentary. Bud Cort, in his debut performance, plays Massimo Monaldi, a student involved in political protests and juvenile delinquency. When Massimo ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi, Bunta Sugawara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to ...