Best Drug Abuse movies of 1990s

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Gabriel Byrne, Miguel Ferrer, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : John Badham,

Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can...

Actors : Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Charles Fleischer, Thandie Newton,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, ...

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Sean Nelson, N'Bushe Wright,
Directors : Boaz Yakin,

Death and violence anger a 12-year-old drug courier, who puts his employer's against each other.

Actors : Esther Scott, David Spade, Marlon Wayans, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Penelope Spheeris,

A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.

Actors : Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate,
Directors : Gregory Nava,

Three women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.

Actors : Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Jason Patric,
Directors : Lili Fini Zanuck,

Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Jacques Boudet, Ariane Ascaride,
Directors : Robert Guédiguian,

A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Akaji Maro, Tomorô Taguchi, Diamond Yukai,
Directors : SABU,

A salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons.

Actors : Joe Torry, De'aundre Bonds, Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen,
Directors : Rusty Cundieff,

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

Actors : Tony Nikolakopoulos, Julian Garner, Alex Dimitriades, Elena Mandalis,
Directors : Ana Kokkinos,

A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.

Actors : Panayiotis Hartomatzidis, Dimitris Papoulidis, Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis,
Directors : Constantine Giannaris,

A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.

Actors : Al Franken, Vincent D'Onofrio, Laura San Giacomo, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

Actors : Sarah Lassez, Matthew Modine, Béatrice Dalle, Claudia Schiffer,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.

Actors : Michele Santopietro, Craig DuPlessis, Lisa Ristorucci, Brian Marc,
Directors : D. Ze'ev Gilad,

Two runaways struggle for survival on the gritty streets of New York.

Actors : Alicia Witt, Amy Locane, Brittany Murphy, Luke Wilson,
Directors : Richard Sears,

An indolent artist in Portland, Oregon becomes addicted to marijuana, prompting his girlfriend to flee to New York City with a heroin addict.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Mary Alice, Al Freeman Jr., Esther Rolle,
Directors : Maya Angelou,

Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts ...

Actors : Gil Bellows, Renée Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : C.M. Talkington,

Watty has made a living out of robbing convenience stores, but after one of these jobs turned into murder by his partner, the psychopath Billy Mack, he is on the run with his fiancé ...

Actors : Ashley Judd, Bruce A. Young, Jim True-Frost, Luke Perry,
Directors : John McNaughton,

Chris is young idealistic cop who falls in love and gets married to Pam, a beautiful but emotionally unstable woman who suffers from alcoholism and drug addiction. While Chris is trying ...

Actors : Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis Magro, Dani Nefussi, Rodrigo Santoro,
Directors : Laís Bodanzky,

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs...

Actors : Liza Weil, Frederic Forrest, Chad Morgan, Kathryn Rossetter,
Directors : Susan Skoog,

A teen faces her impending adulthood in the carefree sex and drug revolution years of the early 80's prior to fears of AIDS. She lives with her bitter, divorced mother and her sadistic kid ...