Best Drug Abuse movies of 1990s

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Elliott Gould, Mark Moses, Mabel King,
Directors : Malcolm Marmorstein,

A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.

Actors : Rachael Crawford, Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Callum Keith Rennie, Maurice Dean Wint,
Directors : John L'Ecuyer,

This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become paranoid, thinking that his wife's mother ...

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada,
Directors : Rokuro Mochizuki,

Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ...

Actors : Michelle Johnson, Jeff Wincott, Richard Fitzpatrick, Douglas O'Keeffe,
Directors : Damian Lee,

Thirteen Years in the emergency room, seeing people die from drugs and drug-related crime, have made Dr. Jack Davies angry and desperate. One day he stumbles drunken through the back ...

Actors : María Pujalte, Daniel Guzmán, Maria Conchita Alonso, Loles León,

TV host Miranda Vega heads a variety talk-show format. Confronted with plummeting ratings, she is forced to try a different approach that brings singing hookers, drug addicts, and other ...

Actors : Sonia Curtis, Tim Owen, Estee Chandler, Luke Perry,
Directors : Jordan Alan,

Two adolescent children of wealthy parents deal with the emotional travails of spoiled youth by indulging in self destructive behaviour including but not limited to drugs, parties and teen ...

Actors : Kenneth Glenaan, Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Steve Hotchkiss,
Directors : David Hayman,

In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue...

Actors : Keivyn McNeill Grayes, Elise Ballard, Ray Aranha, Sharlene Brown,
Directors : Seth Michael Donsky,

A retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist set in a New York City contemporary underground populated by drag queens, drug abuse and prostitution.

Actors : Lei Lam, Alyssa Chia, Bing Hu, Fang-Tsen,
Directors : Yu-Shan Huang,

Two girls of disparate class backgrounds suffer through teenage rebellion, drug abuse, and prostitution in cutting-edge Taipei.

Actors : Jaime Keller, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alfonso Arau,
Directors : Luis Estrada,

Juan (Armendariz) lives in a trash depository in Mexico City. He knows Lila (Pereyra), a drug addict rich girl who reminds him of his long lost daughter. Lila is kidnapped by drug dealers ...

Actors : Viktor Taus, Mikulás Kren, Mejla Hlavsa, Vanda Hybnerová,
Directors : Viktor Taus,

Viktor Taus's debut came out of the filmmaker's own experience with drug addiction. The film convincingly retells the story of a Prague Film Academy student (whom Taus himself plays under ...

Actors : Madiha Kamel, Fifi Abdo, Nada Basyouni, Ahmad Beder,
Directors : Ali Abdel-Khalek,

The hard life of new prisoner behind the prison's walls,and drug trafficking that led many of them to fall addicts

Actors : Marek Bukowski, Anna Ciepielewska, Myriam David, Jerzy Binczycki,
Directors : Lukasz Karwowski,

A young girl is both schizophrenic and abuses drugs. She has many fantasies involving fire. A medical student sends her to a senior doctor and especially instructs her to tell that he sent ...

Actors : Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, Raymond Cloutier, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : John L'Ecuyer,

Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jude's father kicks her out of the house ...

Actors : Serge Riaboukine, Mathieu Demy, Marina Golovine, Patrick Lizana,
Directors : Pierre Salvadori,

Paris today, a working-class neighbourhood, a square. Two bars stand facing each other as they would in the main street of a town in the Far West. Marie is 25 years old and has come back to...

Actors : Karen Cogan, Patrick Curran, Linda Donoghue, Fiona Doyle,
Directors : Jessie Kirby,

A dark and brooding hallucinatory exploration of contemporary Ireland teenage sub-culture in which a group of nihilistic friends hang-out in seedy bedsits and clubs, and where drugs, sex ...

Actors : Marla Gibbs, Ron O'Neal, Stoney Jackson, L. Scott Caldwell,
Directors : Ron O'Neal,

A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.

Actors : Kendra Jaymes, Brett Tabor, Jo Marr, Shannah Laumeister,
Directors : Elvis Restaino,

The story has many twists and turns among its four main characters. Karen wants to leave her husband for "another woman". The other woman, Monica, is a former drug addict rescued from an ...

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Adam Ferency, Michal Banach, Iwona Bielska,
Directors : Konrad Szolajski,

Tragedy of the family and the son who is addicted to drugs.

Actors : Mike Cooney, Stefanie Caterer, Arlene Cooney, John Badalamenti,
Directors : Andre Perkowski,

The plot concerns a fearsome gang of teenage girls called "The Chicks" and their attempts at drug smuggling. Violence, disobedience, and deadly games of "chicken" eventually lead to an ...