Best Drugs movies of 1980s

Actors : Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

Actors : Jere Burns, Thomas F. Wilson, Fidel Abrego, Michael Schoeffling,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

When Harry Burck (Harmon), an American engineer on loan to Colombia, is taken hostage and held for ransom, his brother Corey (Schoeffling) and friend Jack (Busey) are among a group of men, ...

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Jeff Kober, Jenny Wright, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in ...

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Doo Hee Jang, Ho Kon Kim, Eddy Ko,
Directors : John Woo,

The Thai government hires a group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the drug lord, but soon find themselves ...

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Dennehy, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ...

Actors : Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon,
Directors : Charles McCrann,

After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.

Actors : Cesare Ferretti, Roberto Stani, Michela Mioni, Enzo Di Benedetto,
Directors : Claudio Caligari,

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.

Actors : Mary McDonnell, Lee Richardson, Piper Laurie, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Amin Q. Chaudhri,

Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness

Actors : Robin Mackay, Joe Browne, Nian Watts, Harry Myles,
Directors : Godfrey Ho,

Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot. He is sent on a very...

Actors : Eskender Umarov, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Irina Sokolova, Aleksei Ananishnov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Patrick Catalifo, Michel Serrault, Alain Delon,
Directors : José Pinheiro,

This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their ...

Actors : John Aprea, Bruce Penhall, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

On their way to make an air delivery, two drug enforcement agents will need to do an emergency landing on a remote island, rumoured to have a gold treasure.

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

Actors : Jaime Garza, José Luis Manzano, 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 : June Barrett, Jill St. John, BarBara Luna, Tracey E. Bregman,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

When her slimy boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth (Tracy Bregman) to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a ...

Actors : Carl Bradshaw, Countryman, Hiram Keller, Basil Keane,
Directors : Dickie Jobson,

A young American couple crash-lands their plane in Jamaica. A fisherman rescues them and leads them away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, to gain popularity in an upcoming election.

Actors : Javier García, José Luis Manzano, Luis Iriondo, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco's best friend and the ...

Actors : Kate Vernon, Michael Winslow, Vincent Spano, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Amos Poe,

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Joe Lynn, Corinne Chateau, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant,
Directors : Roberta Findlay,

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.