Addiction Movies

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated...

A mischievous cat and a young girl facing family troubles meet an unusual creature.

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

This educational film (not to be confused with the 1937 exploitation film of the same name, directed by Elmer Clifton) was produced in the 1950s by...

A man plays his last coin on a slot machine and wins. He leaves to go home. Suddenly, he notices someone is chasing him...

After years of bitter separation, Quinn learns that his brother Ray is gone for good. Seeking closure, he attends the funeral where he meets Daphne...

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

Back to square one. A guy trying to quit his smoking habits.

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns...

Provocative, funny and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the inspirational story of a self proclaimed Robin Hood of the streets. For Forty years and...

Étienne Boulay’s story is anything but ordinary. Raised in Montréal-Nord, he went on to play football in the CFL and NFL, with...

A young man struggles with a raging addiction to a particular beverage.

Polly and Sophie are My Bad Sister, the UK rave scene’s most infamous twin sisters. When a new chapter of sobriety threatens the hedonism of...

After the difficult birth of their first child, Anneke becomes addicted to pills. After an attempted suicide, she is admitted to a psychiatric clinic.

Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1913-1978) in his later life. He was born at sea...

Life is liberty in a cage. "Cage" represents a situation filled with constraints, a habit, or an addiction that is hard to get rid of. This project...

In their third session together, a troubled sex addict seeks help from a therapist for his isolating, self-destructive vices.

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...