movies with drugs/drug use

[OC'sthewaytobe]

Id realy appreciate some sugguestions for tonights viewing pleasure

[Woowoo]

Id realy appreciate some sugguestions for tonights viewing pleasure

The best drug movies in my book -- Drugstore Cowboy and Trainspotting. Both of them are frightfully realistic although in very different ways. If you got a habit you don't want to watch these movies without a fix handy, because they are like porn for junkies.

I love in Drugstore Cowboy how Matt Dillon's character was getting bitched out that he was the only one who couldn't wait to get home to fix up--no he couldn't wait, he just had to do it in the car. Most of us know that in every group of junkies, there's always one like that. I remember in my younger days scoring smack from the worst parts of Atlanta with this wildman named Jeff, and Jeff was the guy who just couldn't wait. Used to freak me out, I'd be trying to get us home alive without getting shot by some drunk crazy , or getting hassled by the "folks", and he was in the backseat mixin up a spoonful of dope tying his belt around his arm. I'd be tellin him to just chill out until we got home, and he'd be bitching "Hey man, you think you could try to avoid them potholes??"

[OC'sthewaytobe]

Ty, so much. Drug store cowboy it is. Ill find iot tonight. I also have friends that cant wait to "bust" oxy's. THey do it in my car and break all my cd cases.

[drugsaregood]

There was a documentary on HBO called 'Methadonia' or someshit awhile back. Was really good. There's also requiem for a dream, pretty cool. ;\

[Alice Mudgarden]

The above suggestions are probably the best movies about opiates. I would add "Basketball Diaries" to round out the selection.

[Somanax]

Never forget THE CORNER an HBO mini series 8 part my fav . GARY MCCULLOUGH R.I.P was afriend of mine and it was really that crazy as in fun p.s. Ialmost got shot for not buying pink caps I had to splain I needed BOY not GIRL and the guns dissappearred and directions to a smoker were provided to me !!!:cool:

[Nathan]

Trainspotting is ace. Just finished it and now I'm watching the Bukowski docu. Do yourself a favor though. TS the book makes the movie look like shit. That's how fucking good the book is. I just started reading the sequel Porno which is pretty good so far.

[Somanax]

double check PEEK VID .com for free movies HAHA
:)

[southernbelle]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Sid and Nancy. Great movie!

[insanesteveo]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Sid and Nancy. Great movie!

thanks sb, i just got that off a torrent site, i needed something new to watch.

so this is it people?

may i suggest a show NOT about opiates but still a DAMN good show?

WEEDS on showtime. its absolutely great. about this mom who's husband dies and she starts selling weed in suburbia to pay for raising her kids. such a good show.

[ProdigalSon]

Requim for a Dream is one of my favorite movies period. Trainspotting was a very well made movie, but not in my top 5. Drugstore Cowboy I havent seen and will be buying it on my way home tonight

[OldPinkEyes]

some good movies, listed by opiate content:

Panic In Needle Park
Permanent Midnight

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas


Eraserhead

[Papa Verine]

Requiem For a Dream.

Crazy movie... makes you NOT want to do heroin. (almost)

[ProdigalSon]

Holy moyher of fuck I forgot Fear and Loathing. Best movie ever, I dont care if you do drugs or not. Magnificent

[southernbelle]

Thanks for the idea, pill. I need something good to watch this weekend while the hubby is at work and this sounds like a great idea. I watched Pirates of the Carribean last night, and I'm in the mood for some more Johnny Depp...;)

[ProdigalSon]

Thanks for the idea, pill. I need something good to watch this weekend while the hubby is at work and this sounds like a great idea. I watched Pirates of the Carribean last night, and I'm in the mood for some more Johnny Depp...;)

He did such a good job portraying Thompson. Ive never met the man but if that was close to the real thing, I wish I was Hunter S Thompson...It was an all around perfectly made movie, right down to the actors, filming, sound everything

[southernbelle]

Did you ever read the book? I did a long time ago, and it was great. Thanks for the review, too. I'm usually disapointed with books made into movies, so hopefully not this time.

[ProdigalSon]

Oh God, I read it more than once. Ive read a couple of his. Fear and lothing on the Campaign Trail, I just got ddone with "The Great Shark Hunt". It was long as long could be but it was worth it. Its not reall a story inits entirity, but more of a collection on somehow(and sometimes) intertwining stories. Great, great book.

I can read Fear and Loathing in about a day, if I sat there all day readin it. The Great Shark Hunt is prob 4 times the size. Im tellin you grab it up. Its a fav

[southernbelle]

I had forgotten about that one. Looks like I'll be hitting up the Bookstar this weekend.....I remember when he wrote for Rolling Stone sometimes, too.

[Hammilton]

Jesus, this is such a limited list- these are the same few we get over and over again (and this topic is a constant), and this thread is out of place. It belongs in the culture or whatever it is section.

Anyway, I would most highly reccomend "From Hell" with Depp. I want to say it's a Coen Brothers film (think O Brother Where Art Thou and The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink and Fargo- the list of their great films is so long!) but I don't think it is.

Oh, I remember now. It's a Hughes Brother's film. Allen and Albert. I'd definitely say it's their best film and a very good one, but as directors in general, they're not in the same league as the Coen brothers. They did Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, American Pimp, and then From Hell, in that order.

It's not primarily regarding opiates, but I'd have to say that a film primarily about drugs is going to be doomed to mediocrity- even if it gains a huge following. I mean, Drugstore Cowboy is kinda fun to watch, but it's really kind of a crappy movie- even more so if you count how it was put together. I'm guessing it had a really low budget. Unless I'm thinking of another movie- but I don't think so.

[Woowoo]

Ty, so much. Drug store cowboy it is.So did you see it? Fun flick ain't it?

[Boudica]

Gotta go w/ Drugstore Cowboy on this one, mates!. And "Pulp Fiction" for that scene where Vincent( Travolta) goes to his connect's house (Eric youknowwho), and he throws 3 big bags o' dope on the bed and gives a good description with the $ for each one, and says (re: the 3rd bag) "Now, THIS one is the fuckin' madman, so it's little more expensive, but when you shoot it, you WILL know where that xtra money went." Love that line! Then the close up of the fix, when he "hits" and the blood rushes back up in the syringe...then he's driving in his Malibu convertable, very happily loaded...oh gawd...I gotta go...:)

Ok. This does not focus on H, excepting one scene showing a dead junky with the needle still in his arm, however the focus is on MAJOR DRUG DEALING and grabs ya by the bollox and hangs on 'till the last scene. Daniel Craig (the new James Bond) plays the lead and is absolutely charismatic. You do NOT want to miss this flick: LAYER CAKE.


ps: for Southernbelle: when are we NOT in the mood for more Johnny Depp. Which brings up remembering him so vividly in "Blow"... oh gawd...I gotta go again...

psps: for everybody who cares re:H.S.Thompson, his book about the Hells Angels, a complete mind-blower.

[Overdoze]

I gotta check out layer cake thanx

I love drugstore cowboy, , and trainspotting that movie is very good...

[Boudica]

I gotta check out layer cake thanx

I love drugstore cowboy, , and trainspotting that movie is very good...


Excellent! You'll be so glad you did. I watch this flick over and over again and love it more every time. And just another plus, I have not seen such seamless and ingenious editing, anywhere, ever. Sienna Miller is in it also and is HOT, so buyer beware:D . Let me know how you liked it, please.

[Overdoze]

:) Awesome I'm getting it right now. I'll let you know by tomorrow.:)

[Boudica]

:) Awesome I'm getting it right now. I'll let you know by tomorrow.:)


Gawd, Now I can't stand it. I've gotta put it on and watch it AGAIN!!! Have fun, darlin', I KNOW you will!

[Alice Mudgarden]

Gotta go w/ Drugstore Cowboy on this one, mates!. And "Pulp Fiction" for that scene where Vincent( Travolta) goes to his connect's house (Eric youknowwho), and he throws 3 big bags o' dope on the bed and gives a good description with the $ for each one, and says (re: the 3rd bag) "Now, THIS one is the fuckin' madman, so it's little more expensive, but when you shoot it, you WILL know where that xtra money went." Love that line! Then the close up of the fix, when he "hits" and the blood rushes back up in the syringe...then he's driving in his Malibu convertable, very happily loaded...oh gawd...I gotta go...:)

Yes, that scene when he's driving and the look on his face, total and utter contentment. I love it. I tell people to think of that scene from Pulp Fiction when they ask how opiates make you feel.

[Overdoze]

Gawd, Now I can't stand it. I've gotta put it on and watch it AGAIN!!! Have fun, darlin', I KNOW you will!

GOD! that movie was the shit!!!!

and the ending!

It had everything! I liked the spacey editing it had too..

thanx irishtart;)

Somebody rent this movie d/l it whatever you will be satasfied...

[Boudica]

GOD! that movie was the shit!!!!

and the ending!

It had everything! I liked the spacey editing it had too..

thanx irishtart;)

Somebody rent this movie d/l it whatever you will be satasfied...


:D This is one of those rare and beautiful times I get to say "I TOLD YOU SO!!!

"Welcome to the Layer Cake, son."

PS: Watch out for guys in suits carrying mini-ice chests...

[greenfox]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Sid and Nancy. Great movie!

never heard of Sid of Nancy...

[Narkotikon]

1. High Art (herion-loving lesbians in a sort of art nuveau sense)
2. Trainspotting (self-explainatory)

I've been watching a lot of the show Intervention on A&E. I think that is hillariously funny.

[Woowoo]

GOD! that movie was the shit!!!!

and the ending!

It had everything! I liked the spacey editing it had too..

thanx irishtart;)

Somebody rent this movie d/l it whatever you will be satasfied...

I just d/l'ed and watched it on your guys advice. It was damn good but I'm not in love with it. I saw the ending coming a mile away, and really was wishing for a different ending, if you know what I mean. 3/4 stars.

[ProdigalSon]

I had forgotten about that one. Looks like I'll be hitting up the Bookstar this weekend.....I remember when he wrote for Rolling Stone sometimes, too.


Actually I know where theres all of his rolling stone articles in an archive on the net...Give me a minute Ill find the link for ya

[southernbelle]

You're so sweet, Pill....

[ChrisCuts]

OK this one is a really esoteric, cult film and has been out of print for well over a decade.

LIQUID SKY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky

Fucking crazy movie about aliens who visit new york in the 80's and feed off of endorphines released by a bunch of heroin addict artists while they shoot up and have sex. Plus one of them snaps and they help her dispose of the bodies.

Really fucked up flick if you can find it. But it's got lesbian and straight sex scenes, tons of dope shooting action and fucking space aliens... can't really ask for much more. They even use some creative camera angles to make the empire state building to look like a giant syringe. :D

[Woowoo]

Ahhh yes, Liquid Sky!! I remember that movie from ages ago. Wild fucked up trippy movie. At the time I saw it, I wasn't into heroin, so my main fascination from the movie was learning how lesbians had sex by bumping their muffs.

[exiled]

Concerning Drugstore Cowboy....Who can identify the old guy Damon goes to with hiested drugstore stuff>
The old guy keeps picking out the good vs the shit? FAMOUS FAMOUS author beat and junkie.

[Overdoze]

William s burroughs.

[exiled]

William s burroughs.
:p :p :p ok i am not so smart

[LongKissGoodNite]

Permanent Midnight

The last time a movie hurt me that bad was The Squid and the Whale.

Jerry Stahl was a fucking maniac. Dont show those gay ads about your brain on drugs, show the kids permanent midnight.

One of the most interesting things he said was at the end. In reference to what had been the worst part of heroin addiction he said it "it wasnt the worst 3am narcotic nightmare" he said it was the aftermath, the recovery, the talk shows.. essentially it was not being able to get high anymore.

Anyway, ill stop being a downer. I saw it again last night .. blew my mind. :D

[WarmCyanide]

didnt read the posts too long "the gift"

[southernbelle]

OK this one is a really esoteric, cult film and has been out of print for well over a decade.

LIQUID SKY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky

Fucking crazy movie about aliens who visit new york in the 80's and feed off of endorphines released by a bunch of heroin addict artists while they shoot up and have sex. Plus one of them snaps and they help her dispose of the bodies.

Really fucked up flick if you can find it. But it's got lesbian and straight sex scenes, tons of dope shooting action and fucking space aliens... can't really ask for much more. They even use some creative camera angles to make the empire state building to look like a giant syringe. :D


I had completely forgotten about this one! Thanks for reminding me, ChrisCuts. Blockbuster used to have it. I'll have to go see if it's still there...

[freedomclub]

I found a copy of Drugstore Cowboy in a pile of trash the other day. My friend had just sent me this not too long ago and for weeks I was going where have I heard that song???!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2aRfqp1sY

[ModestMarr]

Candy
Panic in Needle Park
RUSH
WASTED
Another Day in Paradise

All very decent movies primarily all about heroin except for Rush which also deals with a lot of Speed and various other brain boggelers.

From watching Candy I have come to realize the dope market in Australia is absolute shite. In fact a lot of H down there is called "homebake" and actually synthesised from Codeine not to mention it is ridiculously expensive. You woud think with Australia close proximity to Asia it would be a dope paradise but not in the slightest. I guess all the goooood shit goes to Europe and the US, yay for us!

[MorFinatic]

Permanent Midnight :

ben stiller + heroin addict = bad ass dope flick

(plus hes bangin elizabeth hurley)

[chinaski]

Requiem for a Dream was always my favorite until Jared Leto became the KING OF ALL RAGING DOUCHEBAGS.

Bad Lieutenant isn't only opiates but it does have some great needle scenes. How can you go wrong with a crooked cop who gambles, shoots dope, snorts lines in his cop car, then wakes up on his couch with his kids all playing around him. Fucking awesome film.

A Scanner Darkly is a great pseudo-sci-fi drug story. Lots of hilarious junky behavior, tripped out visuals, government conspiracy, paranoia, ect. The book is even better.

[nick]

Requiem for a Dream was always my favorite until Jared Leto became the KING OF ALL RAGING DOUCHEBAGS.

Bad Lieutenant isn't only opiates but it does have some great needle scenes. How can you go wrong with a crooked cop who gambles, shoots dope, snorts lines in his cop car, then wakes up on his couch with his kids all playing around him. Fucking awesome film.

A Scanner Darkly is a great pseudo-sci-fi drug story. Lots of hilarious junky behavior, tripped out visuals, government conspiracy, paranoia, ect. The book is even better.

Ummm "requiem for a dream" is dope porn.

and the Dick a scanner darkly is much better than the movie.


Bad Lieutenant is amazing.Love it.

[freedomclub]

a scanner darkly (the book) is much better than the movie. nick


I can't stand it when a movie and book are compared. They are two different mediums. It's like the lighting in the book wasn't near as good as the costume designer or the actor who played the guy in chapter two.

[nick]

a scanner darkly (the book) is much better than the movie. nick


I can't stand it when a movie and book are compared. They are two different mediums. It's like the lighting in the book wasn't near as good as the costume designer or the actor who played the guy in chapter two.

Ur bro,that's what I was saying.I read the book,went to the movie liked the movie,but was disappointed.

I still recomend Christianne F.

[southernbelle]

Crap, I'd forgotten about Christianne F.! Did y'all know she's still alive? Can't remember where I saw it, maybe wikipedia, but she is. All in all, a very brutal movie, IMHO.

[HairKuTT]

HairKuTT, is great movie, it chronicles a cold turkey heroin detox, go to www.itstoughtogetoffdrugs.com (http://www.itstoughtogetoffdrugs.com) and see a clip of the documentary

[nick]

Crap, I'd forgotten about Christianne F.! Did y'all know she's still alive? Can't remember where I saw it, maybe wikipedia, but she is. All in all, a very brutal movie, IMHO.

Yeah Christianne is a live somwhere in Germany(Matfield may know more) but Debtlev,Axel et al didn't make it.

Post war germany+Turkish immigration=huge H problem.

[dirtdog]

A Scanner Darkly is a great pseudo-sci-fi drug story. Lots of hilarious junky behavior, tripped out visuals, government conspiracy, paranoia, ect. The book is even better.
I was waiting for someone to mention this flipping movie!
Never read the book but god is the movie good! It made me want a fix but then again it didnt.
Coolest movie ever :D
(im a fan of kenau reeves and the matrix hahaha im such a dork)

[itsmagic]

I dont know if yall would consider this a movie but The Corner was a good. For you all that dont know what the corner was it came on HBO and was about a life of a few addicts and some kids in Baltimore

[nick]

I dont know if yall would consider this a movie but The Corner was a good. For you all that dont know what the corner was it came on HBO and was about a life of a few addicts and some kids in Baltimore

I loved The corner,but it showed here as a late(late) night tv series.

[SUBoxZERO]

permanent midnight is a great movie. a lot of people dont know about it. its hilarious. Ben stiller at his best. or atleast most strung out

[THEPAINTER1960]

Id realy appreciate some sugguestions for tonights viewing pleasure Man if you are into a good opie movie dont waste your time go to the video store and get PERMANENT MIDNIGHT .Go right now dont waste any time

[asplinteredfawn]

My favourite heroin/opiate movies are: Drug Store Cowboy, Naked Lunch (Not really opiates "BUGSPRAY"; Come on, you know what it's really about.), Panic in needle park (w/ Al Pacino really check this one out!), French Connection I and II, Permanent Midnight, Shameless (First movie I've seen about freebasing heroin.), Trainspotting (Everyones seen this.), Requiem for a dream (Ditto.), Basketball Diaries, My own Private Idaho and A Scanner Darkly. I think thats all the movies I've seen that I've liked about dope.

[asplinteredfawn]

Oh, I forgot Liquidsky whoever mentioned that is my new best friend. Liquidsky was the best back in the day. Anyone who hasn't seen Panic in needle park should!

[thbronze]

some good movies, listed by opiate content:

Panic In Needle Park
Permanent Midnight

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas


Eraserhead


Permanent Midnight-you have to watch Makes you wonder if ol Ben had some real life exsperience

[forevadazin]

I take it no one has seen Party Monster with Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin. About New York club kids who are all strung out and ends up with a murder...Its a good movie.

[Majortom]

I am not sure if anyone suggested to you " Christiane F". It is a German movie from 1980's and it is a one of the first film about opiates. If you hadn't seen it worth trying. It is a classic. Basketball diaries , Trainspotting, Pulp fiction etc.

[freedomclub]

I take it no one has seen Party Monster with Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin. About New York club kids who are all strung out and ends up with a murder...Its a good movie.


That was good. I remember seeing the real people that's about on talk shows promoted as "Club Kids".

[nick]

I am not sure if anyone suggested to you " Christiane F". It is a German movie from 1980's and it is a one of the first film about opiates. If you hadn't seen it worth trying. It is a classic. Basketball diaries , Trainspotting, Pulp fiction etc.

Points for you man.


I've been suggesting this movie for months.


I just love her line ......"bullshit" or "I have complete control over myself".

It's a great movie.

[BeantownJunkTank]

There is an English Independent film called Pure I think. It has Kate Beckinsale in it. Thats good

[SurfRat]

Now I got a whole bunch of movies I have to see...

The first that came to mind for me was Drugstore Cowboy and I really like Sid and Nancy. I would recommend The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) (Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak)
The book by Nelson Algren is excellent.

[Duckfeet]

When I was first strung-out, I read Nelson Algren, and realized that book, and "The Last Carousel" had good takes on junkies...

But I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned: Adam and Paul...just been out a couple years, about a couple of lowlife Dublin junkies, trying to get a fix. Trouble with junky movies, is that if they are at all realistic, they gotta be somewhat boring...I mean, let's face it, when yer really strungout...it's get money, score, talk shit a while, get more money, score, talk shit, etc., etc...


Now I got a whole bunch of movies I have to see...

The first that came to mind for me was Drugstore Cowboy and I really like Sid and Nancy. I would recommend The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) (Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak)
The book by Nelson Algren is excellent.

[rachamim18]

Have not had time to review the entire thread so I apologise ahead of time if I get a few that are already part of another list, etc.

First the well known ones that are undoubtedly on another's list...


"French Connection" The Gene Hackman classic is closely based on an actual story. Famed NYPD pig Popeye Doyle claims to have been at the Compacabana one night with his fellow oineker Det. Egan. they all of a sudden noticed a snazzily dressed swarthy man seated in a prime location, surrounded by syncophants and ordering the best of the house.

Popeye, being the truffle sniffling swine he is, decides something is unusual about a man in a nightclub ordering champagne surrounded by friends. Hmmm...

Popeye and Egan follow swathyman out of the club as swatyman and mrs. swathyman jump into a new luxury car and head downtown to what was then still Little Italy, and is today part of Chinatown, Manhattan. They are astounded to see the car pull into a praking lot, and the couple get into a very old and beat up car instead. Curious (as if they had not been to follow them in the first place, as if they were not working a tip instead of trying to portray Popeye as cop extrodinaire, able to sniff out shiny sh$t from the dung pile made from then 8 million NYers).

Following the car they find it come to the neighbourhood of Redhook in Brooklyn which was then a strictly working class Italian encalve. This little bit of nonsense is enough in the pre JFK years to get wires installed, and a nest made inside a hospital across the street to watch the comings and goings of the lunchenette owned and operated by Patsy Conte, aka swatyman (sic).

Conte ran this luncheonette and most evenings would do his Mr Roger's switcheroo, often with wifey, sometimes with whorey, and always with his mobbed up pals. Well, I guess I better wrap it up before i tell more drug porn,etc.


The film is decent and very close to what happened within reason of course. One scene of note, very accurate and instructional for the true Opiophile, is the scene in which the LCN is taking receipt of some of the heroin from the Corisicans. The Italians (LCN being what most in America call Mafia) turn to a hippie looking guy and ask him to verify the quality.

Hippie uses a melting test apparattus. I have described it in other forums here so will not waste people's time with another blow by blow but, if you want to find the purity of your heroin to within 5 percentage points on average, learn this process.

"French Connection II" Again Gene Hackman but this one is completely fictional. In this film, Hackman who never got to the Corisican head honcho, or any Corsicans actually, is raring to go after them and finall gets the ok to head to Marseilles where is to liason with his French counterparts.

In reality, Popeye did not do squat but did get rich as a producer in Hollywood. The heroin seized in that bust by the way was still in NYPD Evidence in the 80s when some pigs performed an iside job, robbing most of the kilos, and replacing them with flour...hahahahahahaha...NY's finest. Love it. Anyway, in this film he ends up kidnapped by the Corisicans and injected daily with heroin to be turned into...wait...of all things.... A JUNKIE.....oh no...

I find the film ok entertainment but then I cheer as the inject his pigskin (not his football) with dope. Most critics loathe the folm...Go figure.

"The Man With the Golden Arm" this film was based on the really great book by Nelson Algren. Algren interestingly enough, made a career about writing novels on the white trash saga of Americana. Some might remember.

It starred Frank Sintra as the main protagonist also named Frankie. Frankie was a junky who went to the joint, cleaned up, and came back to the same hellhole he called a life. For some reason, until I saw it I swore it was about a saxaphone playing jazzman. It is not. It is about a cardealer with the golden arm...He struggles to maintain his sobriety...I will not spil it.


"Panic In Needle Park" This film is loosely based on an actual event. Needle Park was an actual junkie gathering place on Manhattan's upper West Side in the mid to late 60s. Really nothing more than traffic island with 2 small benches on it but it was never the less the place where many white Manhattan addicts from that part of the city would go to cop.

The panic was real, there were periodic shortages back in the days when LCN really did control almost all heroin distribution in NYC. There were no people like Al Pacino's character andhis g/f though. Still, Pacino was masterful even back then and itis worth it for that alone.

"Chinese Opium Den,1898" Who could forget the first movie ever about psychoactives, let alone opiates of all things! This gem should have been first here but hey, I do not think in linear fashion! the film was produced by none other than Thomas Edison! Black and white of course and less than prestine condition but a mrvel in any reghard even if the pipeheads as they were actually called are all actual actors.

"Rube in an Opium Joint" this gem came out in 1908 and capitalised on the hysteria based in racism about the spreading scourge of opium...The Yellow Peril!!! Help, they will rape our white women and sell them into white slavery! This is one I have not actually seen but have read enough about over the last couple of decades to feel as if i have...Still, it is on my list of to do things.

I actually have more than 400 on my list (seriously) but will dole them out perhaps 5 or 10 at a time, as i love film and when talkingg about it I tend to run off at the mouth (suprise).

[BeantownJunkTank]

Permanent Midnight with Ben Stiller

[Moonrock]

Thumbs up for Permanent Midnight.
I'd also recommend Requiem for a Dream and Spun

[rachamim18]

Permanant Midnight for sure. True story which makes it better. What a life, writing for Alf, banging all that stuff, and then living to write about ti and see it on the bigscreen.

[Duckfeet]

I've seen most of'em: I first saw "Man With the Golden Arm" in the sixties down on my first road trip w/some other teenage boys, in a 1930's Willys Jeep, from Mendoza to Bariloche, Argentina. Mostly trout fishing, but in town to look at the girls, and that movie was showing--w/spanish subtitles, and looked suitably gruesome, and that was my first look at fictionalized junky life. Later got to read MWGA, and also "A Walk On The Wild Side," both, of course, by Nelson Algren. And I saw quote that said that's where Lou Reed got the title for his famous song from. Most *accurate* short stories I have read on junkie life was Algren's "The Last Carousel," which also has a pretty good chapter for wannabe writers...

Still think the greatest is "Adam and Paul," a fine grim flick about a couple of really lowlife Dublin junkies came out a couple of years ago, which I've seen several times, and which makes "Trainspotting" seem like bubblegum.

Junkies should always read, tho...it's part of our culture...and a lesser known and fine book is "Cain's Book," by Alexander Trocchi. Nick knows much more about him, but seemed like self-destructive junky by all accounts, and also wrote "Young Adam", about a lowlife, made into film...

[jonny-5]

it doesnt have anything to do with opies, but i saw that new jamie foxx movie the kingdom last nite, and i highly recommend seeing it you guys. that movie was SICK. i cant wait till it comes out on video im buying it for sure. GO SEE KINGDOM IM SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS.

[zenpunk]

I finally saw Drugstore Cowboy on my laptop on the plane today. I thought it was great, especially the bit when the old addict priest said "just say no to drug hype" and he made this well-worded prediction about the demonism of drugs by the authorities.

[Duckfeet]

Yeah, especially since the ex-priest was actually played by the Grand Old Man of Junkies everywhere: William S. Burroughs RIP

I finally saw Drugstore Cowboy on my laptop on the plane today. I thought it was great, especially the bit when the old addict priest said "just say no to drug hype" and he made this well-worded prediction about the demonism of drugs by the authorities.

[pharmboy]

I recommended this movie in another thread awhile ago but anyways

TRAFFIK : a Masterpiece Theatre Miniseries, Acorn Media

And get this 325 minutes long. Great movie set in Pakistan
and England about opium, heroin, politics, addiction, Etc.

[pharmboy]

OK this isn't an opiate movie, . . . . . .It's a Valium movie.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Jill Clayburgh, Joe Pesci , Jill quits Valium cold turkey. Ohhh the pain.

The Pain. A little corney if I remember right.:jumping-s.

[Inspektahdek]

Human Traffic, and get the UK version from torrent, the United States version that a friend showed me once is edited! FOR NO DAMN REASON! It's like the yanks won't understand some parts of it but it actually shows cool scenes of 90s raves and they change things like richard and judy to jerry springer, ridiculous edits and changes of dialogue, even my friends who have lived in the states all their lives could understand the UK version, it's not particularly about opiates but it's a very good drug culture movie nonetheless.

check it out, one of my fave movies ever

HUMAN TRAFFIC

[Inspektahdek]

I recommended this movie in another thread awhile ago but anyways

TRAFFIK : a Masterpiece Theatre Miniseries, Acorn Media

And get this 325 minutes long. Great movie set in Pakistan
and England about opium, heroin, politics, addiction, Etc.


all the torrents for this are not seeding and literally no leechers at the moment, anyone have a good torrent link for this or can provide otherwise? I really wanna see this one, PM me or something please

[(inaudible screams)]

A good friend is involved with an upcoming movie that involves heroin. The main character is a serious addict. It's called American Cowslip.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0850648/


Go see it when its out in theaters - it's a great movie with an excellent cast.

[underide]

Buffalo Soldiers - quite a funny flick (dark comedy). probably one of not many comedies involving full-blown heroin use (and manufacture).
Almost forgot about this film - seen it years ago. Its pretty good though!

For those who haven't seen it: its about US soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin War. They end up buying enormous amounts of morphine base of some Turks in a German town (actually trading stolen US missiles for it) and convert in into heroin on damn right near industrial scale. or at least try to.
Some of the drug taking/distributing aspects of the film are said to be true for that particular era and place.

[Duckfeet]

NO, but I just saw "Naked" again last night: With David Thewlis...Dir: Mike Leigh.... That movie affects me heavily in strange ways. Reminds me of movie I saw when I was fifteen: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" with Tom Courtney, and it changed my life, since I was kind of friendless and bitter, and way too young... But "Naked" to me, is same thing...about a young guy wandering the streets of London, just seems pissed off at the world and totally fucked, but he's very bright, brilliant in fact, and doesn't seem to give much of a shit, and knows life is a crock way to early, like I did. Probably not good to see, as they'll lead you in bad directions...but hell, who wants to go in good directions? Enough people do that....

[rachamim18]

"Gridlock'd "(sic): Starring Tim Roth and the late American rapper Tupac Shakur in his last film role. It is about 2 Detroit junkies, a salt and pepper team who try to get into a program. They find out that they need to have public benefits (Dole) and spend a single day trying to get it and run into all kinds of aggravating nonsense.

"Jesus' Son": Starring Billy Crudup (starred with finney in "Big Fish," the Tim Burton film) whom I also believe wrote it,etc. It is about a junkie who has psychic powers enabling him to see the near future. Pretty wild and yet very watchable.

"Georgia": Witten and produced by Jennefir Jason Leigh ("Single White Female"_ who stars in it as well. Alos featuring Mare Winningham. It is about 2 sisters, one a famous singer, the other a down and out junkie who sings Janis Joplin style in bars and clubs. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards.

"Invisible": A Bulgarian documentary on 6 Bulgarian junkies, very, very good.

"Little Fish": Story of an Aussie junkie in Sydney who has gone straight but still dealing with her junkie step dad.

"A Day in the Death of Donnie B": Probably one of the strangest drug films I have ever watched. A 1969 black and white short (Less than 20 minutes I believe). About a black addict in Harlem in the 60s. Pretty funny actually watching this guy with a giant afro pretending to be nodding as he begs for change,etc. Anti-drug film.

"Illtown": Staring Lily Taylor and a couple of other Indy notables. About a Miami club owner who runs a crew of young heroin dealers. Pretty good.

"Ray": About Ray Charles, the Oscar winning film with Jamie Foxx.

"A Hatful of Rain": Tony Franciosa as a solider addicted to morphine (hmmmm). From 1957.

"Wait Until Dark": Audrey Hephburn, and others. About a NYC blind woman whose husband inadvertantly brings home a suitcase filed with heroin. It is a thriller about the smugglers trying to use psychological manipulation to get it back.

"American Gangster": Ridley Scott film about the man behind the Country Boy's Gang. This is the gang that intorduced stamped bags, smuggling in Nam soldier's caskets, and many other things. Too bad he became a rat. Starring Denzel Washington.

"Le Femme Nikita": Great French film about junkies robbing a pharmacy belonging to the family of one of them. The kid's dad comes downstairs (they live above the store) when he hears noises, carrying a shotgun and the gang blows him away. The female protagonist is senteced to death (was not aware France had the Death Penalty) and then her execution is staged and she is whisked away to join secret organisation of the govt., where she is trained as a top assasin...


"Maria Full of Grace": Great, great, great flick, in Spanish with subtitles. About a Colombian girl who becomes a mule for heroin. Very realistic.

"Killing Zoe:" An American safecracker (the kid from "Mask") joins a French gang on a bank job and they get surrounded by cops. Great shoot em up flick. Drugs are a fringe issue in the film though, still very well done so I included it as well.

"Chappaqua": A drug agent who is also an alcoholic goes to a rehab in PAris where he then becomes a hardcore junkie...Yeah boyyy! Kind of strange, made in 1966 and considered a classic of the genre.

"Dusty and Sweets McGee": Shows the LA scene in 1970.

"Born to Win": This shows the NYC cene in 1972.

"Narco": Shows the Copenhagen scene in the early 70s, made in 1974.

"The Poppy is Also a Flower": A 1967 film about the heroin trade,based on the book by Ian Fleming (James Bond creator).

"Junkie Junior": A classic about a Puerto Rican junkie in the S. Bronx in 1980. First "America Undercover film for HBO and never shown again.

"Mr. Untouchable": Biopic on Nicky Barnes the man who brought us "Scramble" and "Raw." Again, a straight up rat.

Many more, will get to them eventually.

[zenpunk]

Wow rachamim, that's an amazing list! Well time to fill up the netflix queue....

[chopstix]

Killing Zoe is great, I thought Tarantino wrote it but apparently someone else in his clan actually wrote it - it is a very "Tarantinoesque" movie, violent but well written and visually interesting. Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy.

I agree on "Maria, Full of Grace" and Ray; I personally thought "Jesus' Son" was lacking but it was ok..

Not exactly about opiates but "City of God" (Cidade de Deus) is an amazing portrayal about life in the slums of Rio de Janiero and the cocaine/drug gangs. Filmed in Portuguese and subtitled in English - HIGHLY recommended, truly a beautifully filmed movie and one of the best movies I've ever seen although very violent. Amazing cinematography..

http://imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

[Duckfeet]

Let's see. I post on this undying thread periodically. I just *bought* "Naked" w/David Thewlis, as I had mentioned it earlier, and it made a profound impression on me. Was the sort of movie I'd see when I was young, make me feel like *somebody* understood me. Heart pounds, want to jump up and down, run around the block after seeing it. Of course, "The Crying Game." Love those kind of movies. I also like "Killing Zoe," and other flicks Rach mentioned. Even tho it's not all that accurate, I think any opiate addict should see "Man With the Golden Arm," once, or better yet, read the book... More up-to-date, and good is "Adam and Paul," junkies in Dublin. "Drugstore Cowboy," had a lot of wishful thinking in it, and an ex-drugstore cowboy me own self, I guess I can say that.

"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring Again," a Korean movie, I think, and another I'm going to buy, as I think any friend of mine should see this flick, and "Naked," and will see the two directions in which I'm always torn...and show notions of the only spiritual path I think causes for an improved world...unlike "Naked," which is probably closer to my own life, as I was always brilliant, brutal and destructive to anybody who loved me. "Spring, Summer..." is more my aspirations, than my reality... Most of my youth, people seemed to think I was smart, funny, and after a while, "no good." But I had charisma, and that covers up a lot of sins, and in the end, just like looks, is just another hustle to a good junkie like me...

I also like, and recommend...warily...."My Name Is Bill W." which is the story of Alcoholics Anonymous, and I thought a good movie: James Woods and James Garner once got on Phil Donahue and talked about making the movie, and you could kind of see their humanity...and the movies shows the decency of the founders...

"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy," like so many Brit books made into movies, is great, but I'm a LeCarre fan, so anything he writes, I like...Another good one is "The Little Drummer Girl," U.S. made, book also by LeCarre...and interesting take about the Middle East...at the time....

"The Ruling Class," a great crazy Peter O'Toole flick. And "Lord Jim," tho again, book, by Conrad is better...but that's a cliche, so I'll quit it...

"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," also mentioned previously, way old flick, but affected me greatly, when I was young... I also became a runner, and it's another good Brit flick...

"The Killers," with Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan...as the bad guy ;-)

"Lackawanna Blues"...just a good fucking movie....

Well, obviously I love movies...

[zenpunk]

I loved "City of God" and "Maria Full of Grace". The plot tension at times had me at the edge of my seat.

[freedomclub]

I worked on the crew of another movie the guy who shot Killing Zoe, Tom Richmond was working on as well.
It flopped but it was a cool crew, most of them had just come off of working on Gummo.

[chopstix]

Haha, Gummo - Harmony Korine.. That movie was whack. Kids was great but Gummo was just weird, like just TOO real, ya know? That part of American culture that we wish would just go away..

Part of me wants to watch it again but I'm not sure I can stomach it..

I'm glad City of God got another vote, can't say enough about that movie.. Pouring rain here, might have to go walk to the video store right now..

[nick]

I loved Gummo-cat shooting and all.

Have you seen Larry C's Bully?

[waggz]

Id recommend American Gangster.. i expected more out of the movie but its just the history of how heroine got to the east coast of the US basicly is wut i got out of it. Blue Magic baby....

[Indy]

My maaannnn.

[opi8fiend]

hahah my man my man.....such a great movie!!!

[alissanurse]

in 28 days with sandra bullock she takes vicodin "what, there for my backpain" she says, she jumps outta the window to pick up all the pills she threw out the window and breaks her leg

[robotears]

Not especially an opiate flick, but I know everyone here loves Hunter Thompson. "Where the Buffolo Roam" is a flick about Thompson played by Bill Murray when he was very young. Definitly a must see for movie addicts/buffs. Rampant drug use but I don't think there was much Heroin. Murray nails thompsons characture... almost as good as johny depp. Rent it!

[Kisa]

"GIA" is a great movie with Angelina Jolie produced by HBO. I can't believe no one mentioned it. Highly recommended. It's a film about a female model (based on true story) who was addicted to heroin and got AIDS...

[pharmboy]

It's not a drug movie but it fits the times we live in : A BOY AND HIS DOG.

Pretty hookey at times but pretty good.

[Coldshakekid]

I read this or another post last week.And I dont remember seeeing BULLET listed
That was one of my favorite dope movies

With mickey rourke,2pac,adrian brody


Disreguard if it was posted,Im not reading 6 pages of posts.


What are some new new that just came out?

[Chicago]

I would say DRUGSRORE COWBOY is my fav & had allways had a freind want to fix in the ride which I wouldn't let so bitched all the way home.

BUT WHAT I WANT TO TELL U GOOD PEOPLE IS:
That the books of DRUGSTORE COWBOY different name tho, BASKETBALL DIARIES & REC FOR A DREAM "different name 4 book on this one 2, GOTTA BE THE BEST BOOKS I EVER READ I no subject was movies but the books belieave it or not is so much different then the movie & like books are in so much more detail & are better
b/c it's almost a whole different story,BASKETBALL DIARIES best example: only %50 of the movie is in that book and that movie is so much different then JIM CARROLS own words of his book he wrote himself, he did not write the movie only thing he had to do w/it would tell the crew is how junkys act & this is his bio, So when u if ever get a chance & read the book u wld be like WOW THE BOOK IS SO MUCH DIFFERET, in the book he meets some some "HOT"thinks it's a gurl at the movies goes down and there a dick, so he ran the fuck out, shit like that which none of is in the movie, Jim was a nig LSD user as well, & remember this is his bio basicly out of his own my mouth, sorry so long MY 2CENTS GUYS. THANKS:cool:

The best drug movies in my book -- Drugstore Cowboy and Trainspotting. Both of them are frightfully realistic although in very different ways. If you got a habit you don't want to watch these movies without a fix handy, because they are like porn for junkies.

I love in Drugstore Cowboy how Matt Dillon's character was getting bitched out that he was the only one who couldn't wait to get home to fix up--no he couldn't wait, he just had to do it in the car. Most of us know that in every group of junkies, there's always one like that. I remember in my younger days scoring smack from the worst parts of Atlanta with this wildman named Jeff, and Jeff was the guy who just couldn't wait. Used to freak me out, I'd be trying to get us home alive without getting shot by some drunk crazy , or getting hassled by the "folks", and he was in the backseat mixin up a spoonful of dope tying his belt around his arm. I'd be tellin him to just chill out until we got home, and he'd be bitching "Hey man, you think you could try to avoid them potholes??"

[nick]

Chicago,if you dig the basketball diaries,checkout the downtown diaries....it's the sequal

Also checkout his poetry.The book of nods is a good place to start.

[Chicago]

Well just like the book JUNKY by W.H.B. I got what some one told me was the kinda sequel type think call ticket to explosian to lazy to go get it to look at the name by BILL aswelll, So I read some of the book of nods but it was more of a poem style so I did not get into it, But it is a deffently thing is to ck out DOWNTOWN GALLERIES,can u tell me Nick if it is written in story form like BBD or like book of nods?
Hey Nick thanks alot b/c the books I love to read b/c in so much more detail, if u read BBD remember when him & his buddy were in nyc that big park shooting dope he could not hit a vein worth shit then the cops on motor bikes were comming so they had to hop that fence to get away, so when they jumped he landed on his arm & when doing that all the blood rushed in2 the dart for a hit, CRAZY HUH.:)

Chicago,if you dig the basketball diaries,checkout the downtown diaries....it's the sequal

Also checkout his poetry.The book of nods is a good place to start.

[nick]

Well just like the book JUNKY by W.H.B. I got what some one told me was the kinda sequel type think call ticket to explosian to lazy to go get it to look at the name by BILL aswelll, So I read some of the book of nods but it was more of a poem style so I did not get into it, But it is a deffently thing is to ck out DOWNTOWN GALLERIES,can u tell me Nick if it is written in story form like BBD or like book of nods?
Hey Nick thanks alot b/c the books I love to read b/c in so much more detail, if u read BBD remember when him & his buddy were in nyc that big park shooting dope he could not hit a vein worth shit then the cops on motor bikes were comming so they had to hop that fence to get away, so when they jumped he landed on his arm & when doing that all the blood rushed in2 the dart for a hit, CRAZY HUH.:)




The downtown diaries is a straight diary-just like the basketball diaries,but it covers the 70's after the basketball diaries.
Oh and Jim plays a bit part in the movie-he's a junky in a shooting gallery.

and for Uncle Bill(WSB) try queer and the yage letters.I think queer is actually better than junky.

[Chicago]

I no Jim is the junky talking how in chirch the the smell reminds him of garbage bags of dope when talking to leo.
Def gonna check out DDD,
So by bill queer is like or even better then junky 4 real WOW/ GONNA HIT THE LIBRARY 2morrow.
THANKS NICK:cool:

The downtown diaries is a straight diary-just like the basketball diaries,but it covers the 70's after the basketball diaries.
Oh and Jim plays a bit part in the movie-he's a junky in a shooting gallery.

and for Uncle Bill(WSB) try queer and the yage letters.I think queer is actually better than junky.

[nick]

I no Jim is the junky talking how in chirch the the smell reminds him of garbage bags of dope when talking to leo.
Def gonna check out DDD,
So by bill queer is like or even better then junky 4 real WOW/ GONNA HIT THE LIBRARY 2morrow.
THANKS NICK:cool:




Pleasure bro,reading keeps me sane...........well saner.

[Chicago]

@Nick Great book dd, have to read it again b/c want to fully get the point it was turkey day so I was going back & forth rather then taking the day to read it.
Pleasure bro,reading keeps me sane...........well saner.

[upstate_007]

My picks are....

Jesus' Son - Very strange, tender, funny, sad, crazy movie. Very good acting. Well written. I watch it every time it's on TV

Panic in Needle Park - Not overly realistic in some ways, but Pacino is great in it.

Party Monster - I was a part of the NYC club scene depicted in the movie so some of it means a whole lot to me. Very very seedy times back then and the movie does a great job describing it.

The Corner / The Wire - Two great HBO series about the drug trade from two different perspectives.

[u4eah]

An excellent heroin movie I haven't seen mentioned is Dog Run. I heard about it somewhere and found it on Amazon but only available on VHS. It's about 2 runaways that wind up as squatters in the east village in NYC. One of them gets tempted into trying H and becomes a junky. It's an excellent indie film with very gritty realism. Even cast some real homeless kids from the area when filming it. I'm sure you guys would love it. I've watched it about 7 times already. Worth checking out if you can find a copy. There were still some copies available on Amazon.

[Hiems]

Drugstore Cowboy, requiem, nobody mentioned Traffic or blow which are decent. Perm Midnight is excellent also. About Jerry Stahl, it's good to see someone who got through everything and end up doing so well. Goes to show no matter how bad things get you can turn it around. He has been very successful in recent years writing the script for big budget Hollywood flicks like Bad Boys 2 and scripting 10 episodes of CSI last year. The episodes he wrote got some of the highest ratings for the show. Good to hear victory stories like these. .

Regarding Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thomspson, my professor/friend from Louisville KY met Hunter S. (they both are from Louisville) and later on Johnny Depp back when he was doing Fear and Loathing. Depp lived in Thompson's basement for a while so he could learn to act like Hunter, so his depiction in the movie pretty accurately depicts the real Hunter. THis can be confirmed by observing Hunter on T.V. shows (he was on Conan O'Brien some years ago) before he died.

[Duckfeet]

I still like Adam and Paul, the Dublin junky flick...just a couple of burntout junkies wandering around, not too well liked or trusted by anyone....and for anybody interested in how they saw junkies back in the sixties, a good movie is The Man With The Golden Arm, where Frank Sinatra played the junky .... but fuck all that, it's based on a great book of same name by Nelson Algren, and I recommend that to anybody wanting a good read, or for more junky shit, read his short stories, The Last Carousel.... a great Chicago writer...

[starglazer33]

the good thief' wit nick nolte real good
also requiem for a dream and trainspotting, bullet,just another day in paradise, killing zoe= " it's like the whole world is a giant glass bubble and you rub against it like a bad windshield wiper"
anyone see that movie w/ val kilmer where he's playing the sax while his house is on fire i can't remember the name of it but it had some great scenes about meth junkies some real freakie shite

[pBong]

Not related to opiates exclusively, but a pretty comprehensive list (ranked, in order -- according to High Times voters) including some very very good movies in which substance use/abuse plays a major role. Also, check out the article: http://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=41&aid=3

HIGH TIMES' TOP 50 DRUG MOVIES
(As of 1999)

1. Easy Rider
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Drugstore Cowboy
4. Up in Smoke
5. Scarface
6. Trainspotting
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. The Harder They Come
9. Reefer Madness
10. GoodFellas
11. Midnight Express
12. Dazed and Confused
13. The Man with the Golden Arm
14. Altered States
15. Woodstock
16. The Trip
17. Sid and Nancy
18. Pulp Fiction
19. The French Connection
20. Bad Lieutenant
21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
22. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
23. Naked Lunch
24. Boogie Nights
25. Jacob's Ladder
26. Who'll Stop the Rain
27. The Doors
28. Psych-Out
29. Panic in Needle Park
30. Half Baked
31. Dead Man
32. Rockers
33. True Romance
34. I Love You Alice B. Toklas
35. Natural Born Killers
36. 2001: A Space Odyssey
37. Beavis & Butthead Do America
38. Performance
39. Valley of the Dolls
40. Rush
41. King of New York
42. Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
43. Killing Zoe
44. Friday
45. The Basketball Diaries
46. The Breakfast Club
47. Superfly
48. My Own Private Idaho
49. Christian F.
50. New Jack City



Be safe, be nice, be fun...
-pBong

[nullnull]

" 20. Bad Lieutenant"

great movie starring harvey keitel. he playes a fucked up cop, doing crack and dope, drinking booze
and in the end gets shot. :cool:

[Wretched and Wicked]

I think it has been a little slow on the board for the last few days. I am going into the weekend wanting to interact and have some fun with the people on this board. So I hope no one thinks I'm being silly or gets mad at me posting this new thread. I had a few ideas on threads that would be fun. Not like GOR.;) Just like 2 or three ideas. Anyway, on with this thread....

Does anyone want to list their favorite movie where drugs are the main part or even certain characters that use. Examples. I mentioned the movie Rush in another thread. That is one of my favorite movies. When he had to cover up his track marks to appear in court (he's a narc), he splashed the hot iron with water and it sizzled and he stuck it right on the track marks! OOOOHHHHH!

Like if you want to say a scene that made you laugh, cry, cringe.

I just watched Requiem For A Dream the other day. I was looking forward to it because the reviews stated how exact it was to drug life. I was disappointed. Anybody agree/disagree.

I like Little Miss Sunshine and the grandpa doing Heroin, and even Jenny in Forrest Gump using all kinds of drugs to escape her abusive past.

If you want to hear my other ideas let me know. I just don't want to overstep my bounds. Love you guys and opiophile!!!

[youwonhundred]

I watched Little Miss Sunshine just last night. Gramps was cool as fuck! Other than that, I was just hoping the movie was end. Gotta love the dance routine though.:p

Adam & Paul was okay too I guess.

[Ludakris]

Well, personally I'm shocked you hadn't seen Requiem for a Dream sooner...anyways, I personally liked it...maybe it's not an exact interpretation of our (opiophile collectively) lives, but each junky/user lives differently...over all, I thought it was a pretty good movie, cinnmatography was very enjoyable and I think the story line delivered...I do think the interpretation of the lifestyle was more like what a non-user, perhaps even somewhat sheltered person with an imagination would envision.

Anyways, enough of that, one of my all time favorite "drug movies" is "The Salton Sea". It's about the lifestyle of Crystal Meth users, and I saw it in the peak of my meth use, I thought it was pretty accurate as to what was going on around me. I would recommend, if you can find it. great cast with a very interesting plot line.

Got a 7.1 on IMDB, not bad.

So...there's my six cents :D

[Manowar]

I recently saw "Trainspotting" for my first time and found it entertaining. Mainly heroin use in there. I don't use that but i'd recommend the movie. Also, I've always liked "the basketball diaries". Its got a young Leo Dicaprio and Mark Wahlberg. Good movie right there.

[ndoftaworld]

The classic... Fear and Loathing...

Ah, gotta love a suitcase full of drugs, as well as human adrenal gland, num num.

Nd

[dharma bum]

Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch. Great movie, especially if you love dialogue (the iggy pop, tom waits scene alone is worth the watch)...atypical as a "drug" film but fits the requirements still.

Anyone else see "Permanent Midnight" semi-based on the Alf writer from the 80's ? Ben Stiller as a heroin addict?

[ndoftaworld]

Anyone ever seen 'Reefer Madness'? A propaganda film made in the 30's or 40's about how 'EVIL' pot it? I have it, but still haven't got through the whole thing because I can't stop laughing. haha, good times.

Oh... and Blow of course, great movie based on a true story.

Nd

[Wretched and Wicked]

Oh my gosh! Reefer Madness is so funny. I have been wanting to see Coffee and Cigarettes dharma bum. I will rent it. Didn't know Iggy was in it. That is what I hoped this thread would do. Give me and others ideas on new movies. I love my movies and music. I liked Permanent Midnight also.

[nick]

Drugstore cowboy and for dope and music checkout Christianne F.I really like Christianne F it's one of those weird exceptions in that the film is FAR better than the book.

[ndoftaworld]

Thank You for Smoking is another good one. Lots of irony, but definitely worth it if you can sit through an hour of boring to get to the good parts (read: be FUCKED UP when you watch it) :)

Nd

[ndoftaworld]

Drugstore cowboy and for dope and music checkout Christianne F.I really like Christianne F it's one of those weird exceptions in that the film is FAR better than the book.

My parents wouldn't let me watch Drugstore cowboy for the longest time, I think I had to actually move out before I could watch it. Definitely a good movie.

Music: NiN's old stuff is a lot about drugs, as is Marilyn Manson. If you can get past the screamin' weird sexual innuendo, it's quite good. ie. "I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me" hehe, the story of my life.

Nd

[Wretched and Wicked]

My parents wouldn't let me watch Drugstore cowboy for the longest time, I think I had to actually move out before I could watch it. Definitely a good movie.

Music: NiN's old stuff is a lot about drugs, as is Marilyn Manson. If you can get past the screamin' weird sexual innuendo, it's quite good. ie. "I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me" hehe, the story of my life.

Nd

Oh love....I worship Trent Reznor!!! He is IT in my book. I have all that NIN has put out. Glad to know a fellow fan.

[ndoftaworld]

Oh love....I worship Trent Reznor!!! He is IT in my book. I have all that NIN has put out. Glad to know a fellow fan.


Oh definitely! I even have the remixes of remixes that were never 'officially' released. I love that Trent said "fuck the record companies" and made his newest album completely free off their website, all that is required is an email address, fuckin' sweet. I just wish he could sway more artists to do shit like that.

Nd

[nick]

It will be hard(maybe impossible)to find,but there's a BBC film called needle that's the best film on addiction and drug politics that I've seen.

Oh and Traffic......the British tv series is much better than the hollywood remake.

[Wretched and Wicked]

What just happened? The thread I started just got sewn into another one. I guess I started a thread that had already been done. Who did it though?

[ndoftaworld]

What just happened? The thread I started just got sewn into another one. I guess I started a thread that had already been done. Who did it though?

Even if there is another thread like this (I haven't found it) I still think this is an excellent thread. I'm always looking for sick/twisted movies, drug related or not. W/ Netflix being able to rip/send for another, trying to come up with movies from the queue is sometimes almost impossible

Great Idea, W&W.

Nd

[Coddfish]

i think there is even more threads about this.

permanent midnight is pretty overrated, at least here on the board. yes it's about dope, but it's just not that great.

i'm about to rent a 1971 movie called 'born to win' about junkies in ny.

[nick]

i think there is even more threads about this.

permanent midnight is pretty overrated, at least here on the board. yes it's about dope, but it's just not that great.

i'm about to rent a 1971 movie called 'born to win' about junkies in ny.

Talking about NY junkies there's the panic in needle park.

[ndoftaworld]

Talking about junkies... wait, that's real life, nevermind :p

Nd

[Mallinckrodt]

Oh love....I worship Trent Reznor!!! He is IT in my book. I have all that NIN has put out. Glad to know a fellow fan.

Have you checked out the latest. . .I think it's called "Ghosts" something like that. It's all instrumental, different but still great shit. It's a double disk and I think there's another one coming out in a couple weeks.

[ndoftaworld]

Have you checked out the latest. . .I think it's called "Ghosts" something like that. It's all instrumental, different but still great shit. It's a double disk and I think there's another one coming out in a couple weeks.

Yeah Ghosts I-IV is out, the new one is called 'The Slip' and you can d/l it free under the creative commons license from nin.com, just have to enter you email address. Pretty fuckin' cool. You can get it as mp3, flac, and tons of other DRM free formats, if you haven't got it yet, I'd strongly suggest you check it out.

Reznor is the shit, he believes that music should be free to download, cause that promotes artists and gives people a real chance to try before they buy. Plus people feel more guilty when it's free from the artist than from torrents, gives them the chance to listen to it, but buy a retail copy if they truly like it. Instead of d/l a torrent of albums (I'm guilty of this too) and saying 'fuck it' to buying it at all. I feel much better buying this album cause Reznor is giving it away, not letting the fucking RIAA fight for their paycheck, which the artists barely get ANY proceeds from.

/rant

Nd

[youwonhundred]

fuck, i am obviously brain damaged or something. I had wondered where in hell this thread got so long. But yeah, now I know where I got the recommendation for adam & paul. Great movie, thanks duck.

[Wretched and Wicked]

Have you checked out the latest. . .I think it's called "Ghosts" something like that. It's all instrumental, different but still great shit. It's a double disk and I think there's another one coming out in a couple weeks.

Yes! I love it. He could bang pans together and I would get it. The newest is The Slip. It is free off the official website. It is really cool too. SoRry ndoft! I missed it. I loved what you said though!

[Princess]

My sexy German boy toy sent me a copy of Drugstore Cowboy for Valentine's Day :)

[eerased]

There are a couple video/tv/drug movie threads but they were quite awhile back! Its a good topic I always find something new to watch.

If anyone is looking for any of these movies to watch online let me know and I'll do my best to hunt them down for you. Not torrent stuff I mean streaming online movies! I watch all my tv/movies etc online cuz I have no cable being in the rv and all!

I've found and watched some crazy stuff!!
Here is a couple cool vids.
Banged up abroad is about folks getting busted smugglin stuff from other countries..
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=88777

AKA Tommy chong REALLY GOOD
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=88010

Heroin, Cocaine, Crack, Meth Addiction Treatment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB5TsbtchT4&feature=related

DEA reality show
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=79468

More later...

[ndoftaworld]

Not really a 'drug' movie, but Scarface is definitely centered around drugs, plus it's a kick ass movie if you've never seen it. Pacino is the shit!

EDIT: Super Mario Bros. - You HAD to be on drugs to sit through that, but I still liked it :)

Nd

[rockbottom]

Requiem for a dream is a good one, Rush an older one is good too. American Ganster is good history about Herion in Vietnam era New York-- theres alot out there:cool:

[starglazer33]

Did anyone mention "Igby Goes down"?
Good film.


..ump?

[djnarkotik]

"GIA" is a great movie with Angelina Jolie produced by HBO. I can't believe no one mentioned it. Highly recommended. It's a film about a female model (based on true story) who was addicted to heroin and got AIDS...

thats an amazing movie

after seeing it i never wanted to do heroin but i guess that didnt last long

[WarmCyanide]

Fritz the Cat.

[Somanax]

Fritz the Cat.


I had completely forgotten about that one

Cool ass cartoon

[ndoftaworld]

Popeye.

You know that 'spinach' was more than just vegetables... c'mon one hit and he could lift a battle ship? That ws some GOOD pot!

Nd

[upstate_007]

thats an amazing movie

after seeing it i never wanted to do heroin but i guess that didnt last long

There was heoin in Gia?? ;) I got kinda transfixed by the shower scene.

[AExodus]

It's only been mentioned once, but it's still a great movie about meth: Spun. Just about a guy, his dealer, the cook, and the cook's girlfriend and how their lives revolve around the drug. It's really quite good, see it if you haven't yet.

[rockbottom]

also old tv movie The death of Ritchie

[nick]

How come no one ever mentions Mike's murder?

and of course Dog soldiers.

[nick]

It's not really a "drug" movie although there are lots of drugs in it.Check out Dead man's shoes.I'm not sure how you'd class it;modern horror or a western set in 21st century England,but it's amazing.In the sameway Eraserhead or bad boy bubby are amazing.

Oh it's set in the outskirts of Leeds -my home turf.

[freedomclub]

Alpha Dog reminded me of Spun, not much of a drug movie but there is a similar lack of good judgement involved.

[tasteuvheaven]

Has anyone mentioned Traffic? I love that movie, just watched it about an hour ago with my sweets. He makes me mad though because he doesnt have to read the subtitles ;/

Akso the movie walk the line. (one of my favorites because I love Johnny Cash)
What about Ray?

These maybe have been mentioned, read most of the posts but too tired to finish .

[tasteuvheaven]

Requiem for a Dream was always my favorite until Jared Leto became the KING OF ALL RAGING DOUCHEBAGS..

I love me some Jared Leto ;)

[tasteuvheaven]

I dont know if yall would consider this a movie but The Corner was a good. For you all that dont know what the corner was it came on HBO and was about a life of a few addicts and some kids in Baltimore

The corner was go0d. It was filmed up the street from my house. I watched it before I ever had an opiate problem, taught me alot about life.

[ndoftaworld]

Alpha Dog reminded me of Spun, not much of a drug movie but there is a similar lack of good judgement involved.


That was a fuckin' good movie!

Just pisses me off cause it's the last one I watched w/ my ex, fuckin' bitch. /rant

Nd

[ndoftaworld]

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead

Definitely a good movie, got tons of twists, plus some H thrown in for good measure. Check it out.

Nd

[tucker]

there is a good movie i dont think i seen listed here not about opiates but heavy on meth. its called SALTON SEA. val kilmer is the lead and i think plays a great role. sum up is him and his wife are driving home and stop for directions at a house and the guy must have been a dealer and it gets busted by people to steal drugs and kill is wife and he then turns himself into the unerground meth world to find the killers. i dont wanna give to much info but lots of twists and turns! good movie guys! def check it out. i dont think its to popular if anyone has seen it leave some feedback and if not go get it! THE SALTON SEA

[tucker]

also good drugs movies are:

paid in full
spun
never die alone
MTV movie 'wasted'
a man apart

a few good movies i didnt see anyone mention. check them out. paid in full is great movie!

[Narkotikon]

I replied in this thread a long time ago, but:

High Art (probably my favorite...not really about drugs per se, but it factors into it)
Gia: Unrated
Trainspotting (of course)
Traffic
Donnie Darko (not really about illegal drugs, but I like the psych med factor)
Candy

[Indy]

there is a good movie i dont think i seen listed here not about opiates but heavy on meth. its called SALTON SEA. val kilmer is the lead and i think plays a great role. sum up is him and his wife are driving home and stop for directions at a house and the guy must have been a dealer and it gets busted by people to steal drugs and kill is wife and he then turns himself into the unerground meth world to find the killers. i dont wanna give to much info but lots of twists and turns! good movie guys! def check it out. i dont think its to popular if anyone has seen it leave some feedback and if not go get it! THE SALTON SEA

I think there might have been a topic on that movie a long time ago, or somebody discussing it. I thought it was a pretty good movie. you can kind of tell it's not a real "drug" movie, it seems like it uses hollywood stereotypes of drug users and drug dealers. You can kind of tell if the people making/writing a movie had actual experience with drugs, just by watching it.

That being said, i thought it was a really cool movie, actually. And it's not that it was REALLY unrealistic, it just gave me the impression that it wasn't an accurate depiction. Then again, if i wanted complete realism i wouldn't be watching a movie. all in all, i liked it.

[ndoftaworld]

Donno if mentioned... but A Scanner Darkly is a weird-ass movie involving some fucked up drugs. Kinda half-animation, half-live w/ Rory Cochran and Keanu Reeves.

Ain't bad when ur fucked up ;)

Nd

[poonwhalla]

44 was a pretty good movie about a dope dealer in brooklyn

[tucker]

Donno if mentioned... but A Scanner Darkly is a weird-ass movie involving some fucked up drugs. Kinda half-animation, half-live w/ Rory Cochran and Keanu Reeves.

Ain't bad when ur fucked up ;)

Nd

yes i seen that, some like futuristic shit that movie, guy wears a suit that changes random people. and the drug use is like some future like inhalants! haha like the new 2050 wip-its haha

[losangeleslifer]

I always wondered what the shit that Gary Oldman was eating in The Professional. I know it was totally b.s., but It was a pill that he would crack in his teeth and he would basically almost bust a nut on himself.

[ka11ink]

Requiem For a Dream.

Crazy movie... makes you NOT want to do heroin. (almost)

I thought they were doing coke in that movie, they did act liek they were going through hella bad withdrawals but when it showed their pupils aftef fixing up they turned into saucers, they didn't get pinned, and the shey were booting was always white, never brown.

[oxy kid]

Decided to watch Drugstore Cowboy right now...

Bob just got the cop on the ladder shot. Ha. Awesome. "The Hex". ha.

[oxy kid]

hope that wasn't a spoiler for anyone. Tried not to give too much away.

[StinkyPickle]

I watched Gridlock'd not too long ago. 2Pac and Tim Roth play heroin addicts trying to get on Medicaid so they can get into a methadone program. It was a horrible movie that really missed the mark in trying to convey the healthcare crisis in America. The only reason I watched it to the end, was I couldn't find my remote and was too lazy to get up and change the channel.

EDIT: rachamim already mentioned this

[SHELLEY]

am i the only junkie who can't watch dope movies?
watching people get high on tv (especially shooting up)
makes me feel sick and twisted and hurting
even if i've been clean for a year or just did a shot 2 seconds ago

plus, why pay $$ for something i've already seen millions of times (people getting fuckt up)
candy, requiem, basketball diaries etc...
i don't need to watch people shoot dope and get sick and live on the streets
i've lived that shit

[oxy kid]

am i the only junkie who can't watch dope movies?
watching people get high on tv (especially shooting up)
makes me feel sick and twisted and hurting
even if i've been clean for a year or just did a shot 2 seconds ago

plus, why pay $$ for something i've already seen millions of times (people getting fuckt up)
candy, requiem, basketball diaries etc...
i don't need to watch people shoot dope and get sick and live on the streets
i've lived that shit

Entertainment....

It's taken the world by storm.