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A Royal Hangover (2014)
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Russell Brand
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
, 1h40Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Tommy Pallotta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on works by Philip K. Dick, Dystopian films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane, Alex Jones
The United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful and dangerous drug that causes bizarre hallucinations has swept the country. Approximately 20% of the total population is addicted. In response, the government has developed an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and a network of undercover officers and informants.
A Star Is Born (2018)
, 2h16Directed by Bradley Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Ray Liotta, Bonnie Somerville, Sam Elliott, Rebecca Field
Star de country sur le déclin, Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) découvre Ally Campana (Lady Gaga), une jeune chanteuse très prometteuse. Tandis qu'ils tombent follement amoureux l'un de l'autre, Jack propulse Ally sur le devant de la scène et fait d'elle une artiste adulée par le public. Bientôt éclipsé par le succès de la jeune femme, il vit de plus en plus mal son propre déclin.
Absolon (2003)
, 1h36Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Christophe Lambert, Kelly Brook, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ron Perlman, Trevor Smith, Christopher Redman
In the year 2010, a virus infected everyone on the planet, wiping out half the population. Absolon is a drug regimen everyone must now take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug and Murchison (Ron Perlman) is its leader.
Acapulco Gold (1976)
, 1h28Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films
Actors Marjoe Gortner, Robert Lansing, Ed Nelson, John Harkins, Randi Oakes
While marijuana growers pick their crop, and use a boat to smuggle in order it on a truck today. In the meantime an ordinary insurance salesman named Ralph Hollio (Marjoe Gortner) has arrived at the airport.
Ace Jackson Is a Dead Man (2015)
, 1h15Directed by Sean Weathers
Origin USA
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Sean Weathers
Ace Jackson (Sean Weathers) is a low level criminal who has dreams of making it big. Through his cousin, Baxter (Waliek Crandall), a local drug king pin, Mr. Bigelow aka Mr. Biggs (Adonis Williams), lets Ace unload a shipment of cocaine under the condition that he gets his money or drugs back by the end of the week, however things go horribly awry when the drugs are stolen and now Ace has to try and beat the clock before he gets killed by Bigelow's goons. The film has a very unique look and structure to it, the actors were aloud to improvise most of their dialogue to give the film a natural feel, it was shot in high-contrast black and white along with added graininess to match the gritty, dark, dirty world and the characters in it. There are also still images of murder victims spliced throughout the film to add to the impending sense of doom and inevitability for Ace. The most blunt message in the film however is the scrolling text that appears several times making statements of social and political injustices, comparing the macro and micro and turning Ace’s journey into an allegorical tale of someone on the bottom of the food chain trying in vain to make it to the top.
Across the Universe (2007)
, 2h13Directed by Julie Taymor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, Teresa Victoria "T.V." Carpio
In 1966 Jude, a young shipyard worker from Liverpool, enlists in the Merchant Navy and jumps ship in New Jersey hoping to find his American G.I. father, whom he has never met ("Girl", "Hold Me Tight", "All My Loving"). Meanwhile, Lucy Carrigan worries about her boyfriend Daniel who is headed for service in the Vietnam War, while in Dayton, Ohio, Prudence pines for a fellow female cheerleader ("I Want to Hold Your Hand"). Jude meets his father, who is a janitor at Princeton University, and befriends Lucy's brother, the privileged and rebellious student Max ("With a Little Help from My Friends"). Lucy receives a letter from Daniel ("It Won't Be Long"), but when Max brings Jude home with him for Thanksgiving Jude becomes attracted to Lucy ("I've Just Seen a Face").
Act of Sorrow (1990)
Directed by Pasquale Squitieri
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cremer, Giulia Boschi, Memè Perlini, Clara Colosimo, Enrico Lo Verso
A Milan, Elena (Claudia Cardinale) est veuve et doit élever seul ses deux enfants, Martina (Giulia Boschi) et Sandro (Karl Zinny). Lorsqu'elle apprend que son fils est toxicomane, elle tente de le faire sortir de l'enfer de la drogue.
The Heroin Busters (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Joshua Sinclair, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Patrizia Webley
De Rome à Hong-Kong, de New-York à Amsterdam, les cargaisons de drogue transitent, responsables de décrépitudes sociales à travers le monde et voyant l'occident peu à peu pourrir. Capitaine du bureau narcotique à Rome, Mike Hamilton décide qu'il est temps d'instaurer un grand nettoyage à la source en prenant le taureau par les cornes pour vaincre le réseau tentaculaire de la drogue. Il est secondé par Fabio, un de ses agents, qui s'infiltre dans ce dernier afin de le démanteler de l'intérieur. Après avoir gagné la confiance du dirigeant du cartel, Gianni, il est rapidement démasqué et traqué par ses hommes...
Adam & Paul (2004)
, 1h25Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Tom Murphy, Ion Caramitru, Michael McElhatton
Adam and Paul are childhood friends who as adults have withered into two hopeless, desperate addicts, tied together by habit and necessity. The film is a stylised, downbeat comedy, following the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is devoted to scrounging and robbing money to buy heroin.
Affliction (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney, Willem Dafoe, Jim True-Frost
The film begins with a voice-over narration by Rolfe Whitehouse, announcing the story of his brother Wade's "strange criminal behavior" and subsequent disappearance.
Iron Eagle III (1992)
, 1h38Directed by John Glen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Louis Gossett Jr., Paul Freeman, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove, Sonny Chiba, Phill Lewis
U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair and his friends Leichmann, Palmer and Horikoshi run a classic World War II aircraft exhibition at an air show, where they stage dogfights by shooting each other with paint pellets and are "shot down" by landing with smoke emissions. Then, upon hearing that an old friend named Ramon Morales was killed in a crash in the Gulf of Mexico, Chappy is summoned to Lethridge Air Force Base in Brownsville, Texas, where the remains of Ramon's plane are being examined. Chappy mentions that among Ramon's surviving family members are his sister Anna, who graduated from UCLA on an athletic scholarship, and his father, the mayor of a small Peruvian village. It is discovered that Ramon was shot down while carrying several kilograms of cocaine, which places this case under DEA jurisdiction.
Al Otro Lado (2005)
, 1h30Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about health care
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
, 1h28Directed by Mark Mylod
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Freeman, Michael Gambon, Gina La Piana, Charles Dance, Rhona Mitra
Ali G is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of a group of wannabe gangsters from Staines (a suburban town in north Surrey, to the west of London); their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv. Ali and Da West Staines Massiv are heartbroken to learn that their beloved local leisure centre (where they like to chill out and also where Ali teaches his "Keep it Real" classes) will be demolished by the local council. Ali and his friends decide to protest at this injustice. After he goes on a hunger strike and is spotted chained to some railings by the nefarious Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton, he is drawn into a world of seedy political intrigue, as the Deputy Prime Minister tries to use Ali as a tool to destroy the Prime Minister's credibility. Ali is put forward as a candidate to be the next MP for Staines in a crucial by-election and manages to alienate most who cross his path, including feminists and the elderly. During a debate with his rival candidate, Ali tries to insult his rival by claiming that he "sucked off a horse". Unknown to Ali and the public, it turns out that the rival did indeed do such a thing, and trying to explain it away, he claims when he was out hunting with a friend he slipped, and his mouth landed on a horse's penis, which due to the mating season was erect. Ali then wins.
Alcohol (1920)
Directed by Ewald André Dupont, Alfred Lind
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Wilhelm Diegelmann, Georg H. Schnell
A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism. He then kills another man whom he mistakenly believes is a rival.