Movies about alcoholics

Movies about alcoholics
List of the best films about alcoholics according to visitors: Flight, Another Round, Leaving Las Vegas, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Basketball Diaries, The Hollow Point, Hacksaw Ridge, About Businessman Foma, The Lost Weekend, The Way Back.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:18

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden, Netherlands

Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:52

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:06

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography, sport
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:42

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

A retired lawman works with a new sheriff when a botched Mexican drug deal and a vicious hit man threaten their border town.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:29

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia

    Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada

    A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.

    Mark
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia

    Nadya and Valya, young women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, without faith and hope for the best, sisters, of whom, ironically, there are only two left. Will they be able to break out of their "Chekhovian" stupor and again begin to feel, breathe, live and love?

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:40

    Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding by the sea... but Natasha's stepfather procured a different scenario. Rough official of the city administration considers the celebration as a springboard for their careers, and seeks to arrange all the «how to». Young awaits an unforgettable evening in the restaurant «Golden» with a complete set of the tedious rites. Not fight, the guys decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative relatives. But by accident both celebration come together.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryGermany, USA, Romania

    Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland, Hungary
    Duration01:50

    A shocking story about addiction and attempts to overcome it. The script is based on Jerzy Plich’s excellent novel “The Mighty Angel” (alternative title: "The Strong Angel Inn"). Jerzy (Robert Więckiewicz) is a writer and a heavy drinker. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat his addiction. He falls in love with a young girl (Julia Kijowska) and finally feels that he has got the person and the reason to live for. But soon he yields to his addiction.

    Genredrama
    Duration01:42

    The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

      The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Belgium

      An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryNorway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
      Duration01:40

      Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:30

      A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:47

      Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:05

      Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:31

      A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

        A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:00

          Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, fantasy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

            Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

            Markimdb: 4.5
            Genrecomedy, music
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:39

            For a successful DPS officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrecomedy, adventure, music
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:53

            Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the monumental task of bringing his idol, out of control rock star Aldous Snow, back to LA for his comeback show.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan
            Duration01:49

            Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

            Markimdb: 8.2
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:34

            Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrecomedy
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:10

            A film about the hard fate of a decommissioned pilot, who not lost the ability to fly, as well as about male solidarity, cemented by national drinking traditions, about two truths - for male and for female, and about the love that will reconcile everyone.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

            A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
            Duration01:33

            A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography
            CountryFrance, USA
            Duration01:50

            On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

            Markimdb: 2.5
            Genrecomedy
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:29

            Igor, a furniture store manager, tries to figure out what happened during the corporate event which resulted his store to be completely destroyed.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:30

            A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, crime, biography
            CountryGermany, France
            Duration01:04

            A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama
            CountryDenmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom
            Duration01:33

            Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrecomedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:27

            Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genremelodrama, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:59

            A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

            Markimdb: 8.2
            Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration03:00

              A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genredrama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:42

              Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrecomedy
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:33

              Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.

              Markimdb: 4
              Genrecomedy
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:22

              Claire is about to get married and she goes to Las Vegas with her sister and two friends for her bachelorette party. Things quickly spiral out of control.

              Markimdb: 5.1
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:00

              Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
              CountryCanada, United Kingdom
              Duration01:55

              After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.




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