Movies about alcoholics

Movies about alcoholics
List of the best films about alcoholics according to visitors: Leaving Las Vegas, The Hollow Point, The Basketball Diaries, Another Round, The Golden Glove, Flight, When a Man Loves a Woman, Irrational Man, Hacksaw Ridge, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
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: 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: 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: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden, Netherlands

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

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: 7.3
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: 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: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

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: 6.8
    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: 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: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his plans of restoration unraveling as his own life becomes contaminated with corruption, scandal and deceit.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, western, crime
    CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:56

    Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration02:26

      Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUSA

      A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration03:21

        Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA

        The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        When Sophie's son, Garrett, develops a mysterious illness, she embarks on a search for answers. This leads her into the controversial world of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) where a sociopolitical battle rages between organic farmers and big biotech corporations. As her desperation grows, so too does her quest for knowledge. And the deeper she goes, a more heightened sense of danger develops that preys on her state of mind, as she attempts to discover the root cause of her son's illness.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, China, Sweden, Japan
        Duration02:36

          Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genredrama, adventure, family, detective
          CountryCanada, USA

          Sent to spend the summer with their uncle on a remote island, young brothers Andy and Mark learn that their eccentric grandfather once owned the island, but vanished without a trace…taking with him the secret to a vast fortune. Delving into the mysterious past of the island, the brothers discover that their grandfather designed a complex treasure hunt, a hunt that could lead to unimaginable wealth and heal their broken family – if they can find it in time. Sinister forces also search for the money and will stop at nothing to keep the boys from their quest. As the adventure unfolds, the boys learn that the bonds of family are the most valuable riches of all, and that some family secrets can’t stay buried forever.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:21

          Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          A man forced to confront his past when he and his girlfriend end up entangled in a web of lies.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration01:29

          A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.

          Markimdb: 3.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          A group of actors gather in a remote Northeastern town to rehearse for a mysterious stage production, only to be plunged into a hellish world where their real lives mirror the grisly story of the play.

          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: 4.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryItaly, USA
          Duration02:06

          A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrecomedy, drama, sport
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:00

          The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:35

          A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          A recovering alcoholic and jazz pianist in NYC confronts his acerbic family during their annual Fourth of July vacation.

          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: 5.1
          Genrehorror, western
          CountryUSA

          An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          A carnival operator (Humphrey Bogart) tries to end his sister's fling with a rookie lion tamer (Eddie Albert).

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrethriller, crime
          CountryCanada, USA

          Four assassins led by Baron, pose as Secret Service agents to commandeer the house of war-widow ELLEN. Her home is a prime sniper position for their plan to assassinate the President on his visit to the small town of Suddenly. The men fool the local cops except for one, TODD. A washed-up former war hero and deputy who is now the town drunk, Todd served with Ellen’s deceased husband and has developed romantic feelings for her over the years. But she rebuffs his advances. Todd visits the house and is immediately suspicious of Baron, but no one will listen to the ravings of a drunk. Once Todd realizes what is going on, he manages to kill one of Baron’s crew, but is captured. Now he and Ellen must find a way to stop Baron and his men before they kill the President.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
          Duration01:58

          After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two grow closer, and her daughters increasingly rely on Denny, Terry starts to have reservations about where their relationship is headed.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.




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