Movies: Junkie

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall....

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal....

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered ma...

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane....

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist....

A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix"....

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over....

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal ...

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son....

Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Cente...

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a rav...

A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California....

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors...

After finally breaking up with his drug-addicted lover, Trevor begins a new romance that unexpectedly complicates his other relationships....

Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live....

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig....

A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer....

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold....

A struggling waitress, straddling the edge of drug addiction, gets a reality call when the daughter that she gave up at birth reappears....

Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin addiction....