Heroin Movies

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

This unforgettable anti-drug yarn, inspired by the educational films screened in high school health class, was made by Smith and Matt Groening in...

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate...

After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back...

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.

A Roman musician is attracted to a girl who is addicted to heroin. After providing some help, he soon becomes addicted himself.

Hitman Lop meets a woman who sells life insurance he has been hired to kill and decides to end his career as a killer for hire. But criminals from...

Educational film about drug addiction.

A scare film used for police training, reusing footage from The Narcotics Story (1958) with new narration.

A priest sheds his habit, tunes in, turns on and drops out for a road trip that will change his life and bring him sorrow. Filmed in 1971 but not...

Documentary on the penetration of drugs in Milan in the 70s. Filomena is only 24 years old and recounts with a lucidity that takes her breath away...

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the...

An intimate and uncompromising portrayal, filmed over a year, of the day to day struggles of a new generation of children addicted to heroin, trying...

This color educational movie “Narcosis” is a “scare film” about the realities of heroin and drug addiction The title...

A warm story about the fight for a decent life. Deals with teenagers having problems with alcohol and drugs.

Cal Thacker, a would-be artist, shares his slum living quarters with Mike Rubel, a pusher who exists in a private drug-centered world, and Richard...