Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "drug-culture"

1. Trainspotting (1996)

R | 93 min | Drama

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

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd

Votes: 724,937 | Gross: $16.50M

2. The Doors (1991)

R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley

Votes: 98,977 | Gross: $35.18M

3. Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

Director: Frank Pavich | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss

Votes: 27,501 | Gross: $0.65M

4. Altered States (1980)

R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

Votes: 38,602 | Gross: $19.85M

5. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

X | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs, and sleaze.

Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar

Votes: 12,019 | Gross: $2.66M

6. How High (2001)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.

Director: Jesse Dylan | Stars: Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatundé, Mike Epps

Votes: 61,725 | Gross: $31.16M

7. Gonzo (2008)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo, David Carlo

Votes: 8,499 | Gross: $1.25M

8. Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (2013)

Not Rated | 64 min | Animation, Comedy

Jay and Silent Bob hit the lottery jackpot, and use their cash windfall to become crime-fighting superheroes.

Director: Steve Stark | Stars: Marc Bernardin, Ming Chen, Matt Cohen, Kevin Conroy

Votes: 2,266

9. Fathers & Sons (1992)

R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller

A father/widower and a teenage son live in a seaside town with a serial killer. The son starts hanging out with girls and drug dealers.

Director: Paul Mones | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Famke Janssen, Mitchell Marchand

Votes: 889

10. Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland (2010)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary

This documentary tells the story of Jani, a 19-year-old drug addict living on social welfare among with his friends. Tired of his life in a remote city in Rovaniemi, he decides to travel by... See full summary »

Director: Joonas Neuvonen | Star: Jani Raappana

Votes: 3,625

11. Rude Awakening (1989)

R | 100 min | Comedy

In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.

Directors: David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo | Stars: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine

Votes: 1,478 | Gross: $3.17M

12. The Gingerweed Man (2021)

49 min | Comedy

The Gingerweed Man runs a successful dispensary delivery service, catering to a wide array of wacky clientele. But when he gets charged with protecting little Baby Buddy, a mysterious super... See full summary »

Director: Brooks Davis | Stars: Eli Jane, Roy Abramsohn, Kelly Bunasawa, Kali Cook

Votes: 218

13. Alice in Acidland (1969)

Unrated | 55 min | Drama

College students Alice, who lives with her widower father, and nymphomaniac Kathy are invited to a pool party by their lesbian French teacher Frieda. Alice gets drunk and uses LSD, then ... See full summary »

Director: Donn Greer | Stars: Julia Blackburn, Roger Gentry, Donn Greer, Sheri Jackson

Votes: 678

14. Totally Baked (2007)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Meet Dave Bertman, a tightly wound 37 year-old father of one. Bertman's "higher" education begins when medical marijuana activists wielding "loaded" weapons interrupt a planned reunion ... See full summary »

Director: Lee Abbott | Stars: John Oates, Thomas Lyons, Craig Shoemaker, Heather Sossaman

Votes: 888

15. Footsteps (2006)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Thriller

A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass.

Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Nicholas Bool, Mads Koudal, Jared Morgan, Solitaire Mouneimne

Votes: 337

16. The Big Cube (1968)

PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.

Director: Tito Davison | Stars: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 836

17. Bath Salt Zombies (2013)

Not Rated | 70 min | Horror

In New York City, potent strands of bath salts have surfaced and have attracted the most devoted bath salt junkies. A young aspiring chemist has developed an even stronger batch... but something has gone horribly wrong.

Director: Dustin Mills | Stars: Brandon Salkil, Erin R. Ryan, Ethan Holey, Bella Demente

Votes: 361

18. Toad Road (2012)

Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A portrait of contemporary youth culture, where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.

Director: Jason Banker | Stars: James Davidson, Sara Anne Jones, Whitleigh Higuera, Jamie Siebold

Votes: 1,441

19. Between Something & Nothing (2008)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

Joe,a freshman art school student, befriends Jennifer and explores his darker side by pursuing a local hustler.

Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Tim Swain, Gil Bar-Sela, Amy Dellagiarino, Nick Stern

Votes: 356

20. The Good Humor Man (2005)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

A mischievous high school sophomore faces a conflict of conscience vs. character when his best friend becomes linked to the death of a youth from another clique in suburban Middle America circa '76.

Director: Tenney Fairchild | Stars: Nathan Stevens, Cameron Richardson, Jorge Garcia, Jason Segel

Votes: 662

21. Unkissed Bride (1966)

82 min | Comedy

A young couple's honeymoon is disrupted by the groom's childhood obsession with Mother Goose. Unable to consummate the marriage, they head off to the psychiatrist, where the fun really begins (LSD as a treatment!?!).

Director: Jack H. Harris | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Anne Helm, Henny Youngman, Fawn Silver

Votes: 93

22. Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography

The outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz | Stars: Jack Wrangler, Margaret Whiting, Robert Alvarez, Brooks Ashmanskas

Votes: 598

23. Lemonheads (2020)

91 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Blinded by the urgency of addiction, two junkies embark on a desperate odyssey to get their next fix.

Directors: Ryder Doupe, Dawson Doupé, Todd Tapper | Stars: George Jonson, Samuel Wyatt, Jeffery Dean, William Shockley

Votes: 265

24. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

25. Smoke and Flesh (1968)

70 min | Drama

Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.

Director: Joseph Mangine | Stars: Richard Howell, Ed Sansone, Lee Parker, Joel Bently

Votes: 204

26. Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999)

R | 89 min | Drama

Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his ... See full summary »

Director: John-Luke Montias | Stars: John-Luke Montias, Susan Mitchell, Vincent Vega, Norman Middleton

Votes: 393

27. FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2002)

92 min | Documentary

Dean Wilson, a drug user and safety advocate, and Ann Livingston, a community organizer driven by her religious convictions, partner together to establish North America's first safe injection site and advocate for reforms.

Director: Nettie Wild | Stars: Ann Livingston, Phillip Owen, Dean Wilson

Votes: 102

28. Nowhere Nevada (2013)

100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Unflinching expose of the underground music and drug scene in Northern Nevada follows street level hustler and exotic dancer as they steal both money and drugs and hit the road in this musically powered thrill ride across the Silver State.

Director: David Richards | Stars: Jef Derderian, Liz Cole, Mary Bennett, Andy Luna

Votes: 37

29. Far Out!

Comedy | Announced

Slip down the rabbit hole of 1980 with smart, sexy, young singer, Carey Nation as she goes from the reception desk at a Sunset Plaza talent agency to the underbelly of L.A. Rock-N-Roll. Her... See full summary »

30. Drugs in Our Culture (1968 TV Movie)

29 min | Documentary

A look at the use of legal and illegal drugs in American culture and the reasons why such use has exploded in recent years. Drug experts, professors, law-enforcement personnel and young people are interviewed.

Director: Joanne M. Mock | Stars: Mary Costa, James Fadiman, Joel Fort, Don McCune

31. Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation (2011 TV Movie)

84 min | Documentary, Music

A look at the rise of crack cocaine in urban America in the 1980s and it's influence on popular culture, especially in hip-hop music.

Directors: Richard Lowe, Martin Torgoff | Stars: Michelle Alexander, B-Real, Mary Barr, Todd Boyd

Votes: 200

32. Youth on the March (2017)

82 min | Drama

A teenage boy stoner lives with his single mother.

Director: Mike Retter | Stars: Ben Ryan, Stefanie Rossi, Jessica Burgess, Marc Clement

Votes: 9

33. The Three Phases of Fern (2023)

32 min | Short, Drama

A shy teen becomes involved in his high school's drug subculture in 1980s Long Island.

Director: Bill Blaney | Stars: Tony DeRiso, Jon Howard, Richard Blaney, Michelle Cain

34. They Say You Can't Remember Your Dreams

Documentary | Pre-production

Five over fifty reflect on Marijuana and how it changed their lives and aided in shaping their personalities. From it's hazy start when consumption once taboo, has now gone mainstream.

Directors: Jared Brandon-Flande, John Webb | Star: Paul Block

35. Coney Island (2005)

7 min | Short, Comedy

'Coney Island' is a surrealist performative experimental documentary exploring the gap between the nostalgic mythical view of Coney Island and the modern reality of the location. Inspired ... See full summary »

Director: Demi Pietchell | Stars: Lasse Bergfeld, Jeff Gray, Jeffrey Gray, Daniel J. Indiviglio

Votes: 10

36. No One Saw a Thing (2019–2021)
Episode: A Pound of Flesh (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime

New clues bring hope for closure. Sheriff Espey is now confident that Branson Perry was a victim of homicide due to drug world connections, but will his evidence be enough to file charges? ... See full summary »

Director: Avi Belkin | Stars: David Baird, Steve Booher, Tom Carneal, Daniel Compo

Votes: 19

37. Supreme Team (2022– )
Episode: The Foundation (2022)

Documentary, Crime

Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller grew up in the middle-class section of South Jamaica, Queens. But a traumatic childhood experience and newfound role models would pave the way for the forming of the Supreme Team.

Directors: Nas, Peter J. Scalettar | Stars: LL Cool J, Kenneth McGriff, Gerald 'Prince' Miller, Nas

Votes: 19

38. Supreme Team (2022– )
Episode: War & Peace (2022)

Documentary, Crime

The Supreme Team was on top of the world: making money hand over fist as the crack epidemic swept the country. But when an NYPD officer was murdered in South Jamaica, the heavy hand of the law came down hard and fast.

Directors: Nas, Peter J. Scalettar | Stars: Irv Gotti, LL Cool J, Kenneth McGriff, Gerald 'Prince' Miller

Votes: 15

39. Supreme Team (2022– )
Episode: Truth & Consequences (2022)

Documentary, Crime

An opportunity to rebrand himself as movie and music producer gives Supreme a chance to go legit. While in prison, Prince plans for his future as a re-assessment of crack sentencing provides a glimmer of hope for his release.

Directors: Nas, Peter J. Scalettar | Stars: 50 Cent, Ashanti, Irv Gotti, LL Cool J

Votes: 12