Movies: Alcoholism

When a girl makes a drunk decision to break up with her boyfriend for another man. She pretends that nothing ever happened....

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A time-bending superhero is ambushed by his friends who claim he has no superpowers, but rather is a blackout drunk....

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back....

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional setting, the film examines the insecurities and inner motivations that cause the protagonist to lean on ...

Bornholm island in 1880, where quarry worker Johan Jönsson lives a miserable life with his wife and children. He hopes to escape his poverty by winning a lottery ticket. But it doesn't bring him any luck. Instead of spending his little money on a doc...

Oru Thulli Thaappa is a Malayalam Language movie directed by Vivek Ramachandran. It was not released in theaters and opted for direct digital release via OTT platforms....

With senior year coming to a close and graduation on the horizon, a group of teens head out for one final night as high schoolers....

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose p...

The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and...

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An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner....

After a raucous, reckless night of partying, an inebriated teenager finds a mysterious red potion left behind on his counter, altering his destiny....

As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernization, the Widow Karolina wishes she had become a mother. As difficult as things are for her, they are nonetheless much more difficult for her more-conse...

When Cecilia visits her parents for Christmas, they soon realize she has changed a lot since she moved out....

An alcoholic priest receives confessions online throughout the eternal quarantine....

How close to the abyss would you go to save another person? New mother Becky is awakened at close to midnight by Justine, who is on the brink of self-destruction. In order to reach Justine, Becky must open her own padlocked past and finds the imps in...

David Vandenbrink seems like a healthy 21-year-old, bright and articulate young man. There is little to suggest that while in his mother's womb, he suffered permanent brain damage. His condition, fetal alcohol syndrome (F.A.S.), went undiagnosed for ...

Adrian Chiles takes a long hard look at his own love of boozing. He wants to find out why he and many others don't think they are addicted to alcohol, despite finding it almost impossible to enjoy life without it....

The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these. This documentary focuses on the lives of five women at various ...