Drug films are films that depict either illicitdrug distribution or drug use, whether as a major theme, such as by centering the film arounddrug subculture or by depicting it in a few memorable scenes. Drug cinema ranges from grittysocial realism depictions to the utterlysurreal depictions inart film andexperimental film .
Some filmmakers create unabashedly pro- or anti-drug works, while others are less judgmental, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Drugs commonly shown in such films includecocaine ,heroin and otheropioids ,LSD ,cannabis (seestoner film ) andmethamphetamine .
There is extensive overlap withcrime films , which sometimes treat drugs asplot devices to keep the action moving.
The following is a partial list of drug films and the substances involved.
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Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit MDMA 10 to Midnight cannabis 21 Grams cocaine 21 Jump Street 22 Jump Street 24 Hour Party People heroin ,methadone , cannabis, and a mention of the large amount ofcrack cocaine inBarbados 25th Hour 28 Days 28 Days Later Valium 30 Minutes or Less The 40-Year-Old Virgin 50/50 The 51st State LSD , and MDMA54 quaaludes [ 1] 8 Mile 9 99 Francs A Street Cat Named Bob The Acid House poppers Across the Universe opiate , presumablymorphine [ 2] Acts of Worship Adam & Paul Adaptation ghost orchid powderAdulthood Adventureland Air America opium Airplane! amphetamine Alice in Acidland LSD Alice's Restaurant Alice Amanita muscaria Almost Famous Vicodin , LSD, and quaaludesAlpha Dog Altered States Amanita muscaria , LSD,DMT , andpsilocybin American Beauty American Cowslip American Gangster American Made American Psycho Halcion ,Xanax ,ecstasy , and cannabisAmerican Ultra American Virgin Amores Perros Analyze That Animal Kingdom The Anniversary Party Annie Hall Another Day in Paradise Adderall ,methamphetamine , and cocaine[ 1] Another Happy Day fentanyl Apocalypse Now Around the Fire Arrebato amyl nitrite Assassin of Youth [ 3] The Astrid Experience MDMA and unspecified drugsAt Close Range Atlantic City Attack the Block Attack of the Meth Gator Avenging Disco Godfather PCP Awakening of the Beast O Ritual dos Sádicos andO Despertar da Besta ) – LSDAwaydays Babel Bad Batch Bad Boys Bad Boys II Bad Lieutenant Bad Moms Bad Santa 2 Bad Teacher The Ballad of Little Jo Bang Boom Bang Bangkok Hilton Basic Instinct The Basketball Diaries [ 4] The Batman Batman Begins Be.Angeled [de ] The Beach The Beach Girls Beautiful Boy Beavis and Butt-Head Do America [ 2] Beerfest Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Before I Disappear Belly Berkeley in the Sixties [ 1] Berlin Calling Better Living Through Chemistry La Beuze Beyond the Valley of the Dolls The Beyond Within: The Rise of LSD The Fall of LSD Everyman The Big Bang The Big Boss The Big Chill The Big Easy The Big Lebowski Bigger Than Life Bird Black's Game Black Cat, White Cat Black Fear Black Snake Moan Black Swan Black Tar Heroin Blazing Saddles The Bling Ring Blood In Blood Out Blow [ 1] Bluehill Avenue Blue Sunshine Blue Velvet Blueberry Bobby Bodies, Rest & Motion Boiler Room Bonded by Blood Bongwater Boogie Nights Boondock Saints The Boost Borderland Borderline Born to Win The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down The Boys in the Band Boys Don't Cry The Boys in Company C [ 5] Boyhood Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy The Breakfast Club Brick Bride of Chucky Bright Lights, Big City Britannia Hospital Brokedown Palace Broken Broken Vessels A Bucket of Blood Buffalo Soldiers Bug A Bug and a Bag of Weed Bullet Bully The Business Caddyshack Candy Candy Stripe Nurses [ 6] [ 7] Carlito's Way: Rise to Power Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue Cash Crop Casino Cass Caveman Cecil B. Demented Chappaqua Charlie Bartlett Cheech & Chong 's various films feature drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, LSD, peyote, various pills and Ajax (comedy). They include:Chemical Hunger Cherry Falls Cherry, Harry & Raquel! Cherrybomb Children of Men Chinatown Connection Chinatown Nights Chinese Opium Den 1894 ) – opiumChopper Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo The City Addicted to Crystal Meth City by the Sea City Of God Clean and Sober [ 1] Clerks Clerks II Clerks III Climax (2018) Clockers A Clockwork Orange mescaline ), and Drencrom (adrenochrome )Club Paradise Clubbed to Death Clueless Cocaine Bear Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys 2 Cocaine Crabs from Outer Space Cocaine Fiends Cocaine: One Man's Seduction Cocksucker Blues Code of Silence Colegas Colors Conspiracy Theory Contact High Contraband Contracted Coogan's Bluff Cook County Pure White B*tch (2008) - crystal methCookers The Cool and the Crazy Coonskin Cop Out Corridors of Blood Country Man Crank Crooklyn toluene )Crossing the Bridge The Crow Cruel Intentions rosary necklace)Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus The Connection Dallas Buyers Club Danger Diabolik Darwin's Nightmare The Day of the Beast Daymaker Days of Wine and Roses (film) Dazed and Confused [ 2] Dead Presidents Dead Man Dead Man's Shoes Dead Ringers Deadly Addiction Death at a Funeral The Death of Richie Death Wish 2 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years [ 2] Deep Cover Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection Den Siste Revejakta The Departed Deprisa, Deprisa Detroit Rock City Dev.D Devil's Harvest The Devil's Rejects Dick Dirty Grandpa District 13 Domino Donkey Punch Don's Plum Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead The Doors Dope Sick Love Down in the Valley Dragon Eyes Dream with the Fishes Dreamseller Dredd The Drug Traffic Drugstore Cowboy [ 1] Dude, Where's My Car? Due Date The Dukes of Hazzard Drug Call Easy A Easy Rider [ 1] Easy Money Easy Money Easy Street Ecstasy ed! Ed Wood Eden Lake El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Elephant White Embrace of the Serpent Ayahuasca Emerald Forest Virola snuffEmpire Empire Records Enter the Dragon Enter the Void Datura , DMTEquilibrium Essex Boys Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Euro Trip absinthe ,amphetamines ,benzedrine Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Everywhere and Nowhere Evil Bong Evil Bong 2: King Bong The Expendables The Exorcist Extract Eyes Wide Shut speedballs Factory Girl The Falcon and the Snowman Fanboys Fandango Fast Times at Ridgemont High Faster Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas adrenochrome [ 8] Federal Fugitives Fifty Pills The Final Programme The Five Heartbeats Flashback Flirting with Disaster Foo-Foo Dust The Football Factory A Force of One For a Few Dollars More (1965) – tobacco, fictional white cigarette like weed (among the first display of drugs in cinema)Formula 51 Forrest Gump Freak Talks About Sex Freebird [ 9] Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare The French Connection French Connection II Fresh Friday Friday After Next Friday the 13th Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Friend of the World [ 10] Fringe Fritz the Cat From Hell From Paris with Love Gambling, Gods and LSD Gangster Exchange Garden State Georgia Get Him to the Greek Get Out and Get Under Get Rich or Die Tryin' Ghost in the Shell Gia Gift [ 2] The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) – cannabisGirl, Interrupted The Girl Next Door Go Go Ask Alice The Godfather The Godfather Part II The Godfather Part III Good Boys The Good Shepherd Good Time Goodfellas Goon Gorp Grandma's Boy Grass The Greatest The Green Butchers The Green Hornet Gretel & Hansel Amanita muscaria Gridlock'd Grimsby Grindhouse Groove The Groove Tube The Guard The Guest Gummo La Haine Hair Half Baked [ 1] Half Nelson Hall Pass Halloween The Hangover The Hangover 2 The Hangover 3 Hannibal Happy Death Day Hard Ticket to Hawaii Hardbodies Hare Rama Hare Krishna Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Harold & Kumar: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Harry Brown Harsh Times Harvard Man The Hasher's Delirium Le songe d'un garçon de café (1910) – absinthe[ 11] A Hatful of Rain Havoc Head [ 2] Head, Heart and Balls... or Why I Gave Up Smoking Pot [ 12] Head On Heavy Metal The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Hells Angels on Wheels Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea bath salts High Art [ 1] High School Confidential High School High Hobo with a Shotgun Hollywood High [ 1] Holy Rollers El hombre de los hongos The Mushroom Man (1976) – psychedelic mushroomsA Home at the End of the World Homegrown Honky La Horde Horrible Bosses Horrible Bosses 2 Hot Rod Hot Tub Time Machine How High Human Traffic Human Wreckage [ 1] Humboldt County Hunt to Kill Hurlyburly Hustle & Flow Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story ICE- Hawaii's Crystal Meth Epidemic I Come in Peace I Got the Hook Up I Love You, Alice B. Toklas I Love You Phillip Morris Idle Hands If Drugs Were Legal neurotransmitters in the brain but causes sudden heart attack)Igby Goes Down Ill manors Illtown [ 1] I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can In Bruges In Vanda's Room Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Ingrid Goes West Inherent Vice Inner Trial (2008) – LSD, cannabis, psychedelic mushroomsAn Innocent Man Into the Blue cocaine Iowa Irréversible Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy It's All Gone Pete Tong Bufo Alvarius or Colorado River toad from which the extract should not actually be licked as in the film, but smoked, due to bufo toxin which is incinerated upon smoking; can contain 5-meo-dmt and/or bufoteninK-PAX Ken Park The Kentucky Fried Movie Kid Cannabis Kids Kidulthood Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Kill Your Darlings Killer Bud Killing Zoe King of New York Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects Kiss of the Dragon Kneecap (film) Knocked Up Kush L.A. Confidential Lady Sings The Blues heroin Lammbock The Last American Virgin The Last Days of Disco [ 1] Last Life in the Universe The Last Minute Layer Cake Leaves of Grass Leaving Las Vegas Lenny Léon: The Professional Leprechaun in the Hood Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood Less than Zero Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 4 Licence to Kill The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Life or Meth - Hawaii's Youth Life Is Hot in Cracktown Light Sleeper Lights in the Dusk Limitless Liquid Sky Little Fish Little Miss Sunshine Little Shop of Horrors Live and Let Die Live Nude Girls Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Loft London London Boulevard Looking for Eric Lord of War brown-brown Lords of Dogtown The Loser Takes It All Lost in Translation The Lost Weekend Love Love. Blood. Kryptonite. Love Is the Drug Love Liza Low Down LSD, Trip or Trap Lucy nootropic CPH4MacArthur Park Machete Mafia! Magic Trip Magnolia Magnum Force Malibu Beach Malibu High Mallrats Mandy The Martian Midnight Delight The Man with the Golden Arm [ 1] Mantis in Lace Marfa Girl Maria Full of Grace Marihuana Maryjane Mask Max Payne McCabe & Mrs. Miller McQ MDMA [ 13] Mean Streets The Men Who Stare At Goats Menace II Society Miami Vice Middle Men Midnight Cowboy hallucinogenic pillsMidnight Express Midsommar A Midsummer Night's Rave Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Minority Report Missing Link Modern Times Mondo Mod Moneyz Monkey on My Back Monos More Dexamyl (amphetamine-barbiturate), LSD, and a homemade concoction made from cannabis (resin), benzedrine, "redibogaine ", nutmeg and banana peelMorfiy Morning Patrol Death Walks at Midnight Most High Mouth to Mouth Mr. Nice Munje! My Name Ain't Johnny My Own Private Idaho Mysterious Skin The Mystery of the Leaping Fish [ 14] The Naked Gun Naked Lunch A Name for Evil Narc [ 1] Narrenschwämme – von Pilzen, Gordon Wasson und anderen Sonderlingen Magic Mushrooms – From Mushrooms, Gordon Wasson and Other Eccentrics [The Mushroom Man ]) (1996) – magic mushrooms documentaryNational Lampoon's Animal House National Lampoon's Totally Baked: A Potumentary National Lampoon's Vacation Natural Born Killers [ 2] Navajeros Neighbors Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Never Die Alone New Jack City Next Day Air Next Friday Nice Dreams The Night Before A Nightmare on Drug Street A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Nil by Mouth The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Nine to Five Nixon Nobody No Country for Old Men Nordkraft North Dallas Forty The Northman Amanita muscaria Notorious Nowhere O On the Road Once Upon a Time in America Once Upon a Time in Hollywood One False Move One Perfect Day Ong-Bak The Opium Eater Orange County The Other Guys Over The Edge Out of the Blue Outland Outside Providence Oxy-morons [ 15] The Pace That Kills Cocaine Fiends ) (1935) – cocainePaid in Full Pain & Gain The Palermo Connection The Panic in Needle Park Pandemic in a Pandemic Papillon Parked Party Monster Pathology PCU [ 1] Perfect High Performance [ 2] Permanent Midnight [ 1] Photographing Fairies Pimp Pineapple Express Piñero Pink Cadillac Pink Flamingos Pink Floyd The Wall Pirates of Silicon Valley The Place Beyond the Pines Platoon Platoon Leader Playing God Poltergeist Polvere Portrait of a Lady on Fire Flying ointment Possession Pot Zombies Prayer of the Rollerboys Prince of the City The Principles of Lust The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Private Parts Project X Protégé Prozac Nation [ 1] Psych-Out Puddle Cruiser Puff, Puff, Pass Pulp Fiction [ 8] Punisher: War Zone Pure Rachel Getting Married Rambo: Last Blood Flunitrazepam , valium pillsRapture-Palooza Rave - The Ultimate Party Ray Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault Red Angel (Movie) Akai tenshi (1966) – morphineReefer Madness [ 8] Reefer Madness Reeker Amants réguliers, Les Reindeer Spotting – Escape from Santaland Remember the Daze Reno 911!: Miami Rent Repo! The Genetic Opera Repo Man Requiem for a Dream Return to Paradise Revenge of the Nerds Riding the Bullet Rich Kids Righteous Kill Riot on Sunset Strip Rise of the Footsoldier Rise of the Planet of the Apes Risky Business RoboCop RoboCop 2 RocknRolla Rockers Rolling Rolling Kansas Romeo + Juliet The Rose The Royal Tenenbaums Rube in an Opium Joint The Rules of Attraction The Rum Diary Run! Bitch Run! The Runaways Running with Scissors Rush The Salton Sea Sample People Sausage Party Savage Beach Savages Saving Grace A Scanner Darkly Scarface Scary Movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Scrooged Secrets of Chinatown The Serpent and the Rainbow The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Sex and the City Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Sexy Bitches The Sexy Killer Shank She Shoulda Said 'No'! Sherrybaby Shot List Shrink Shrooms Siberia Sid and Nancy [ 2] The Skeleton Twins Skidoo Slackers SLC Punk! Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers Slim Susie Smiley Face Smoked. The Movie [ 16] Smokin' Aces The Social Network Something Weird Sorted Sorry to Bother You Soul Plane Southwest Nine Spring Break Spring Breakers Spun [ 8] Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja Squeeze Stakeout on Dope Street Stark Raving Mad Starsky & Hutch State Property Steal This Movie Steppenwolf Steve-O: Demise And Rise Stoned [ 8] The Stoned Age Stoned: In The Beginning Strange Days Strange Wilderness Streets of Blood Stripes [ 17] Stuck in Love " (2012)- cannabis, cocaineThe Student Nurses [ 18] The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD Sugarhouse Summer of Sam Sunset Strip Super Fly Super High Me Super Troopers Superbad Surfer, Dude S.W.A.T.: Firefight Sweet Bird of Youth Sweet Nothing Synanon Taking Off Taking Woodstock Taxi 3 Ted Ted 2 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Terminal Bliss [ 19] [ 20] Terrifier 2 Thank You for Smoking That Was Then... 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