Best Drug Themed Movies

[Urban Ranger]

Brazil

[Kingof the Apes]

How about Harold and Kumar go to White Castle?

[C0ckney]

human traffic: brilliant film about clubbing culture in the late 90s, one of my favs, it captures the vibe pretty well and is (crucially) believable. it also contains the truest moment ever in cinema, the 'safe as f*ck' conversation

go: like an american human traffic, but nowhere near as good, because of staged club scenes and the fact the events are tied into some big arsed story, still not a bad film though

football factory: a great film, mostly about football violence (and not one to watch just before a night out on the piss!), but there's a fair bit about drugs in the story

honourable mentions go to - 24 hour party people (which tbh isn't that good), kevin and perry go large (if only for the mint soundtrack) and 51st state (samuel l jackson and robert carlisle are great together)

[dannubis]

Originally posted by Asher
Why has no one mentioned Requiem for a Dream...

OMG...

I agree with Asher

never thought i would live to see this day

[molly bloom]

The Lost Weekend- Ray Milland climbs into and out of and back into the bottle.

Reefer Madness (self-explanatory):

Dr Carroll (Josef Forte), a high-school principal, warns a group of parents against the dangers of marijuana. He illustrates his point by telling the story of Bill (Kenneth Craig) and Mary (Dorothy Short), two of his students whose lives were destroyed by the drug. A crime ring operated within their town, which hooked teenagers on marijuana by supplying free reefers at parties given at an apartment owned by Mae (Thelma White) and Jack (Carleton Young).These parties were attended by Ralph (Dave O'Brien), an older student attracted to Mary, and Blanche (Lillian Miles), one of the crime gang who was interested in Bill. One day Mary's younger brother, Jimmy (Warren McCullum), took Bill with him to Mae's apartment, where Blanche quickly hooked him on the drug. Jimmy went driving while high, and hit and killed a pedestrian. Bill began an affair with Blanche. Mary went to Mae's apartment looking for Jimmy, and accepted a reefer from Ralph, who then tried to seduce her. Bill came out of the bedroom, and hallucinated that Mary was stripping for Ralph. He attacked Ralph, and as the two were fighting, Jack tried to break it up by hitting Bill with the butt of his gun. The gun went off, and Mary was killed. Jack made Bill believe he had killed Mary. At Bill's trial, Dr Carroll testified that he knew all of Bill's behaviour was due to his use of marijuana. Jack and Mae kept Ralph at Mae's apartment so he wouldn't tell the police what really happened. Ralph went insane through his drug use and beat Jack to death. The police arrested Ralph, Mae and Blanche. Mae talked, and the criminal gang was rounded up. Blanche explained that Bill was innocent, and he was released. Ralph was put in an asylum. Blanche committed suicide.

http://www.reefer-madness-movie.com/

It's a hoot.


Roger Corman's 'The Trip'- it's far out and groovy.


And of course 'The Third Man'- bootleg penicillin.

[Az]

Not clearly a drug themed movie, but "Return to Paradise" is a movie I really like.

[monolith94]

Originally posted by MosesPresley

I haven't seen a movie that really captures the nature of an hallucinogenic trip. A couple of scenes in The Doors and Fear and Loathing came close.

SLC Punk! comes as close as I've seen a movie come to it.

[rah]

Fantasia

[JohnT]

The Boost, starring James Woods and that crazy chick... uh, shiite. Her name is forgetting me.. Sean Young! That's it. Man and wife go to LA, discover cocaine, she loses baby, he loses future. Pretty grim stuff, even if shot in 80s MTV-style.

Traffic.

[molly bloom]

And who could forget 'Scarface' ?


Anyone for a mountain of snow ?


Oh and another Pacino drug fest- 'Carlito's Way' .

Not to mention: 'Superfly'. Aaahh, the morally superior 70s, when drug dealers could be heroes.

[Ramo]

Definitely Fear and Loathing

[Ming]

Originally posted by rah
Fantasia

In our college film class, we were warned that if the smoke got too bad during the showing of the movie, he would fail us all

Easy Rider was one of the first real drug movies. Two scenes really stand out... the sitting around the camp fire getting stoned, and the drug trip in the Cemetary.

And yeah... Fear and Loathing has to rank up there as well.

[DeathByTheSword]

in order:

trainspotting
fear and loathing
lock stock and two smoking barrels
51st state
traffic
blow
high times

[MosesPresley]

The French Connection.

I love Gene Hackman in almost everything he does, especially Unforgiven and The Conversation, but why on earth did he get best actor for this film? His character seems pretty one dimensional. Wearing that stupid hat while being undercover seemed to make him stand out like a sore thumb. The reason I say he was one dimensional is because he starts off angry, explodes with anger a few times and ends up angry. WTF? I guess the academy was just recognizing a major new talent.

[rah]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High