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Artistic lovers, Viv and Jay, have become trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. But when Viv’s wealthy parents hire an interventionist to take Viv to rehab, the couple decides to set off on their own with the help of a suboxone prescription... all they have to do is survive a harrowing night through drug withdrawal.

Based on the writings of David Chapman and Jimmy Brennan, Withdrawal is about Jimmy, a heroin user in a Dublin psychiatric hospital. His thoughts and observations dominate, his subjective voice-over speculating on the lives of his companions. Jimmy leaves the hospital, returning to the city to reconcile with his loved ones, but his withdrawal leads ultimately to a dead end.

A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go? In the countryside on a sunny day a family group repeatedly walk towards the camera. The ‘home movie’ is looped and the footage is digitally manipulated so that each time they pass, the family members steadily disappear, the landscape also appearing to 'withdraw'.

When a miracle drug is pulled from shelves due to devastating side effects, society spirals into chaos. Amid the unrest, Old Hippie Peat reconnects with his survivalist son as they navigate a treacherous escape from the city. Can they survive the turmoil?

Withdrawl is a surreal drama that tells the story of David, a young gay man who locks himself in his apartment after his boyfriend breaks up with him due to his long-term addiction to prescription pain killers. As David suffers through his isolation with his stuffed squirrel Alvober as his only companion, he falls deep into his mind and unlocks the secret to his addiction.

An older man battling addiction attempts to make sense of his life.

2 co-workers Joke about robbing a bank until one actually does it and coerces the other as his accomplice.

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Maks, an average resident of the "sovok" area, who together with his childhood friend Zheka goes to one of the many entrances to help buddy inject a dose of heroin. The tension of fear of being noticed leads to Maks losing the syringe, after which Zheka mysteriously disappears. The usual "panelka" entrance is more and more like the other side of hell, because it turns out that getting out of it is not easy. In search of a friend, the fear inside Maks grows as he grows around paranormal phenomena and eventually leads him to his own heroin injection. Then only God.

Shirin, a painting student who is living in dormitory, is graduated now. according to her father's insist; she has to go back to her hometown, but that's impossible, because she has a very big problem...

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The Last Withdrawal follows Tom, the ruthless leader of a gang of bank robbers, as he plans their biggest heist yet, the final job that will set them up for life. Alongside his crew Leander, Leo and Magnus, the gang prepares to rob a high security bank. However, the bank has been tracking them for years and hires a deadly hitman, Edvart, to take them down before they can complete the job. As the heist draws closer, tensions rise within the group and with Edvart closing in, the gang is pushed to their limits. With betrayal, danger, and greed threatening to tear them apart, Tom must navigate a deadly game of survival, wondering if they can pull off the perfect heist.

After suffering a career-ending injury, a high-school tennis prodigy spirals into a deep depression associated with losing his sport and identity, and starts considering suicide.

A teenager abstains from social media for four days to cure himself of his addiction.

Grief is a walk alone down an unknown path, we all wander differently. When addict Bobby Burns is forced to return to his remote family cottage after the death of his mother, he must face his loss head-on, and reconnect with his past.

A faintly interwoven story, of a boy who wrote poetry beneath the shadows of a sleepless city, of an old man who lives simply to light fireworks and calling out to another world far beyond, of a young teacher who once believed, with all her heart, that art could reshape the world and a young woman who was at once, a dream, a hope, and a wound. Their conversation will carry through the night in an empty bar, clinging to what’s left of themselves and trying to preserve their identities in a world where nothing is certain, except change.

If you look into the entrance of one of the huge caves on the Korean island of Jeju, it looks like a camera lens. If you walk into the cave, it looks like a screen, a rectangle showing clouds and white light, just like a film. Director Kim Minjung delves into the bloody history of Jeju, where tens of thousands were killed in a massacre in 1948. The camera follows the traces in the landscape, sometimes transformed by a strident, distance-creating red light, accompanied by a commentary by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Film as a means to address history and its taboos.

A female vampire is inspired to kick blood and become human again when she inadvertently helps a charming alcoholic become clean. The only problem is, withdrawal could kill her.

Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts.

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.

In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.

Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.

A young woman’s carefully managed routine spirals out of control when she runs out of antipsychotics.

Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

An internal struggle ensues when a young man is confronted with the choice between his girl and his smokes.

Einar is an addict who has just abandoned his wife and five-year-old daughter. While struggling to detox at his lodge near the ocean, Einar is harassed by a stranger.

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.

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 heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).

A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.

Dealing with his pill addiction, Jinn suffers from vivid nightmares, featuring a monster that plagues his everyday life.

This color educational movie “Narcosis” is a “scare film” about the realities of heroin and drug addiction The title narcosis refers to a state of stupor, drowsiness, or unconsciousness produced by drugs. According to a card at 1:50, actual addicts appear in the film.