Tag Archives: alcoholism

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he’s ...

A shocking story about addiction and attempts to overcome it. The script is based on Jerzy Plich’s excellent novel “The Mighty Angel” ...

The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing ...

A Royal Hangover is a feature length documentary about the ambivalent alcohol culture of Britain. Think Bowling For Columbine, only with alcohol ...

Tobias and Flasche are childhood friends. However, their alcoholic friendship is doing more harm than good to Tobias, who realizes he should ...

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn ...

Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn’t have the first intention of changing his way ...

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey ...

An unknown assailant spikes a family’s Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and ...

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family ...

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm ...

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.

The documentary explores the enigmatic life and music of Harry Nilsson in an attempt to answer the question, “Who is Harry Nilsson?” ...

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920’s France and Spain.

Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her ...

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court’s findings were inconclusive and she was ...

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of ...

A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation ...

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq – anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with ...

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing on ...

Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying ...

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner ...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these ...

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Sutter, a popular party animal unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger’s lawn. As Sutter deals with the ...

A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard ...

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that ...

A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

The story of Elton John’s life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical ...