Drug Overdose
"drug overdose" Movies and TV Shows
#1
What Lies Beneath
Synopsis:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
Starring:
Miranda Otto,
Harrison Ford,
Michelle Pfeiffer
Plot:
hitchcockian,
death by drowning,
small village,
pick up truck,
entity,
cold sweat,
secret,
ghost,
panic,
grave
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#2
Walking Tall
Synopsis:
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Starring:
Ashley Scott,
Neal McDonough,
Dwayne Johnson
Plot:
pole dancing,
stripper,
hixploitation,
weapon,
broken bone,
knee injury,
slot machine,
memory,
good memory,
childhood memory
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#3
Trainspotting
Synopsis:
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
Starring:
Ewen Bremner,
Ewan McGregor,
James Cosmo
Plot:
filthy toilet,
scotland,
drugs,
drug culture,
scottish,
1990s,
heroin,
voice over narration,
female nudity,
heroin addict
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#4
Traffic
Synopsis:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and i…
Starring:
Dennis Quaid,
Michael Douglas,
Don Cheadle
Plot:
mexico,
judge,
cocaine,
interlinked stories,
drug smuggling,
kidnapping,
drug cartel,
drug trafficking,
color filter,
drug war
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#5
Trading Places
Synopsis:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Dan Aykroyd
#6
Thirteen
Synopsis:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
Starring:
Vanessa Hudgens,
Holly Hunter,
Nikki Reed
#7
The Panic in Needle Park
Synopsis:
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
Starring:
Al Pacino,
Kitty Winn,
Richard Bright
Plot:
new york city,
heroin addict,
death of pet,
self destructiveness,
needle,
addiction,
prostitute,
prison,
heroin addiction,
drug
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#8
The Lady from Shanghai
Synopsis:
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Starring:
Ted de Corsia,
Orson Welles,
Erskine Sanford
#9
The English Patient
Synopsis:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Starring:
Colin Firth,
Willem Dafoe,
Ralph Fiennes
#10
The Doors
Synopsis:
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Starring:
Meg Ryan,
Val Kilmer,
Kyle MacLachlan
#11
The Crow
Synopsis:
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Starring:
Anna Levine,
Ernie Hudson,
Bai Ling
#12
The Basketball Diaries
Synopsis:
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg,
Michael Imperioli,
Ernie Hudson
#13
Runaway Jury
Synopsis:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Cliff Curtis,
Rachel Weisz
#14
Point Blank
Synopsis:
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Starring:
Keenan Wynn,
John Vernon,
Lee Marvin
Plot:
revenge,
money,
alcatraz,
hitman,
neo noir,
gangster,
criminal,
organized crime,
fugitive,
held at gunpoint
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#15
Payback
Synopsis:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Starring:
David Paymer,
Mel Gibson,
Maria Bello
Plot:
revenge,
anti hero,
neo noir,
money,
prostitute,
criminal,
tough guy,
greed,
based on novel,
payphone
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#16
L.A. Confidential
Synopsis:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Starring:
Kim Basinger,
Kevin Spacey,
Danny DeVito
Plot:
corruption,
neo noir,
1950s,
murder,
call girl,
police procedural,
police detective,
prostitute,
based on novel,
femme fatale
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#17
Kindergarten Cop
Synopsis:
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
Starring:
Cathy Moriarty,
Linda Hunt,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#18
High and Low
Synopsis:
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Starring:
Nobuo Nakamura,
Takashi Shimura,
Tatsuya Nakadai
#19
Get Carter
Synopsis:
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Starring:
Michael Caine,
Alun Armstrong,
Ian Hendry
#20
French Connection II
Synopsis:
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Starring:
Ed Lauter,
Cathleen Nesbitt,
Gene Hackman
Plot:
detective,
sequel to best picture winner,
organized crime,
drug traffic,
neo noir,
dock,
firearm,
revenge,
jogging,
french police
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