Drama films about addiction recovery

ADDicted

Self-Discovery • Academic Integrity • University • Pressure • Conflicted • Hopeful

2017 • Movie

Smashed

Supportive Friend • Personal Recovery • Los Angeles • Slice-Of-Life • Reconciliation Possibility • Positive Reviews

2012 • Movie • US

Redemption

Redemption Quest • Young Actor • Career Downfall • Hollywood • Personal Redemption

2003 • Movie • US

Justine

Probation Officer • Self-Acceptance • Contemporary • Doctor • Urban Environment

2020 • Movie

Crackheads

Psychologist • Disastrous Ride • Life-Changing • Tim Tsiklauri (Director) • Personal Crises • Hilarious

2013 • Movie • NZ

9-tas Zingsnis

Addict • Urban • Domestic • Contemporary • Music-Focused • Meditative

2022 • Movie

Walk the Walk

1970S America • Alcoholism • Young Black Man • Personal Redemption • Dark • Theological Student

1970 • Movie • US

Broke

Redemptive • Fan • Queensland • Australia • Redemption

2016 • Movie • AU

Love Addict

Marie-Zoé • Gabriel • Love Addiction • Romantic Comedy Fans • Personal Growth • Low-Budget

2018 • Movie • FR

Ecstasy

Redemptive • Moral Struggle • Young Students • Drama • Anxious • Intense

2011 • Movie • CA, US

Ben Is Back

Trust • Reconciliation • Drug Dealer • Emotional • Ben Is Back • Adults

2018 • Movie • US

28 Days

Car Accident • Resistant Gwen • Rehab Facility • Sobriety • $37 Million Us • Personal Growth

2000 • Movie • US

Beautiful Boy

Los Angeles • Drug Addict • Family • Intimate • Realistic

2018 • Movie • US

Untogether

Rising Author • Writer • Career Revival • Ben Mendelsohn • Recovery

2019 • Movie • US

Jack Jonah

Opioid Epidemic • Addiction Victims • Grief Processing • Drug Overdose • Melancholic • Courageous

2019 • Movie • US

Crisis

United States • Detroit • Drug Trafficker • Crime • Opioid Crisis • Fentanyl Smuggling

2021 • Movie • BE, CA

Thanks for Sharing

Romantic Tension • Sobriety • Trust Issues • Hopeful • Thanks For Sharing • Festival Premiere

2013 • Movie • US

6 Balloons

Relapse • Los Angeles • Heroin Injection • Short • Realism • Abbi Jacobson

2018 • Movie • US

One for the Road

Alcohol Addiction • Alcoholic • Sobriety • Reconciliation • Ambient

2023 • Movie • DE

Four Good Days

Relapse • Contemporary • Detox Attempt • Deliberate • Addiction Recovery • Glenn Close

2021 • Movie • US

Playing Hard

Student • Bittersweet • Alcohol Addiction • Responsibility Denial • Hospital

2019 • Movie • PL

Fragmentary

Bereaved • Domestic • Bittersweet • Ambiguous • Loner • Emotional Journey

2019 • Movie • AU

The Fallout

Post-2010S • Classroom • Coping Mechanisms • Reconciliation • Linear • Trauma

2021 • Movie • US

Empty Spaces

Parenting Alone • Unemployed Brother • Daughters • Melancholic

2019 • Movie • US

Shame

Family Crisis • Hopeful • Chelsea • Low-Budget • Reconciliation • Sister Singer

2011 • Movie • GB, CA

Junkie

Brotherly Sabotage • Ambiguous • Bizarre Characters • Black Comedy

2012 • Movie • US

Recovery

House Infiltration • Contemporary • Rescue Lost Device • Ambiguous • Recovery • Horror

2016 • Movie • US

The Best of All Worlds

Drug Dealer • Urban Environment • Salzburg • Helplessness • Redemption • Biographical

2017 • Movie • DE, AT

The Chaos Within

Exile • Open • Search For Home • Holocaust • Redemption • Contemporary Conflicts

2014 • Movie

Addicted to Acting

Early 2000S • Competition • Admission Process • Andres Veiel (Director) • Berlinale Panorama

2004 • Movie • DE